The Washington herald., 1921-05-16


reau in q big department. store that
employs hundreds of women clerks
and stenographers, says that the
qualification that he attaches most
Importance to in a girl is her
smile.
OF course the applicant for a po-
sitioa must be reasonably intelli-
gent looking. bat beyond that 1t
doesn't matter 10 this student of
feminine psychology whether she Is
homeIy or pretty. or tall or short,
or a happer or one who has ceased
to celebrate her birthdays The JOB
she wants is hers, II she wears
Z smile that won't come of.
Because the girl who smiles nine
times out of ten Is u winner. First,
because, everybody likes to have
dealings with a cheerful person.
There is something in happy
looking face that draws US as ire
sistibIy as a magnet draws nee
de
The girl who stands smiling be-
hind her counter Is the one we In
stinctiyely select to buy from. The
girl who smiles above her type
writer as she works, and who wears
an expression of contentment and
. pleasure as nshe goes about her du-
ties, is never the one who Is dis
pensed with WHOM the force Is cut
down. She is like sunshine in the
Office, and everybody wants her to
stay The waitress who takes your
order with a smile. flavors your food
with something that turns plain
meal into a banquet and makes you
double your tip.
1t is the girls who never smile
during working hours who never
succeed. Who wants to buy from
scowling young woman whose
face looks like the human express
sion of a vinegar cruet? Who wants
to keep in their office bitter. cyni-
cal. disCruntled creature who feels
that she is being done n deadly
wrong In being asked TO earn any
part Of the salary she is paid' Who
wants to have about them any
woman. in any capacity, who looks
as 10 her favorite employment was
swapping the heads off of everyone
with whom she had to have any
business dealings?
Nobody. There's enough unpleas-
antness in the world that we can't
escape, without our afflicting our
selves voluntarily by having
grim. groucny girl around us. A
girls smile is her best asset. be-
cause we forgive such a lot of peo-
Pile who are good naturcd and easy
TO get along with. Pleasantness
and cheerfulness are the mantle of
charity. They cover a multitude of
sins.
sarah never will learn how to
make bread that is not a first aid
to the undertaken. No human agen-
ry can make Jane sweep under the
bed. Hsrriet's spelling is a dis
g-ace. Somebody always has to
rheck UP Florence's books for her
Maude will mix her sales slips. A
hundred times we have been on the
point of firing them, but we never
do. Because when we scold them
for their faults, they turn upon US
the smile that disarms wrath. and
we think that after all we would
rather put up Zith their blunders
and have their sunny faces about
US than to have to deal with para
Sons of efficiency who would, like
as not. be monuments of gloom.
.
because a smile is the badge OF
courage. People who meet the
ups and downs of life with a grin
are those whom fate cannot con-
uuer. They have the strength with
IN them that enables t'em to sur
mount every difficulty that lies in
their paths. and that carries them
on to-the victory in the end.
Most of US fail because we get
downhearted. We lose faith in our
selves We become towards who
supinely give up without fighting
a lick In the battle. We dope our
selves on self-pity. We howl and
whine and complain until every
body hees from US, and so we shut
every door of opportunity in our
faces.
This is true of men. It is doubly
true Of women. II nobody wants a
man about who Is glum. and cyni-
cal. and perambulating hard-luck
story. be sure nobody wants a wom-
an around who is drenched with
tears, and who Is about as depress-
ing a companion as a funeral pro-
cession would be.
But the woman who. locks her
skeletons in their closet and throws
away the key. who puts the soft
pedal on her personal I,iefs. and
who turns a brave and smiling face
on life, Is the one that every one
OF US will go miles out of our way
to give helping hand to, and who
never lacks for friends or open
doors TO welcome her.
II q girl wants to marry ythere is
no other way by which she can win
her way SO surely into the msscu-
line heart as by smiles. Men do
not like women who laugh much.
They hate the woman who 10 noisy,
and loud, and always ha-ha-ing at
something. or nothing. and trying
to be vivaeious and lively. Also
they loathe the giggler. who gets
upon their nerves. but they fan for
the girl with the sunny smile that
setokens quiet and serene dispo-
sition-
The thing that makes a man for-
sake his bachelor comfort ana
shoulder a vomAn's board bill and
shopping ticket Is the dream of
being met. when he comes home
tired at night. by a smiling wife.
The ideal wife OF every man L.
woman who Is bright and cheerful
and contented and good humored.
A woman who can smile. and smile,
and smile through good times and
hard times. who can meet the in
escapable trials and tribulations or
life with a smile instead Of tears
who can even smile fresh courage
Into a man when his own courage
has gone down to zero. So
The wife who has got a strangfe
hold en- her smile that nothing car