You must take stock of yourself from time to time. Are you really using your brain and year 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.
If you are bored-what doesn't bore you în life? Try to divert that particular fab into your daily work and then you will be using your faculties properly.
Business Girls' COLUMN
[A
GREAT many business girls,
The theory that we are ali fundamentally lazy is wrong. We are only lazy about the things we like doing-never don't about the things we love doing.
And we needn't all be in the wrong jobs and seem to feel the need of do nothing about it but grumble. 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 settles it definitely one way or the other.
Grumbling about your job in fatal-you aro You must get owning to the fact that it has got the better of you and that you can't cope with it. clearly into your mind exactly what you are being paid to de. Possibly you have been labouring under a complete lusion. You may be picturing yourself as an important confidential secretary and you may be paid to be a qulet, efficient clerk.
Prove yourself capable of goud work by all means, but don't lose sight of the job you aro paid to do.
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NOTHER piece of advice, Don't be helpless Few girls are trained pro- in business hours.
a golden rule perly in this respect. There is
in all aires-find things out for yourselves. It's the only way to learn about any kind of job.
And whatever fub 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 small instructions for several hours is a quite unnecessary strain on your memory.
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HOW well do you know yourself?
Well-known
of
pychologists and how an eminent phrenolo-
person gist at Home way that the average twenty-five knows only 60 per cent, of his or her possibilities.
Tests have been made on people well estab Rshed 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.
POLITICS AS A BUSINESS
TELEGRAPH
One way for an American girl to earn a living i to become interested in politics. While the presidentiaf election campaign is in full Twing in the United States, private elections were recently arranged at High School at Piedmont, California; as part of the practical of the students making her speech to political education of the students.
delegates.
ESCAPE from ROUTINE . . by
W
E expect young people to- day to take full advantage of the summer weather and get off to tennis or golf with big or cycling weekends is not nerecury 15 gtve whele weke tods or cvin while evenints to sport, i order to get fresh air and sun.
Anvan minden or a whach we en har e will make all the dier- tice. A nation we are only jus training the meat bunouter-cifona habit, but then age whe proyle nowadays. who pa in the nearest park or square, and eat theit lunarls in bãe sundring.
We my only have a strip of garden or a balcony, but sewing mind alth en be done these, or sattut-down Jobs like chellian pras and trent applet
It may term n bother to go dit for-
minuten, but it is really worth
a
it, I take my faith-
ful rolander and
sheets 11
of newspaper, watch
the hou
wife's best friend.
OUR OFFICE
7HY is it that whenever I go out the room för a moment my Young Man rings up, and gets connected with Mr. Fother-
All?
And why is it that whenever I go out of the room for a moment my desk begins to sprout memoranila and the ceiling to rain down letters, so that when I come back nothing enn 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 And at last I have to keep my hands clean, that was the question. found the answere
FIRST of all, instead of interleaving carbon sheets and paper outside the typewriter, where they slither and silde out of my hands, lewing them as grubby e those of a printer's devil, I put the paper into the machine first, the top of the sheets just caught by the roller. Then I slip in the carbons, taking care that they are the
ight way in that is shiny side towards me.
This simpler.
But even with this method fingers get grubby, So I got a really good idea. I have bought a pair of thin rubber gloves, har
and is much cleaner
F
it them short, so that they only come halfway down the patai which makh mopsy to put in, quickly.
They are thin enough to leave my Gngers sensitive to the paper? I am handling. and they keep finvers spotless,
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Poor Mr., Smith. I think he is beginning to lose heart..
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TYPE TIPS
EMEMBER that the most
lenient employer has aj limit to his patience.
Every error in typing causes
It would be an interesting experiment to find out the actual delays. time, lost by these
a big delay and reduces the ef Tective rate of operation, so SMITH is very that speals are certainly often joenlar on the sub not what they are quoted to the
staff manager. jeet of my rubber gloves,
"Pale hands, rubber tipped, be side the typewriter," he rhanis, Keeping your lovely hands love dier than ever?"
like that. 1 Mr. Smith is fancies himself as a ladies man. Whenever he has nothing to da Several big cancerns do assess (which seems to be more often the time lost through. than it shoul) he wanders into and book it against the typist. A typing error takes at least my oflice, leans in a graceful alti- tude against the filing cabinet, and fifteen seconds to alter, and if wastes my time by being saint there are several carbons a much
longer time.
at me,
errors
Therefore if you tell, an em- 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 diff- every hundred words, this re- cult to deal with. Put up Picture shows one
them and people begin to gossip: fifty words a minute. the Juvenile
But a reduction of one-sixth freeze them etf, and-well, you
wages due to "goods not may find yourself out of a job. 1. So keep your head. Be extra being up to description" would
polite, so polite that there can be a blow to many typists. no suspicion of informality he tween you. You can usually ban the use of your, Christian name by harm if saying it will do you ipeople hear it.
"Intelligent Women"
They Are
in
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Many business men, politi- cians, work-famous authors, and others have been asked how they assess the typewriting ibility of their secretaries."
In nearly every case the ans- cone meaning a meaning which it wer has been that two qualities
JOST. of Mr. Smith's M
jukes can only has
MINNIE
On The
a secretary are important:
PALLISTER Screen
and do my vegetables nader my one aut quty Inburuan frer.
calm mid retreslinent comes as
:1
result, go different from doing the
ne jolas at a kitchen table.
would be impolitie te under tand. in
meet any emergency and never
be hindered by mechanical in-
Out of the nine most intel-486 I just look at him blankly, as first, that she should be able to It is surprising what a feeling of igent" women now acting for if I were still walling for the joke, the films ir Hollywood, two oreille has stopped telling them to ai British, according to Leroy now.
And he has stopped asking me to efficiency," and second, that sho Prince, dance director-for-Part-lunch, too. I told him that one should reduce the actual typing my unbreakable office rules to completely automatic work so His list, given in an interview Hunch in colleagine, neser with that she and the employer can
forget about it. in New York is as follows?— Merle Oberon (British) Essa Land (British. Irene Dunne, "
It is early as reful to take the into the allting remi, throw open the window, turn on the wireless and get fest, Bults, and music while I work
Many women past their first youth badly need the life-renewing sun and air, yet have neither mergy ner Lime to engage in health-fiving sports. It is they who should seizt, udd half-hours and t them into the day's routine."
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RAJAH WINS
COURT CASE
OVER CHILDREN
Madras, June 1.
employers.
PEN-AIR make-imp N
T'kely to divided into two
groups this sca-
son,
shing,
A sun-
orange
effect is lovely
·MAKE-UP, MAGIC
with the new yellows and leaf greens that whit by worn
much.
by DARHINE
EARL
For the clearer shades, such as pinks and soft blues, and the Inevitable navy-and- while, more natural make- becoining powder upi which matches the lighter parts of the skin, and ronge in a cherry or poppy tone that takes up the natural blusta
-Lipsticks should be decided for wear
haven't much colour in your lips.
us the dress. Lovely and varied
materials are this year, thes, nearly all have a belt tone which enils for skil- ful make-up.
An order for four of his chil-with pastel shades, especially if you dren to remain in India was secured in the Madras High Court to-day by the Rajah of the Vizianagram, father of Maharajah Kumar of Viziana gram, who is captaining the All India cricket team now in Eng-ngsing a delicate pastel-toned frock." Jand..
The court issued a temporary.
injunction restraining the Secretary for India and the Court of Wards from scading the children to Brl- lain for their education.
"Too much make-up simply shouts in
the daylight; whilst too little or none
at makes the face look washed out
Art Aids Nature
Later on, open air will bring a flush to one's cheeks and sunshine will give a golden glow to our alles-until then, lend a hand to Nature!
A word of warning about powder.
The Rajah appeared in person. Het your new outfit has a hint of yellow told the court that the English climate was severe, and be did not think it was satisfactory that boys should have to sleep in a dormitory.
in fia shade, avold deep acre powers they'll give n sallow reflection to your Choose cream-peach, which face. brines. A warm bloem to the skin.
A mild bleaching pack is excellent for bringing back skin freshness, Sand-It-Is-particu.... Iarly good for removing the In- evitable dis- coloration of the neck that fur collars bring.
This sarte pack is useful later on for removing rein- nents of sunburn-that's looking ahead; with a ven- Reance?
Lighter stockings bring their little beauty problems, tou. Ali you people who have sat scorching your legs over the evening fire-what about those brown marks that show through sheer silk? This calls for another bleaching preparation to remove the evidence of fireside evenings,
How about nall vaynish in the spring scliente? Although a few women cling to their deep reds and scarlets, the majority are glad to turn to lighter colours.
To match the sunshine make-up a delicate mentioned further back, orange-tinted varnish is pretty, and it goes well with auch shades as yellows. greens and brown.
For other frocks, a charmingly faint pink, ilke the inner petals of a rose, is
and kind refreshingly natural hands that are not as nicely shaped as you would like.
to
A few women are using rust varnish, and I even saw purple in one smart restaurant but most husbands would have a word to say about thati.
THE HONGKOng Telegraph. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936.
-: DINNER DANCES :-
AT
THE LIDO
REPULSE BAY
EVERY
WEDNESDAY
AND SATURDAY THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER
IN THE EVENT OF INCLEMENT
WEATHER THESE DANCES WILL
BE HELD AT THE~
REPULSE BAY.
HOTEL
JUNE
24th & 27th OPENING NIGHTS
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
20:15
14
15
16
37
TÚ
22
25
23
(20~4
ACROSS
1 Cleans vigorously, with particu-
lar pressure inside. 4.You will find both the opener
-and-the-foot-on-the-plano...
Stick unsuitable for a lame man. 10 Shout for joy: don't you be late
for this.
12 Sphere.
13 Fear to catch.
13 Part of a helmet made of wood. 10 Start and malte notes of this. 17 I will be ruined if it's wet; let's
hope it's fine.
22 You might consider this Seven- bit teenth Century satiris a prosy at rst.
24 How to make pater talk;
well. 27 and this might be considered as
20 Bend.
31 Unmingled.
32 A bird such as this must be crippling in the Foreign Office. 33 Baby centre.
Electric chair 34 Harizing inte.
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.
0 Given away in church.
Startled.
4 Fears of a sad Red,
1135
$21
124
1
11 Played-bewitchingly?
14 Stick for which 9 Would be un-
suitable,
10 The season that starts with no
1035.
19 Revelations of a photographer. de Spanish port.
21 Let off.
23 Still.
25 Scouts,
26 With only a day to make a start reflections are not only possible, but necessary.
20 In Lea (anag).
38 No golfer, but makes swell
drives.
Yesterday's Solution
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SEN REDOROS E SECRETLY IN YOKE
SALESMAN SAM
Just A Song
At Twilight
Small
3 Silver Cups,
"Filmo" Straight-8 Movie Camera, $250 in Cash Prizes
to be won in the
Hongkong Telegraph's 6th ANNUAL AMATEUR
PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
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GOATS AIN'T HE GITS PLENTY D' REST WON A RACE YET!
WITH $10,000
AT STAKE- I'LL TREAT HIM LIKE A BABY!
ROCKABYE, MY LI'L HOSSIE, HERE WIN TH' RACE FER OUR DEAR
BOSSIE!
NIGHT
DESCENDS
AS HOPE "ASCENDS,
IN THE PINTO STABLE
GO) 63 1816 BY HEÄ SERVICE,
MY BED!)
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