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Show NEW FIELDS FOR WOMEN The days are forever gone when if a gentlewoman wishes to maintain herself, she must resort to music, boarders, needlework or housework. A large perenta of girls graduating graduat-ing from high school enter immediately immediate-ly into the business world. W'nh this condition ban come a hansre in ethics. Oirls, your first responsibility re-sponsibility is acquiring a place in the Jbig sea of utility is to maintain an impersonal im-personal attitude toward your fellow men associates. Sex must be forgotten in business so far as expecting concessions con-cessions or courtesies socially your due. If you are late in reaching your desk and you are reproved, take your medicine medi-cine no pouting, tossing the head or muttering. If you wish to uphold the spirit of true gentlewomen and fur-thelr fur-thelr their chances Of power and usefulness, use-fulness, admit the justice of the reproof re-proof and resolve to do better. Men still monopolize positions where physical physi-cal strength and uninterrupted endurance endur-ance are the chief requisites. Must Take Pains. Both men and women must be pains taking in order to succeed. Girls, bust-1 ness and sentiment are not allied. As a business girl you are a cog in this machinery fulfill your part. Don't take ' a position with any foolish notions in your heads of your employer becoming becom-ing enamored wilh your charms. It Is poor taste to accept invitations out of. bu?iness hours from your employer and fellow clerks Country girls coming to town must ' not be dazzled bv the civility of men 1 associates. This means no gallantrv It i- only the urbane manner of well-; bred men when addressing women As to Business Girls. Business girli should be neat and; trim in dres. Wear clean shirtwaist?, or simple dark dresses of sensible lengih. Their feet should be com fortabb shod An angel could not remain re-main angelic in tight shoes and high heels ompclled as business people .re ! io stand the greater part of the day. Press modestly, comfortably and unob truslvely Business interests are not promoted by bizarre and conspicuously conspicuous-ly dressed employes. KnOW vour business, be accurate and 1 keep your equipment in business like order. Salespeople who gossip behind the, counter about affairs of their own are rude and disconcerting to customers vainly wailing for attention, Mil di Jimgofm.T whell 1J34 1231: The young lady across the way Bays nothing is more tiresome than riding all day on the ears and she should think people who have to make a Ion.; Journey, !rom New York to San long journey, rom New York to San Francisco, for instance, would al ways take the night train |