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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

EDUCATING GIRLS FOR BUSINESS

NOT ONE FITTED IN TWENTY

DON'T KNOW HOW TO SPELL

(By AN EMPLOYER)

Every week hundreds of girls who have recently loft school, finish their education for commerce.

In

my experience not one in twenty is

fit for business when she goes out

to look for her first job,

The tragic fact is that typista cannot spell. This is not their fault. They havo never been taught. Years dovoled to educn- tlou

obtained in preparatory, secondary, and even commercial schools have been wasted, when efficiency and reliability are ap- praised by an ability to use the correct letters of the alphabet in their correct order. Ask almost nny girl to spell "schedule," "ceme- "Committee," or if you want tery,

to be very cruel "psychology." -nnd proof of the luferences contained In this paragraph will be at once forthcoming.

In some commercial schools, the paucity of practical subjects is amazing. Spelling, the composi tion and lay-out of a letter, the handling of correspondence, and systems of filing seem to be re- garded as boing mere incidentals pupils should be familiar with. To train them to deal with emer- gencles, such as may occur when n departmental head is unexpected- ly absent, is never thought of. Yet a commercial girls tutored in college apend hours and days learn- ing not only the names of rivers in

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Vienna. Austrian Monarchists are hope- ful that the private propertica of the former Imperial family, which were confiscated by the Republican authorities in 1919, will be return el to the Hapsburgs within the current year,

As soon as the present negotia- tions are completed, the Austrian government will abollsh the law by which Prince Otto and other mom. bers of the former Imperial family were banned from the country. Prince Otto would thus be permit ted to return to his home country, but only as a private citizen.

Meanwhile, Otto von Hapsburg, who is considered as the rightful Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary by legitimists, la leading a very modeat Ifo at Steenocker- zeel.

According to circles close to the former Imperial family, it is not exaggeration that private

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lan aristocrats, such as the Mar-1 quis of Pallavacini, and of Indus- irial and commercial firms, play an important role in the budget of the "Imperial household. The

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property, which was first promised by the late Chancellor Dollfus will therefore mean a great relief to young Otto,

It will also proßt many other members of the Hapsburgs, who are now living the verge of ind the most remote parts of the world, Aood recipe consisting of one

pound of flour, six ounces of Kence, since, under the rules of the but generally are able to name the butter, four ounces of sugar, one family law, one third of the Em- source of each. An employer who tablespoonful of ground ginger, one peror's revenues from the family wants n letter typed nently and of milk, quarter teaspoonful Tortune go to them, ~-- spelt correctly is not interested in carbonate of soda, two eggs, half The Hapsburgs were immensely knowing the source of the Amazon. teaspoonful mixed splee, and ten rich before the revolution, but most or the length of the Blue Danube.

ounces honey, Mix the ginger and of their properties were situated The most important asset a work-Hour, sieve them into a basin and outside the present Austrian fron- add the spice. Put the honey, tiera. Nevertheless, the former butter and sugar in a pan and melt Imperial possessions in Austria are them slowly. Whisk the eggs, add still quite considerable even if the the honey mixture and pour over palaces, collections of works of att the flour. Mix well and add a little and of books, which could hardly mille. Mix the soda with the milk, be sold, are not taken into consider- and heat; then add this

to the ation. gingerbread and mix thoroughly, Landed estatos, which are claim- Turn into a well-greased tin and ed by the Hapsburg family, com- bake in a moderate oven for about prise 102,000 acres in Austria, three-juarters of an hour. Warm Their revenues, it is true, have during recent honey brushed over the top of the greatly declined

ing girl can possess and one with out which she will be of little use. In any commercial sphere, is gum tion. It is the inherited property. of a few. It could be made the acquired possession of rearly every Intelligent young Indy were she taught that it is a factor which can be developed under sultable super- vision.

For purposes of organisation it is essential that the Board of cake before it is finished will im-years because of the agricultural

crisis. Education and other authorities prove the appearance,

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In Vienna five large apartment houses belong to the Imperial

vance of a schedule, but it is sur-customers. None the less does it family. They yield, however, only prising that the offelally decreed prejudice the career of girls who little-income-on-account-of-post- but find war regulations by which rents so many weaknesses, most of which that what they have been taught were artificially kept low. take the form of an absent facility so thoroughly is what nobody wants to study what is practical and what them to know. every employer wants.

It is an accepted fact that, no

WEALTHY RULER

Francis, Joseph, who had secumu-

It is, in fact the employer who typist is qualified to work without lated a huge privato fortune, realis- should arrange the curriculum, nota dictionary to teach her the spelling that his successors had com- the theorist whose acquaintance lug she should have learnt during paratively little wealth of their with commerce Is as remote as that of the peanut roaster with the decoration of Buckingham Palace.

MISSED ESSENTIALS When asked to make up a weekly pay-sheet a girl who has been taught the intricacies of double entry bookkeeping is invariably

years of school and college life. It is also true that the average stenographer has to be borne with for at least six months before she "shapes." To-day it is the em- ployer who has to teach and to start all over again the education of young ladies whose certificates of efficiency do no more than pro- claim that they have been very For some mysterious rea- completely tutored to son girls of fourteen are shown how to render return of Income- tax, but when they "take a job." perhaps, as a cashier in a store, they find it impossible to calculate the correct change.

floored.

Though little regard may be paid by an indulgent employer to the waste of paper occasioned by ill spelt and badly laid-out letters, irritation is justly aroused when lot of time in spent on executing a little work. Moreover, an in- ability to place absolute reliance upon un employee, militates against the rendering of that ofllelent ser- vice every firm likes to accord Ita

SALESMAN' SAM

do most

things wrong, and that they know all that there is to be known about what nobody wants to know.

How unacquainted is the conven- |tional tutor of to-day with the re- quirements of commerce is shown by his insistence upon the rule that the questions which prospective employers put shall concern the speed at which a letter can be taken down in shorthand and transferred through a typewriter.to paper.

The fact to that the average employer does not ask such ques- tions. He inquires, "Can Volu spell?"

own, deeded to them, in perpetuity, large landed catates, factorico and considerable amount of bonds, including 50,000,000 crowns in War Loans.

Practically all this real estate was

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across 1 Takes part in fulminations on

the Danube.

3 Oldent of three generations.

8 'Arry's boating happaratus,

This theatrical performance, na Sambo might say, in all show.

10 Plentiful when fire is suppressed. 11 Immerse this, it's high. 12 Ada, be there partially to give 16 Under this words have a spiečiai

significance.

Assistance.

17 Oriental supposedly skilled in

mysteries.

18 This uniform is not at

striking.

had for nothing.

21 How to live where water may be 23 The colour man from Ryde. 24 Good for the Yankee, though not

liked by the schoolboys.

26 Not a good caln for tossing. 28 To be beside this makes any man

30 Not a balmy breeze, nor 20 Stender as a girl acc.

mad.

situated in Czecho-Slovakia, and confiscated by the Prague govern- ment, while the hands were prac- tically wiped out by the Inflation. Friends of the Hapsburg family maintain that Prince Otto, in the complicated negotiations for the return of the property, is showing a very generous and large-minded attitude, and that ho is willing to consider the interests of the Aus- trian nation in every possible way. 31 In place.

When the properties are-return- ed, Prince Otto, as the hend of the family will, under the Hapsburg family law, enjoy one-third of the revenues derived therefrom. A accond-third goes to the other mem- bers of the Hapsburg family, while the last third is reserved for im- provements and re-investments. United Press.

A Bird of An Idea!

flower.

Down

the

Very rough glass would be for the London railway. 2 Observant in such a way as to

provide mild fun.

3 Makes the butter fly. 4 Put off.

6 Found in real solitude as well. The fish that swallowed a Moor,

wasn't

7 this light one.

9 "The very substance of the

ambitious is merely, the shadow of a" (Hamlet).

13 Cross parent, that's clear.

14 Gather. 1 Thrown.

10 Visionary. 20 Pad.

21 One writes the name of the old

prophet in pleasure. 24 Pulse.

20 One of those dear Hittle women. 27 To part with it is soil, and

without it it is impossible. 28 Layer.

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