Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-28
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

thousand dollar woman buyer who
goes to Paris every year and ten
dollar-a-week salesgirl; the differ
ence between highly paid secre-
tary and a cheap girl pounding a
typewriter in the outer office, is
the. difference between the kind of
work they do. Yet in spite OF these
illustrations Of the success that a
woman may attain that they have
always before them, the rank and
file of female employees go on their
ambitionless way. doing just as lit
tie and just. as bad work as they
can do without getting discharged.
Why is it? What's the answer to
this curious human riddle?"
"Matrimony," L answered in one
word. i
The average girl takes no inter
est in her work. because she does
not consider it her life work, and
she doesn't think it worth while to
learn how to do it we'll because she
doesn't expect to do it long enough
to make it pay. What's the use in
trying to climb the ladder when
you are looking for somebody to
come and drag you off and take you
hume DeLOIe SOu get " lIle I'LL u
round?
When a. boy starts out TO work
he knows he has got to keep at it
as long as he lives. Therefore, if
he has any sense at all, he knuckles
down to his job and tries to do
it well enough to make it profitable.
He sees himself as a bank president,
or the head of a big mandatory,
hn1Cincr nncitinT Of
trust and Importance, and he knows
that the only way he can realize his
aspirations is by learning all about
the business he is employed in and
showing unusual aptitude for it.
But the girls dreams all are of
some fairy prince who will come
riding by and marry her and be-
stow palaces and limousines upon
her. She never dreams of earning
the reward of her own labor. They
are always the perquisites OF matri-
mOny. That Is why the average girl
has no ambition to do the kind of
work that leads to success in her
calling.
She doesn't intend to take dicta-
ton and write letters or sell goods
except until she can catch a hus-
band. So, il she never learns TO
write a letter without making mis-
takes, or to get her figures right,
and, never knows anything about the
goods she is trying to sell, she
should worry.
Girls consider that their real bus
mess in life is the cult of their
own beauty.
The other day I waited in a shop
five minutes for a girl to wait ION
me while she improved the cupid S
bow Of her mouth with a lipstick
If you will go into any beauty shop
the shampooer or the manicurist will
stop in the midst of her operations
on you to lay a single hair in just
exactly the spot on her meticulously
waved hair that long consideration
has convinced her is the most be.
coming. These girls are not think
ing about being the head Of their
departments. or owning beauty
shops of their own; their minds are
absorbed by their looks to the ex
clusion Of every other subject.
To succeed in any business you
must go into it for keeps. You
must put heart and enthusiasm into
it. 1t must be the thing you think
Of by day and dream of by night
Very few women do this. Most OF
them are aggrieved that they have
to earn money at all. They fee
that it is a reflection upon them as
women for some man not to be will
ing to support them.
Perhaps this is nature, and that
nature intends women to be wives
and mothers instead of financiers
At any rate it explains why women
as a rule, are seldom a success in
business.
Copyright, 1929