The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-06
Why Do Girls Want To Go
 In Business
By BETH M'ILVAINE

years old, cOmhCi 1Lu want graduaaes, popular wherever .ney
 and up in the latest or evet r i;ntad any Tha daySafter graduation they nhkeu
 n' nd started out on the immemo,, aiaI ioh of job-hunting. The seconu ria. ,vho interviewed them, wholesale ma, man ;nnorter. took them both on as iaon in.o,,oaranhers in the shipping depart ssent Of course, they gave thanks 10 .I.;r 1uckv star which had seen that .hem .he,i weren,t separated tucked their no;,s hebind their ears, and went to work.
 Now. going to work may mean va. va rious things. With some in..n.s ss diyinp into the days pile or ie,.ers ond never coming up until lts uone' With others work means an nles iI a- consultations with good pocket niar4 ,'ef eon I nowder puff. The power puff anu :n hns;ness is n greatly maligned arti- M. M hmt the indiscreation of it's owner ;a ,h;ef1v to blame for it's disrepute.
 To Tille and Mildred it was sym. bol link between the four walls or an office and the great ana glorious life beyond. A careful slap on tne nose nos every now and then somehow i;obtened the burden of work ana helped them forget the fight hours or enforced drudgery in dreamy contem- nIation of what the evening might bring forth.
 Rusiness itself was link between school and the day when their youth, ful hearts should decide they c0uld heat no longer without the lifelong comnany of two certain young men Then they coud flip their fingers at the 'tyrant lace importer and turn their acks on his door forever.
 After while the importers private secretary noticed that whenever she went to the firms dressing room for women meployes the two insepar- ables were always there, lingering Tn deep conversation. .,
 "My lace dress was tron," qouth Tillie with concern, ''and l had to keep Fred waiting half hour while l mended it." .,.
 "He is a wonderful dancre, isn't he? If you hadn't copped him when YOU did. I'd have,"- and Mildred went on the predict what hadn't hap- pened,
 The secretary, a discreet, sympa- thetic soul, kept what she saw to her- self. After all, her job wasn't as po- licewoman. Some one else must nave seen. though, and acted, because just six months after they had been hired, she was called upon to take the fol- lowing letter:
 Miss Tillie -, it has been called to my attention that you are wasting the company's time as II It were your own. Certain work must be done and as you cannot seem to do it in yuor leisure moments, we must find some one who will look upon it as her job. l am speaking thus frankly as know this is your first position and I'm hoping you will learn ; with experience. Another stenogrophre has been engaged to take your place at the end Of two weeks"
 Instantly the secretary wondered at the seeming injustice. But why didn't you fire Mildred, too?" she asked.
 The man, smiled wryly. Because if did, they'd get another job to- gether and never amount to nay thing. This way, apart, they won't have any one to cOnfide outside af- fairs in, and maybe they'll forget their husband-hunting during the cold light of day"
 To hunt husband-that's it. That's what so many girls go into busi- ness for. A man is their aim, not a jhob. And too often they're failures at both.
 I wonder if they ever stop to think that if they prove a success at their jobs, however. small, they will prob ably make more successful wives Marriage is a job as much as filing, and not a recreation, a permanent va cation from the hurry-scurry world of business, as some girls naively think Marriage should be the ultimate aim of every girls life, the big job she s working to fit herself for. If she won't make good at one kind of job isn't there a breathless chance she'll l fall at that too?
 The clever girl has the idea of mar riage tucked away in her brain, or even lets it preen its plumage in leis. ure hours; but during the hours she has pledged to give in another mans service she literally forgets about il and digs into work for all she's worth Now that you can hear the flutter | of skirts in business over and above the bass voices tat hitherto monopol. ized trade, the word career has come to mean something in girls vocab- ulary. A career takes the place of q man as the girls ultimate aim and although the two may be inter. changeable at a fluttering heartbeat's notice, you find an increasing number of girls talking about their life work
 Florence is one of those girls out for a business career. She doesn't get sidetracked by offers of marriage because she unconsciously wards then off by her almost devotional attitude toward her ob. She likes men; they like her; but they work on a basn of impersonal equality. She never expects to marry. In fact, she frank ly states she would probably make ar awful mess of it.
 She may marry, I hope she does As I said, every girl should eventu ally marry. But believe she has thC right idea about business.
 When a girl accepts job, she i. trading her brains, her hands, experi ence, training, time, for a sum ot money. In doing this she is accept ing sundry responsibilities whicl She expects her employer to be fail and keep his faith with her. Hel side of the bargain is no less heavy.
 
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