Bits for Business Girls.
1 A. perfect knowledge of shorthand is required by the gii'l who would succeed as a clerk ; but don't If <;rn shorthand before you know how to .spoil.
Business gills -uho -want to get on must I be discretely silent about the affairs of their employer out of office hours.
Orderly and mtrhodicnl habits and perfect punctuality are necessary qualities for [ the business ghl. 1 The girl viith a head for figures -w ill greatly increase her vah.l3 if &he learns bookkeeping.
A knowledge of languages, or even of a. few common foreign words, is invaluable , to the girl secretary. i Don't be too ready to take offence at the ', words of your emiuoyev or a fellow- worker. i Dress plainly. Frills and furbelows are i out of place iv business places.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2604, 10 February 1904, Page 62
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