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Show Suppose A t Forty You Had to Earn Your Living Without Training Here Is New Profession for Which Only Women Wearing Wear-ing M'cldle Aqc and Vit.i Home Experience Need Apply. ri.i: KIXD, Oct. Social training, rather then hunine training, train-ing, poise, tact. and. nocr to be for-, gotten, (lie ability 10 Judge character ' these arc the essential requirement) for (tils new field ot work tor women floor clerk of a large hotel." Mr.-. Julia Brotherton. r.f the Hotel! Cleveland, leteel opened Urge hotel In! i lejand, speaks with the authorlt Of pe sonal experience, first aa n iloor, i i rk and later ns her official Utlc n lf al Kloor ! rks. "I make H . poiOt," soy .Mrs- Itroth-; rr n. "to employ only women w ho i !ito met vi'ii tu inclul reverses latej in life. J it this uay 1 flr.d women who. nave been trained, utrjonsclously. by I their social environment, to assume' this new Iv-c rcated position. i i till u:in- 1UK K.V.TKF PI )--i I i ' "AI.ho. such women arc more capable' of judging the charautera of the guesisl on their floors. These things coirflinc,' wit, i appearance end manner, lb give '.in atmosphere of dlgntt) a ' ! W the new poeltlori fioor cit-rk reqnfraa, i u ti employ i ajoman youngal than 10 .US." 7h position of Chief floor clerk has been created but recently, Urn. Uroth-erton Uroth-erton explains, by new hotels built upon a large scale. Its reason for being be-ing Is the aim' of f raonof cure, vvhich Is increasingly Impossible for the mallij desk to give. The number of lfolols' in thlch thli lyatem ta now Installed I is amall. Mrs. Urotherton estimates' Hint pro bB bl J not more th.wi n dozen' throughout the country an using I. I Three In New York, one in Cleveland und one in Chicago are tb Dioai no' i-ble i-ble cgamplea of th- ayvtenl. Kui ehe b ii lei e ; tn'..- cai . ni it hotel im built 1 arrangeni'.'4its lor tloor ckrl;s will be, included in the plans. "The place of floor clerk." says Mrs. Brotherton, ' is p.ilenlly a woman s job. A tnan'Ould not give the ''"k mi mc codsfi w uciatui, nor wouia tic an ciae thi pel In hundllng unexpected unex-pected circumstances, i.i M'iinmiii i UORK WITHbl I 111 Sl'Kt8 IK 1IXIXG, "This opens the w:iy to pnaitions of. -ej.imi8lbilit- ar.'l ii.iM tor woicm w ii, h;vc r.rvcr eim re,i the Im-unevi world a,id have nml no training in early life for the ordinary routine "' bu.lnea. l-'ot my part, 1 had had practically no busir rlenc? ur.- til 1 cunft to the lloiol Cleveland-'1 A large share of the succeai or the floor clrk plun for big hotels appears to le due lo the p.-cholosk-al effectj upon i he guests. Crnrn hc many duties net lined and; hinted a) Mr- Brotherton; who has , t! of them al her finger tips, 'mis- Ur4aS of a home' seems the" proper i i a racterlsatlpn of u thoroughly effi-n fc M iSil IMLJA .BSOTHEETOiV Cftipf Mi nr Clerk in n U ltd of 1000 rViSms. rient chief floor -lerl;. And that is lust won t Brntherron appears n i il-itre.s ii' :i home, but one entirely i oodern, v. ho runs in domain upon an CX n t liuslin s.s basis. Poised, assured, serenely alert, she combines thi.- hu.i- a'etu fficincj with the truest dt "hu-mnnne&s.'' |