| Show BEAUTY IN BUSINESS GIRLS Sow How Good Looks May lILay ay be a Han Kan Handicap Handicap New Orleans Time Democrat I You ask uk whether soc good g looks arc are a dis disadvantage disadvantage advantage to a girl In business said a acom com comely ly young woman oman who now occupies an important position In hi a New Orleans mercantile establishment That is a question t athaS has i been propounded be tore toC and in a general way 1 L would an answer anwer answer Yes es decidedly A few years ago however when women began to enter business life Ufe in considerable numbers the exact reverse was the case I am s till still under thirty but I remember distinctly when it was Wa next to impossible for tor a girt to get a situation Good looks were Insisted upon In lit and stenographers steno hers and merchants were then the impression that pretty clerks chis brought br l trade It took some time to explode that idea The Tho ih pretty pratt clerks certainly attracted ersT c 2 to their counters c but they were crowds or ot dud dudes and loafers who Would buy a paper of pins and then lUrt away three or four dollars worth of or time while the women who constitute lour four our stubs of or the patrons of or all aU retail houses had a strong aversion to being waited upon by b a professed beauty Moreover no dependence was to be placed In the clerks themselves The handsomest girls were pretty sure to be vain and touchy and when wh n one really valuable she sh was morally certaIn certa to get married at the V vc v time her ser services were most need needed ed eti So practical pr men began to she see s that pretty girls did not pay as a cold business proposition and the same MIRe discovery was presently made at the offices Typewriting r ing belles bell 8 made more trouble than they were worth orth They rhey demoralized their lel low employees and created no end of Jealousy and bitterness and anti friction In Inmany Inmany inmany many cases perhaps in most moat cases the poor POOL girl in the least to blame She help ae being good to look at and was probably trying her best to attend to her bET own alf affaIrs rs but the idiotic men inca let her However results are the only things that count in business nowadays and a few tew years ago a big biS reaction alJ ut beauty set tn in Since he young woman went wenton on I am sure that the feel fOl Ing has be been n growing steadily stronger and stronger against the pretty girl gIn In business But please don dont t misunderstand misunderstand misunderstand stand me I am referring altogether te to the girl who travels traveis on her tre Uness as the saying roes goes A pretty girl who t make her good looks obtrusive and who shows by her bearing that she expects to hold bold her position by b simple Ji d i work has hs just as good a chance as anybody but unfortunately such girls art are rare A very attractive young wo mn gets Ireta so ao much attention and flattery that she ha has hall to be exceptionally ex anal sensible en f ble biG and strong minded not to have her head turned At present most stores prefer pr ter clerks who are plain and ladylike in IR their appearance and ami who make m keno no pretensions to beauty In the offices the is stilt til un more pronounced and many mapy men suen will wilt not e ge g gean an unie unless she he be is In downright ugly 11 and the older the better beUer Let Lt me the meva va v you jou OU a little Itu illustration I have hayt a younger sister who if I do say It who should n t is a teat real Some time ago aeo she he learned learn d that the president of a 8 big Alabama corporation wanted a private private vate vaLe secretary and being highly compe tent she wrote rote applying for tor the place He Es answered ed requesting reque Ung her photograph phot and We e both got angry at once My M sis sister sister ter happened to have an old tintype that somehow hoTi or other made her hel look like a act act ct freak and as a reproof to the frivolity she he sent pent that to by return man mall You may imagine our surprise when I I he engaged eng her by telegram As It turn I ed ad out he want a pretty girl but butan butan an ugly one and when she put In her ap he came near backing basking out of ms ma agreement At last laIt he told her very gruffly that she ahe he might try for a month and as she be be happens to have a lot of ot corn com common mon men sen sense size abe has given great t a But that case will show gow you how bow bowmen men of affairs feel on the subject There Is a big bl bi store in Chicago that employs about girl sill clerks clerke and used to boast openly that there one in the lot that an admitted beauty I Iwas was waa ITs in n Chicago during my m vacation and visited that establishment to make some ome purchases purchase Upon pon my word I thought I Iwas Iwas was ii in i an old ladies ladles home The Th woman waited on me was 50 60 if she was a day and she had a atac lace face like a 8 pair of nut c es Of course that was going tt U n the other extreme but I noticed that business was something tremendous ous Here in New Orleans I think they have struck hay happy mean Our large stores con eon contain tain tam lots lot of pretty girls IS but the fact fart sn t featured as they s at the theatres You c can n see nee at once that at no Im Ur attached to it an a that brings me back by the way to the starting point If it a girl girt is ill thoroughly capable and has plenty of 01 tact and discretion her good god looks will win be no especial handicap In a 0 livins livIu Otherwise she is 18 now adaya aday at a decided disadvantage e con com compared pared toMke to girt girl who ia is i homely and In hv It 1 tor |
