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Show Beauty Favored By Boss Usually Loses Out in End By MARIAN MAYS MARTIN OATHER bewildered young ladies who, because they are 1X pulchritudinous, have been pushed ahead in an office by admiring executives sometimes possess sufficient ability to (ill high posts, but. more often, they do not. Just at the moment, mo-ment, 1 happen to be thinking of a rather unhappy beautv tiiio jumped from a S30-a-week job to one paying SI 50. Then t lie man responsible lost his position and the girl failed to make good In hers- Today she cannot even get a S30 job. I know that s little influence influ-ence in hi? h places wiw j o m e 1 1 m e s carry one far In business and .the professions, profes-sions, but the trick does not itserve a "good press" and one j-otild be a knave to advo- its V i r ca t e such methods. After mrs. makiin all. Ihere is no substitute for ability. I believe, of lourse. that every one should be ?ivep a fair chance to get ahead. If a girl has ability and has nei Bits about her. she can make the most of it. On must admit that. In business busi-ness organizations, there is a great deal of politics and favoritism, bu: one must also beat in mind that, trhen the trial balance reveals uch conditions, there is usually a house-cleaning. People are not in business just for the fun of it. Favorites Handicapped I have known several young women wo-men who were favored by theii trasses. Not only did this situation hamper their careers, but the bosses boss-es always seemed to expect more ffork from them than from othei girls in comparable jobs. Once a man becomes convinced that a woman wo-man admires him. he is likely to lake advantage of her weakness. Furthermore, she is on the defensive de-fensive when office gossip brackets her with the man higher up. However, w'e find here and there m occasional example of feminine shrewdness. Only when a woman tan outplay a man at his own Sme. can she win I can scarcely refrain from applauding a woman !or outsmarting a commercial lothario. but I doubt the ability Rf the young and inexperienced to wry off the honors. A certain frpe cf business executive makes a ipecialty of the hands-across-tl-e-fiesk sort of thing, and usually a M Is completely overcome by his f"chnique. Generally speaking, romance and business are best kept separated. There is a time and a place lor everything. Some disillusioned young women could bear me out In the statement that bosses do not take after-hour handclasps any too seriously. I know of women who started their careers with a few flashy moments, but discovered too late that they could have achieved better results without assistance. They really had ability, but they detoured. Dinner With Boss "My dear Mrs. Martin: Do J.'ou think it is wrong for a girl occasionally occa-sionally to have dinner with her boss? The circumstances are such that it seems silly to refuse. My home Is some distance from my nice, and it often happens that I have to work until 8 o'clock, getting get-ting out bills at the end of the month. My boss also works and often asks me to have dinner at a nearby restaurant with him. I have on two or three occasions. "Yes, he Is married happily, as far as I know. I am not in the least in love with him, but I don't want to start any tongues wagging, and ' rather imagine I have. What should I do? Bookkeeper." As you point out. it would be silly to refuse to have dinner with Jhc man under the circumstances. Only a very malicious person would 'art any gossip about it. If you line near your office and don't Uncer over the meal, there isn't very much any one can say. since 5"hr reasons for working late are obvious. Of course, if vou make a Practice of it. and a lark, that's Hhte different, but the situation s .vou state it should cause no unfavorable un-favorable comment. |