THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1912.
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The Fatal Gift of Beauty
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I beauty in asset or a handicap to
tho woman who work?
A largo ami enthusiastic majority Will
reply tht (ood looki am A satisfactory
substitute for ability, talent, entity and
laitnruiness in busl-
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that so long as aha
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Inside of It.
In proof of this
position on the pul
.hrituJe question,
they will point out
that there are cer
tain occupations,
aucb as the stage,
fur Instance, that
am practically bar
red to all but pretty
glrla. Also that I ha
clerkp in depart
ment stores aro recruited from the peach
basket. Likewise that It cannot ba a ma
ter of chance that all stenographers and
private secretaries are young and have
straight front figures.
And, If additional evidence ware needed
to bolster op trie assertion that a girl's
best, latter tjj recommendation when aha
goes to hunt Job If a peaches and cream
completion, those -booster will tell you
that it, Is a common aaylng wlttt bbsI
nea men that Uiey like to have A pretty
lirl around (he office to look at, lust as
they would like to have a pretty picture
or dainty piece of brlc-a-brae,' $ rests
their eyes. ,
Turtherroore, the advocates of beauty-In-the-offlc
would aak you to explain
why. If good looks aren't an asset In
'business as well as In society, t Is that
you so very, very seldom e even a
middle aged woman holding down a
good lob ? .,..'
Surety fat, grisxled women or old
aklnny ones, must have just as much
need of earning money as young, slim
. ones, but the womsn who has lost ber
looks and her figure would walk her
feet off. looking for A good situation
before she found one. . When you see
such ' a woman In a business house she
cither owns It. or she has been there
for so many years, and shown such spe
cial splltude for her work that she has
made herself Invaluable. She's never a
new comer.
: Nor does this Indicate that all employ
ers are flirtations. For from It It Is
.merely tacit recognition of the fact
that youth and beauty are the most en
chanting things rn the world and that
we all Ilka to surround ourselves by
them when we can. It'a Just-more In
spiriting to have a fresh, pretty face
smiling at us across a typewriter, or
a lunch table, or a counter than It Is
to look upon a tired, homely, old face,
sad that's why aweet-snd-twenty gets
the Job.
It appears, however, that there Is an
other side to this question and that In
stead of good looks being a help la busl
nea to a girl, there is such a thing ss
being so good looking that It Is a hin
drance,, and I am In receipt of a letter
front a young lady who say that she Is
nineteen years old, and so possessed ot
a superabundance of the fatal gift of
beauty It Is a regular hoodoo.
Bbe writes: "I have been seeking a
position for some time without any sat
isfactory results because In every busi
ness office in which I apply tor A posi
tion I sm told that I am entirely
toe good looking to hare around, Will
you please sdvlse me what to do under
the circumstancea?'
Isn't this sad? Alas, poor girl, bow my
heart goes out to her, and aow gladly I
would relieve her of half, or three-quarters,
or all ot this burden of pulchrl
tsds that she finds stands In her way,
Unfortunately, In the foolish way that
nature runs things, this Is Impossible, and
as this too beautiful creature can't divide
urt her surplus good look with those of
us who are short ot 'em, the only thing
left Is to suggest to her to sort ef hide
ber light under a bushel, a It were.
Perhaps she might dim her radiance, so
that It would cease to dassle mankind and
be safe to have around an office If she
would comb her hair In the present no
becoming mode, which is guaranteed to
tarn a spotlight on a woman's profile sad
bring out every defect In it-- Or she
might leave her powder rag at home, and
permit ber nose to get red and shiny, er
she might even go to the expense of wear
ing bunchy frocks that would make her
look fat and frowsy. Instead of Itasome
and willowy. It s dead rary to knock
l per cent oat of your appearance with
your clothes, and If this Venus will make
s'lHl ciaeefe effort te dusruiae ber too
-dazzling charms she Deed not despair of
being successful.
it Is It not possible that my corre-
r"" aooa joes, ana
that the reason that (he doesn't get s sit
uation la not because she possesses the
fatal gift ot beauty, but because she pos
sesses the still more fetal gift ot vanity
and conceit? Men can stand a lot of
beauty and survive her shock, but what
they will not stand for are the airs and
graces of a pretty woman who Is al
ways demanding to befl altered, and who
spends her tune in business hour preen
ing and primping and smirking at her
sslt In every mirror that she pssse.
recall once hearing a hard-headed
o(d business man ssjr of his stenographer:
"Oh, yes. Miss A, Is competent and a
nice girl, but I've got t let her go be
cause she's pretty am spends so much
time fluffing up her hair and pulling up
ber collar and settling ber belt Just rfght
that she' got no time to do anything
else. Every time I ask her to take a
letter I feel that I'm Interrupting a beauty
at the sacred rites ot her toilet."
And I know another stenographer who
lost a pise because she dressed too conspicuous!)-.
"Not good for business," ex
plained her employer. "She is a good
looker, but she gets herself up In a way
to catch men's eyes, and that doesn't
give an office an atmosphere that In
spire confidence In customers."
For all ot which. It would appear that
while beauty la an asset. It may also be a
hind ranee, antes the pretty girl has got
sense enough to put the soft pedal on her
looks, and to realise that while her youth
and prettlnes may help her to get
Job. she's got to hold It by good work.
Electric Civilization
By KDGAIt LUCIE Jf LARKJN.
When writing the aerie on electricity
some time ago, I said that "electricity Is
used In 4,Wt different ways." Now
the number of methods, ways and works
Is by nsme legion, whatever that mesne.
Ths aae of the elusive tentlty these
words are used t obscure the notable
fact of Ignorance of what eleotrldty Is
is bow extending and ramifying Into
all departmenta of human Industry and
daily life.
The fact that enormous power can be
sent on thin wire Is the great baslo fact
An equally basic Is tbe tact that weak
power, but strong enough to convey in
telligence, words, symbols, numbers and
signals, can be transmitted by space
waves without wires. And the tact that
electricity can appear as magnetism, and
magnetism conserve electricity, or appear
a electricity, Is the one prominent In
all electrical machinery.
Thus, press a switchkey and lift by
means ot magnetism a white-hot steel
Ingot out ot a furnace, that weighs tons.
This la a standard advance In metal
work. Hen do not now stand In the tierce
heat of furnaces, with open doors, to
handle ingots. Huge . soft-iron masses
an placed In contact for a moment with
the hot mass. Current Is turned through
the wires around the soft iron: it Is en
ergised, become at once endowed with
power and lifts out the heated bar, mass
or Ingot.
Ringing of detective bells, sounding ot
alarm and telltale buzzer are so com
plex In large business bouses, banks, po
lice controls. Insurance registers snd the
like that crime, burglaries and fires are
at one located. Burglars should Ignore
wired buildings.
Numbering and registering every detail
and transaction may be said to be a com
plex science of Itself. And disputes lead
ing to Isweuiu are saved by the unerring
accuracy of the electric register.
Electricity In mining la now re great
that It Is a science all my Itself. The
uses of electricity underground are so
many and ef so varied character that
they cannot be mentioned here.
Biirer and gold plating. Iridium and
platinum manipulation, metallic flowers,
pictures, electrical work In a hundred
ways la the refined arts are also a grand
department ot electricity. Gold-plated
rose ere beautiful.
Motors on mount sin peaks and within
Inaccessible place In the wilderness ac
tuated by power sent op en wires from
turbines In streams far below la a trl-
One of the most wonderful catalogues
ever printed Is the long alphabetical list
of name ot wireless stations on land
and sea. Every ship with a plant has
Its own distinctive signsL
Twenty-five cents will buy a perfect
time-warning watch regulator in a few
years- It will be a mere Index or needle
pointing to numbers In tbe dial. The
master - clock in Washington win set
many millions ef watches from Cuba to
JaSkA at Muoe. each day.
After a while each person will be num
bered Hke auto. Carry the wireless
plant In hat er pocket, receive messages,
bear the news be modern-that -ls, be
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Arratuced by KDWIN SUUKHAM.
Prof. Kdward Alsworth Boss" "The
Changing Chine" (Century company) I
filled with hi experience In tha Flowery
Kingdom, It is the beat ot the recent
volumes en the tar east. Her are some
instructive comments:
"It Is a Chinese trait to go on em
ploying likely mean without consider
ing whether, a a matter of fact, they
are getting tha coveted reeults. The
river Junk has a big eye painted oa either
aids ot the prow o that the boat may
"look see" It way. They have never Inn-
quired whether these optical craft tar
better than other In the crowded water
ways.
"Jutt Inside the gstewsy to court
yard a brk-k screen I built la order that
the viewless flying demons ot the air
may collide disastrously with It when
tbry seek to enter a domicile. To no one
has It occurred to msrk whether families
without such screen have worse lurk
than other families.
"In the same uncritical mood our
coolie would leave their Joss stick
burning before the wayside shrines: and,
f.OM miles from ths sea. our boatmen, be
fore starting on a perilous down river
trip, sacrificed a Cork at tha bow to
bring good luck.
The sentry on the escort boat moored
alongside us rolled hi drum and beal
hi triangle every quarter ot an hour
through Ui night to sooth us with the
ssoranr that he wsa awak and vlil
lent. The actual result waa a ruined
night' rest and the request next day
that he desist from such marks of at
tention.
Ths night watchman steadily claps
a he goes his rounds, tbe theory being
I" at his dW will sear away the thieves.
In all th eenturte no on ha pointed
that In practice: th thieve are
ant
warned of the watchman approach and
once he I by, Work In perfect security,
"ft looks as It moral precept will molt
character; and so th Chinese endlessly
rehearse precept without holing Its utter
want of effect.
"It looks as If memorising the noble
teachings of the aegea will form the In
corruptible official; and so tha classics
are made th basis of training for gov
ernment service, with the result that no
where dor performkr.ee square leas with
professions than In China.
"It look a If a fierce aspect would
intimidate th enemy: and so then were
tiger soldiers In yellow ochre hoods.
with tiger striplngs do a the bark of
the uniform, and with shield painted to
represent the tiger' open Jaws.
In a word, the Chinese have never
accepted the 'principle of efficiency.
which .is, that , ths method or means to
be chosen tor a given purpose should
not be tboa which asem apropriate, but
those which actually do produce most
surely, promptly., and sconomicaily th
coveted result. They fell to dlscrimi
nat real from apparent fitness because
they have never made th efficiency of
agent and processes an object of Inquiry.
In the middle age white men were
just as haphazard and Uncritical as ars
th yellow men today. They looked for
ligns and wonder In the heavens' and
trembled at comets. They held tliat
blood root, on" account of lis red Juice,
must be a blood purifier; liverwort, hav
ing a llver-akaped leaf, will cur liver
disease: eyebrlght, being marked with
a spot like an eye, I good for eye
troubles, and so on.
It wss the rise ef the natural sciences
that cleared the fog from the European
brain. In the building of astronomy,
physics, chemistry snd physiology were
wrought out certain methodsobserva
tion, measurement which war as help
ful for practical life as for science. For
method that connect cause and ef
fect may also light up tha relation be
tween effort and result.
"The truth Is, there la nothing the
Chinese lack so much a discipline. Dis
cipline of th army, th workshop, ths
ship, the school, the athletic field yes,
even ot the boras Is Seeded if they are
ever to develop that emooth. Intelligent
team work which make our race so
formidable.
"Their stand-by now Is mses action
the strike or the boycott. During the
last two year every school In 8hantung
is said to have had a strike- On school
struck because tbe foreign teachers re
quired the student to psss an examina
tion before they would give bint A testimonial.
When folly Is afoot In an American
college there will be asm who, by
standing aloof, spoil the onenlmlty ot
the move and It doesn't come off. But
the Chinese lad crumples trader mass
r re wire, .til his life he has been trained
to get In line, and so the spirit ot con
formity rules blm5 It Is all due to a
struggle for existence so severe that he
realises he cannot survive without the
steady backing of his family, etaa ar
xtntd. To take a line ef one's own would
be suicide. -"
'hi ties gentlemen wear their finger
naiia long tawhow they don't vrbrk, soi
It Is not surprising that young China
despises snythlng with the talent of man
ual labor. The profesmr of engineering
ha to apeak sharply to his students to
get them to carry chsln and drive stakes,
for they consider It 'coolie work.'. Their
idea la to listen and look, but not to do.
"When th mission school at Bwatow
was preparing for tome festivity, a lady
teacher said,. 'Come, boys, help me move
thee heavy benches,' Not a boy stirred:
It was 'coolie work.' Mnce then they
have learned better.
"In another school the pupils refused
to bring . In mors chairs to scat their
guests at a reception. They hsd been
trained to car for their rooms; but the
mandarin were present, and, knowing
th standard of theae gentlemen, they
were afraid of 'losing face.'
"To stroll, bird rage In hand, oa the
city wall la the cool of th evening and
give birdie an airing, I their Idea of a
gentleman exercise. When the tennis
court wss first used by the Ant -.."lean
professor In a certain North China uni
versity, th Chinese could not understand
the absurd antic and capering of their
erstwhile dignified teachers. "Can you
not afford to hire coolie to do tbl for
your asked an Interested but scandalised
observer."
The Maalcure Lady J
"Well, deorke," said th Manicure lady,
"you can't keep a squirrel on th ground,
I have cam back to the shop again.
"I don't car whether you have came
back or whether you hare went" de
clared th Head Barber, who was plainly
in a bad humor. "You ought to be here
every day, and yon know It I know you
are clever, and I know that you think
you are pretty, but that ain't no algn
that we bavs gotta all the the time be put
ting on suba for you. feom of these days
tha old man will get sore and put on a
girl that la mora faithful."
"You make me tired," sniffed tho Mani
cure Lady. "What do you suppose I care
about you and the boss? Haven't I got
at least two-thirds of my Inheritance
left? What do you suppose an h el reus
cares for a few barbers? Why. I could
marry th boss If I would only say th
word.
Besides; George, I had to work herd
for a number of years, aud you know It.
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for a girl to stick around a place like -I
his and remove terra cotla from gents'
nails." .-.
Tou don't mean 'terra cotta,' cor
rected the Head Barber, who never over-
looked a chance- to make tbe Manicure
Lady miserable.
"Oh, well, then." snapped the Manicure '
ldy. 'Terra del Fuego, or whatever they
call it. I mean dirt- To illustrate what '
I mean, look at your own nail right
this minute. Do you think It I A pleas
ant task for a girl like me, which can
speak three different languages, to be
around a barber shop making men' nail
pink and telling them that they have
hands Ilka Utile babies when all the time
their bands look like the hands ot them
hard-rock men you see going home nights
In the surface cars with their drills and
shovels T No, sir, George. As long a the
bank roll lasts I am going to he an heir
ess and act with all th dignity with
which a heiress Is supposed to act with."
It's none of my business," said th
Heed Barber, "but 1 only wanted to tell
ou that the old gent that run this shop
Is getting sore. There' a lot of class to
you, kid, and I bate to see s girl like you ,
doesn't know bow to fix nail so that th
customers will have to coma back again
ths next week. You knew what It says
In the Scriptures, 'Work for the njght la
coming.' " , .
Thanks for ths kindly Interest, George." .
sneered the Manicure Lady, "1 should
think that a gent like you, with all your
knowledge of how In ni Inn. fn th.
world, would have got further up the ted
der by now than to aland here handing
out a lot ot atlly chatter to your custom
ers and all the time honing razors.. I '
sriah Ait smnlitn'S tu ell the hM,lK
razors, George. Some ot them knives
squeaks so that ht give m tha WUlies."
"You don't seed to be changing tbe sub.
Ject. klddo, said the Head Barber. "I
mean what I say. Ton cant get nowhere .
la this world without no effort I had '
to work like a Slav to fit myself for this
Job, and now I can meet gentlemen and
talk the asm a them. Nobody learned
ma good English I bad to work to where
I am."
"Toe el n't got nothing ea me." said the
Manicure Lady, "nobody never learned -ma
good English either. -
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