he best workers keep on
learning year by year.

Many of the qualities which go to make the ideal home-maker belong to the
ideal worker in an office. The business girl will need self-control and
tact. Her manners should be quiet and agreeable. An office is a place for
work; and part of the usefulness of a business girl is in helping to make
it a good place in which to work. She should therefore understand order and
method. She should be tranquil and well poised. She should get her work
done quickly without seeming to be in a hurry. Such a girl is a treasure
in an office.

The business girl should be dressed suitably for her occupation. One of the
first lessons for her to learn is that no employer is likely to believe
that she can do good work if her general appearance is careless or untidy.
Her dress should be quiet and pleasing, and it should not distract her
attention from her work. A workmanlike dress can be very attractive.
Business girls as a rule show taste and judgment in choosing their clothes
and in keeping every detail of their appearance neat, suitable, and
pleasing. Thrift in the matter of dressing and a suitable appearance
are necessary factors in the success of a business girl's work.

The business girl must be trustworthy. She cannot be a success if her
employer is in doubt as to whether she may talk about office business
outside. Her memory should be good. It is a great help to have someone
at hand who can remember a business conversation, where to find documents,
addresses, and other memoranda. The girl will find that it is
unsatisfactory to spend much time in social conversation. If she wishes
to earn and keep the good opinion of her fellow-workers and her employer,
she will attend to work, with only an occasional remark on anything not
connected with office affairs.

The salaries earned by business girls vary greatly. There are girls at
work in offices who are paid as little as five, six, or seven dollars a
week. But these girls are very young, they are badly trained, unable to do
good work of any kind, and they should hardly be called stenographers. They
can address envelopes, do a little typewriting, answer the telephone, and
so on. The well-equipped office girl should realize that she must keep up
the standard of her employment, as one which needs thorough training and
competent, well paid workers, so the work of the girl in business may
remain a highly-respected and desirable occupation.

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