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Otago Witness, Issue 1918, 24 August 1888, Page 37

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gifir£ina 'details heif-wgo'ifith-dthett'in Some "department or to assist'a ro'ale chief clerk or private secretary, aiid 11-G office's of the bachelors in bWness are the onlyplaces where we can got work for pie! ty girls. The reason is as plain as tbu noso oil your, face," he continued; ': the wives have interfered. Every nnrricd man is visiied at his oftico by his wife more or loss freqtionily. If she finds him elbow to elbow or fade to face with a pretty coquette, every time she comes she is Certain to make life more or less unpleasant for, him."—Washington letter to Cincinnati Enquirer. '

At one of the principal type-writing schools in town y°u often see as many aa eight or 10 young women on the benches in the outer office Waiting to see the proprietor,' he comes in you will always notice that h| sees them without regard to the Order iri .which they come, picking out one here and one there, taking them into his office each by herself until only one or two remain on" the seats. If you studied on the subject day after day you would soon discover that the more prepossessing a young woman is thfe .leas time she has to wai£ And' Eat it ff always the plain ones who are left to the. last. Poverty, especially when it entails the necessity for a young girl to go out and earn her living, is hard and bitter, and many a time and oft you wIU see that the homely girls left sitting on these 'benches have fathomed the proprietor's secret and are ul^ to flood their eyes as they note how certainl a tt bca fc V tiful face and lish altire coramand & * WGnt to that SCh°ol and l witnessed the neglect of a plain girl who evidently found it, difficult to cotceal her moitification. I was in the toom with the proprietor- when he asked her to come in. P^l suppose there is no use my asking yoi7, sir," saiefshe, "but since I have waited I will say that I am seeking occupation as a type-writer." Do you understand the business ?» Le asked. «I am said to be very rapid," said she: •• I have beeQ five yeafS he "calling." ' « Will you accept 16dol a week to act as stenographer and type-writer to vice-preid. dent So-and-so of th? Oil dompany j ™ " Her eyes changed colour. They brightened almost into flame. ,o i ;7ft-eend?lSßl"i?effl!<llois jrr K'i « wSiflS.-** & "^ T™a^™ t „.bargain was quickly made 11"*17 «• Will you tell me wh* you saw irio last thonJ n j^as the nrst to amef SPd »tto not - said the employer .. Did aU the Sthm secure^ places ?" »he asked 7, v« ak f m +oir Q »i, -/i BS° wSt^ wSteS. men she had gone the proprietor turned to me and is both a sensitive and Sen,ble #*• She thought she was leffc fco the last because her face and dress are plain. She i s right. This is the day of the homely girl. the beaut v. the belle the dr-ssv irirl allare \ opauij, tne oeue, tne ar.ssy gin, auare at a discount in this business, and we haVe resolved never to employ another pretty girl if We Can tret a homely" one There's no " w .° o^, f .?,?{!? ? „ 2 „ t^te^ . aboufc »*» he Contin«ed- ' »« plain business. There are now six or seven thousand girls at work in men's offices down town, andfUfle their »*« into. «ommercia, life is always spoken of as a feminine revolu. tion, the truth is that it has created a social stir'deeper than either one-, f- ha S P feltWhen S irls were firsfc made USC of 0D accounfc of their quickness with their hands, the suitability of the work, and the low price at which t/eycould be got by rea^of the large number seeking work, the "craze-was for pretty girls. Evlry man wanted a belle t0 f&t MS dd °WD n and memoranda. It vras natural. There were plenty of pretty girls, and who on earth does not prefer beancy to plainness ? Men who are &my businL na^urallj triedS wt 2L^^t?^^lgS by their stylishnefs, and insisted on general attractiveness. If we-ever took up a plain---girl we were apt to be sorry for it for we have had hard work to place her. Now all that is changed. I can. show you scores of letters in which business men ask me not to T* * * fa?\the. f °$>f* where we can place a pretty girl are very large ones where the employer chooses the