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 chance to prove your worth. You have then taken the first step on the pathway of success. In fact, your entire business future depends upon your understanding perfectly the relation between employer and employee.

Why are you going to work?

Because you need money! Otherwise do not go to work, because you will be a drone and a discredit to your sex in the wage-earning field. Moreover, you will be occupying a place that belongs to some girl who must work.

Why is your employer paying you wages?

Because he has work to be done. If you cannot do that work, he has a perfect right to find some one who can do it. Remember, he is not conducting a charity bureau.

Many a girl thinks that the world, as personified in her prospective employer, owes her a living. That is all wrong. The world owes you just what you are capable of earning. And when you have passed through the various stages of inexperience and incompetency to successful effort and a position of authority, you will look at the girls who come to you in search of work precisely as some one is looking at you to-day.

Be business-like even in applying for work.

Your possible employer wants to know if you can read, write, cipher, keep his stock in order and yourself presentable. If you can do these