The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-06-23

come to New York and am anxious
to secure a position here
Yes, that sounds all right. Let's
see it. Perfumed, eh?" with a disap-
proving sniff. We'll, we don't want
her.
| walter r. Blake-why that is a
mani" unused Helen, glancing at the
/ signature of another letter. He writes
we'll, too. Dear, would you want a
young man stenographer?"
| "Nope," with conviction.
"Why?"
Don't tend to business Not as de-
! pendable .as a girl
We'll, then" triumphantly, IF
women are as good or better workers
than men, why are they paid so much
less?"
! The silence of the next half hour
But at that moment Helen was too
! busily engaged with another letter to
dwell upon the unfairness of this.
| The silence OF the next half hOuS
was broken only by the sound of the
paper knife as it ripped open tue en-
velopes. Now and then one went on
the chosen pile, but most of them
See here!" Warren looked up from
his paper cant you tell by the en-
velopes? Just open the best looking
ones,or you will never get through
"Oh, no-no, We must read them all.
! They at least deserve a hearing.
Dear, isn't this pathetic? A girl out in
Jersey who is willing to work for less
than 81 until she can prove her
! 'ability'-and she spells ability with
an e! Yet she is a graduate of Moore's
business college"
THAT is the trouble" shrugged War
rem These business schools grind
them out by the thousand. They are
spelling good cooks and housekeepers
and making blamed poor stenograph-
ers. How many replies did you get
last fall when you put that ad. in for
a maid?"
only three
Three, Ell? And for a stenographer
get about two hundred! There is
your solution for your stenographer
on starvation wages. Let some of
these girls 90 to cooking schools, take
some special course-say pastry cook
ing. How long do you think they
would be without ~11D?"
Yes. | know, dear. But | can I'M
derstand-it is the social difference.
In an office they think they have a
better chance Of marying-and after
all, that is what they are hoping for. -
Huh, they read these newspaper
yarns of the millionaire broker mar
rying his stenOgr>pher. Well they
they stand about as much chance of
that as a SNOWFALL in
"Oh, here is a wonderful one! Do
listen to this:
81 am an expert stenographer
and typist. Can operate any
standard machine at ninety words
minute. and can take the most
rapid dictation and transcribe my
notes with absolute accuracy. Can
also take dictation in both French
and German, and have studied
law"
Pass that up, she knows too blamed
much for So per week"
But on the whole most of the let
tiers were modest, earnest, straight
forward applications for work. And
in spite of Warren's cynical comments,
, the average was very high. There
were at least seventy-tive letters from
experienced stenOgraphers, any one Of
whom Helen felt would be a capable
and conscientious worker. OF these
seventy-tive she shd selected twenty
! which she now pushed toward War
rem.
Great Scott! | cant see all those.
| Half dozen is enough
/ The selection of these final six was
! the hardest Of all. One by one, Helen
discarded the other fourteen with an
unpleasant feeling that somehow she