The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-13
The Little Girls in. Business.

The cities and towns are full OF them,
young girls just through with all the
book education they will ever have, be-
! ginning to work, to take their place in
industry, Some of them like the new
excitement of it; some of them are
sulky and resentful; some OF them take
it as ? matter of course. As their at
titude toward it, so is the quality of
their work, so is the character of their
lives.
They do not know that all those
young girls, with blue eyes or brown
eyes and smooth or curly hair. They
have no idea that business has any
thing to do with life, and life means to
them-well, what it means TO anyone
| love and marriage, or more generally
speaking, happiness. 1t never occurs to
them that some day, when they are a
bride in all the first pride of new
home and the finest husband in the
world, their parlor will look exactly as
| their desk. 1t never occurs TO them
that if they cannot keep their work
systematized in the office, they will be
still less able to keep It'll arranged in
orderly fashion in the house.
The girl who would be good house.
keeper should learn neatness and pune
tuality and system and industry. The
same qualities that will make her sue
cessful in business will make her home
when ii comes to her, the pride Of the
neighborhood.
1t is too bad that all the little girls
Of the world do not realize this, when
they start in the great procession OF
the worlds workers To them, to most
OF them who start in at the simpler
tasks, such as tipping, or filing, or ste
biography working is simply part of
the worlds dissgreeableness like going
to the dentists or waiting for trains.
1t NAV be that the family actually has
not enough money at home TO feed and
cothe her. Or it NAV be that she
wants better clothes than they can at
ford. and she can put her tire earn
ings into them without consulting the
family Or il may be that. out Of high
school and college, engaged perhaps,
she has taken up working to pass the
time until the man she is TO marry
comes for her.
With this attitude it is not strange
that so many OF our business men com
! plain bitterly of tho inefiicieney of the
little girls of business The majority
of them are inefficient For the
average girl who starts in at business,
the system demands an exactitude sur
passing anything she has ever met with
| before. Il never occurs to her
that, rs she learns through the chang
ing moods OF her employer how 10 avoid
being nervously irritating apd how to
smooth over difficult situations with
her calmness and poise, she is gaining
social experience that will be invalu
able to her in the world of men and
women and in the peace of her home
! life after marriage 4 business girl
who can get through a troubled day
with cranky employer without one
explosion from him can navigate any
social situation There is no training
| like it for diplomacy and Poise. : : .
| Instead of being viewed as useless
interim in life, girl should look on
work as an accomplishment infinitely
more valuable than swimming, say or
dancing. II is much more TO the point
to have an expert standing in some
| branch of business than in some sport.
A knowledge of swimming may save
4 your life or that of another. 4 knowl-
edge of business may save your own