WHEN RINGS ARE OUT OF PLACE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 179, 21 August 1909, Page 3

WHEN RINGS ARE OUT OF PLACE.

WIS® HttfTS FOR THJ3 BUSINESS UIKI,

Unquestionably employers do n ot look with a vei-y favorable eye (ill the girl \y'ho eqmes'to the office in dresses that are elaborate and jewellery that is expensive (says ft writer in Pearson's Weekily), Tkcre are several reasons. I'erWips «o one thing is- responsible for no many needless heartburnings and dissensions In a~i ollicc as the presence of one bird of bright plumage among a group of sober little wrens. COMMENTS ALWAYS LEVELLED . AT HER.

No mutter how clear her conscience, |. how straight her path, shafts of unflat- 1 teri-.ig comment are at once levelled her way. "If Jliss Blank can wear such clothes w'liv should she work?" It's a ■ not unnatural query, he it admitted. ' Many a girl has ruined her chances 1 by just sueli useless display. True| enongl| l.l|i|t the o| dissensioii HjlJ', 1 iie the gift of friends or relatives, may-1 lie heirlooms, or come, to her in any one of a 'hundred innocent ways'. 1 She may love the pretty trinkets, and find a pardonable pleasure in wearing them. But if she is really a wise girl, with an eye for her office advancement, she will leave the 'bright baubles & L home. She tfoi|l(l certainly (In 5(1 CQlll'l SH C ■ vend the mind of her employer. Summer is approaching. Tinirs are slack. Some "one must soon 'lie dropped from the payroll. But who? Usually the employer . has to take the roll and thrash it out I bv his own reasoning. ' "Xot Miss Jones; she has been here live years, and can't be spared. _ I | "Xot Miss Lewis; she takes dictation too welb . I 'That leaves it between Mis*? Morris and Miss Keen. Miss Morris lias a sick I roothpr and younger sister to help Mi*s 1 Keen then." Rhe'i? always dressed up j like a fas'liion-plate anv way, and flo I doi|l)t c<)l) upiniiiie comfortably, (|f pan. . cnsilv get another pnsitinn.il ' As a inatlei- of fact, Miss Keen needs j the monev more dc y neratoly than any I irirl in the qJace. 'Most of her salary had gone to 'help set mi a vonnger sister in dressmaking. Even tli» sliowv diws'es she wove were "cancelled orders." OnU the week befire she h\.d eome in wearin? •! crn-h"d strawberrv silk, liclilv e'"- ' broidcrecl. It was thn't dress—could she 1 Inve |;t--iwu if—t|mt enat |ier her noji- ' hoi). jls;r chipf, 'fflir.l%, liii']