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Are You Looking
For A Job?
Then This Should Concern You
There is no task quite so fear- seme as that of trying to get а. job. The dread of it; the fear of doing something stupid, of saying the wrong thing, of not making a good impression-all this tends to reduce the eager applicant to a state of trembling incoherency.
But don't be alarmed; don't im- agine the man who is granting you an interview is an ogre. Employers, are human beings after all, with a knowledge and perhaps an appre- ciation of human nature and its many short-comings. They don't expect the impossible. Nor do they expect a young man or woman of twenty to have superhuman intelli- gence or ability.
YOUR BEST FOOT
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It is necessary, of course, to put your best foot forward when apply- ing for a position, no matter what sort of opening it may be.
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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 9, 1938.
Evening Allure
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It looks expensive, but you can make it yourself for under ten dollars, and it's very easy to make too.
The leaves reproduced here are exactly the size you'll want them. So get your scissors-cut them out and use them as a pattern. Pin them on to a piece of felt- any colour will do, but get green if you can. Cut the felt the shape of the leaves and don't for-
get the stems.
Then get some bright green sequins and cover the leaves with
them, being careful to overlap the sequins so that the cotton doesn't show.
Sew a strip of millinery wire down the centre back of each leaf, following the dotted line in the sketch. Finish with three bright red beads on the stems.
Edge a circular net with se- quina colour to suit the frock- and pin a group of the leaves to the top of your head, either with a hairpin or grip..
Your head-dress is complete.
Devonshire Rabbit
1 rabbit, 1 cupful diced celery or turnip, 21⁄2 cupfuls beef stock, 1 tablespoonful cornflour, 2 sliced peeled onions, 2 sliced peeled car-. rots, 3 or 4 rashers of bacon, 11⁄21⁄2 teaspoonfuls salt, 1 tablespoonful catsup.
Remove rind from bacon. Chop bacon. Fry till the fat flows, then place bacon in a casserole. Add onions, carrots, celery or turnips in pan, and fry till all fat is absorbed by the vegetables.
Stir in stock, herbs, catsup, and pepper and salt to taste, and bring to boil.
Meanwhile, blanch and joint rab-
bit.
When the stew has come to the boil, turn in to casserole and place joints on top. Cover tightly. Place in a moderate oven, 350 deg. F. Sim- mer for three hours.
Dissolve cornflour in 3 or 4 table- spoonfuls of cold stock. Strain li- quor from casserole into a sauce- pan. Stir in dissolve cornflour, and bring to boil.
Stir constantly for two or three minutes, and if too thick, thin with a little more stock. Pour over rab- bit.
For the purposes of being finite, I am assuming that you are a young man of twenty, or a little more, nicelooking, possessed of a high-school and possible a college education, perhaps equipped with a short experience in a business house, and filled with ambition and de- termination to finish whatever you begin. (Beginners who don't see things through always remain be-matter how beneath your capabili-of high importance in business life. ties you feel it to be, is the surest Good manners towards one's fellow ginners.) You have heard of a
first step you can take toward ulti-workers are just as important as Parchment lamp shades can be vacancy, and approach the man in
mate success. Don't believe that courtesy towards one's customers or cleaned by rubbing them over with charge of employment.
success depends on "breaks."
"Iclients.
cotton wool and fine oatmeal.
How to act? Well, the most help If you really study the lucky ones, ful advice I can think of is to give you'll discover that a man's. own you a list of don'ts and do's-pro-initiative, backed by fitness, is the bably more don'ts than do's!
most reliable break there is.
Don't fail to be neat in your ap- And now after these "don'ts" pearance-clothes brushed, nails
and I haven't more than skimmed clean (unless you are a mechanic), the surface-perhaps a few "do's” shoes shined, hair cut and orderly.
will also be helpful. For example:
Don't answer before your inter- viewer has finished his question.
Don't be flippant or slangy. Use the English language in a straight forward, serious way, with no wisecracks.
Don't think you know it all. You'll soon find out how much-or little- you do know.
Don't come out with any luck story. Business is Everyone has his troubles.
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Wait to be asked to sit down.
Do your best to impress. upon your prospective employer that you you at all times. Your manner should be straight-forward and truthful.
will give him the utmost in
False pretense always traps you.
Serve with boiled, steamed, or mashed potatoes.
Affection Cannot Be Forecd
Love-On-Demand Is Purely Selfish
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To-day's question is: How can I get neither. Does she owe her parents get consideration from their mother anything," older children without forcing it? Surely she does. Give the girl Real affection cannot be squeezed half a chance and I think she will out as one squeezes a sponge..... prove it. By why, mother, have How childish we all are! The you put yourself into a social situa- If you don't know a thing, say you lover asks his sweetheart, “Do you tion which is such that you must will do your best to learn. Tell a still love me?" even after she has have her home every night in or- hard-clear, straight-story and make It given him every evidence of her der to keep you company? Have business. short,
love. But he is still not satisfied. you no friends to entertain in your There's the mother who wants home or to entertain you? Have her big son or big daughter to think you no place to go?
Should your daughter deny her only of her; to always give her first consideration; to take her out; own social growth and the possi to hand over all the earnings; to bilities of meeting marriageable stay home nights; to let mother young men by staying around your select his or her clothes, and to house, which, from the tone of your love her first, best and last. The letter, I can see must be a very un- words constantly on such a mother's happy place?
darling child."" lips are: "Consider mother,
When you've told your story, Don't let anyone think that you take your leave. It shows a lack think you are better than anybody of tact in handling a situation not else-even if you believe it.
to know the moment when an in terview is over.
Don't expect too large a salary. Remember that, until you are per-
GOOD MANNERS fectly adjusted to your job, it is going to cost your employer real
Business life is interesting. But money to keep you there." 'He
fa paying for your tuition and giving you are not really interested in the if, when you are launched, you find you something besides.
career you have chosen, you'd bet Don't presume too much on ter change. I cannot imagine any friendship or on family connections. thing worse than being immersed in The most embarrassing thing the a business where every day ia président of a corporation can have dull day. is a relative on the staff.
Although there comes first
my
VALUELESS LOVE
I may be an old crank but some- Meet her half way. Realize that how I do not think much of love she is entitled to a certain amount that must be constantly demanded. of recreation, money and contacts I don't care for confidences that with people of
her own age. Let must be squeezed out of people. I her understand, and I think she don't care for affection that does not will, that she is expected to have come naturally.
some interest in your situation (a Be brief, Remember time is long span of nothing but plodding
AN UNHAPPY PLACE
part of which you should yourself·· money not to you necessarily, but in business life, it is the intelligent
remedy; don't call upon her to re- to the man who interviews you. and industrious young man, stick- A widow with a 19-year-old work-medy all of it).
ing to business, who later becomes ing.......... daughter complains: “My Above all, remember that con- a "Captain of Industry" and who daughter does not want to stay sideration and love when willingly re-directs the "Ship of Commerce." nights, with me. I want all her given have value. When forced out
love and I need all her money but of people they are worth nothing.
DO IT WELL
And when you get the job, member that doing a thing well, nol The question of good manners is