The Washington herald., 1919-06-05
Meet Miss Business
Girl; She's New 7ype

The Business Girl is a new type.
We have had the Girl in Busi-
ness with us for many years but
the Business Girl. herself. is some
thing new-something that has
been born OF altered conditions in
this old world.
Firm and self-relIant she asks
favors from no one-only a chance
to try her metal with her brothers
in the world of business.
With the Business Girls advent.
the stenographer who polishes her
nails while her employer is dictat-
ing, and the feminine clerk who
dissolves into tears when corrected.
have become things of the past.
Miss Business Girl has met and
conquered every opposition and the
gates of the business world are
aJar for her.
Girl Graduate Is Looking.
Into this new and delightfully."-
unexplored region the Girl Gradu.
ate of Washington is looking
waiting for the day when she can
enter and explore to her hearts
content
Stenography is the stepping
stone from which many of them
hope to ascend the commercial
heights-but they are determined
to be good stenographers-to fill
their positions with efficiency and
competency.
They are proud of themselves as
Business Girls and hope one day to
make the world proud of them as
Business Women.
Perhaps few of them hope to be-
come leaders of finance-but they
do hope to fill responsible positions
in the world of finance.
Fitting themselves for the part
they hope to play they do not in
tend to merely study shorthand and
type ewriting-but all of them add to
those essential studies others which
will make them valuable to their
future employer.
study Foreign Languages.
To the Girl Graduate Editor many
of them have confessed that they are
studying foreign languages - fitting
to occupy positions OF
trust abroad for their firms.
Spanish is the favorite study-as so
many of them during their high school
years have listened repeatedly 10 lee
lures on the opportunities South
America offers to those who have a
working command of that language
and English.
Perhaps many of these girls have
dreamed for years of The careers they
have chosen Off themselves-but in
some cases the grad Ii, approach of
Day alone has stirred
them to a realization of what their
far-away dreams may actually mean.
Mrs. Virginia King Frye. one of the
Judges in the Girl Graduate contests.
told the Girl Graduate Editor that
she believed the writing of the Ambi-
ton Stories would. in some cases.
awaken the writer to the realization
that she had ambitions.
In the letters to the Girl Graduate
Editor some OF the girls have ad-
mitted that this is so-but add that
their dreams are none the less true in
that they are not old.
Has New Ambitions.
Among the letters from prospective
Business Girls. received by the Girl
Graduate Editor, is one from Alice
w. Petar, GIG Kenyon street north
west, a Central High School girl.
who admits that her ambitions are
comparatively new.
"As I have no very noticeable tall
ents along musical, literary or artis-
tic lines, I have been left free to
choose my vocation" she writes.
During my journey through the
grades 1 had some vague idea of
becoming a school teacher. or per-
haps a librarian. but I really gave
very little thought to the matter.
The end of my school days seemed
SO far distant that it was hardly