Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-04-12
ADVICE FOR GIRLS WHO MUST EARN
A LIVING
A Business Woman Gives Them Practical
Advice.

"A
Advice.
A writer in New York paper writ
ing over the signature Business
Woman, does not advise girls to stu
dy short hand and type-writing. 1T
is better" she says. - to devote your
time and attention to domestic af-
fairs and become a first-class cook,
where you can demand a fair salary
and get your boa. and keep, than to
pound a machine for eight or nine
hours day for not more than enough
to pay your board. l know that the
trade of a domestic is looked down
upon; but the people to blame are
the women who employ and those
who are employed. In the profession
of cooks the competition is at zero.
If women shows she is intelligent
and demands the same respect she
would receive in the Office of her
madam's husband, she will get it.
"You will find the only way to
make any headway in this world is
to have a good sound education. l
do not mean by this superauous
knowledge, of French or German, but
a thorough knowledge of rhetoric,
the ability to deliver straight Eng
lish sentence, and in writing to be
able to punctuate it properly. If
you have been unable to get the bene-
fit of even a high school education.
read, attend lectures, If necessary
take a night course in English litera-
ture, at the same time resolving to
broaden your mind as to what is 60
ing on around you.
Should you enter an Office or school
or establishment or wherever your
work may take you, you will be in
clined to think your present knowl-
edge sufficient; but before the year
will have rolled around you will find
that you knew practically nothing.
1t is the inclination Of men and wo-
men to view life through slit in the
wall, seeing only their own view OF
it and forgetting that there are other
views exactly as good, if not better.
Bear in mind that behind every
cloud In she sky the sun 10 shining,
and what is worth having is worth
working for; and when you get it.
have sense and brains enough to
hold on to it. You will always find
that there are dozens ready to take
your work, and it may be they can
do it just as well as you; whereas
you may soon make the discovery
that it is rather hard to locate one
good opening on the lookout for you.
To the irlliving in small town.
at home with her folks and among
her friends, who feels the wander
lust in her veins, who thinxs life will
not be complete unless she wsnders
away to the large city. say stay at
home. There are too many girls
born and reared in the city who
must get work to do, and you will
stand better chances of getting along
where you know everybody and ev-
erybody knows yon, where personal
feeling enters as much into your ad-
vancement as your work, thar you
will among strange people, whose
only thought is to get the most for
nothing, and when they must pay,
to pay as little as possible for as
much as they can get"
Nor many people know that the
Federal Government has been expert
menting on a large scale with the
propagation of Holland bulbs. on q
farm near Bellingham. The work
was started in 1908. when approxi-
mately 100, 900 imported flower roots
were planted. These have increased
in the meantime. so that this year
almost one million were set out.
Each bulb has yielded a maximum
number Of young oues, which have
proved equal if not superior to those
obtained from Holland. At present
q large amount is expended annually
by this country of Holland bulbs;
but since it has been demonstrated
that good ones can be grown here, a
new industry becomes possible for
Northwest Washington. The OPEN
ing of the Panama Canal will make
distribution to the East, an easy
matter.