The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-09

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 ''she wouldnt have said the thing she did,. the pretty shop girl told me, If hadn't been working girl. l wish you could have seen her smiling and smirlSing at one of her friends when she finished blessing me out
 I've been thinking over what the work ing girl said to me, and I've come to this conclusion. that the woman in question was absolutely underbred. else she wouldn't have said what she did.
 woman who hasn't the breeding that displays itself to a girl who stands on the other side of the counter from o'clock in the morning to in the afternoon isn't worthy of consideration-in fact, she hasn't the breeding that would make itself felt in any other circle in life.
 Good breeding is based uupon founda- ton rock of kindness-considerat for other persons-and the finest type of breeding is that which thinks not of itself. but of the other person--it matters not what or whom the other person may be.
 The woman who insults her cook in the kitchen is not above insulting her guest in the drawing room if the occasion pre- sented itself.
 A young woman stenographer left an
  man whose letters she took offended her
 She said very simply at the next place she applied for a position that she had worked in the law firm of Messrs. So and So.
 Have you recommendation from them?' she was asked
 NO, I didn't ask for one" she replied
 What was the trouble7' came next
 Upon being told the questioner asked Wof were a working girl?''
 NO, indeed, said the girl. 'It was because he was no gentleman"
 There you have the whole working girl situatior' in a nutshell. know many girls whose only recom- mendation in life is that they work. and do good work at that. and at the same time they are ashamed of it. Isn't that terrific attitude? Actually ashamed because they work. Let me say right here that the only person on the face of the earth that I pity more than the working girl who is ashamed because she makes her own living is the person who doesn't respect the importance of any one who holds a position.
 Lord have mercy on the "snob" who is afraid to show her friendship for the working girl
 There's an article by MT. William Hard in current magazine that pleases me very much.
 MT. Hard says in writing of "The Masters" who are, by the way the women of today who are taking every thing from the world and giving nothing back--that he thinks ''the Fundamental immortality Of the world is to get some- thing for nothing The fact that you are working for the salary that you re- ceive on Saturday night places you in the ranks of those who are giving service and getting in return. the working girls real reward-her economic independence.
 There's such thing as "dead-heading' one's way through life and 1t isn't par ticularly nice thing to do. or honest. for that matter yet lot of people do it. By "dead-heading,' mean being out of the current of the stream. drifting, re- mainlng in innocuous desuetude: the peo- pie who never do any REAL work. but lead the typical Butterfly on the wheer' existence dancing and flirting and hav- ing good time through life 1 What does life mean to such creature 1 Merely misery and emptiness and shall low conceit.
 Work is the SOVEREIGN hahn for every real or imaginary trouble in the 1 world
 1 recall one of MT. John T. Mccutcheon' s Christmas pictures which was recipe | for a headache.
 | It said simply:
 ..To cure headache: Working Girl Ther- apy: Take Good Job. and Stir 1t Con- stantlv from Breakfast to Dinner" l Wise MT. McCutcheon. l He knows.
 l "It's different with you" says some body You can afford to talk like that You kept all your friends when you went to work"