The Washington herald., 1921-04-25
THE DIFFERENCE.

mess women sometimes as work
ing girls What is the difference
between a business woman and a
working girl?"
All the difference in the world.
my dear. The difference between a
business woman and working girl
Is the difference between a career
and a job. 1t is the difference be-
tween the one who works with her
gaze fixed on the future, and one
who works with her eye on the
clock. 1t is the difference between
the one who mulls over the problem
she is engaged in, and the one who
chews gum. It's the difference be-
tween the women who get there,
and those who never arrive any
where.
A business woman is one who has
a definite purpose in mind. When
she starts to work she has a goal
before her to which she steers. She
may start out as q cash girl in a
store, but she means to be a high
priced buyer and so to Paris twice
a year. She may begin stamping
envelopes in an office, but she is de-
termined some day to sit in the
chair by the boss mahogany desk
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paid private secretary.
! The working girls only aim in
! life is to rope some man into being
| her meal ticket. All jobs, and all
work, look alike to her because they
are just a stop-gap until the blessed
| hour arrives when she can get mar
ried, and as she fondly hopes, sit
down on the do-nothing stool for
the balance of her life.
She has no ambitions that go
, farther than a new sports suit and
crepe de chine lingerie. She has no
| aspirations except to have beaux
and a good time.
The business woman knows that
it is only brains that count in bus
ness, and she makes herself as sex
less as a piece of office furniture.
| She Is as neat, and tidy, and we'll
groomed as possible, because a
pleasing appearance is a valuable
asset to every human being, but she
| banks on her good work to get her
the advantages she wants. She does
not expect to win them by her fem
mime appeal.
The working girl plays up her sex
for all it is worth. She wears geor-
| gette blouses and high-heeled slip
pers to work. and spends more time
powdering her nose than she does
at labor. She languishes over mems
! desks and always has to have some
body sharpen her pencils or put on
her typewriter ribbons or lift heavy
books for her. or do something else
that will show how pretty and help
less she is. and how in need Of a
| strong arm to support her. She
rolls her eyes at her boss and tries
| to make Irritation take the place of
knowing how to spell, and punctu-
ate. and add up figures.
The business woman is always
thinking of her work. Consciously
or unconsciously. it is always with
her, and she is eternally trying to
learn more about il. If she is a
| stenographer she gets more and
more accurate day by day. She taxes
| on herself more and more duties un-
| til the time comes when she has all
the strings of the office in her hands
and her employer turns as naturally
to ask her the details of every
transaction or where certain papers
are as he does to ask his wife at
home where he will find his collars
or the tack hammer.
her line of goods until she knows
everything about it, and she makes
herself so agreeable to her custom
ers and takes so much trouble to
find them what they want that the
time soon comes when fat old ladies
with big pocketbooks will wait half
an hour to have that nice Miss Smith
wait on them.
The working girl has no interest
whatever in her occupation, except
to get her pay envelope on Saturday
night. She doesn't know anything
about what she is trying to do, and
she doesn't want to learn anything
about it. Whenever her boss com
plains about the mistakes she makes,
she calls him an old Crouch, and
cries, or gets mad, according to her
temperament, but it never occurs to
her to improve the quality Of her
service.
Her interest in life lies outside
Of her sphere of labor. She gets
through the mornings as best she
can, waiting for the noon hour in
which she can call up some gen
tleman friend" or else wait for him
to call her UP. Even during work
iliB nOuTS Sne is InuHlDilnB TO the
girl next to her what he said" and
Il said" and "she said,'' or telling
what a perfectly grand time she
had with some swell fella" the night
before, and she has to be detached
from those fascinating "reminiscences
before she can give her half-hearted
attention to the letter she is try
ing to write, or the customer who
desires to buy her wares.
The business woman is willing to
pay the price Of success. She knows
that for women. as we'll as for men,
success comes high. and it must be
bought not only with labor, but with
faithfulness, aro loyalty, and relia-
bility. Therefore, she is no time
server. Office hours mean nothing
to her. for her work ends when the
days labor is accomplished and her
desk cleared. She comes early and
goes late. She does faithfully anu
we'll. every task that falls into her
hands, so that her harassed en-
ployer does not have to go over her