Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-22
WOMEN SHOULD LEARN
BREV|TY PROVES ASSET
Business Is Teaching Many the Sin
OF Being Rambling
Takers.
CONFERENCE is NECESSARY
Decisions Must BE Made and Stated
Rapidly II Feminine Sex Is to
Complete With Man in World OF
Finance.
is NECESSARY
ny ELEANOR GILBERT.

There is one thing especially which
business can teach women and which
thcy can get In scarcely no other way,
and that is the art o: relating facts
in coherent fashion. 1t really would
pay great many women TO be IN
business for several months for that
purpose alone; for far above rub!es
Is the price OF the rare woman who
can answer question directly, COM
pletely and without aggression.
Al a table near mine in the tearoom
sat two women, young, pretty and vi
vacious. AS they sat down the young
ci woman bubbled enthusiastically
NY dear dear. In In SO slad you San iake
don't know wha, L would have done II
you hadn't"
so am l." agreed the other. NOW.
when can l see that apartments?
Around und Around.
Minutes hesitation. Let me, see:
This afternoon you're busy. and II!
not have a minute tomorrow. for
must rs see 10 6,z lot OF ;hngs for gu,
Coras brother has come back wound
cd?" Then followed a long description
cora's brother cali OF which was per-
fectly audible and entertaining to
every one within six feet OF her table }.
That suggested other interesting per-
sOnal anecdotes, recited in most divert
Every time, there was fifteen second
pause the older woman would venture;
the apartinent?' But stni the voice
dubbed on with anecdotes % places
every " s SUBJECT from war 10 e' daneing 70
When ! left the older woman had a
wrinkled brow. but She smiled hope
Advantage Of the next Iuli 10 put hes
question.
All Equally Guilty.
We are all equally guilty OF con-
versat!onal rumbi!nGs on occasion.
and the 9niy time we md out wha, an
are anxious TO get definite piece of
INFORMATION from chronic converse
,ional rambler. II you've nothing else
70 start of on her, verbal high speed.
She needs very little gas" Nod your
head once or twice or keep your eyes
asleep keeps her in the complacent
conviction that you're interested in
her inconsequent! irrelevancies. We
survive the Conversational Ramb bier
socially because we must. But business
IS her discipline and cure.
The business man pressed the desk
self-possessed young woman. Miss
Blank. when can YOU go TO Bridgeport
and close up that matter we discussed
;'Tomorfow at 1880 A few details
were discussed. and in ten minutes
everything was clear to both.
Would Have Spoken Up.
Would the business man have toler-
ated a long depression on the various
complicating factors THAT prevented
Miss Blank from taking the or 10 or
IL or l o'clock train. and have lis
tened sympathetically 10 all the inter
esting anecdotes about the place and
me peo C5S Which the proposed trip
interrupted rudely and insisted on an
Immediate answer to the question
which Interested him.
or course. not all business women
are direct and concrete any more than
all women outside Of business are ram
bling and incoherent. Blu. business
demands conciseness and conference in
conversation. Fhat does not mean
necessarily rude chopping off of SEN
fences in order to make them sound
business like" 1t means simply a
direct answer to a direct question.
minus aggression OF a super-abundance
OF Irrelevant detail.