Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-29
sTENoes-sorrom AND TOP.

Experts in training are warning young girls against studying stenography. Employment bureaus typewriter agencies and every sort of medium for gettine girls jobs swamped stenographers who can not find work or who f they find it cannot keep it and from brief and poorly paid job to another with days waiting agencies or tramping the streets in between.
 Now experts in getting girls to jobs saying that hishelass business offices crying for stenogaph CTS and they can never get enough to fu the demand
 Sounds contradictory, doesn't it? But it isn't
 The girl who cant get or keep a job isn't the same girl the business offices want.
 The youngster just out of grammar school with six months of business schoo training is no more ht to write the letters Of good business house than mouse is ft to be watchdog Five to dollar-week stenographers thick in big cities blueberes in northern Michiganan no more able to dl the empty thirty dollar a week jobs than the bueberries would be
 There seems to be an idea among young persons that an has do to be a sttnographer is 10 take few lessons in shorthand and typewriting keep ones nose powdered and go and get a job. Unfortunately for them, that isn't the way it works. l What stenographers are for is to write letters. Writing letters takes brains and skill Some few o the foolish little jobess incompeents have brans-bu very few If they had brains they'd know enough to gel skill which few do. Most are trying to get good iob without knowing anything about the work required They just much trying money under false pretenses the crookedest fake mail order
 Certain tools are necessary in writing letters. One spelling No can write good letters who cannot spell not only the used in ordinary girl conversation, but a good many thousand words s l,,eod e,,,,o not mn derstand thoroughly thoroughly mind-he principles grammar. It rarely that gets these through tn study of language alone. The good stenographe ought to be able to read moderately well at least on lother language besides her own.
 An often overlooked point is punctuation stenograpt CTS often punctuate by dropping few marks in, hi or miss if out of a pepper pot.
 Then good stenographer must know the laws of con position. She must not only know when a sentence properly constructed but when paragraph is. sh must know the difference between clear and cloud English
 She must have sureness enough and mental pois enough to be able to tell her employer not impudent. but respectfully part of her duty when he has faile to make a sentence clear Language is supposed to the means of expressing thought The good stenograp CT must be able to it as such.
 It seems hardly necessary to add that mple elea unobusiye clothes cleanliness of necessaI in any office if the girl is 10 succeed. Flashy shoe sloppy hairdressng and soled unles out of plac Yet girl after foolish girl has lost good position b cause she did not know enough to dress the pla' required
 A busy man cant tell a girl what details of her co tune He merely has an impression that q girl is not wellgroomed-and he fires her because he ashamed have her around neat office.
 For the girl who comes up o the mark set here-il girl who knows the work thoroughly and who is sure c herself the girl dignity competent neat wellpose the thirty dollars and up week jobs crying out u over the country.
 ," For the girl who hasn't these qualifications, or isI a. working hard to get them the farther she keeps aw
 from stenography. the better for her.