Show Service Not Theory Key Key- To Happiness Says Girl S s t 4 41 1 v C fr 4 ff f f j Y i j p C 44 ij F l 4 t J v ta 4 4 4 MISS 1 ANNE NELSON By ny JULIA BLANSHARD NEW YORK Nov 21 Dont break your hearts mourning because you cant can't go to college as you had planned lanned You may make good and be x happier in your career just because because be be- cause you had to get started ed to work younger That is the word of cheer given young folks by Miss Anne Nelson new lew partner and governing spirit of ofa a a. smart dress house here Miss Anne as she is called by everybody knows what she is talk talk- lag ing ng ab about ul She had to quit high school to go to work Twenty venty years ears ago reverses hit the Nels Nelson kelson n family and arid little Anne h had hado d to o look for a job Her heart was hea heavy leavy because she had dreamed dream d some someday someday someday day of at wearing a cap and gown and walking across a college colleg platform carrying a white diploma in her hand land BEGAN ON 51 A WEEK WEE JOB JOBBorn JOBBorn JOBBorn Born and brought up in New York she started looking for work on its smartest str street t Filth Fifth avenue I decided decided de de- de that I wanted to work where I I could handle pretty things even eyen if f I couldn't wear them she C says of this his Instinctive step stepin in the right di di- r She got her first job in one of ot the smartest New York shops And she was was proud of it even i if she h was was only only a little 4 a a week errand girl girt She took to her job each day such breathless enthusiasm did errands so joyously and was so particular about trying to please everybody that one month later she g got t her reward It was only a 1 raise in pay But Butt it t that meant they liked her services ADV ADVANCEMENT ANCEl COMES IES From errand girl she was promoted to o stock girl Here she learned the necessity for a new quality patience It was here that she learned to meet anger quietly and to smile as ashe she he worked no matter how tired she got or how unjust she felt others were vere This calmness soon led to her being made head stock girl with another another an other small increase Then came an opportunity that taxed her calm She was ordered to take several everal new gowns down downto to the White House and wait walt for Mrs Woodrow Woodrow Woodrow Wood- Wood row Wilsons Wilson's approval of them A WEIGHTY WEIGHTY MISSION l That trip trip is one of my memories Miss Anne told me I Iwas Iwas Iwas was afraid to put down the huge box even on the train Mrs Wilson tried each gown on carefully adjusting everything and fixing her hair into When ready she would go o the next room with me trailing her like a frightened shadow for the presidents president's approval He was very quick to say when he liked a dress very very quick and specific when he didn't He would say the color didn't suit her or her style wasn't right To my intense delight dolight de do- light she took almost all of or them I almost felt as I if I had made the sale She probably did have something to do with it for very soon afterward they promoted little Anne again and andin andin andin in due time she became assistant buyer then American buyer and then five years later European buyer in the same house in which she started CLOTHES HELP DISPOSITION By this time I knew that knew that thal the dress business had me mc for life Miss Anne said I I had come to realize just how v important to the worlds world's happiness happi ness clothes are I realized that I had never seen seena a woman woman quarrelsome and dour when she was beautifully dressed And AndI I 1 realized that while womans woman's extravagance gance sometimes caused unhappiness ness that her fr frumpiness caused much more For it not only affected everybody around her but it made her feel inferior and she had to take it out on someone The depression gave Miss Anne her great chance When others were hoarding Miss Anne bought a a partnership partnership part in the firm she has been working for for several years years Today Today To To- day her name heads the firm name |