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Show WASTING TIME HHFRE'S one thins about If said H the Woman Who Worked for H Herself, "you women who H work for a boss, who have to H go to an office and keep hours and get through so much work or be fined, don't fritter your time away. Now I, who haven't any boss hut myself, find H that I'll often waste an entire morn-ine morn-ine frittering doing a whole pack of H silly, useless Miincs that won't get m anywhere when I ought to sit right down and tackle my job." The other woman smiled. "Don't imagine that frittering Is con-finf con-finf d to you women who work for your- H selves." she retorted. "I've seen a eirl H in an office fritter her time away quite H as thoroughly as you could. Five min- H utes to fixing her hair, another five to H pushing things around on her desk. another to answering a 'phono call of a strictly social character, another H answering the questions of her chum H at the next desk n5 to how she got op last night at the dance . Oh. yes it H can be done very successfully under a H The first woman laughed. H "I suppose It can." she agreed. "But H after all. it's uphill work. I tell you the difficulty of keeping myself strict- H ly up to schedule s the hardest thing H I have to meet. And it is so with many H other women placed as I am. We get to thinking that we can hurry our-selves our-selves a little tomorrow, and so cut H working hours short today, and go to this or that interesting thing, to a H lunch that will chop off half the day, H to a tea when we've been particularly asked to come, or perhaps we'll just H coddle ourselves into thinking we don't feel 'quite up' to work this morning. The result is that we get behind or that wc slight our work, or grow lazy. I tell you what, it takes a heap of character, a deal of determination, to H be your own boss " |