Career girls

When a beginner complains at home today about the trials of the hired help, chances are her mother will remind her how it was when she was a girl!

The working girl only Heaven would protect has been replaced by the career gal who’d rather bring home the bacon than bake the beans, because she prefers to go out and earn a man’s salary rather than stay home and take it away from him. The leg-o-mutton sleeved models and today’s trim miss differ as much as a Model T and a Mercedes; they not only have different lines (and a better line!), but they’re also spreading out literally and figuratively. According to office supply houses the size of the seat on stenographers* chairs keeps getting wider and wider.

Way back in Mother’s day the average was eight more men than women in office work, but the ratio’s reversed now to three girls for each boy (and many of these boys now supplement their incomes by getting married!). Those early girls with thick glasses, buck teeth and tight hair-does (adorned with pencils stuck in the bun), worked a six-day week and a ten-hour day for twelve hard-earned dollars. Today’s typists get all the breaks; coffee breaks, cigarette breaks, rest room breaks; if anything happens to be left it’s a work break.

The first thing a new typist types is the boss and if she sticks around for a month or two to look over the bachelors out of bridal curiosity . . . she wants a hundred a week, a month’s paid vacation, dictation from men under forty-three, and a posture chair done in raspberry pink. She should have been around on her Mother’s first job when running the freight elevator on Saturday was part of the standard procedure! Or worked in a department store under these rules:

Rules to employees

Chicago 1888.
1. Store must be open from 6 A. M. to 9 P. M.
2. Store must be swept, counter and base shelves dusted, lamps trimmed, filled and chimneys cleaned, a pail of water, also a bucket of coal brought in before breakfast and attend to customers who will call.
3. Store must not be open on the Sabbath Day unless necessary and then only for a few minutes.
4. The employee who is in the habit of smoking Spanish cigars, being shaved at the barber shop, going to dances
and other places of amusement, will surely give his employer reason to be suspicious of his honesty and integrity.
5. Each employee must pay not less than $5.00 per year to the Church and must attend Sunday School regularly.
6. Men employees are given one evening a week for courting and two if they go to prayer meeting.
7. After fourteen hours of work in the store, the leisure time should be spent mostly in reading.
Signed: THE MANAGEMENT

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