The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-21
From the New York Snn,

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 some offices. Most people may not realize it, but that young person in skirts has arrived and is doing her work in satisfao tory way. She is scoring over her predecessor because she seldom whistles, almost never gets into the office late and does not smoke cigarettes. She is inclined to chatter, but can easily pc repressed.
 Officially sine is not yet known by the title of office girl The girls who are fill ins these posts have dropped into them cutie by chance. They were hired to do little simple typewriting and a little clerical work. Their employers began to and that they were good to send out on errands. They never loitered and they remembered what they were told to do In case after case when Johnny or Willie had got his promotion and had begun to know something about the business or had been fired from sheer necessity MT. Scratch would remark to Mir. Sales:
 What y say about not getting another boy? Fanny there's a good one. She's got lots of time between helping Miss Keys with the typewriting and keeping the card index up-to-date to run all the erTands we want"
 And Mir Sales would say Right you are, Herbert, do as you think best"
 Fanny had to scurry a little more from that time on, but she found in month or two she was getting sl extra each week for it.
 Thus firm after firm almost by accident has come to the office girl, and each is pleased. There is not much remaining to do for the old-fashioned office boy in the business world. Once one of his im- portant duties was to sweep the office out and tidy up. The staff of the modern htssiness building now keeps everything in apple pie order. He copied letters in tis- sue paper books in wheel press. Today each typist carbons the letters she writes With the coming of the big filing cabinets a methodical, quick fingered girl could beat boy out any time. Grad ualiy shorn of his specialties, the boy now has to do little more than errand running. The new office girl often sur passes him at that.
 Partly because she has dreams of a | the custom the average young girl who makes a dash into New York business. life learns something about bookkeeping. Unless she is an exceptional young girl she doesn't bother further. It isn't worth vhie so her friends tell her, and they are very nearly correct The knowledge she has, together with her ordinary schooling. the art of always being oblig- ing and getting ready quickly when she is sent out and just plain gumption make her as good as the next one for the ordi- rary minor girls job in New York, with the weekly pay at from s to q.
 Girls of this type are found in large numbers in downtown New York Only short time ago there were comparative lr few of them. This summer more than ever sees the flutter of innumerable short skirts through the streets.
 1 These girls are of completely different crder from the stenographers and experi- enced office women who have long figured prominently in every big American city. l They are far younger in the first place. l The stenographers and their kind are like | y to be serious and ambitious business l pei sOnalities. The newer element are merely bright. gay young girls who want TO responsibility and in most cases are rot capable of 1t, are 16 to 1s years of age and are full of life. Maiden Lane, Nassau street and William street at noon
 these days are for two hours like the street in front of a girls high school at
 recess.
 The office boy took things seriously. He had either laid plans for becoming .