The Washington herald., 1911-07-07
THE WOMAN In THE
BUSINESS WORLD
No Reason Why She Should
Not Make a Success.
CLEAN CALENDAR HABIT
While . Woman Is Handicapped by
Her Sex She Can Overcome Disad-
vantage by Faithful Work-NO
Necessity to Give Way to Fearful
and Useless Forebodfngs.
By JULIA CHANDLER MANI.


A girl had Just about as well have a
milestone hanged around her neck and
be dropped to the bottom of the sea as
to be afraid of not making good when
she enters the world OF business.
Womanly instinct, intuitive modesty,
cause women to hesitate where men do
not fear to tread, and It is because the
girls whole training has been in the
home, and such as to make her timid in
meeting the commercial world that SO
many men declare her temperamentaIly
unqualified for a business life
It is perfectly true her sex places her
at disadvantage.
1t is equally true that because of the
dear home life that has sheltered her
through all her girlhood she has much
more to overcome, much more to suffer,
than her brother when she accepts a
position whereby to earn her living
Not so very long ago a successful busi-
ness woman told me that her first six
months in commercial life were more
terrible to her than IL she had been
skinned alive. She had spent her girl
hood in a most secluded home educated
in schools for girls, and come in close
and brothers. All other men were to
her young imagination a possible prince
Charming" and she saw life through a
rosy mist.
Her Help Demanded.
Then came the necessity that she lend
her hand to the turning of the wheel
that ground out the daily bread for the
family and she secured her first posi-
ton.
'Tn never forget that first morning
when I went to the Office. l found the
boss already there, and he glanced at the |
clock when I entered, for was late, not
because 1 did not leave home in time, |
but because I had stood on the corner |
outside the building trying to think what
should say when greeted by him. she |
told me.
Nor does this panic OF fear seize only |
the beginner, for / know women in busi- |
ness who will waste ten minutes max
ing up their minds to speak to their en-
ployers upon a necessary subject pertain |
ing to the work in which they are en-
gagged.
warps Ability.
It is an indescribable thing that
clutches the throat and holds the tongue
tied. and it always places the woman
who is afflicted with II at a tremendous
disadvantage. and more than one busi-
ness girl has become victim to nervous
prostration.
Women who look always just a little
way ahead, sure in their minds that
there are impossible shoals just in front
of them, never give the best of them
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ed successes in business.
There is a habit that may be cul-
tivated by the business woman who is
subject to panics of fear that will help
her to conquer the grim monster that
so depresses her heart and brain.
Cultivate the clean calendar habit.
, Let life be a big clear pad, each sheet
marked with a separate date, and live
only one sheet at time.
Tear off yesterdays page with the
dawn of to-day, and do not carry even
the memory of its fears and uncertain
ties over to the sheet Of to-day.
Write upon the clean white sheet of
he present hour all the hopeful, beau
tiful, happy things that come, and when
Il is necessary to record an error re-
that with the dawn of the to-
morrow the record of to-day will be torn
away, leaving a fresh page that is with
put blot of error or blemish Of fear.
The clean calendar habit does not
oaralyze the brain with the fear of I
troubles that never come 1t does not !
1ring wrinkles. of dread to young face.
Ind IL cultivated conscientiously it be- !
,omes habit so strong that IL eventual !
y fails to register unimportant worries I
hat formerly left such deep stains upon
he calendar of life.
Try it just to-day. dear business-girl-
who-fears Observation-Disclosures present.
Begin this morning, and tear of the
,age upon which your life wrote its !
york of yesterday. Determine that until !
o-night you will live just for the next I
hing that you have to do and not a ,
minute beyond that one thing. and that
'ou will do that one thing happily and
without timidity; without any fear that :
'ou are not making good !
You viii find the strength that has 1