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Show The rteniituil i'or Stenographer. The demand for good, careful and n-arato n-arato stenographers and typewriters i increasing, not decreasing. A girl need to know how to spell and punctuate ; letter, besides being able to correct or. that is wrong frrammatically. .She mi: be possessed of that rare and pricile.-qnalification pricile.-qnalification common sense. She im;s. be observing, and she should have nt; average amount (if intelligence. No frodigy i:i reipiirod. As to wages, the average young gin cannot expect to be paid as much as the vertigo man. It is hard to say why this is so for nho is almost always just us capable. A young woman for instance Will get ten or twelve dollars a week where a young man of the same, caliber will receive, fifteen to twenty dollars. Perhaps there is an indefinable feeling emiolig employers that they cannot exact ex-act so much from a woman as they can from a man. A man will be often required re-quired to do a great, deal of miscellaneous work in connection with shorthand and typewriting, which would never bo imposed im-posed on a woman. But there can be ni doubt that there ia still room for those who will take tho trouble to properly equip themselves for the work. Tho remuneration is ample t.r the needs of tho average girl, and greatly in excess of that paid for other kinds of clerical work. Ladies' Home Journal. |