Show WINIFRED BLACK BLAC BLACKA BLA CK Writes About bi A Girl Business Hesse it Problem Copyright 1017 In i by Newspaper or Feature Service Sel Inc t A girl Irl who Is out of or a job came to toRce sec mo yesterday Just as ns she was leaving lea the tho house the house the postman came lie Ile brou brought ht mo me a letter from rom another girl a girl a girl q-Irl irl who hasn't always alwa's been just w what hat she should be She was out of a job too The first girl Irl told me mo that the reason reason rea rca is because he- he son she couldn't keep a position cause she is too good This Is the third third place Ive I've lost lost said the first girl Irl because I wouldn't go out to luncheon with the boss boas The ThEt one before I lost because I with the wouldn't go out Joy riding head rl of ot the office and Just before that I left a n good place because I wouldn't sit In the private office and let the he told manager hold my hand while mo me how little his wife understood himI himI him I pI dont don't see what Im I'm going to do about it The Thc girl Irl who hasn't nt always been heen Just what she sho should be writes that she cant can't g get t a n Job because she hasn't al alwa's always always al- al ways was ways been good enough h. h Every g time 1 I try to set get honest work she writes tile the they ask mo me where I worked last last and and that settles itI it I 1 cant can't give I c a reference and there must be something about m my looks Corthe for Cor the they always ask Isk mo me a gren great t many questions and then send me mo awa away without without with ou out t a chance What 11 hat am I going to do I want tobe to tobe tobo be bo decent I want to work to earn an nn honest living ln inn but no one will win Will let ici III me l Do you OU call this fair Fair rea reasonable kind lust kind reasonable what what words the they are and how little the they seem to mean mean and sometimes and this seems to be bo one ono of the tho times To judge from the evidence e In this particular case it ml might flu ht seem to a foolish person that neither a good girl nor a n girl Irl who wants to begin to be he good has a chance In the business world Do you believe bellevo this honestly Business Busl- Busl nc ness a Girl Do you von U believe heHe it really decent Bu Buness Business Business Busi Busl- ness Man I don don't I t-I t I know too many businesswomen businesswomen business businesswomen women who ar are earning honest livings honestly to believe e a n word of or it Some Sonic of 01 the tho business women I know I and some I I are arc cs ns good as gold haven't a doubt are as bad as bitter medicine Business women aro arc so much like society so society so- so clet women that you couldn't tell the tho difference between them If It It were not for their clothes What do you do when you QU hire over a dressmaker to come como And make mako over your our la last t winters winter's frocks Seeking Sec for lor efficiency Do you OU ask for references as ns to her moral character or do you Just Juat ring her up uj up on the phone an and say Arc Are you ou the tho woman who who made mado o over o Mrs Irs Browns Brown's green reen dross dress If you are arc what days n this week can cnn you OU como come to tome tomo mo me hen When you yoa engage a cook do you OU her about her personal c cross question ross c I affairs Or do you Just tr try to find out whether she knows how to broil a asteak asteak asteak steak an and what to do to get the the roust on n the table at the right time What hat you want rant Is la soi someone to do the work worl you OU ar are going to pay them to I do do and not someone to set an tut example In morals morale When hen a man Inan employs a woman to work in his store or 01 his sho shop or his office ho he is little concerned as aR to what her morals are have been or will lilli be beso beso beso be- be long long- longas tho they dont don't interfere so as with tho the work he pa pays lice hOI to do As a matter of fact no practical business man Is much concerned concerned ex ex except for Cor the fact that the average a business business business busi busi- ness man has hns probably discovered ere In Inthe Inthe inthe the way of ot business experience that a woman enl engrossed In her own personal affairs Isn't likely to be he a woman who will do his hit work well Efficiency Is what the average business business business busi busi- ness man looks for for and and in tho the long Jong longrun longrun run Its It's what he gets ets Yes he strives to secure this vcr very thing when ho discharges discharges dis dis- charges chanes the girl who thinks hes he's tryIng trying try try- Ing Ins to make malte dastardly love e to her If he lie good gives her a 11 knot o of e violets now and then when she's been nice about doing some extra work for tor him hl Or when he refuses to en engage age the theirl girl irl who looks look so MO much m as If she had hada hada a past that tho the vcr very office bo boy grins furtively when ho he opens the door for tor her Are you going out to look for Cor a Job toda today Business Girl W at can you OU do This Is the first thing How well can you ou do it That's the second An And the third Is how dead In earnest are aro you to keep on doing It Just It-Just just as aswell aswell aswell well as you OU can n Tice item UlUI I If It you ou can answer these three questions questions questions ques ques- satisfactorily no one in the tho business world worM Is going to stop business business business busi busi- ness long enough to hire a a. detective to shadow you ou or to ask questions of an anyone anone one as to what you OU were what you might have ha been or what someone's someone grandmothers grandmother's law in thinks perhaps you would have havo been i If you had had hud the tho chance The good girl who Is out of or a a. Job is out o of It because she's a vain little person who likes to start a a. flirtation and antI then thou hasn't sense enough to stop It b before It t gets too serious Tho The girl who has not alwa always s been Just what she should be is out of or a job because she's thinking too much about herself and not enough about the job Right and wrong good and bad Just and unjust unjust how how little words mean mean- mere words words sometimes sometimes |