The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
SELLS ENGINES
 AND IS HAPPY
New York Woman Tells How She Conducts
 Her Business
| 1T WHAT age is A bushes

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 girls of today are earning the salaries of substantial men and "suc- cessful' in the eyes of the business a different type of business woman who did not arrive until after 3O." She is in many cases the woman who married early and reared a family and then went through widowhood, or because her family no longer need- ed her, tuls.ed her attention to the outside world. There iss also the bachelor girl who had an uphill strug- gle and did not come into her own until after 30. New York city has number of prominent business women who succeeded after 3O." sRead the following interview and see how one woman made good :"
 RMRS. MINNA DENIES belongs N to the number of business wom-
 en in this city who entered the business world after 30'' and who married and reared a family before they went out for themselves. Mrs. Dennes holds a very unique position for women. She is assistant sales engineer for the Eric Ball Engine company at No. 70 East Forty-fifth street, New York, and is thorough ly informed all about the why's and wherefores of machinery.
 q guess I should have been a boy" laughed Mrs. Dennis when explain ing her interest in line which usu- ally belongs to the opposite sex, flor I remember I was always interested in watching the wheels of an engine go round. In fact, anything mechan- ical always appealed to me. l want ed to know all about piece of ma chinery and would stand for hours listening to explanations about bars or bolts or nuts"
 Today Mrs. Dennes is explaining these intricate mechanical bolts and nuts and all about good and bad qualities of engines to men. Her works as sales-engineer means that she must put over" some very clear information to her prospective buy CTS.
 Did you take some special course in engineering?" asked Mrs. Dennes, thinking that as so many women and girls run their own cars today this might be a future opening for them. But Mrs. Dennes's love of machin- cry was a natural art" and while she said her desk partner, Mir. l.. Copeston, has given her much val uable information concerning en- zines and prices she has never taken "a prescribed course.
 My first real, competent position came long after o." cheerfully ad- mitted Mrs. Dennes, land it was real ly long after I had ceased to think about engines and wheels going around. I was born in New Haven, Conn.,, taught at home by tutors and married at an early age. When my little daughter was eight years old l was left widow and, like many oth- CT unprepared wOmol, started out to earn my living.
 Engineering and wheels were the last of my thoughts, for l was too busy keeping the wheels of my brain going around to earn bread for my self and daughter. l cam. to New York and started out like many oth- CT women to peddle life insurance. It was a great life but it led me into other lines. 1 studied commercial la wevenings and also stenography. 1 was a public stenographer for a time and later worked in a lawyers of flee, where my study of commercial law was great help to me in my work.
 "A few years ago was introduced through friends to people in the Erie Ball Engine company and then my old interest in engines and machin- cry came back. My business experi- ence all along the line had helped me and I was ready to hold my first competent position. Since then have lived and eaten engines and parts of engines"
 Mrs. Dennes is member of the Business and Professional Woman's League and thoroughly believes that the woman lover 30" has a better chance to succeed than the younger woman. |. Tt stands to reason woman over 30 would make better business executive" she said. because an old CT woman iS willing to give her whole time and thought to business. It is quite natural for the younger woman to think of dress and matri- mony before business. The elder woman should be a good dresser, and usually is, but if she has been mar ried she isn't so anxious to catch a man as if she hadn't already caught one! She is willing to work overtime and give the best of herself to the advancement of her business.
 By that l do not mean that the older business woman must not play and must have no time for recre- ation," continued Mrs. Dennes. But her play is of different sort. She enjoys her club, where she meets busi- ness women her own age, good bridge game or outdoor life. Every business woman over 30 must learn to lock her worries and cares in the office at night.
 Sometimes the older woman has to hang around for the right position much longer than some flapper just out of business school" she said. 'H shal lnever forget my first business days in New York city peddling life insurance.