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Show I j Always Accept Your Share of Blame ONE of the hardest things for the business Woman to learn Is that she must not only stand by her own nlstakcs but that very frequently she nust take the blame for the errors of other It so happens In most offices or In business busi-ness enterprises, that each department Jepends very greatly upon another department, de-partment, and that one piece of work wlil pass through so many different hand3 is to make It almost impossible at times to ascertain where the fault' for a mistake mis-take lies. i Business Ethics. :1 ': ! Where there arc times when It is necessary neces-sary for the sake of one's personal honor Dr for the success of business, that tne olamc be placed whero It belongs, it frequently fre-quently hapicns that it would create a great deal of trouble and friction to trace out every mistako to its source and it ir. a sort of ethics of most r'fices that the least said the better, in relation to mistakes when it Is too late to correct them. It is very natural and at times It is perfectly proper that one should defend oneself from unjust criticism, but in the main It Is best to pass by minor errors, with the realization that, If you -must suffer from the mistakes of other pcopio, thoy In turn must bear tho brunt of some of your own delinqucuccs. Take, for Instance, the young woman' passes, as a general thing, through at least half a dozen hands before it appears ap-pears on the printed page. If errors creep in, while It Is frequently not her fault, it is almost impossible for her to say where the blame lies, and so she shoulders tn? responsibility herself. So it Is in many other channels of business. busi-ness. And one of the first things to lcar-i. and certainly one of the harde'st, is to be a sport and to rcfuec to attach my more blame than Is absolutely necessary to those with whom ono Is associated In working hours. There is an old Arabian proverb "Even this will pass away." And one must frequently fre-quently call this to mind when 'cmptcd to feci badly over some error which rrpt In through no fault cf the ono who Is held responsible. Tho wise worker will be firm In tho determination de-termination not to upbraid others, not to be constantly trying to fix consuro upon Bom: ono else, not to be "peevish" over unjust criticism and most of all, not to be always complaining In the office abJit things that cannot be mended. It must be remembered that there ar many ways In which the relations of We are adjusted. It Is a'l very well to a! that when one work3 hard, when cm puts oneself wholly into one's wor. " j ' Is unfair that ono should suffer throus I the errors that some ether careless "V- I ; son has made. 1 If you aro faithful in your work, In!?i of errors that may occur, you may & ' very sure that In the ma'n you VII fairly Judged. If. however, you eel J the habit of finding fault with -our" elates, of calling attention to every uiw , error, of Insisting ;hat you arc rlsaU that some one else is wrong, when a urn comes that some real mistake U ff milted, and it is necessary to fix tne rr , ? blame it may fall upon ou. and m of your denial you may find yoursea t. the position, of being uoubtcd. because vo , have so many tlmc3 made charges ui" 1 have placed others ii faiil'. ; C And If It happens that jou ever are M ; . one at fault you will find but little iyn ; C pathy if you showed none to others. - When wc were children wc were war-J , 5 not to tell tales on one another 1 wc were older, and entered school p college, wc found th.u !f the school ipJ" . . was to be upheld the students js , j have a stnndaid whl.:ii reused to r" ; , nlzc the girl or boy. tho man or . who was constantly endeavoring to t- , fend himself or hcraclf. at the expend t srm. one else. . rj;' , . Invariably It happens In the ,1 that if ono Is fair. If one Is honest E is true to oneself and to others, n- not fall to gain the right kind of BUP?jr T from his ebmrades. whetner of the -c- ' ; of the college or of tho office. , Ho will find that If he stands dp others in tho right spirit " 7 stand up for him. If ho refuses to M them in a false light, or even to ci flection upon them when they arc whop the crisis comes those WP stand bv him. or her. and that lnJo c ii, will be overcome and the truth win ja out ... "j f( I Useless Contention. ' I; .1 4 " Sooner or later one is measured j 8t rule that Is straight 1c t0 ifjri ; y ono thing that wc all find hara hut once learned life is very J pier and easier to Hvconlentgn , not help matters of any klnh mD,airJaC i aggressiveness, frequent cam dally defending of one's Ps'"onaBal' ; J" nway patience and places one In , mosphcrc of antagonism wnicn ably reacts. I |