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Hail the Steno
NEW Y O RK— The champion all-
American woman of today is, the steno
grapher.
She is the keystone of American Bus
iness and also American culture.
Taken individually and as a class, she
is the go-gettingest female since Cleo
patra won her man and lost her em
pire. Sheris the 2 Oth ’century descend
ant df Horatio Alger’s poor but proud
bootblack—-but this little lady gets
ahead by pluck, not luck. She can’t save
the banker’s daughter from a runaway
horse. The horses‘all run on tracks now.
An ordinary stenographer gets about
$40 a week in Manhattan? She’s in the
same wage brackets as a street cleaner.
A smart girl gets herself classified as a,
private secretary, and that boosts her
to $60 or more.
The biggest mystery of money is how
she manages to stretch rit, so far.
Most stenographers fight their way
home on subway or bus, stopping o ff at
the grocer’s for the things they need
for their evening meal. They usually
cook it themselves.
That would be a fu ll day for an av
erage person. But the stenographer
whips around tidying up the place be
fore she steps out for the evening. •<
As often as'not it is a concert, play
or lecture, as to a movie or dance. And
before she hits the sack that night she
has to do her personal laundry..
As a class she displays a ’great yearn
ing for improvement. She joins book
clubs, takes lessons in personal charm
schools, learns, to ski itt winter and takes
boat cruises in summer. And somehow
or other she has' enough socked away
to make a down payment b n .afu r coat.
How do they do it ?
Some housewives get clothes-sloppy
after marriage. The stenographer keeps
trim and chic always.j She is much
neater and better-dressed than her fem
inine counterpart in France, supposedly
the home of style. In America it takes
a wise man to tell any difference be
tween a stenographer and society deb
on the street. The stgno probably has
better manners.
Stenographers and secretaries are also
the unheralded diplomats of business.
They take a lot of gruff, but they keep
down the personal frictions between
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