The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-08-12
ONE SOLUTION OF
THE MAID PROBLEM
BY Roe Fulkerson, The Busines:
Doctor, In Sacramento Bee

Dooeof, LII OdcTdIneutO Dee
"Its hard problem" said the Busi-
ness Doctor. Women have ever been
represented by an interrogation point
or an exclamation point. and in the
business world | believe, the former is
the proper punctuation. When all is
weighed. / believe it's just about an
even balance between the choice Of the
two sexes for any given position.
"In her favor a woman has the
virtues of punctuality, for she attends
to her duties promptly. She rarely
wants to get off for baseball game,
never comes to business scented with
mingled Scotch, cloves and coffee, and
as rule men like to deal with her. In
opposition to all this, she is lacking in
initiative. liable to resort to tears and
lamentations when corrected and, if
good looking, distracts the attention of
her men associates from their work
"This. however, is not the principal
fault OF woman in business. Ninety.
nine out of hundred women never go
into business as a career. They never
delve deeply into the workings Of any
office or store, because they never in
their hearts expect to make it life.
work, but are using it simply as a
means to an end, and that end TO fulfill
her natural destiny aud become the
wife OF some man whom she fondly be-
lieves to be the pick of the sex.
"This is doubtless the reason women
may be employed at less salary than
men. la any department store may be
seen men and women doing exactly the
same sort Of work. and where the
woman gets from S. to $40 a week,
man will get from $40 to $50 for it.
This is explained by the fact that no
business man will pay temporary help
as much as he will permanent help.
A woman must ever be considered ia
the temporary class, as she is always
prone to swap $40 job for a a. man.
MY sales or department manager
likes to educate salespeople and place
them in charge of certain parts OF his
work where responsibilities will be
placed on their shoulders. when he feels
that just when he has them running
without prompting they will come to
his desk some day with q shy, half.
conscious smile. an instaIlment house
diamond engagement ring aud resig
nation.
There are women in the business
world drawing big salaries and doing
most efficient work, but in every case
they are women who have put matri-
mony, home making and such natural
tendencies into the permanent back
ground. So, summed all mp, it's about
an even break between the two."
There has never been written bet
ter lecture to men who handle other
men than the words of Abraham Lin
coin, when he said: "When the con-
duct of meD is designed to be in
fiuenced, persuasion-kind, unassum-
ing persuasion-should ever be adopted.
Ii is an old and true maxim that a
drop. of honey will catch more flies
than a gallon of gall So with men. IT
you would win man TO your cause, first
convince him that you are his sincere
friend. There is the drop Of honey
which catches his heart, which, say
what he will. is the great high road to
his reason, and which. when once
gained. you will find bat little trouble
in convincing his Judgment OF the
justice of your case. if. indeed. the
cause can be really just.
"On the contrary, assume to die
tate to his Judgment, or to command
his action. or to mark him as one to be
Stunned or despised. and he will retreat
within himself, close all the avenues to
his head and heart, and though your
cause be naked truth itself, transformed
to the heaviest lance. harder than steel
can be made. and though you throw 1t
with more than Herculean force and
precision, you shall be no more able to
pierce him than to penetrate the hard
shell of a tortoise with rye straw.
Such is man, and SO must he be under
stood by those who would lead him.
even to his own best interest.