Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-18 | Page 8 | Reserve Your Rating

I Reserve Your Rating I x 0 By v JOHN BLAKE I A young oun woman of my acquaintance recently I left an office of e where there was a spirit of great I friendliness among the staf staff The he girls visited at each others other desks trooped out to lunch together told each other about their bo boy friends and their parties and made appointments appoint appoint- ments to meet meet each other In the evening She liked the place er very much The girls all seemed delightful It was her first job lob and she thought that It was a wonderful thing to to be be in I business Presently through a friend she got a position in another place Here nobody seemed particularly Interested in her The women In the theoffice office ce were i interested In their work and York and kept busy at It S There was little talk during business business' hours hours no no visiting about at all My Iy friend set set the thes these young oung women down as a apack apack pack of ot snobs snobs and and felt lonesome and miserable among them She Fhe thought that because she was new to the place they had conspired to mal make e. e her her an outcast Three er r four foul times times' she made up her mind to go goback goback goback back to the old place although the pa pay PY was not as high and the to advance seemed lessI lessI less I 1 can only live once she told herself as long longas as I have haye to work for my living why shouldn't I 1 work in congenial company But in a month she revised her opinion of or the people leople she was as thrown among They had not it Is true gushed over her or welcomed welcomed welcomed wel wel- her to their crowd Immediately But when she came to know them better she found they were more intelligent and really quites quite a a's as s friendly as those In the other place They did not mal make malea ea a fuss tuss over newcomers newcomer partly because they knew w enough to find out something about strangers before becoming too pally with them second because e they were Interested In their work during business s hours and had no time to spare from it for office social activities It is always a mistake to make hasty judgments about people The outside of a human beim being is a very poor in index in- in dex fex to the mind and the heart in Inside N one looking ing at Abraham Lincoln in his youth would have predicted that he would become one of the great men men nen of the world No girl beginning her business life can tell telI from the manner of her associates what are their real leal characters and what kind l of friends they will make by and b bAs by Y 1 YA A As a rule competent people are too bus busy to pay much attention to strangers or to make fast friends with every ery one they meet But continued association with them discloses what they are worth and although gh they are not chatterers or enthusiasts they will often prove the best possible kind of friends when they become better better better bet bet- ter known know The young wom woman n of whom I have spoken is ii happy In her her- new job now And not for anything would she go back to the crowd of flighty over- over friendly empty head headed d little flappers who seemed such delightful company compan when she first met them Copyright 1926 b by the Bell BellS Syndicate Inc A