. Business Journal . .|0ttl|UUM. A GOOD STENOGRAPHER. By Winifred Black. Miss Emma Brown, of Chicago, writes to the papers ofthat city and asks what she shall do. I am a stenographer, says Emma Brown, and a goodstenographer, too. But I cant keep work because Im thirtyyears old—too old, they all say, to get and keep a good placein a good office. What shall I do, commit suicide or do house-work for a living? Now, Emma whats at the bottom of all this, honest andtruly, now, whats the matter with you and your work? A good stenographer and cant get work because you arethirty? Why, I know at least a
. Business Journal . .|0ttl|UUM. A GOOD STENOGRAPHER. By Winifred Black. Miss Emma Brown, of Chicago, writes to the papers ofthat city and asks what she shall do. I am a stenographer, says Emma Brown, and a goodstenographer, too. But I cant keep work because Im thirtyyears old—too old, they all say, to get and keep a good placein a good office. What shall I do, commit suicide or do house-work for a living? Now, Emma whats at the bottom of all this, honest andtruly, now, whats the matter with you and your work? A good stenographer and cant get work because you arethirty? Why, I know at least a dozen busy men who would givetheir last years hat—and you know how a man clings to hislast years hat—for a good stenographer—a good one, mind—and they dont one of them care a shaving of a copper centwhether that stenographer is thirty, thirteen or sixty. They wouldnt know, either, when it came right down toit, unless the stenographer took up their time by telling themthe date of her birth. Good stenographers are about
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