El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-11-10

EY DEAR SADIE:
M The real reason that wo-
- mans work is at discount
in the labor market is because it IS
seldom thoroughly done. 1t isn't good
work It's a slap-dash, hit-or-mlss
sort of a job, that isn't worth first
class price.
OF course. there are notable excep-
tons to this rule, and when you INA
the exception, you also find a woman
who is drawing a mans salary. But
as q general thing, women never take
the trouble to learn their business.
They remain amateurs all their lives.
And they get the wages of unskilled
labor to their dying days.
The reason that is popularity assign
ed for this is that women work with
one eve on their jobs and the other
eve roaming the horizon in search OF
a possible husband. The work Is just
a temporary makeshift, something to
tide them over the time until the Fairy
Prince dashes up in red touring car
and bears them off to live in splendor
in a Newport cottage4ever after Hence
it doesn't seem worth while to bother
about really mastering the intricacies
of pothooks or learning to spell, or to
sell dry goods, or keep books.
IncOmpetency's Plant.
And, as for the poor. unfortunate,
badgered and harassed man who Is
driven into nervous prostratlon wres-
thing with a succession of pretty and
incompetent girl employes-bah. for
him, Who cares for his sufferings?
Besides, he doesn't pay anything worth
speaking of, anyhow. What's his meas
lv little old eight or ten or twelve dol
lars week? Why. there's Miss Jones,
in his office, who has been there good
ness knows how long-ever since she
was a young girl, and now she's an
old maid-and that's all she gets yet.
It's lust a shame the way women's
work is paid.
So If is my dear, and it's a bigger,
blacker shame that we women gen
orally turn out the kind of work that
doesn't command the best way. For.
after all. the fault is ours. In the end
every worker writes his or her own
price tag The world is flooded with
bunglers. with mediocrity, with people
who never do anything just right How
ever little they get for their labor, they
get all that is coming to them, but
superexcellence in any line may name
its own reward
Take it from me, little sister, that II
Miss ones mas Dcel III al OIAiCc Aoi
ten years and still only gets ten dollars
a week it is because Miss Jones isn't
worth a penny more. It's because
somebody has to go over her accounts
to see if they are accurate, or because
her ledger is eternally out of balance,
or because she doesn't get more than
half of a letter that is dictated to
her, or because she spells the same
words incorrectly that she did ten
years ago.
Salary Facts.
Be sure of this-that tIer employer is
just pining to pay her more if she
would give him the chance and made
herself worthy of it. And if he isn't,
there are thousands OF other busy,
rushed. worried men who are simply
palpitating with eagerness to pay
thoroughly competent woman thor
oughly competent salary.
Just remember thiS-you are worth to
your employer just exactly what you
make yourself worth. If you are going
to be one of the stenographers whose
letters have so many erasures that they
look as if they had an eruption of
smallpox; if you are going to be the
kind OF sale1girl who is too busy
telling some other girl behind the