The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-28
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK
HOW TO GFT THERE,
BY DOROTHY DIX,
TIA Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

/ stead OF half working, and using only
half Of their minds, Az ! pass through
my big outer office u dozen times q
day ! notice certain girls who never
ooh up, who are never Chuttering, who
are engrosscd with the thing they have
In hand, They are giving me honest
service, other girls are looking around
and chattering n whispering TO each
other about what 'he said" and she
said and the dates they have got,
Everyone Of the earnest workers IL
slated for a move up as soon as the OPP
portunity presents Itself, and the slack
ers will be Jho mes | will dispense
with II business gets a bit bad
"a third point that | would implorc
girls 20 consider Ia the necessity of
accuracy, and OF establishing u record
of reliability have i've stenogra-
piers who industry are about equal,
but | pay one $40 a week more than
| do the other, because | can depend
upon her letters being absolutely cor
rect. ! don't have TO read them,
can sign them with the assurance that
they are Just as | dictated them.
The other girls letters may, or may
not, be Just right | don't dare rIsk
sending them, without reading them
because she may have quoted a price
wrong, or made some vital mistake,
and its Worth $40 u week Ia time to
me TO have a secretary who Is accurate,
That's why one girl gets IL better sal
AIRY than the other,
Another point that | would call the
girls attention to " the fact that the
average business man Is m over
worked, overstrainCd man whose nerves
are on edge, and that any little peculiar
lty OF \ secretary eat ~irritate him to
madness, For instance, / nave just
gotten rid Of a really efficient stenog-
tanher because Of the time it took for
her to get ready to take dictation
When | summoned her she would stop
to get a glass OF water. then she would
sharpen her pencil then she would have
to hunt w her note book, then she
would fuss with her hair. and her
waist, and by the time she got her
self settled ! was swearing mad, aud
In no condition to give my mind to the
work ia hand. OF course know a
Sane, sensible man should not iet such
little personal pcculiarities In his ste-
nographor upset him. but II does, and
SO can give no more earnest piece
Of advice to n girl than this-to dress
herself before she leaves homo, and
comb her hair and let II GO at that
until working hours are over, So shall
hev employer arise and call her blessed,
"Still another point for girls to con-
slider Is the d~esirability of cultivating
a pleasant manner, and looking alive
and alert, and Interested, This doesn't
mean gtRgling, or Kidding, or making
goo-goo eyes, or flirting, Far from t..
Y means for a Girl lust TO look like
she's amiahle. apd good uaturod, and
enjoys her work, and is glad she's got
n good job.
Nothing on earth is 40 distastctnl
to a man as to have a girl around him
who looks as II she regarded herself
Ia the light " an early Christian mar
tyr because she has to earn her own
living, or who ia hCKadRtsItal and UNI
interested, while as for tho one who
IS temptramcntal ana who wocps-
goodnight Tho blue envelope for her
every time.
These are only a few tins on how
to succeed, hut II you viii follow them
you can't fatl."
LCCopyright, 1919 by the Wheeler SYN.
dicate, Incl