El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-11-19
Dorothy Dir ' ;,.... .'s e: 4 s.:,'
.aseg1xzFzE1s A LETTER TO A BUSINESS GIRL.

| who caem in began to joke me about
her. Now, I happen to know that Miss
]. is as good little girl as ever lived,
and that she simply starves herself to
death and scrimps in every way to
get all of this finery to put on her
back, but you can't explain that to
everybody who comes along, and so,
as she refused to take my suggestion
to cut out the fashion plate business. 1
had to let her go, and you bet this
time picked out a girl who was there
with the plain, clean shirtwaist, with
no frills and a gentlemanly looking
tailor-made skirt"
What to Avoid. -.
There's a lesson for you in that story,
little girl. 1t doesn't do for a girl to
just be good. She must LOOK good,
and modest, and respectable. Painted
cheeks, blackened eyelids, bushels of
peroxided hair, two-inch French heels,
exaggerations Of the fashion, peek-a-
boo shirtwaists on the street, enormous
hats with floating feathers. are the
| badge of a certain class of women. If
you don't want to be ranked with them
don't wear their regalia.
THE apparel oft prOclaims the man,
said wise old Polonius to his son. 1t
always proclaims the woman. Show
your intelligence by the way you dress.
! The black robe of the sister of charity,
the long gray cloak and little bonnet of
the professional nurse, are a livery of
honor that make it possible for these
| women to go safely among the lowest
class of men. 1t is up to the workin g
girl TO make the plain, unadorned tail
ored suit of the business woman equal
! ~ an armor of defense.
OF course, 1 am not advocating you
making a guy of yourself, and dress
ing like a trump. Far from It. AS
long as the world lasts, and men have
eyes in their heads, woman's trump
card is always going to be her looks.
A man would have to be more than
mortal not to prefer debating letters
to a pretty woman rather than to a
| homeIy one. and the spelling being ap-
prOximately equal, the good locker will
+ always get the best of things. There
fore, no woman can afford to neglect
her appearance. Also it is true that
men Judge women by their clothes, and
that when a woman is going to trade
with man it is good business to put
on her best bib and tucker. and go
looking as if she had always had
money and had to have money"
The Office Criterion.
But as there is one glory of the stars
and another glory of the moon so
there is one beauty of the opera and
parlor and another beauty of the store
and office, and the beauty of the store
and office is absolute neatness, and
pick-and-spanness and cleanliness;
the beauty of plenty of soap and wa
ter, and unfrayed skirts, and belts that
make connection, and collars that are
fresh from the laundry.
That's the sort of a woman that a
man likes to see about his office; that
customers like to deal with, that COM
mands respect from all who behold
her, and who bears on her person the
earmarks of being about ito get
there not the rumpled, crumpled,
frayed out chiffony sort of a girl who
looks as If she had come to work from
a second class ball, without stopping
to change her clothes.
Pass up the frills, little sister. and
pin your allegiance to the unadorned
tailor-made and the clean shirtwaist.
So shall you be properly girded for the
race to success.