WORK FOR NATURAL WIT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8690, 16 October 1913, Page 6

WORK FOR NATURAL WIT.

My two mornings' work puts from £3 to £4 into my pocket : weeklyand solves my " economic independence " question. To my little son and my servants I am " out shopping" and I left school when I was 13. Yet it is the .same question that the high'school girl goes to Girton. to.learn to solve equally satisfactorily, laying up for herself a fine foundation of "nerves" in the process, if her superior eyebrows are a-aised higher than ever at the idea of "_ travelling," let her 'try it for a fortnight and see what her natural wit will effect where her learning will not avail. A friend of mine who had been "keeping a wee shop " in the hope that the wee shop would keep her I asked..to come to London. She had never seen a .typewriter in her life in the small Devjm village -of her youth, but within 18 months vwas earning 35s weekly as a common typist, and gets 48s now from ■& City_ shipping firm. The girl above her, with Spanish and German, as ne;ainst my friend's French and English, gets £3 3s. Neither of these girls knows mathematics, but no Girton girl conld take her place without considerable further study. The " Daily Mail " -devoted half a column to " The Cleverest Girl in London," who, I believe, . retains her post unchallenged at a well- - known information bureau, and she. I know, was never at college. Miss Alexander herself has earned, or should earn, many guineas for such bright stuff as her article on "The Superfluous College Girl " indicates her capable of writing, and—l wonder if •she is" a college girl? Let the college girl take heart of grace and shed her superior eyebrows. If she is out to work, all she has to do is to' get.up .-early and begin. And nevei> let her forget that "He who can, does;' he avlio can't, teaches!"-