The Washington herald., 1915-03-15
What wish | Had Kn0rvn
When | Began My Career
Question Answered by Washington Women Who
Have Won Out in Many Lines of Work.

Il wish I had known early in my ca
reer the value of hard work" said Miss
Maud Gilbert, the leading woman
Polls Theat,r. when asked by repre-
sentative of the Woman's Herald what
she wished that she had known before
she started her career.
The first couple of years ] was on the
stage l did not take it seriously. One
day director said to me, You have
everything necessary for success except
the gift of working. If you would use
little common sense and hard work.
you would be playing leads instead of
maids
81 thought about IL a great deal. start
ed to work and since then I've worked
as hard and as long and as steadily as
my health would permit. What little
success I've had | owe to a capacity for
work. which I think achieves more than
all the other gifts
This answer to the question given by
Miss Gilbert. who, as matter OF fact.
has achieved a great measure of sue
cess. stands at the head of all the many
answers that have come into the Office
of the Woman's Herald in the last week
because it is the answer most typical
OF the woman who has succeeded. Sew
enty-five successful women in a hundred
wish that they had known to begin with
that success was i matter of hard work.
1t is something that the beginner seldom
realizes.
When women in business. in the store
and the office, were asked this ques-
ton many of them-you would be sur
prised to know how many-expressed
the wish that they had known early
in their career the value of dressing
well, that they had known that 1t is
not extravaganza, but true economy,
for a woman to spend money and time
on her clothes when in business. She
may have the ability in her but I'M
less she looks as II she did she is not
going to have n chance to show 1t and
many woman realizes only after
many years at work how frequently
she is judged by appearances.
Other women who are now at the
top notch of their professions ex-
pressed the desire that they had
known the value of conserving their
own health. They wished that they
had realized that late hours. and
amusements taken after long hours of
work are sure to leave their effects.
and that unless a woman is in good
health she can hardly hope to succeed.
From Miss Elizabeth Fairall, who
is one of the chief buyers and heads
of department at Garfinkle's, comes
this reply to the question:
II wish had known the joys of
being a suffragist that / know now.
1t has changed my whole viewpoint
and taught me what is meant by the
solidarity of women"
Miss Mary O'Tolle. one Of our most
able woman lawyers. has written this
interesting answer 70 the question:
What do / wish / had known be-
fore practicing law? Oh, lots Of things.
but ii won't do to advertise them. 1t
wouldn't have made any difference
anwya. for Il had to get it out of
my system. Ones work-especially II
one has been born on Saturday
like ones life. is wished upon one. SO
to speak, and who can sidestep it, I
am not a fatalist, but the philosophy
in the quotation. There is divinity
which shapes our ends. rough hew
them as we will make strong ap-
peal to me. The motto of Denys in
The Cloister and the Hearth 'Cour-
age. the devil Is deal" is another one
in my mind.
wish not infreQuently expressed by
women who have succeeded 10 that they