QUIET WOMAN GETS BEST PLACE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 3, 17 January 1907, Page 37

QUIET WOMAN GETS BEST PLACE

""- Other tMngs being equal, - the .quiet and reserved business woman who,, though ' friendly with .all, says comparatively little while engaged in business, is" the onp most likely to reach the top of the ladder. -Nor need opportunities for sympathy and kindly assistance to fellow toilers be laid" aside. ' • There are men who • must have some one to talk to, who exact and advice from air who :• come near them, who, failing a patients wife 4>r atender mother, vAll "insist that "the stenographer, bookkeeper, or other" feminine employee- Yea^^the .worry harvest- of all their troubles. ..' Talk only when you must, and then to the point,' is a good and safe rule for all business women to' follow. A ■ woman's wit • and. her ' social instinct often lead.' her into .mistakes that her"'* common sense should correct sharply. Retain vthe merry" heart, the joyous outlook, the friendly impulse" always if you'" would . keep youivg and 'of . value "to yourself, and your fellows, but sternly repress, any ~ tendency to~ social chatter downtown. ■' - -'