The evening world. Newspaper, May 15, 1922, Page 21

PENIS oRTeN eee “File Executive” Good Job For Girl Who Wants Business ( Career Has Grown to Be One al Most Important Positions in Modern Business Office “Lillian V. Perry has for twelve years been in the office of D. Everett Waid, who, among otheg undertakings, is the architect of the Metropoli- tan Life Insurance Cofipany, and whose establishment is one of the largest and most apmples in the city. Mrs. Perry has supervised the in tricate files of this office, which have been developed to a high degree of efficiency, and tells girls who think filing ‘monotonous’? that it some- times contains almost too much variety and responsibility. By Lillian V. Perry. Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co. IME was when ‘the files’ were regarded as the least important feature of an offic they were relegated to the darkest corner of the building, and the lowest grade of worker was employed to work on them. Now filing as a profession for women often taxes the skill ang resource- fulness of the most experienced, for business men have come to realize that the files are the heart and arveries of an office and that the most expert care is necessary to make them not a storage vault for bygone relics but a productive branch of the establishment. Filing has been defined as ‘the act of placing papers in a systematic arrangement." Correct, so far as It goes! As a matter of fact, the ideal file-executive (for she de- serves that name) adds to accuracy and system as great a play of imagination as is demanded in creative work But to go back a little and outline for is Interested in this rapidiy constitutes tts furtamental the girl who developing First, profes rect fling yolves knowledge 6f filing systems, so that records are Lv Oey to be easily accessible. properly classified and so arranged as derstanding of how to choose the right system for a given problem is extremely important. The type of ar- rangement that Is ideal for an archi- perhaps. in a commercial firm. System and flexibility must go hand in hand, and the girl who is too ‘‘sot-in her ways" P will be no more successful than the Next, an un- job were a scomplete and as acces- sible as though it had been finished twenty-four days instead of twenty- four years ago In cases where sults for damages or legal proceedings of any kind are instituted, where written agreements are the only real and substantial evi- dence, the file is usualy the custodian gone who ip always changing her mind. ofthe iecords which help to decide rane is a happy mean between the an issue or form the 1 important AN . evidence. The file-executive has to keep up to the minute in the development of her work, for modern filing is of sut- _ LiKe any other work which leaves ficiently recent origin to he TRE RE (OE Heh Drom yeas Upetousher sr 1 pro- herself, filing gives most to those who New equipment, new in- eference methods arecon- fone most to it The better educa. being advanced, and the Pink | epaner iceman eet possibilities. If she is content to sort woman in charge of an office file sys- etters § KK ‘olders, she tem needs to be able to seize upon La eae them: fn golders, ah the ones that will simplify her own Ch es SE Me nya pe) Oba. problem much prestige in the off 3 ‘ not waste much time Thus a girl must mot only be able este mush time ta prep: On the other hand the girl of am- bition and the broader vision T have tried to describe will ft herself out or direct a routine once ied, but she herself must rry de. epee ay Sih Beate enue know quately for her position. Preliminary now to anticipate as well as how to education must largely consist of work in the present. Many execu- ° training in different systems. Actually doing the work is the best education possible, for only by meeting and tives do not realize how much actual space files occupy; they cramp the room and leave no opportunity for thinking out each day's problem can growth. The file manager should de- she become an expert whom no prob- mand adequate room: the proper jenycan completely rout equipment for the present and an For the girl who is accurate, patient ample allowance of both for future —oh, so much patience is needed!—- development. Many a business has and conscientious, there are excellent been thrown into confusion at a positions open. ‘To the girl who has most awkward time by the necessity thes~ qualities and adds to them the of the filing department to “tear gifc of imagination and vision there is down its barns and build greater.” a great, undeveloped field of possibil- itles, Iimited only by her own limita I said some time ago that imag- tions, and offering her the incentive of ination was necessary Filing has creating her own job rather than of often been criticised as monotonous taking over a made" one, read: work. It Is, perhaps, if it consists - _ in simply shoving one piece of paper in between two others all day long. That ts the old conception of filing and to those who have that concep- tion there is little chance of this work—or any other—bringing much variety, $$$ However, to the woman who is alive to the possibilities of her job it brings, if anything, too much responsibility. Through her hands or those of he subordinates pass all the records of the firm—orders, bills, receipts, let- her real “Prin her ideals." Begia'this ory to-day and he MAISIE OPENS SPAFFORD'S ters, inquiries, contracts, plans, pro- EYES. posals—and in each innocent looking ¢¢ lncictcalanlandleorntconts “scrap of paper’ lies the seed of pos- ane : sible trouble. The good file-executive : ve the matter, Margle has at the tips of her fingers the dear?’ asked Matsie one morning as the former took her place ut the glove counter. “Oh, how can you tell whether a man really loves you or not when he doesn’t propose and just intimates or implics he loves wonder 1 wonder? entire day-to-day papers of the firm Everything ‘points up’ to her de- partment and she has to follow the work of every branch of the concern, Imagination comes in-here, What tse does she make of this know!- edge? Many a file-executive has been responsible for suggestions whicn have sayed labor, time and money or ou? 1 wonder, I came from a very have been actually productive in busi- “te ety Margie, ave been actually productive in busi- ve , kevel ness getting, Others have developed “Well, my steady proposed after information files which put at the We'd been keeping company three Aisposal of the executives invaluable months," responded Maisie, ‘but I data on their own and corelated in- dustries—reference material they did mot qgen know existed has been col- lected and arranged so that it can be eonstantly used. know some men keep a girl guessing. 1 suppose you mean that Frank Spaf- ford, don't you?” “You know I do," declared Margie, rather impatient! “T told you that Willis Channing proposed long ago, so of course I referring to Naturally, !t has not always been easy for the woman who believes in the possibilsies of this sort of record *° a am keeping to’ convince her employer of Frank its importance. “Well, ff T were you I'd marry It is the all-embracing point of winis, he's better looking and says view which I would especially em- phasize—a sense of the continuity of Past, present and future, From the inception of an office to the day when it winds up its affairs the files are the record of work accomplished. Some paper signed the day the new firm started may be called for one what he means, ‘alk about Prince Charmings all you Ike, but give me the fellow who pops the question like a man gad not one who talks volumes about love but never gets down,to a direct proposal. Frank is a dreamer, moment; yesterday's sales record, Willis is a man who sees things another; both must be equally ac- through,” ecessible. “” The problema of an architects out E want to know if) Frank office are, perhaps, more complex and Té#!ly loves me? therefore more interesting than those “Of course you do. And I know of many commercial firms. Through just how you feel about giving our hands pass a variety of records— plans, contracts, estimat specifica- tions, correspondence, reference, data Channing an answer without know- ing what Spafford is going to do," erented long ago, The records ofthat ford would make love tu a gil fur “MARGIE” By Caroline Crawford Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World), by P EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, ——- 15, New York ublishing Company Rvening World), 1922, TRE BacToR | SAID THE PURE AIR OF THE MYLUNGS NEEDED) )p => ge PLACE AND JHE ROOM Publishing Co. tore. Her most Is Clarence Wh come along and live up te dreams work out. time the girl yhether he was cha ming’ wi how Margie’ years and during that would always wonder talking of love or maging love. “I'm an intimate. friend of Mar gie’s and I read her nature like a hook,"* she said to Spafford that eve- ning in the general reception room of his boarding house. “Of course Margie doesn't know I'm here but I wanted to put rect questions 4o you. Do you know Margie Mindon is getting pale and thin because you keep her guessing “Keep her guess young Spafford as Into the young salesgirl's eyes. “Don't try playing any indirect talk game with me. You're a fine little dodger,"’ declared Maisie. ir. Spafford Margie heels in with are too blind to see it want to see it, I thi time to let you know in Spafford’s cheeks, Whether the information that Margie loved him or the fact that she was confronting him with a fact which made him blush Maisie was at a loss to know. “L am glad, very glad to have you tell me this, Miss Maisie," he said after a few moment's consideration, “but really don’t you think this is a bit of information which I might find out myself?" “I'm glad you said ‘might,’ "' re- torted Maisie, "Of course you ‘might’ but the polnt is you don't seem to be able to do this so I just thought I'd tell you a few facts “Very kind of you indeed few a ing what?" asked he looked keenly Mindon is head over and if you else don't it is high love you or The color rose it was For a given building, the same file declared Maisie. “Even if you “Oh Lf mean it as kindness to number is used for dri for intended to marry Channing you gle. She is a splendid home fpeelfishtions for correspondence, &¢. want to know whether Spafford ever And I don't like to sed lust aleapene io that all records for one job are pale because you keep her gues 4 ‘ serio ons ee eed” Ure uke the nimmerica! TAG 80¥) Serious Jntention ANY ing whether you luve her or not, You system for the different buildings, Woman could understand that talk about love in eiycles but n't, @ub-dividing by letters when desired All that day Maisie planned what square yourself in my eyes tm order to segregate matter pertain- she would do that evening. She Again ‘the ‘col BES: iS gallons ing toa certain part of a project When would go to Frank Spafford herself! a work on it is closed, yet nothing is ; er thank you for this bit of infer destroyed, Recently thia office was Put the question to him and get some ynation,”” he salil so the called upon to remodel a butiding St Of an answer trom him, Spat. interverw 1" I thank you." To-Morrow—Spatford’s Intentions, lHAVE JUST LARGE aN PEXTRAY THIS. 1S THE SRD 2M HAS S HORRID C SNELL ») ERTILIZER FACTORY. Maxims of a Modern Maid | Th ust Another Mammy This One Is Mother of a Full- Jewel Family By Neal R. O’Hara i York Evening World), by Presa Pubilshing Co. The Simple Story of a Successful Wife Who Almost Copyright, 1922 (Ney Ran Out « Y permission of the Birth Controt B League, we are able to present this month's best prose article in any language. It is CAME SEVEN, CAME ELEVEN, By the Mother of Bighteen Kids, As part owner of eighteen children, I have been endorsed by Democratic and Republican Presidents dorsed by the Anti-Saloon League on the oceasion of my eighteenth amend- T was also en- ment Other organizations have treated us fine The Dairymen's League encouraged us. The Govern- ment exempted us $1,000 In income taxes. We had our pictures in the Sunday rotogravure sections and en- joyed other luxuries. to live over again, If I had my life I'd have as many children as T have now. But I'd look ‘round for some bachelor millionaire that gy Hopkins’ overlooked My fa Y Was a horse th fund my uncle was a yess. But nobody in ou family ever committ On my husband's side, we are de- scended from the Belgian family of Hares, I was the fourteenth child out of A possible twenty-two. My hus- band was the seventh son of the sec- ond dozen, He was born under a lucky star, All our children were born under lucky stars, too—tf there were that many stars to go ‘round. When we first got married, Joe, my husband, was getting $18 a week, ‘The first year of married fe was the hardest on accoun* of no children around the houae en came our first child, It was a boy—1 think. If it wasn't a boy, It was a girl, Any way, it was tho cutest baby that ever chewed sand. We called it elthe Hthel of Harold, It's so hard to re member eighteen years back! It was while I was teaching {t to 1 race suicide. ay “Da-da" that our family became y-educi ‘The second was either a boy or a girl, too—or vice versa, That gaye us twe. From the third to the eighteenth, was pretty much the same. ‘They all came in assorted sexes; from six to eight ounces, net weight; and with lligent faces, although some of them looked like Joe. ‘They were all duly nagned and catalogued. Of course, as the family grew, Joe's pay increased till he was get- ling § week. ‘That enabled us to buy shoes in carkoad lots and to take the children to the movies. IT man- aged to carn a little myself by writ n how to live on $0.61 a devoting ‘my spare time to subscriptions, Naturally, we n't all the luxurtes, but we did get a saxophon with, Joe's to- hacco coupons. Hardly a week goes by but what one of the children has a birthday. We always have a cake and light it The neighbors call our House of a Thousand Rut that Isn't all the call ft. We are still pay- inclusive, ing articles and day with candles. place “The e Jarr Family f Names. ing rent, but the landlord ts kind and gentle, We only have to pay $40 @ month and furnish our own wall paper and window panes. ‘That never makes it cost more than $70 a month. We side what we can for the chil- dren's education, I belong to a few clubs and Joe is somewhat of a home body. It ts all so simple having a family of eighteen They didn’t all come in on us in a bunch, you must remember—we got them by one. That's the easy part of {t. I don't understand the fuss that folks make over me. I know I do more sewing than Betsy Ro 1 know T do tore hursing than Florence Nightingale. And I know I do more feeding than Herbert Hoover, But why shouldn't 1? Don't I do less one sleeping than Thomas A. Filson? Why Not Look Your Best ? By Doris Doscher EAR MISS DOSCHER: My hair is bobbed and | look much better with it curled. | hate to use an iron on it though and as it very thick is hard to use curlers. Would you please tel! me of a good curling fluid that ia on the market? Also does a good massage after a cold bath every morning ray one to reduce? GENE. I certainly would not use the Ir: on my hair as it splits the ends prevents the halr growing. The ac curlers in two rows Instead of put ting too much on one curler is les is harmful. Curling fitids have a ter dency, if too frequently used, to mak the hair dry and brittle. A massage after the cold bath ts very excellent for the circulation and t» reduce superfluous flesh, Dear Miss Doscher: { have superfluous hairs on my upper lip and | constantly tweeze them. Can you possibly advise m= if thy is any beneficial lotior that | can apply on my lip when | pull the hairs out? Also advis me if you think that the tweez ing of the hairs will stop the growth. DISCOURAGED. , No, the pulling out of the hairs with the tweezer will not stop th growth, Those that come in will be darker and stronger, Frequent plications of peroxide ts a far bett: method, This can also be used os an antlseptio lotion after the hairs have been pulled out. 7 ap L. R. M.—At seventeen I would not worry about the lack of bust devel opment, because a little extra atten tion will be bound to bring about the desired results. First of all, let me tell you that deep breathing ex ercises taken in the morning and again during the day bound increase the chest and bust. Proper position in sitting and standing absolutely essential. Massaging with a very light stroke, rubbing In a little olive-oll, ix also helpful. are M.—One hundred and twenty ponnids would be a welght for your height at vour age, T certainty do not advise you to consult a doctor In re gnrd to your weight because you ave tall for your age that all of nr strength has gone to your beny lopment, an get the t and food there Is ne rea why yon should net Mt out nice Ro very if you sen now as yon are in good health 1. M. S—You are about two inches too short for your age and you are it ten pounds under weight. 1 1inty do not advise you to omit starchy foods from your diet, as th will ma ou still thinner, Canned tives used to keep them, are not as as Cocoa, rive pudding blane mange are fattening but nourishing, so [ advise you to eat them. As you are so much unde weight T advise you to drink plenty of milk and eat other nourishing By Marguerite Mooers Marshall By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World), by Press Publishing Co. Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World), by Press Pubilsiing Co. 66 LL, what interests you #0 Suddenly Mrs. Jarr gazed down Sometimes a man is given strength to resist the seductive woman who milich down on the street?” the street, greatly interested, ‘There = (rated F ; Koes that man ‘Terwilliger! Some- tries to vamp him, but the male doesn’t exist who can withstand waked Mrs. Jarre, suapl- tine is alwaya happening to him, successfully the dove-eyed one who yearns to “mother” him. clous an she came to the front and 1 am giad of it because he treats HEN that London scientist declared that a man cannot be in love Window, which, it being @ warm poor Mrs. Terwilliger just terribly.”’ with more than one woman at a time he spiked his sex's favorite SPring day, Mr. Jarr had’ thrown "1 am giad to hear it," suid Mr P ope alibi, the one that begins, ‘Man is a polygamous animal” and ends, “jut Mra, darr’s suspicion’ were Tarr; benders tain fo man should “Of course, the feeling T have for her dora not affect in the LEAST tho unfounded; there were no Mluppers Gaoan't trent tia wife aghte feeling I have for YOU." -_ rire sad proceed ee id “Do you really mean that?! asked husbands, Only some children, 1tl®. 609, Jaz Unregenerate young men used to speculate callousiy (Ue hss set ats met “L most certainly do,” sald Mr. Jare on “how mach grandpa will cut up for" in legacles. Un “why do ehiideen ehalle side unetionsly: “And T notloe: that bad nce ‘ ‘ luck does follow bad hy and yegenerate young women to-day try to figure how much and steps and even the sid server them Fenty dan’ wh their husbands will “cut up for’? incalimony uses like they do? remarked Mr. goon seipet Jarr, gazing at some juvenile hiero- aye paptie , WiveHiCn an dkelmees ha Wan Well," replied (Mfrs, Jarr enusingly, » Often a man’s idea of marriage in to have some One toned mctaue. the ctreet "They L wouldn't |tke to think that you only to sit opposite him at the breakfast table and siways doing that, especially in the © bi oO IS Per eee sis Soakine’ cross = hinait ul oon Pe ee i In a0, 1 suppose I should he thankful!” oe aby" And here Mrs. Jarr sobbed Nobody ever was as fond of babies as an eighteen: year-old girl pretends serene fees pester (bat a it. ““Great Scott!" exclaimed Mr, Jarr to be when in the presence of an impressionable young man eee ee ce Be Apaee bias fam in bad no matter what Is - ‘ ou can't say some- Can | do anything then to please All the girls nowadays yearn for a cave man. And yet something tells see Chat ‘will! encourage them. t= | song ry me there was a time when cave flapper sighed, “If only ‘Tom were a "lead of hurting their feelings. Toole © aves. replied Mra. Jarr, “don't sit little more refined”’—and her friend answered that her deal hushand cer- 10" YOU talked when our Wille at the window in your shirt sleeves tainly was a gentleman Fi Senet ty nee n ea as you are sitting now, and give m - 7 - so ws twenty dollars.” A woman's idea of biaking gently to husband or fiance ¢ r pei a be 1 spoke? M Jarre re- And Mr put on hia coat and affection is cooling is to elope with another man San Gautaeeean Be z ae ws Per handed over the money, and Mrs — : eee we DAeR © issed him and was table all Those ultra discreet persons who marry on the principle that It's better ‘diophone, One can't answer back a Fea er the eee ROE to be safe than sorry find, after ten years of ‘‘safety it’s about the radiophone, Bilin down at the of. sorriest love-life possible. fice has one that he has spent $500 on and half the time it wont work, and After a man has been rash enough to tell his flancee “the worst about When it does work he can never get himself she goes through life suspecting all the rest. anything but naval messages in code that nobody can understand or the correct standard time from Washin| . : ton, We are living here, Billings says, ourts Ip anc arriage in saving daylight time, and ‘he can't CHICKEN TIMBALES, . = uiford to save any, at least he says he SAT one ‘cup grated bread U______By Betty Vincent. nant-Mabavan trie far H crumbs in one cup of mili ‘i “Why, don't you auswer me sensi Let boil until it thickens. 1 have soy “the first rosy bly said Mrs rr test “Pirst With the spoon mash to a paste, then Ri beeping company (with « man, how 4 ©%- you complain about the children gradually add two cupfuls finely maiden lady for three and one a ‘eB walt- Chatking up the sidewalk, steps and chopped left-over chicken—preferably pee fears zee koows that i am r K wondes she fu w » house fronts across the way, then the white meat—one level tablespoon lower, forty-three, while | am 1 Klower eann’ ou begin to rave it phones ful of butter and pepper and salt to aware she is about ten years (ll! # Second time as lor and saving daylight taste, Remove from fire and when younger. The first year every en youth who has é cold fold in the stiffly beaten whites thing was rosy but after that we neial conditions four exes. ‘Thoroughly butter th began to quarrel. We parted a matrimony. 1s out when he called and my sister bukit ps and ftll two-thirds full long time, then made up again ty waiting #0 lor ' pretended that she was the girl with the mature; stand in « pan of and this time had a number of 1 once and xe to whom he had been writing. He at water and bake in moderate oven petty: misunderstandings. While vg and you will ' said he would cal! again and we teen to twenty minutes ve | admire this woman very muct natured intended to tell him the truth but n platter with bechamel or cream and she in turn says she cares he did not do this. Should | write € ed around the timba great deal about me, the questior Dear Miss Vincent: | recently to him again and tell him, for | am is would we be happy as a mr net a young man t inxious to meet him?) H. 8’ VEAL SOUFFLE. ried couple when we quarrel s esponding with him, nd made Molt one tablespoontu butte much now during our courtship ermission to phone me and hi it ta brown, stir in table period. dH. B. sister answered the call, tw Ie i ». spooulW of dour until smooth, add ——- ae eet Sunday Left-Overs By. Emilie Hoffman two cupfuls of milk or cream and stir until mixture thickens, Add. one- half cup tine bread crumbs, mak two or three minutes, stir in beaten yolks of two eggs and\ remove from fi Add two cupfuls Qnely chopped coid veal, two tablespoonfuls chopped parsley and pepper and salt to tast: Fold in the stiffly beaten whites, turn mixture Into greased baking dish and bake in hot nm twenty minutes, LAMB CECILS. Mix fave cupfuls cold chopped lamb, one tablespoonful bread crumbs, yolks two eggs; two tablespoonfuls of butt one tablespoonful chopped r salt and pepper to taste st over fire until thoroughly heated. Set aside an when cold form in dip in egg and bread crumbs nd fry in hot f Serve with to- mato or any, preferred sauce, i }