Evening star., 1933-12-31
BY HAZEL CANNING.

ISS DOROTHEA DUTTON, bach
n n elor of science, has just landed
~ ~ Job after six months Of looking
around" since her graduation.
Y Miss Nellie Nelson neat and
quick and bit Saucy as well.
also goes to work for the first time In 1894.
And Miss Mabel Mitchell, dietitian; Miss
Cora Carruthers, librarian, and Miss Pauline
Pringle teacher, likewise are joining the new
army of young feminine America which goes
out each weekday morning to earn lts oaliy
bread-and weekly marcel waves-as sel1-Sup-
porting women
In years past the girl new on the job" had
her anxieties In 1884 she undoubtedly Will
have anxieties a little keener, and questions
little more eager, because she Is starting OUT
in world by no means stable yet. Ana SO
she asks:
How shall 1 make the most of my job, and
my hfe?"
How best may eat and rest and work and
play?"
rs marriage a drawback to my success as a
working woman?"
"What mistakes have the working women
who came before me made? And how shall 1
avoid them?"
At Columbia University School of Journal
n ism, in New York, is tall, reasonably
cheerful and explicit gentleman who offers
ANSWERS To all these questions In fact he has
the answers to many more questions than these
and has put them into book which ne calls
more Power to You"
He is Prof Walter B. Pitkin. Prof Pitkln
Is famous for the unusual topics he chooses 10
discuss in extended form. He is prodgious
writer And the other day he took some time
from his busy schedule to consider the working
woman in the new year 1884. He began WIN
q bit of prophecy.
When times settle down, Pro1 fltkln
of he
office the conditions of most places Where
women work will be found to have changed
greatly Machines in greater number will take
the place of former routine, dull-ln-the-neao
employees.
go out use her brains and create her own
job is the girl who will attain success. Orig
inality initiative enterprise will be the qualities
of success and survival. in 1894 and the years
to follow:
This being SO. how shall Miss Cora librarian;
Miss Nellie secretary, Miss Mabel trained
nurse, go about their lives to find success?
by studying themselves. first of ALL says
Pitkin by finding out the mistakes SO many
American working women made III the good
boom years. By steering away from those
mistakes"
What were some of the mistakes Of the aver
age American working girl and woman?
Prof Pitkin cites two which are important.
First the average woman in the "high-salary
group"-the girl who earned $40 week ana
more-generally spent every dollar she made
Often she ran into debt besides. When the
crash came it was found again and again that
the grand office manager, the stylist making her
$4,000 year, and others like these had hardly
a dollar saved to tide them through the storm.
That was grave mistake No. l. The second
was typical of all working women, high-salaried
or low. They tried-they still try-to do too
much after hours. They 60 to too many movies.
They cultivate too many friends. They join
too many clubs So they dissipate the powers
they need for success in their work and in
their lives.
Then how should the working girl in 1884
arrange her time, at work and in leisure, to
make the most of both? Prof. Pitkn has
thought Of this; has come to conclusions.
First, she may well have two hobbies, he
believes, and one of these should require