The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-18
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

Wanted-An Ideal Stenographer.-2.
Are you one Of sthe girls who has
no interest in her work. and no am
bition to excel in it? Do you do the
same thing over day after day. year
after year. without even doing It one
bit better? Do you make the same
mistakes today that you made yestcr-
day and last month?
Are you one of the girls who are
working with one eye on the clock
and the other rowing around in search
of a possible husband. and who is just
marking time in an once until she
in the listless. perfunctory way OF one
who doesn't expect to do 1t for long,
and therefore never takes the trouble
to become efficient in 1t. and whose
sole concern Is conferred in her ray
envelope?
Are you one OF the girls who thinks
that an ONCE is a pink tea affair, and
that you can bring all the airs and
graces Of the drawing room into a
business Office? Do you affect to be
to sharpen your pencil. or to fetch
and carry for you. and do you take
offence because some harried employ
er fails to address you in his best
flowery ball room manner. ita
Are you one OF the girls who go to
work dressed as II they were going to
an afternoon reception at which they
expected to knock the spots of of the
Queen Of Sheba? Do you go to work
in silly high heeled white shoes, and
low necked blouSes. and jingling,
dangling chains and bracelets?
Above all, are you one of those silly,
misguided. poor geese of girls who
play up their sex, and think they can
achieve fat pay envelope by max
ing eyes at their employer. Instead of
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the girls who are always hanging
around limiting to the boss to take
her out to dinner, or in his automo-
bile, and who thinks she is terribly
clever when she can set the tongues Of
the ONCE wagging about her and her
employer. and make his wife Jealous
II you are any Of these different
types OF stenographers you are q fore
doomed failure. and you are a traitor
to your sex You will never succeed
block in tho road Of every other wo-
man who il trying to make an honest
living, because you prejudice men
against feminine labor. You stamp
the brand of unreliability and ineffi
cheney on woman's work, and you
make men afraid to have women en-
ployeS around them.
The kind OF a stenographer that
every respectable business man is
hunting for is not q lackadaisical
iOdAcE WHO QOcS dS DtIlS Work as she
can while she's praying for some man
to come along and support her, nor a
would-5e society queen, nor a siren
playing her seductive arts in working
hours.
No. What he wants In a clear
eyed, lcvel-headed, energetic, self-re-
srectiny girl, who stands sQuarely on
her own two sturdy little feet, and
who is proud of having enough sense
and grit to make her own way in the
world. He wants a girl who Is inter-
ested in her job. who says I'VE" when
she speaks of the firm, and who
works with the determination OF get
ting to the top of her department. He
wants q girl who will bring her femi-
nine gift for detail to bear. on the
office so that she will be as invalu-
able in 1t as a wife il in the home.
He wants a girl who dresses like a
lady, who talks like a lady and who
acts like a lady; who is as modest and
refined, and treats men with as much
reserve when che works with them as
she would il they were visiting her
in her own home.
That's the type of business girl that
Is in demand. And that kind of a
business girl may write her own price