Show t Evening Chit Chat at I a O. O I ID ID 1 It I ever eer occur to you that faultfinding faultfinding fault fault- faul- faul finding Is I some sometimes a very good thins thing D DID And tho failure to find fault sometimes sometimes' cruel A young youn girl whom I know was wa discharged recently from her po position position po- po as stenographer lIe He le said he ani only did It I because h hB ha was WM going to cut down dow the office force she sho explained and I guess gess that's that's really realy the tho truth for all al the time I was there he al almost at- at most never nover found any fault tault with wih inc me Later lator I nel to meet tho young womans woman's ex employer with wih whom I am also acquainted The rhe talk drifted around arund to the girl he had har just discharged You liked her work her work I asked Why no If I I did why should I have let le her KO go She Sho said sid that was because you ou h had to t cut down the office force torce ct Ho lie 10 grinned rather sheepishly Oh that was waa a what I told her to make mako mno It Ite e easier RI r for tor her What a n queer conception of at making things easy casy some people kayo have thInS I lot her go because she sho was an Inac mac Inaccurate curate stenographer Two or throe three times she Iho ho made mado mistakes in addressing en envelopes l. l oDes and things of ot that sort that might have bravo rondo made bad bod ba trouble truble for tor me Didn't happen to to but it might have I couldn't risk It any longer What did sho say when y you yx l called her tier down for tor things Wen Well J I dont don't kno know as a I over did much I If an any I dont don't like to do to that that sort lort of ot I comfortable thing you know It I makes make me feel un un- un- un cruel That That's the tho failure to find fault that's thas tha's If your maid makes mistakes or Is careless careless careless care care- less I In an any way ay do you OU pleasantly call can her attention to her faults and ask her hor to try to do better beter or do you ou Just stand them as lon long as you ou can cn and then them rise in your our wrath and discharge her hog I If you U wore were or a 1 maid or a stenographer or oran oran an nn employee of ot on any sort sor In which of ot these ways would you OU like Uko to bo be treated I know a teacher who vho was told by the superintendent kow Just jUt after sho she was ws asked aled to hand In hor her resignation exactly why she had be been n unsatisfactory It I was wa- wa tho the first time she had received any criticism to speak of ot It t took her some Bomo time to get another school You know It Isn't hIt very yer easy when you have havo been asked aked to hand had In your re resignation to- to 1 naton to find another Mother position right u away way During During- this time sho passed passo through a period of discouragement and depression in Ira which as a she told me afterwards she almost made up her mind twice that there ther wasn't any place for tor her anywhere In the world When she finally did get gd a chance to ie t try tr again she sho on the tho criticism she Rho had received and today she sho Is ono one of ot the tho most successful teachers in the tho state And all al tho the suffering she went went through might have ha 6 been avoided If that superintendent superIntendent superintendent super super- and school had been ben kind enough to find fault with wih her In the tho beginning instead of tolerating her aa as al long Ionic as tho they could and then get getting ng rid of her I INot Not every one of or course has tho the brains and character and grit to overcome his lila faults fauls even en when they are pointed pinte out out But somo some people have havo and If I there are arc ar an any to whom you OU stand In the relation of or employer why wIn not give them the benefit of ot the possibility that they are nr of or that class and be kind html noush to find fault v with wih h them occasionally I |