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Show LIVE FOR THE FUTURE Prepare Now For What May Happen BY LUCILLE DAUDET. Upjji UPPOSING you lost somo facul-fcjj facul-fcjj ty which you use in your pres-ent pres-ent profession, what would you do for a living? . It is one of the conditions which presented Itself conspicuously in a recent re-cent discussion on jobs for the middle aged woman. Many women who have been first-class stenographers at a high salary lose their hearing. As stenographers they were useless. In other lines of occupation similar conditions con-ditions arise. There is loss of health, and the worker is incapacitated for that particular branch of industry. She may have practiced it with signal success suc-cess for many years, but one important impor-tant faculty was needed, and she has lost that What can she do? Of course, the far-sighted business woman can protect her future by somo financial provision, bo that in case of accident she will not become a dependent depen-dent But that is not sufficient Sho will want to do something if she ever has gained her living. This isn't altogether alto-gether a cheerful subject for the inexperienced inex-perienced new business woman, Dut it is a bit of foresight which many business women exercise. On the other hand, many women tire of one occupation pursued for five, ten or fifteen years, and would like to change. But what shall it be? They have never done anything else and are a little timid about changing tho habits hab-its of a lifetime exchanging well-Ue- veloped emciency in. uu work for doubtful efficiency in something some-thing entirely now. Many women who have done more or less mechanical types of office work feel, after some years, that they would llko to do something else anything except office work. . Women of foresight who think out their lives further than next year generally gen-erally manage to become more adept in somo other work than tho ono which engages their attention daily. If they do mental work each day they try to cultivate some skill in ono of the manual arts. This is tho most definite chango of occupation, and it keeps the mind fresher, too, than if it were filled with only one type of work thoughts. On the other hand women engaged in manual occupations try to interest themselves in some kind of work calling for mental exercise. What these occupations are depends somewhat on personal ability preference. prefer-ence. Many women and men, too have a taBto for some special work which is not related to their bread-and-butter occupation. Thero comes to mind a woman who makes translations for her livelihood, but who has some skill in the binding and illumining of books. Her business is translating, and sho earns a good sum by doing this work. But if she should loso this Job, or for some reason become incapacitated, incapacitat-ed, sho has another calling at hand she is not utterly lost Possibly there is somo special work that you llko to do, but which you 3 can't afford to work at because it requires re-quires training before it will aupport you. Mako it your avocation cultivate it in leisure hours. But have some facility in more than one direction, so that you will be prepared If your hour of necessity comes. |
