Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-25
DOROTHY DIX TALK S
REGARDING PERSONALITY
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)

In a recent article I urged girls to
make themselves efficient, because
| believe that is the one and only
business girl, who signs herself EFF
ficient but lacking in personality"
| takes issue with me. She writes:
Efficiency without personality
will never get girl anywhere. There
| are multitudes Of efficient women
| who fail because they have disagree
able personalities. Most business
BILE disposition, even if she is not
very efficient, to one who is letter
perfect in her work, but who hasn't
the knack of wearing the smile that
won't come off. It's the smile that
boosts you up the ladder
Undoubtedly my correspondent is
right to a certain degree. Every
| card, and when you have efficiency
| plus personality, you hold a winning
hand that nothing can beat.
This is even more true OF women
| than it is of men, for custom has
made us attach more Importance to
a woman's personality than to a
| mans. We are more sensitive to a
| woman's appearance. We react more
| easily to her moods and her manner
than we do to mans. No employer
clerk is fat or thin, or baldheaded
or with tresses like Absolom's, or
| whether he is ugly or handsome, or
| silent or chatty, so long as he does
his work properly, But every en-
| plicant for job is pretty or, ugly,
or well-dressed or addressed, and
whether she is grim and sour-looking
or sweet and amiable.
And he's just naturally attracted
towards a pretty, gentle, smiling, in
terested girl who is good-natured
and who doesn't go around with a
chip on her shoulder looking for
| Sights and causes of offence.
| Nor is he to blame. Such girl
is like sunshine in an office. Her
Chemical that neutralizes the irrita-
bility of those about her, and makes
| the atmosphere calm and wholesome.
No wonder that employers, who are
worn out with having to handle eff
ficient but pernickaty ladies with kld
| gloves, get to the place where they
| put more stress on a girls dlsposl-
ton than they do on her speIilng.
| But why not have both? Inc pos
session io " Of a winning personality does
not bar one from having an lntl1n AZ
| acquaintance with the works OF tne
late Noah Webster. One, may smlle
| and smile and be crStchelJdCh a.
countant still. There is no reason
why a woman should not study the
art of being agreeable just as earn
| estly as she does the art OF safes
| manship, or how to make pot hooks.
| It is as important to acquire the
human touch as it is the touch sys-
tenn on the typewriter.
All true you say, put now a0qu
an agreeable personality!
Well, the first item in 1t, perhaps
is cheerfulness. NOBODY loNts "a
crouch, or pines for the society Oh
| one. We have got sorrows OF our
own, and we like to have PeoPle
| about us who turn a bright. praEc
| face towards life, instead OF look-
ing like the day of doom. May De
you have little enough to grin over,
| sister, but try smiling at lie. You
| will get better results.
1t you have dark and sullen ma
ture, and are given to dwelling on
| your wrongs, take a course OF llVeI
| medicine It will change your Whoie
| outlook on humanity and the Worio
in general. Morbidness is mostly
liver instead of constituencies OF soul,
anyway. f coursee it requires real
heroism to give up INDUCING IN
your orgies Of self pity. It's Ike
quitting the dope habit, but it will
pay in the end.
After cheerfulness, the next item
in an agreeable personality is self
control, whose other name is anna
bility. Don't regard every CRITICISM
n of your work as a deadly insult. II
I you have made a mistake, apologize