El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-05

The Girl, the World and the Devil

n EDITOR whose feeling toward
- women was made up OF one
part admiration, four parts toll
Grafton and five parts compassion,
once told me that business woman's
life is first q fight to get work and
second, a fight to keep it
He spoke with a good deal Of truth.
1t is unpleasant to think OF our bust
ness life as prolonged carnage, as a
continuous case of dog eat dog" The
word fight suggests hatred, bitterness
and destruc tiveness.
Let US think Of our livelihood earn
ing rather as q constant effort a
steady putting forth Of energy into
right channels. ! grant that IT is an
effort to get work and that it is an
effort to keep it.
Cult Being an Oyster.
But life without effort would be
as Interesting as the existence Of an
oyster, and effort rightly directed
is the source Of all the JOY and all the
success in the world.
There Is only one way to keep the
work we have obtained. That is by
increasing usefulness in it. 1t is not
enough to be merely useful but we
musa grow more and more useful to
be OF value to the person or set of
persons, to the Institution or the idea
in whose interests we labor
One charge against US is that we
are a little set" Women are less
inventive than men. We are less in
clned to try new methods. As a sex
we are still weighted down by inertia.
Men are far more inclined to start
out boldly in new paths than are we.
Since that is a fault Of our sex every
Individual OF us must try to overcome
it. Instead Of doing our work as we
did it yesterday we must endeavor to
do it in the way it will be done to-
morrow and we must never, never
argue for the old method with the
boss"
Don't Be SeIf-ConsciOus.
Women are likely to fail because they
inject too much personal feeling into
their Workaday life They are self
conscious and sex conscious. That
woman best succeeds who converts her
self into a machine during working
hours, a very high grade, smoothly
working, intelligent machine, but with
the precision, the accuracy and re-
liability and urelessness of the best
Self consciousness makes women
haggle over things They haven't
grasped the big, life smoothing motto
Of able men that there are so many
things that don't matter Thinking
about themselves makes them finicky
and fussy and tOuchy. The worst
mistake girl can make is to carry
OUT the plan you hear made at every
downtown restaurant at every luncheon
hour, TO ''mash the boss"
Don't Mash the BOss1
It may amuse the man who directs
your labors if You roll your eyes at
him But It finds expression in the
thought What a little fool she is''
AND there is a strong probability that
he VIII describe your airs and graces
to his wife and confer with her as to
whether to discharge you or to give
you little time to get some sense
into your head" They don't mince
matters in the business world. They
haven't time. Don't expect dining
room demeanOr in an office. Paste
on the mirror in your room. girls,
that flirting is an unworthy bv prod
uct Of business, like the poisonous
gases discharged by valuable chem-
lcals Believe that it has no place in
the business world and that if Won
hope to advance by it you viii be bit
terry disappointed. Every 'boss" has
his own boss be it person or cor
poration or the public to whom he is
responsible, and he viii not long al
low fuzzy hair nor brilliant ewes to
ehange his sense of values in the
business world.
More DOn'fs.
Don't try to strengthen your hold