The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-11-09
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TWO GIRLS ANNIVERSARY

Two Blackfoot girls made bust
ness venture year ago this week,
and there is matter of interest at
taching to it that has lesson worth
studying. Every young person is
anxious to get to doing something
worth while, and they want to sue
coed in something which they like.
Sometimes it takes-a good while
for person to find his or her place,
and some never do, so it becomes
more serious as these things are
better understood.
A year ago Miss Mabel Christen-
sen and Miss Alice Jones undertook
work at The Republican office, with
the understanding that they would
receive the best training that could
be given by the men in the office
and in return they would expect to
stay with the firm a good while.
Both of them had been working
some and had not become skilled at
anything that brought advancement
or increase of pay beyond that of
unskilled work such as may be done
by almost any girl.
Miss Christensen work was that
of saleslady, bookkeeper, stenog-
rapher, treasurer and secretary to
the manager. She did not learn the
work all at once, but was assigned
some new work all the time as she
could be shown and trained to
handle it. When she was in doubt
about anything she would ask for
guidance and receive it. She became
the custodian of all contracts, deeds
documents and letters.-the checking
clerk for bills and invoices and pay
master for all the expenses of the
business. She did not learn all these
things in day, but in a year, little
at a time, and what she lacks in
speed and executive ability she
makes up fn>reliability and depend
able service. When the head of the
house is absent, she knows What-to
do with just about everything that
comes up, and if there is bill to
be paid, she knows the day it is
due, and pays it the day before
During the twelve months she paid
out for construction and operating
expenses, between $4,000 and
$25, 900, mostly in small sums. In
the whole course of the year she
never asked for raise of salary,
but gradually rose until it is treble
what it was at the start. The in
crease represents the skill she has
acquired, her knowledge of the work
and the business, and proving day by
day that responsibility is safe on her
shoulders. Any girl in town Of
similar age and education might
have done the same thing in The
Republican office or some other Of
flee, but as a matter Of fact, not
many of them are given the oppor-
tunity, and probably fewer still
would make good if given the work.
Where girl makes failure in BUSH
ness it is more the fault of the en-
ployer than of the girl, and when
anyone gets along as Miss Christen-
sen has for the first year, she is in
line for further advancement be-
cause the business world is full Of
good books and magazines prepared
especially to teach the average Of
flee worker how to become more ef-
ficient every day, and the employees
in The Republican office are read
ing them.
But we have lost sight Of Miss
Jones. She began work in the COM
posing room, learning to set type
faces upside down and wrong side
to, and yet making 1t print right
side up and right side to. Certainly
such work has its trials. When peo-
pie speak of the printing art, they
refer to the ability to take q sheet
of paper with something written on
it, and open q case of type that
looks about like a pile Of nails, and