The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-05-02

because of her good health, and not in
spite of bad health. She needs physi-
cal strength to execute her tasks. to
concentrate on her work, and to radi-
ate that peculiar sincerity and en-
tEusiasm which mark her for promo
tien in the eyes of her supeFiors.
There was time when the business
girl was forgiven certain amount of
physical weakness. That was when
we we're rarities in the professions,
trades, and commercial world. Today
there are millions of us working in
direct competition with men. We are
demanding the same hours and the
same pay as men. therefore we must
give the same results as men. Our
employers no longer make excuses for
US on the grounds that we are women,
nor will they accept such excuses
from US. If we are not strong enough
to do the work they require. then we
must make way for women who can do
1t This may sound cold-blooded to
the girl who has never trod the wage
earning path. but business is a cold
blooded proposition. The girl who de-
cides to work for her living must re-
alize this fact, and bear in mind that
her own sex has brought about this
condition, by elbowing men for place
in the business world.
Oh, yes, / admit that hundreds ~of
girls go to work day after day, in bad
health, afflicted with this ailment and
that, dragging one foot YEARLY after
the other, working always with an
eye on the clock. and wishing for
closing time to come. But these girls
do not succeed. They merely mark
time from opening to closing hours
each day. They are seldom promoted.
Eventually they vanish from the BUSH
ness world, sometimes to succumb to
serious illness, sometimes-more's the
p!ty-to be married. And men of the
same sort are found in the trades and
the commercial world. They fill subor-
dinate, mental positions, and in their
old age you'll find them mounting
guard over time clock, or feebly
waving a flag over some danger spot
in the public highways, sad evidences
of i'll health and industrial failure.
| l do not know of a single profess
SIGN, trade or commercial position
where strength is not needed where
| the girl who succeeds does not give
forth all that she has to give of ply
steal strength, mental keenness and
concentration, nervous energy, and the
sort of enthusiasm that drains heavi-
| ly on her vitality. Not all women
give forth these qualities in the same
way. Some bubble over with anima-
ton; some simply work tensely, in
silence, with nerves taut and jaw set;
| both sorts drain their physical re-
sources every working day in the year.
| We who have worked know what it
means to speed up on a typewriter
| when our chief has left his dictation
urtil the last moment, when the fall
ure. of a factory to deliver an order
OIL time upsets the calculations of a
dozen statesmen at various points on
"the road when the girl at the next
desk Is given a day off to attend a
funo raj, or when a green girl must
be broken in and someone do part of
her work. Refinement and elegance
vanish before such a crisis, and it
tales something more than a knowl-
edge of stenography and typewriting
| to rise to 1t. 1T takes the endurance
and steady nerves which come from
good health.
Show me a girl who is making good
wages, and / will show you a girl who
is pushed and driven at times, no
matter what her line of work.
| A very busy woman, no matter what
her calling, should give thought to
nutritious and regular diet and a GER
tain amount of exercise in the fresh
air il possible every day