El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-20
LIE sTENOCRAPHER's SIDE
By WINIFRED BLACK

EAR Mss BLACK-In reading
your article entitled a Swim
- ming Lesson" I think you are
q little unfair TO the senographer. May
sbe she never even thought Of giving
him a present until he gave to her.
Then she felt she should return the ia
yer in some way.
Way don't married women keep
themselves attractive2 They marry the
men. Il Is certainly up 10 them TO keep
them
A married woman should keep her
self smart and attractive looking, even
II she has 70 serve dinner Of left-oVers
cuce ia a while She should hold that
as her right TO be uprodate ana neat
ln her appearance tt doesn't cost so
much 70 be neat and attractive in ones
appearance Get out see new ideas, so
home and make them, even If the ma
teriaI IS not the best. the effect Is
there chats all a man looks att
Etenographers DO this. why not mar
ried women II some women would
stop worrying about losing him, and
start out 10 make IL her business not
10 lose him. the stenographers and Dusi-
ness girls would not seem such YAM
uires as the wives think they are
Don't YOU think the sten0grapher has
her side OF the matter OF course. there
are exceptions IN every case. yours
There. that's the fifth letter I've had
from stenographers all about that man
WUI AEHAEaL4A= vile ~ EAhH
presents 70 the stenographer and take
her 20 luncheon and sometimes TO din
mex too All the other stenographers
write along the same line.
So you rhink j am unfair TO ste
uograuhers. do you, little sister, You
never were more mistaken IN your
lie ( believe in the stenographer, ana
7 hate 70 see one goose Of g ssll-eOn
fashion that VIII bring discredit on
the whole class
Every office knows the flirting
stenoErapber and is bored to death by
her on yes q few Of the men viii toll
crate her. while she's new; but It's the
steadF-EoinE. businesslike young per
son who keeps the job, and the featn-
er-head who goes WREN the firm pc
gins -retrenching" about this time OF
Thv don't married women keep
themselves attractive2 Why, little sis
ter. who ever told you mat they 40
uot2
Married women don't belong 10 SOM. some
strange trIbe-wlth weird cerernonlals
and queer kacrificial dances and things;
rhev are married and they Ike pretty
clothes Just as wei as any stenograher
90 rEev eo1oetires haven't all the
money in the world 10 spend on the
last thing in belts and the oalntlest
ching IN ueczWear- Their money isn't
eTsefI- their own. you see little sister;
they don't earn II straight out o. you
some OF them nave 20 hl4eel-t an
hour 10 get what you earn in a day
and they are-not all the wives OF poor
men az that
lfavbe fbe very present the married
man gave sou the other day cost mis-
VIE 4 new pair Of gloves 50 don
smile When YOU see her downtown In
2 shabby pair. VIII yOuE
Don't I think the stenographer has
her side OF the natter
why. yes. sister I do A very of
ficuIt side TO handle. sometimes but
nine times out Of 10 she can handle Il
sd right II she's the right kind Of a
Sine men out Of 10 viii make some
sort Of light-hearted love to the girl
VINO takes their dictation. Il she'll let
rreu il begins in JOKE. on both sides,
and ends in agOnizing misery misery
FOR the wife ar home. misery Ior the
nan who really loved her all the time
ar6 misery Tor the silly girl who didn't
know en0UFh TO realize that there Is
never any joke in decep tom never any
thing funny iu sly intrigue,
30: there IS no sense IN doing the
tragedy queen over the affair. no sense Z
fn the @unhaDd-me-sir attitude; it's