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her health by a few years' overwork and become unable to support herself.
The speed of the worker is a subject for careful study both by the girl and
her employer. The girl will find that she can maintain high speed for a
certain length of time only and that her output actually will be greater,
week in and week out, if she slackens when she begins to feel a strain.

The most successful girl will not change about readily from one place to
another. If a girl is certain that she can improve her work and her
position, and if she has come to a careful decision, feeling sure that her
present conditions are not what they might be, then she will be wise to
change her place of employment. But the young girl who changes every few
weeks or months is in danger of spoiling not only her prospects as a paid
worker, but her whole life. While this danger is found in other
employments, it is perhaps greatest in the case of the factory worker.

"Some of the finest people I know," said a well-known factory owner not
long ago, "are at work in our factories." This may be said as truly all
over the country. It applies equally to men and women workers. Generous,
unselfish, efficient women and girls, as are many of these workers, are
a source of strength to their families and the country. They are using
their lives wisely and well, whether they continue as paid workers or
leave the factory to take charge of the care of a home.

[Footnote 2: To write down even the names of the industries which are
carried on in factories with the help of girls and women would occupy
much space. A few of the more important places of industry in which
girls are employed are whitewear factories and other factories which
have to do with the making of clothes, factories where food is prepared
for household use, twine factories, paper-box establishments, cigar and
tobacco factories, bookbinding establishments, brush-making factories,
manufactories of leather, carpets and rugs, boots and shoes and buttons,
cotton and woolen-mills, and knitting mills. These are only a few of the
factory employments, but the list shows how necessary the work of girls
and women is to the nation's industry.]

CHAPTER III

THE SALESWOMAN

The employment department of a big store is the testing place through which
many girls who mean to be saleswomen must pass before they reach the store
itself. Naturally the girl should be careful to do herself justice when she
goes to the e