South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-04
Business Girl Must
Be Self-Respecting
IF Efficiency is Her Watch
word She Will Meet
With Success.

| Temptation exists mostly for the
people who look for it or invite it!
This is not the hard hearted state
ment of one who fails to sympathize
with the troubles OF her own sex
rather it is a generalization to which
there are indeed exceptions.
All through the world, in every
walk of life. there are INSCRIPTIONS
and designing men. The girl who
lives sheltered and protected in her
own home meets with temptation. The
girl who goes down TO business
meets il. too. but in both cases one
of two things is true-the girl is I'M
fortunate i'm the men with whom
she comes in contact. or blunders on
her own part invite catastrophe.
There are plenty of men in the
world who are beasts of prey rather
than human beings. From them
neither maid, wife nor widow is quite
safe.
But the average man is sane, de-
cent person, with plenty of kindly in
stincts and a great deal of chivalry
Such q man respects nobody more than
a self-respecting working girl who
invites neither impudence nor famil-
iarity A good deal of the talk about
the wolf in sleeps clothing" who
is the average employer, is hysterical
and quite untrue.
The Proper Way.
If the girl who goes down to bus
mess goes clad in an armor of dig
nified self-respect, of efficient determ-
inatiOn to do her work and do it we'll
and of faith in the fact that the world
is built on the principle of live and
let live" she is likely to get on ia
mOusly and find herself quite undis-
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But does the average girl go thus
equipped? Doesn't she rather have
little sneaking feeling that her sex
is an asset-and one she might as
well make the most of? Doesn't she
dress to be attractive so that even Of
flee boys will CALAMITY sharpen pen
ellis and run errands for her?
Doesn't she roll her big blue eyes
at the boss when she wants to get
a few extra afternoon hours off?
Doesn't she invite admiration because
she is n pretty girl rather than because
she is an efficient worker?
If she does these things, is she JUS
titled in posing as a prosecuted mar
tyr when some man takes her at
her own valuation and treats here as
forward cOquette rather than as
an efficient business woman?
Not all girls do go down to bus
mess with the idea that it is a su-
periOr sort of matrimonial agency or
a place where feminine charm is to
make feminine work a far easier thing
than it would be if the employers
were women.
Not all men imagine that the bus
mess girl is an adventures who is
looking for trouble or a shy little
creature who is fair game for any
man. But there are men who take
this unchivalrous and contemplate
attitude toward women Just as there
are women who warrant men in TAX
ing it.
The Temptations.
The temptations of a business girl
are due directly to two things-the
weakness in the armor of some silly
girls who cause more dignified ones
to he misjudged and the wickedness
in the natures of some men which a
dignified girl by meeting and meeting
we'll may possibly be able to lessen
in slight degree.
The girl who goes down to bus
mess willing to do her work and not
to be a cry-baby, and try to take ad-
vantage of her femininity to get her
off from any difficulties, viii meet with
the protection of every decent man
with whom she comes in contact
That girl makes it easier for every
other girl in the business world The
men who have met her and who know
what white honest little thing she
is, -Nmember her and treat all other
working women with a respect due to
the germ of an idea that white little
thing" engendered.
There is a fine chivalry in work for
women. Women owe it to one an
other to uphold it. Every girl who
behaves herself with dignity. who does
her work we'll and who neither looks
for trouble nor becomes panicky when
she sees actual signs of it. keeps tina.
chivalry white and fine.
And when she NETS with difficulty
she will find there are plenty OF
splendid men ready to answer her
with pr, lection and to give her the
benefit of the doubt"
1t does not pay for the business
girl to look for trouble. 1t is beneath
contempt for her TO invite it. If she
does neither of he two. the difficult
ties that chance to beset her will be
fairly easy TO handle.