The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-03

indeed can't. | have To read every
letter myself before | sign it ana every
night some have 10 go back to be re-
written, anu / have to wait for them |
would not dare take The chances that
You d" ana have one of the girls sign
thc mail with "A rubber STAMP sigma
t"i1' some awful stun would 90 out
select the best help that / can
&c. ana We pay higher wages than you.
yet every one ] engage seems to be q,
worse Proposition than the one before
t-Apci Fenced or not the suiplv of
feminine Office workers seems TO be
composed mainly of. wcll-lcmons How
90 You manage to get such reliable
girls 80
The placid manager smiled sercnely
theh glanced at ti. clock and takint,
a rubber stamp from his desk handed
II l" me Strnographcr at his elbow, re-
i'itihliiS, SlSn my mail tonight please
MISS Jones thcn turned to his visitor
VIII tell you tho only score,
know IN connection with selecting hclp."
ne SAID and it Is not 50 very mys-
trfl"HS nor SO devoid Of common sense
as you may THINK at FIRST consideration
ptk Out ny girls by their HANDS
practically regardless of other qualti-
cations.
Il expected to sec that amazed look
on your face he continued. but its n
lact ana am not SO near daft as you
SUPPOSE.
aside from the always necessary
general qualifications OF Intelligence. n
iair knowledge of the English laue,,oro
ana observance OF office hours | don't
trouble much about tho Young lnav'S
other attributes If her hands siut mo
Experience cuts a very small iit,,ro
IN my estimation, for the girl who has
had experience elsewhere may have To-
uil'eath part of what She knows be-
iurc she learns my way OF doing things
IL sh" has never known any other yyav
she takes 10 mine somewhat easier
think.
The girl who can only take seventy
"Ne words n minute, but who tran
Scfibcs every letter correctly is worth
more To mo than the girl who can take
one hundred ana fifty words :; minute
but VINO makes break In one letter
"n' OF ten; for that means that have
! DO not depend much on past uor-
iormances or letters from other en-
ployeIs
Just go by the condition of their
MINDS. W hen the applicant takes her
glove OIL To take a trial letter | look Mt
hcr myers much more critically than |
90 at her face. If her nails are neatly
anu regularly trimmed. her fingers
Whltc ana her whole hand well kent
mat eiil can nave the position even IL
she Is raw. Just out of school
And the reason is that the girl who
Keeps hcr hands neat and her nails i'm
maculatc will write IA neat and ahso-
'"''S correct letter II won't he full Of
crasures, for her notes will he as Vol
made as her nails are well kept She
won't iind it impossible to read her
notes and write in what she thinks
might belong there any more than she
would wash one hand and forget the
ether.
But if she is careless about those
hands of hers that she uses 50 much
ana secs 50 much. she will be careless
about her work. If she has ink stains
on her middle finger that she forgot TO
wash or entirely. she will likely turn
~ Il smudgy letter for you to sign IL
she wears two or three rings and an
cdHlhS OF dusky hue ornaments one
or TWO other fingers, YOU might as well
decide against her ut once. no matter
u she has had years of experience. for
mat girl will turn ont perfect letters
one DAY and epistles without sense the
next: she cannot be depended upon.
use the same scheme in picking out
SlrlS Tor work on our cards. You know
we use the card system all through
me one that does not lose track of her
fingers never loses track of one of our