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Show meet each new contact ready to give, their best and in the end it pays. , While there are doubtless here and there people who cannot be suited, or even those who have no scruples about, making " use of their . facilities, the great majority of us are honest in motive and considerate con-siderate of . others and make profitable profit-able customers. There are women like Miss X who meet life with her attitude of "No tickee, no washce." In their friendships and social contacts they apply their philosophy of not giving giv-ing without return, of holding back until they are sure they are not being be-ing taken advantage of. The result re-sult is inevitably the same. They cf?H ROUGH a1 BWOMAN'S a eyes o gtja "NO TICKEE, NO WASHEE" 'T HERE'S no doubt about It people will take advantage of you if they can get away with It." That was the sum total of a long series of complaints of a young woman I know complaints about the people with whom she did business busi-ness and about her friends. The burden of each was the same. Peo pie trying to make use of her to take advantage of her. Her once nourishing business of a kind involving in-volving a personal service was can have no friendships. I should like to tell Miss X that the whole world can rarely be wrong. And when a woman gets the feeling that it Is, when all her friends or all her contacts seem to be guilty of the same fault, then is the time to look unto herself and see If that doesn't help to locate the source of trouble. . Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. dwindling to nothing because of so many non-paying impositions on her time. It so happened then that I met one of my friends who had met this young woman and had business contact con-tact with her. "No wonder Miss X isn't getting along," was the comment of this woman whose fairness and generosity generos-ity are unquestionable. "It's impossible im-possible to get any results with her. She seems to have some distrust or suspicion, because she holds back the Information one needs before deciding on an order. She practically prac-tically insisted that I orde. first and then learn what she planned to give me! She seemed afraid I wanted to steal her ideas 1" That made it all pretty plain. Miss X had been soured by a few experiences of giving her time without direct return and had determined de-termined upon a policy, as the laundry laun-dry man put it, of ".No tickee, no wasliee." I The trouble is that business can-' can-' not be run that way. Successful I business people count on a certain percentage of waste effort, but they |
