The Washington herald., 1913-07-20

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! In business office. They made the
place cheerful. People liked to look at
pretty girls. They were an advertise
| ment to a business. And In all this time
he asked me absolutely nothing about
my ability in taking dictation or my
accuracy In tipping the hundreds of
letters he knew ! would be forced In
my position to take. He thought good
deal more about the ornamentation OF
| his office than he did about acquiring a
| competent secretary.
sI have been with Mr.. Blank now
three months, and I am perfectly sure
that he has never given my efficiency a
thought, and am Just as sure he never
will. II I ever get raise In salary II
will be because / please my employer 9
sense Of beauty, and not because OF ef-
/ ficient and conscientious work. she
ended in a tone that left nothing OF the
disgust she felt to ones Imagination.
Do Not Consider IL Asset.
Her complaint is one I have heard be-
fore, for, despite statements to the con-
trary, the competent woman worker has
| pride in her efficiency. and prefers pro-
motion through it than through the ac-
cident Of q pretty face.
And such women do not consider beauty
q business asset.
There are few earnest folk who DO
And they are right. The right sort or
girl does not need physical beauty Tor
the attainment Of success
or course, we observe. and observing
cannot help knowing that there Is ce.-
tain percentage of girls who 90 into busi-
| ness, for one reason or another. with no
expectation Of remaining there perma-
nentiy. They are but transients. and
their coming and going matters little.
They consider beauty an asset because
1t helps them to cover their shirking oi
work All they want is to hold down
an easy Job until they marry. They are
not in earnest. And they will not work.
To any one of them the complaint OF
the young woman that her employer
wanted an ornament for his ONCE rather
than a competent worker would have
sounded like an absurdity. They would
think the complainer a fit subject for ST
Elizabetr's, because the point upon which
she bases her resignation would be to-
tally beyond their comprehension.
But, you know, we are not all tran
sients in the business world. There are
plenty Of women who are ambitious to
accomplish something worth while: some
thing permanent; something big through
pure and simple merit
To such a woman beauty fs no partic-
| ular asset. II she Possesses II. well
enough. II she does not. there Is no oc-
casion to deplore the fact. For there
are not a great many men like Mr.. BLANK
whose attitude toward his stenographer
would be an insult to any ambitious. sell
respecting girl
Thinss that Count.
The thinss that count in the winning
of a permanent place worth the having
in either the business or professional
world are competency, earnestness. am
bition, and energy. Having these. and
persisteucy in demanding the same re-
muneration for her work that Is PAD
her brother for the same work, woman
entering business need not fear for her
continuous promotion
We can't skim easily over life and make
a success Of 1t. This is true Of the home
woman as much as 1t Is true OF the busi-
ness woman.
Merit has its splendid law OF compen-
sation, and it is one of the most COM
forting things that life holds. It teaches
US to forget the little butterflies VINO
fit here and there. seeming to skim the
cream from the milk of life, because We
know despite the seeming that theirs In
not a permanent gain. True merit II
the only quality which has Its unalter-
able law of sure compensation. although
sometimes it seems very long In the
coming, and, to some Of US. comes not
at all. apparently in this phase OF ex-
istence, being turned by some exception
(Which but proves the rule) into other
channels.
| Even the success of the actress Is not
at all dependent upon her beauty, as Is
the usual supposition- Rejane, Bern
hardt, Duse, and Nazimova are not
beautiful women, as the world counts
physical beauty Maude Adams, one of
the best beloved actresses Of the Ameri-
can stage, 10 q plain little thing. Mrs.
Fiske, who is considered by many the
most popular American actress, Is most
ordinary, as far as physical charms go.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, for years the rage
of the nation. was never accorded
beauty. Hundreds of other examples
might be cited. particularly in grand
opera, where seldom beautiful woman
Is found. The actresses who have won
popularity purely because Of their beauty
have either died or retired from the
stage. leaving scarcely a memory to the
public. Maxine Elliott. who was always
more gifted with beauty than with his
trionism, has permanently retired from
the stage and Ia leading the life of q
beautiful society woman in London.
where she 10 much more in her element
than she ever was while treading the
boards.
| Resent Their Beauty.
Beauties on the stage come eventually
to resent their beauty, because 1t wins,
as q rule, more comment from critics
and public alike than their art succeeds
in gaining. and q reputation for beauty
is but a, poor prop for lasting success.
even on the stage.
Nature is pretty fair in the distribu-
tion Of her gifts. She seldom endows q
woman with bewildering beauty while
bestowing upon her other marked gifts.
This 10 q proved fact.
And 20 often also has II been proved
that mere beauty in q race with real
ability has no chance Of winning that
homely women who know themselves
efficient have largely ceased to envy
their pretty sisters who depend upon
their brilliant eyes and sweet smiles to
carry them easily through life.
| Health sad Hysiene.
Eat plain food.
| Be regular In your habits.
Begin your morning meal with fruit.
Don't 30 to work Immediately after
eating /.
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