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Show - - - i---- - - - -,- - -i-ii-nwwir w-,r.n. I j Dorothy Dix Talks I j WOMANLINESS IN BUSINESS ! If I could sa uni- word more earn, il'an another to the young woman Whol is rurting out to irtake her' own bread and butter. It would be to cut out the M'X suff. and exercise her omanllne?sj in busln- ICoel women reveree this proredure That la arhj so man- of them fail. I Many girls try' 10 vamp thelt Staph): -wid to make googoo i-yc, and s-n tm'nl twtke the place or industry and i ncy. Many others ji'-innpt to jhif. behind their skirts, nnd to make 'the fact that they are women protect them from office disphii.-. mid fr being ceauRired for turning out pool work. Teara every time their work is crltl-J (cUed; nerves and hjeterla always on tap and ready to be turned on at ih" 'most inopportune moment; chronic I tardiness; lack of grit that makes' , th. 'in . coddle every slight ailment and give Into It; family claims that come above businesa necessities; touchy dig-Inlty dig-Inlty thai i.s .ilwa demanding some I man to sharpen their lead pencils jail ihese are th defects of the woni-n Who play up their sex in buslnev And they form a blanket Indictment against female labor, that causes many Imrn to hesitate before employing WO-Imen, WO-Imen, and thai ker-ps many a good woman wo-man from being advn-d to the spot i to which she is entitled. Th wom.-n who puts the loud pedal on sex in buetneaaj makes a mistake. -,. doe the woman who ignores it altogether, al-together, and who tries to make an imitation man of herself BhS nevrr is lar. because all Imitations are in-'firior in-'firior to the genuine artiele and no-body no-body wants one if they ran get the real iung A lady longshoreman, for Inline, In-line, may get headlines in the p.t-per p.t-per because it is remarkable fur . man to be a "longshoresman" at all. but when it came n llf.lug thing', and really loading a ship she wouldn't tie able to load her own with even the most ordinary male 'longshoreman. The women who write, and paint, and who tr to be what is called virile, marl always fail. They mis their I feminine outlook, the Institutions that mak- one woman get under Another 'woman's skin as no man can. And the sunn thing may be yalil of the woman ' merehant. The thing we like about her shop ;j Its difference from o man's, the noatneaa the hrnnliu lhat she somi - how manages to give it. l'r.i' ticall always i woman sue-. ceoda best when she chooses some line' Of occupation in which she can capitalise capi-talise the inherited aptitudes of her Bex and l do not doubt lhat in lb onree of time, When women have had more expericm e In business, nnd have, sloped their executive ability to a h ii r degree, ih.U th' keeping of ho-' tela, which is only home making on ' I big scale, and the running of apart-; ment houses and the eops that pur-' vey luxuries, such as clothes, and wel-, jnd fine furniture, will be run almost exclusively bv women. But while sex has no place in busi-' n esa womanliness has. and a girl can. bring no mop: valuable aSSOt to her. employer than just the qualities that ahe would use in betn a good houae wife. There is cleanliness and orderliness,' to begin with She can se that cleaner clean-er do Lhelr duty, and that an office 1 el-. M'i afd span and well iii.-.I and mad.- i-um f ortable She rm giv-ii giv-ii that subtle feminine touch that take? tht urea Of ihe workshop off it, just ;i ; the woman who is a real home maker can change a bleak hotel room irto a place to live In by altering the a rr.i ng ment of a chair, or punching up a pillow And she can bring to her work that curious faculty lliat women have of knowing where everything was put. and being able to put her hands on P In the dark, Mother's gift for locating locat-ing everything from fathers spectacles specta-cles and pipe to the baby's teething ri:;g and ihe automobile pump, is what ii '.v. - daughter invaluable in an office. of-fice. And woman's mania for detail, and ' b I of Utile things amount to a special talent when she gives them full play in bulnes. It's what makes bar look uftvr the pennies, and stop leaks H mall the) escape a masculine aaaaaal Furthermore, business la a field In which a woman's lad hna scope to do B great md work, A woman rH who iltlVates the diplomacy of her H sex to its highest power Is pure of auc-cess, auc-cess, for she will be able to handl grouch) and aurely emplor with it And wll know- how to return tha B soft answer that tumeth swav wrath. and tha; makes ihe customer who haa to klek, temnin to buy, And now her does the womanly vir- HBV tue of sympathy cut more Ice than in HBV business. It U the woman who in In JHH terea en he j0 and sorrows of all HBVj n ; h irl o n abt cornea in contact, who HBhJ Is pulled up (he ladder of success by those above her. and boosted up it bv- j HBVj from h!ow her. She make BVH friends of her fellow-workers: she HBVJ wins the i onfldence of her emplovers. Hf in, i -h- gets ihe cooperation of thoMt -BBS x ri under her bera'.rsc they all f'el that she a their friend i The wo. -an. who Is quiet, and sweet. HJ and lady-like, and efficient, and kind- ' lv. ahe's the Ionian who gets there in business, ghea the woman we want and need in offices a.-, well ae ta |