You must take stock of yourself from time to time. Are you really using your brain and your hands in the right way? It is very simple--if you are, then you will love your work-if you aren't, then you will be bored with it.
OUR OFFICE
XX7HY is it that whenever I go out of the room for a moment my
If you are bored--what doesn't bore you to life? W Young Man rings up, and gets connected with Mr. Fother-
Try to divert that particular job into your daily work and then you will be using your facultles properly.
Business Girls' COLUMN
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GREAT many business girls seem to feel the need of periodical grouses. They fall due just before Christmas and just before the summer holiday.
The difference between men and women, how- ever, is that the girl complains to her friends' and does nothing further about it except buy a new dress and the man complains to his boss and seltler ft defnitely one way or the other.
Grumbling about your job is fatal-you aro owning to the fact that it has got the batter of you and that you can't cope with. it. You must get clearly into your mind exactly what you are being paid to do Possibly you have been labouring under a complete Illusion. You may be picturing yourself as an important confidential secretary and you may be paid to be a quiet, efficient clerk,
Prove yourself enpable of good work by all means, but don't lose sight of the job you are paid to do.
ANOTHER piece of advies. Don't be helpless
in business hours. Few girls are trained pre- perly in this respect. There is a golden rule in all office-find things out for yourselves. It'k the only way to learn about any kind of job.
And whatever job you are told to do, whether it is to type a letter, fetch a file, or 'phone a cus- 'tomer-do it immediately. If you don't It is either forgotten or put off. And having to remember a dozen smali instructions for several hours is a quite unnecessary strain on your memory.
M
How well do you know yourself? Well-known psychologists and now an eminent phrenolo- that the average person of gist at Home say twenty-five knows only 60 per cent, of his or her possibilitics.
Tests have been made on people well estab- lished in their particular professions, and a great number have been found to be entirely unsuited to their jobs. It speaks well for human adaptability, but it doesn't show up our mental honesty and powers of clear thinking very well.
wrong.
are
The theory, that we are all fundamentally, lazy is
Wo
only. lazy about the things we don't like
doing-nover about the things we love doing.
And we needn't all be in the wrong jobs and do nothing about it but grumble,
POLITICS AS A BUSINESS
TELEGRAPHE
One way for an American girl to earn a living is to become interested in politics. Will the presidential election campaign is in full swing in the United States, private elections were recently arranged at a High' School at Piedmont, California, as part of the practical of the students making her speech to the juvenile political education of the students. Picture shows ong
delegates.
"Intelligent Women'
ESCAPE from ROUTINE.. by They Are
W
E expect young people to- day to take full advantage of the summer weather and get off to tenuts or golf with hitting or cycling werk-ends: It is not npecsary to give whole week-ends or even whole.uventus to spurt, in order to get fresh air and sun.
Any old ten timites or in which wr cay thanage will make all the differ As a nation we are ante Just tearoa the eating-it-of-tenga mab, but there are wise prope mwadays whu na to the newest park or square, and eat their lunch in the sunshine,
We may only have a trip of gården or a balcony, but erwing and Raftin can be done there, or rating-down Jobs ke shelling pres'and peciug apples It may seen a bother to go out for ja minuten, -but-It-da, really, worth
it. I take my faith-
ful colander and the aber14
of newspaper, which
the
MINNIE PALLISTER
wife's best friend.
On The Screen
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are
uid do my vegetables under my ne
and only labarrier tree.
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urprising what a, feeling of
same jobs at a kitchen table,
gill?
And why is it that whenever I go out of the room for a moment .my desk begins to sprout memoranda and the ceiling to rain down letters, so that when I come back nothing can be seen but a pile of newly-arrived and unopened correspondence?
These are just two of the things that used to make me unwilling to go and wash the grime off my hands. And if I didn't wash my hands, I left criminal-looking finger marks all over the letters. How to keep my hands clean, that was the question. And at last I have found the answer.
FIRST of all, instead of interleaving carbon sheets and paper outside the typewriter, where they slither and slide out of my hands, leaving them as grubby an those of a printer's devil, I put the paper into the machine firat, the top of the sheets just caught by the roller. Then I slip in the carbons, taking care that they are the right way in-that is shiny side towards me.
This simpler..
much eleaner #17 Poor Mr. Smith. I think he is
beginning to lose heart.
But even with this method Angers get grubby. 50 I got a really good idea. 1, have bought a pair of thin rabber gloves. I have Peut them short, so that they only Jeune halfway down the palm. which make them, easy to put en ¡quickly.
They are thin enough to leave my fingers sensitive to the papers I am
they keep handling, and fingers spotless:
my
M":
TR. SMITH is very
jucular on the sul
TYPE TIPS
EMEMBER that the most lenient employer has a limit to his patience.
Every error in typing causes a big delay and reduces the cf- fective rate of operation. so that speeds, are certainly often not what they are quoted to the staff manager.
ject of my rubber gloves.
"Pale hands, rubber tipped, be side the typewriter," he chants.
It would be an interesting "Keeping your lovely hands toyo-" lier than ever?"
experiment to find out the actual like that. Fle Mr. Smith is
time lost
delays, by these fancies himself as a ladies' man. Several big concerns do assess Whenever he has nothing to do
time lost through errors (which seen to be more often the than I should) he wanders, into and book it against the typist. A typing error takes at least my office, leans in a graceful atti- tude against the filing cabinet, and fifteen seconds to alter, and if wastes my time by being gallant, there are several carbons a much
longer time.
at me.
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Therefore if you tell au cm- good ployer that you do sixty words THERE are
many Mr. Smiths in a minute but make one error in with duces your real speed to about business; and they are often difli- every hundred words, this re- cult to deal with. Put up
But a reduction of one-sixth them and people begin to gossip: fifty words a minute, freeze them uff, and-well, you
wages due to "goods not may find yourself out of a job.
So keep your head. Be extra being up to description" would polito, so polite that there can be ben blow to many typists. no suspicion of informality he tween you, You can usually ban the use of your Christian name by saying it will do you harm if peuple hear it.
JOST of Mr. Smith's MOST
jokes can only have
in
Many business men, politi- cians. world-famous authors, and others have been asked how they assess the typewriting ability of their secretaries,
In nearly every case the ans- one meaning meaning which it wer has been that two qualities
[now.
would impolite to understand. in a secretary are important: Out of the nine "most intel-18 I just look at him blankly, as first, that she should be able to caim and refreshment comes a lligent" women now acting for if I were still waiting for the joke, meet any emergency and never resat. so different from deing the the films in Hollywood, twe arelle has stopped telling them to me be hindered by mechanical in- British, according to Leroy And he has stopped asking me to eliciency, and second, that she Prince, dance director for Part-Inch, toe. I told him that one should reduce the actual typing rubs to completely automatic work so my unbreakable affice mount pictures.
His list, given in an interview lunch with enllenges, never with that she and the employer can
forget about 'il employers. Many wonen past their first youth in New York is as follows:-- badly need the life-renewing sun and
Merle Oberon (Brish.) nir, yet have neither enery or Unte
Bisa Land (British) to engage in health-giving spurts. It Is
It is nearly as restful to take them minte sitting room. Throw open thi^ wide, turn on the wireless and so get re sun, ssd mste while I work.
they who should setze, odd half-hours and fit them into the day's routine.
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RAJAH WINS COURT CASE OVER CHILDREN
Madras, June 1. An order for four of his chil- dren to remain in India was secured in the Madras High Court to-day by the Rajah of Vizianagram, father of the Maharajah Kumar of Viziana gram, who is captaining the All India cricket team now in Eng- land.
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temporary The court issued injunction restraining the Secretary for India and the Court of Wards from sending the children to Bri- tain for their education. The Rajah appeared in person. He court that the English told the climate was severe, and he did not think it was salisfactory that boys should have to sleep in a dormitory.
SALESMAN SAM
PEN-AIR
make-up is
kely to be
divided into two. groups this sea-
shiny.
effect
Asuin-
orange
Js lovely
MAKE-UP MAGIC
with the new yellows and teal greens that will be worn so much.
For the clearer shades. Buch as pinks nad soft blues. and the inevitabile navy-und- white, a more nutura? make- becoming powder
up
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by DAPHNE
EARL
which matches the lighter parts of the skin, and rouge in a cherry or poppy tone that takes up the natural blush.
Lipsticks should be decided for wear with pastel shades, especially if you haven't much colone in your p Lovely and varied as the dress have a light tone which calls for skil ful make-up.
materials are this year, they nearly all.
Too much make-up simply shouts in at all makes the face look washed out against a deilcate pastel-toned frock. Art Aids Nature
the daylight, whilst too little or none
Later on, open air will bring a flush to one's cheeks and sunshine will give. A golden glow to our skins-until then, fend a hand to Naturet
A word of warning about. powder. If your new outfit has a hint of yellow in its shade, avoid deep ochre powders they it five sallow reflection to your creamy-peneli, which Ince.
warm bloom to the skin. brings a
Clicase
Just A Song
A mild bleaching pack is excellent for bringing back skin freshness, and it is particu- larly good for removing the in- dis- cvitable coloration of the neck that fur collars bring.
This same puck is useful later on for removing reni- nants of sunburn--that's looking ahead with a ven- geancel
Lighter stockings bring, their little beauty problems, too. All you people who have sat scotching your legs over the evening fire-what about tliosa brown marks that show through shrer slik? This calls for another bleaching preparation to remove the evidence of reside evenings.
How about nail varnisti in the spring scheme? Although a few women cling to their deep reds and scarlets, the majority are glad to qm to lighter colours.
To match the sunshine make-up mentioned further back, a delicate orange-tinted varnish is pretty, and it goes well with such abades as yellowa, greens and browns
For other frocka, a charmingly faint pink, liko the inner petals of a rose, is tu natural and kind refreshingly hands that are not as nicely shaped as you would like,
A few women are using rust varnish, and I even saw purple In one smart restaurant, but most husands would have a word to say shout that!
At Twilight
THE HONGKONG Telegraph. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936.
→ DINNER DANCES:-
AT
THE LIDO
REPULSE
BAY.
EVERY
WEDNESDAY
AND SATURDAY
THROUGHOUT
THE
+
SUMMER
ÎN THE 'EVENT OF INCLEMENT
WEATHER THESE DANCES WILL BE HELD AT THE
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
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32.
JUNE 24th & 27th NIGHTS
OPENING
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
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1 Cleans vigorously, with particu-
lar pressure Inside,
4 You will find both the opener.
and the food on the piano.
133
135
11 Played-bewitchingly?
14 Stick for which 9 would be un-
suitable.
18 The season that starts with no
9 Stick Gosuitable for a lame mun19
10 Shout for joy; don't you be late
for this.
12 Sphere.
33 Fear to catch.
15 Part of a helmet made of wood. 10 Start and make notes of this. 17 it will be ruined if it's wet; let's
hope it's fine.
27 You might consider this Seven- teenth Century Entirist a bit prosy at first.
24 How to make pater, talk: 27 and this might be considered as
well.
20 Bend,
31 Unmingled.
32 A bird such as this must be crippling in the Foreign Office: 33 Baby centre.
34 Hanging state, Electric chair
not favoured here. 35 Slip out.
DOWN
1 Where patients have to exercise
patience.
2 To go over-cars here.
3 This is often tapped in a remote
bar.
5 Fit of plque.
Given away in church. Startled.
8 Fears of a sad Red
loss.
Revelations of a photographer. 20 Spanish port. 21 Let off.
23 SULL
25 Scouts.
26 With only a day to make a start reffcctions are not only possible, but necessary..
29 In Lea (anag).
30 No golfer, but makes swell
drives.
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