Year: 1870

WITHOUT any OF Win NttA hAkAt FiNE
lGminary preparations for the task
Their callings bring them necessarily
/ in contact with business men, who are
I busy men; and this lack often injuries
their advancement, by their want Of
tact in dealing with men We propose
here, to offer few hints 10 women
about 70 engage in business, and this,
therefore, is a lecture for women only;
no men admitted under any circum-
stances.


Call upon man Of business in
the hours % business transact your
business, and go about your business r.
This is the brief but wise council, dear
sisters, which you will find displayed
in large print on many counting room
walls A business mans minutes are
precious. He has not nearly as many
as he needs. lfhe has any to spare at
any time, he knows what TO do with
them. Do not, therefore, scare a poor,
overburdencd fellow creature out Of
his wits ny by demanding whether he
has half an hour to spare, or by aski e
when he will be at leasure, or by offer
ing 10 wait till he has nothing to do. -
If you have business, plunge into the
middle Of it and dispatch it quickly. ~
Moreover, when you visit a counting
room or Office on business, prepare
your budget beforehand so that you
may make your statement brief and
pertinent. DO not oblige a busy man
to cross-examine you as to your pur-
pose; do not 60 with half-delined or
dimly formed wishes


Learn to take eyes" or no. for an
answer A busy man has to decide
rapidly if he is fit for his place, and il
you have stated your wish or PROPOSE
tion, he can decide at once. He says
yes, and your affair is settled; or he
says no, and it is also decided. But
when he says yes, and you keep him
ten minutes or half an hour detailing
IFS and butts, be sure he regrets his con
sent; and if he says no, and you plead





with him to take it back, be sure that,
though he may be polite as French
dancing-master, he regards you as a
bore.


Again-learn that every business is
necessarily conducted in a certain
way, and has certain forms and rules,
which cannot well be violated They
may seem absurd and unreasonable to
you; nay they always do appear So
therefore you most always plead that
in some way, in your case, they should
be relaxed, or broken through; and
too often you gain your point, just that
once-for what man can resist a wo
man? But though you may prevail
you lose by it in the long run; it is re-
membered against you, and when pre-
sently you drop out" and somehow
get no more employment in that quar-
ter, you may know that it is because
you have rashly violated this rule.


When you enter an Office or coun
ting-room, forget, you can, that yor
are a woman. To the business mar
whom you are approaching, You arr
only machine, desirous to be set in
motion; he is only a machine; all about
him, for the time being, are only ma
chimes; and machine has no heart;-
it makes no allowances; it exacts th,
uttermost; it demands the best, will
the least waste of time. Do your worl
thoroughly and promptly; present j
with few words; learn the customs o
the calling you enter, and conform tC
them; or if you do not like them, try
something else. But do not attempr
to change them--at least by pleading


This is the way to success. Those
Of your sisters who have Learned it arr
too busy, and to profitable engaged
TO make much noise about il; they
have their hands iull, for there is abun
dance of room in the world, FOR frs
rate workers; for machines that are
prompt and regular, that turn out gooC
work, and are never indisposcd. Try
TO remember that when you engage ii
business, when you enter the labor
market, you necessarily come in com
petition with men Men are slaves;--
they must work; for they have families
to support, or fortunes to make, or en-
terprises 10 advance; and do not ex.
peet to marry. These men, these slaves
under the lash Of all kinds Of necessi
ties, you have for opponents; they can
not give place to you if they would,
flor they are in the labor market just az
you are. If they work harder, better,
and for more hours than you do, they
viii beat you and your sex cannot help

you.


One man succeeds beyond another
just in this way. 1t is not luck, il il
not good friends for though friendship
may push a man along, It cannot keep
him from falling back. 1t is hard work