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Show I TRAIN YOURSELF TO BE ACCURATE E9S ! man whn w nt the ftiis?iirM ' ' of the largest cir- Kpfn 3rJ 1,1 world re- jTjCgfyryn erntlv stated that h- te- JjtV.Jjgr iieved he r,v.-, i his great measure of success malnlv to on thing accuracy. Ho declared 'hat he believed that this was the basis of nil real success, and It Is a safe conclusion con-clusion that it Is certnlnly a good foundation founda-tion for much of the success which Is really stable and enduring This Js on of the ways In which most women fall In their efforts In the business world Thev attempt to build success on ft series of Inaccuracies of work and then wonder why It Is that they fall The fact of the matter Is thnt most of us want to ret to the top whh ns little hard work ns posolhle nnd we mistake action for accomplishment. j ONE THING AT A TIME. I ; There is an old ndasro which we air knew In our copybook days: "One thlnr at a tl.ne, and that done well. Is a I good rule ns all can tell." We recite that very gllblv and laugh nt , It as old fashioned, but the fact of thej jmatteT Is that It Is like the ever lastlnc I hills. It cannot grow old. for It Is ever re-newlng re-newlng Itself. ' It does not make any difference at all how oulckly you may get through your I work, If, afirr you have finished It. some one else has to come alone and really omplete the job. If you are a stenographer stenog-rapher and take dictation rapidly, what does It profit you If when you so to transcribe tran-scribe your notes you cannot read them? You have to spend so much time In Retting your work straightened out that your company loses what It might have gained :hrough your apparent proficiency. This Is one of the reasons that there aro so many young women who never see.m to get anywhere In their work; they do one part of it Well and then fall to tie the ends and mak'' a really pood Job of it. Any business firm would prefer to have a stenographer who is accurate in taking notes and who, oven a little bit slow. Is ahlo to transcribe her notes Just as they are dictated, one who does not need to havo a letter gone over carefully each lime It la written by some other member of the force. j Whatever you do, learn to do It well. No matter what It may be, It Is worth do-; do-; !ng to tho very best of your ability, and vou are bound to progress If you follow this rule in nil that you do, Most of us used to think, for Instance, j that cooking was a sort of menial task. P.ut to-day we realize thnt this Is not truo. I We have suddenly wakened to the reallza-jtlon reallza-jtlon that work Is an honor, that the only i thing about It which is dishonorable Is to alight It. . This Is the story of one young woman I who Is an excellent cook, and who Is now serving her government as an Instructor in war emergency work. ; This girl Htarted her career In her mother's kitchen by cooking the simplest 'meals. But sho cooked Just as well as ahe know how. As sho grew older sho found ithe drudgery of her kitchen Intolerable, but nho saw no way at that tlmo to get away from It. One night as she lay thinking to thrash out her problem there came to her the realization that she might make her work In the kitchen more Interesting by being j more Interested In It herself. She had been In the habit of doing things over and over in the same old way, cooking her plain hut substantial food In plain and substantial substan-tial ways The next dav she got out her mother's old cook book and tried a new recipe and was very proud of the praise which her new dish received. That was the beginning be-ginning of a renewed Interest In her lahor The next fall she took a course In domestic do-mestic science and when she returned to her kitchen she not only had new lden hut she was huhhllnc over with en-'husnsm en-'husnsm She then formed a domestic elence club and later received an appointment ap-pointment as fjomestlc science Instructor In the public schools. Soon larger opportunities enme to her. which, a conditions had changed, she was able to grasp. She herame home demonst ri tor for her y county Sho then received a State appointment. ap-pointment. HOW IT PAYS. .; . . .a Since then her rise has been rapid Today To-day she ts one of the most Important factors fac-tors In food conservation In the land and Is considered an authority on home economies. eco-nomies. But If she had'nnt done ench thing well; If she had not been absolutely accurate when she measured her flour, when she beat her egss, when she studied her charts, when he arranged her menus, she would not hfive trained her mind to ac accurately on the larger problems of life. That 't pay to be accurate no one may deny. That It pays women particular at this time, because It helps to pay the larger sum of humanity. Is the really big thing that we all must think about |
