El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-16

every business girl would Xix,
TO have a through ticket VIII
no stoDoyers. is the road that ends liz
the Fat Pay Envelope.
Some girls miss this road because
they are looking for a flower bedecked
Iath called Luck" along which they
can idly ssunter.
Other girls never find it because
they are too lazy TO look for it them
selves. and sit around waiting for
somebody TO come along and lift them
into q gorgeous. asphalted, smooth.
boulevard marked Pull
Neither OF them ever reaches the
Soal where the real recognition and
fame and money are. Only those girls
arrive who are willing to trudse
through heat and cold. through dis
couragement and self-sacrifice. through
mud and mist and dust along the hard
and rocky roaI that is labelled eff
ciency.~
You know we women are constitu-
tonal bargain hunters We want TO
get things at below cost We are
never willing TO pay full value for
anything in hfe-nOt even for love. or
happiness. or success That's the rea-
son we so often get such poor. shoddy.
make believe articles. for. after all
everything worth having has its price
tag on il. and there are no discounts
on the having goods
4 Great Mistake.
omen have an idea that while men
have 20 earn their success. women
have theirs presented on a silver sal
yer. There was never a greater mis-
take made There is no sex in work.
There is no sex in success The girl
who gets to where she holds an hon
cred place IN her firm and is worth
real money 10 her employer got there
young man does.
And that method was by being con
unually on the Job. by being prompt
and accurate and dependable, and in
terested in the work. and showing
some initiative and originality In a
word. by travelling the road that is
marked efficiency.
After working hours YOUR boss"
may admire your peaches and cream
complexion or the way your haj-
grows. or the shape OF your hand. or
the cute way YOU hold your little fin
ger. but In office hours all that ne
IS interested In IS your spelling. or
whether he has TO verify your figures.
or speed up your salesmanship
Did you ever think. girls that yOu
have TO work quite as long hours and
Just as hard TO earn little pay en-
NelOpe as you do to earn a big One-
tt is true. The kitchen girl" who
gets twenty dollars a month spends
longer hours over her cook stove than
the good cook does who gets $40. The
ten dollars a week stenOgrapher tolls
Just as hard a the hundred and fifty
collar private secretary
The clerk behind the counter labors
harder than the department head. or
the buyer who has her two trips a year
TO Europe.
So. if YOU have TO put In the time
and the labor. why not make II bring
YOU in adequate returns2
To rests with you You elect which
road YOU VIII travel II YOU never
learn how to roast meat without burn
ing 10 or make q sauce that doesn't
taste like billpOsters' paste. YOU can't
expect any one TO pay YOU good money
for spelling good food
II you never learn how to spell or
10 write letter without making blots
and erasures and getting names wrons.
YOU can't demand a raise in your
wages Your employer can get mill
lions Of near-stenographers like you
cheap-cheap as dirt, as all poor ar
ticles are.
The girl whose pay he raises is little
Miss Efficiency. whose copy is per-
feet, who never makes mistakes and
whose memory is trained to hold tele-
phone numbers and addresses and all
the office details until she becomes a
business necessity.
l went into a store the other day
10 buy a book The clerk who waited
On me gave q careless glance at he
shelves and without botheriug to hunt
Tor the volume I wanted said: we