Should a girl who works accept the attentions of her employer?
by Idah M’Glone Gibson
Dear Mrs Gibson:
Some of them seem to have been written by girls whose egotism has run away with their common sense.
Is it possible that a girl dreams for one moment that, because a man is polite to her and invites her to luncheon he may possibly continue the business conversation that was begun at the typewriter, he will care for her as a social companion?
I believe that a business girl should be a good “fellow” and accept an occasional invitation to luncheon as would a man in the same position.
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Ever since I have been a typist, I have done this and I want to say that I have never received any undue familiarity from any employer that I have had.
On the contrary, many of them have confided in me their romantic attachments for girls in their own positions in society, and I have sympathized with and advised them.
Don’t be too egotistical, girls. The man who buys your ability as a stenographer or any other office worker is not always looking for trouble.
– Plain Faced and Plain Spoken
Dear Plain Faced and Plain Spoken:
It has been my experience in many years of business life that the plain-faced and plain-spoken girl is not so apt to have temptation thrown in her pathway as her prettier and more diplomatic sister. How about it?
