The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-06-29
TALKS FOR THE BUSINESS GIRL

Are you a member of the prickly fam
lily? If you are it is a foregone con-
csusion that you are not social favortte
or a business success, for that rather
large family connection has been unable
SC far. in spite of it's qualifications. to
make a place of power anywhere in the
world.
No matter how lovely you may be, how
we'll gowned. how brilliant, how wealthy
If you have the Prickley Family habits
you are not a success.
A girl know who belongs to the tribe
and used to have many of the tribal dix
tinguishing traits told about it in Ter
own whimsical way, and her experience
should be a warning and a beacon light
to other members who want to get to
Making Good Harbor, but can't find
the way.
Work VS.. Flight.
81 used to work like the very dickens"
she said. slangily, land the world was
my enemy. took mental boxing exercises
every night before / went to bed, and
laid out a schedule of fighting rules every
morning as 1 got into my clothes, and
made up my mind I'd knock out Old Man
Difficulty know the reason why.
81 went at it with a vim, 1 can tell you.
Nothing was too hard and nobody too big
for me to tackle. Indeed, went out of
my way to find trouble just so that 1
could have tilt and show my mettle.
But, somehow, / did not seem to make
much Roadway, for as soon as / knocked
over one adversary, another, or maybe
two. bobbed up to take eneir places.
Il wore my very soul out In the fight.
got all thin and frazzled. and made all
my friends my enemies. but 1t did not
seem to do any good. The more fought
the more difficulties seemed to arise, and
the more had to fight.
lone day a chance remark made by a
ma in he ma I'm
take notice. That little red headed girl
over there he said would be winner
if she wasn't such darn fighter. But
she's always on the rampage about some
thing. and it takes 50 much energy from
her work I'm afraid she'll never be of
that there are few rights in the world
that she has not pre- empted. she would
be fine. AS it Is she is fierce
THE remark was repeated to me as
joke, but it gave n% an awful jolt. L
wondered If the man could possibly be
hard? 1t seemed to me that the things
wanted We're things that were right; that
had every right to contend for them.
And vet l was certain that I was not
making any marked progress Only the
last month a girl in n position in my
department who was not nearly as quick
or as well educated as 1. had been pro-
NOTED to very remunerative position.
II had wondered at the time, and 1 had
worked harder and fought harder. too.
II began to take stock of myself. and i
realized that everything I did. I did in
an aggressive way. / went about with a
chip on my shoulder. as it were, all the
time.
Having convinced myself that some
thing was wrong, I set myself TO correct
ing it, but my very aggressiveness made
me as hard on myself as had been on
other people and kept me so busy watch
ing my step that / became almost
nervous wreck.
What in the world was the matter
with me- anyhow, 1 wondered. And then
like a flash it came to me that fought
too hard with myself. just as had fought
with others. 1t was my mental attitude.
Everything, to me. was so tremendously
important. The slightest mistake, the
least rebuff. the merest accident, were
distorted. In other words. was prickly