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    148 ON THE CHOICE OF A BUSINESS,

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    & c . A calculations good handwriting quickl is and the chief correctl requisite is also ; the needed power of a point making in

    money which women almost always y fail , owing y to their superficial , and inaccurate education , and which , if they are wise , they will remedy by

    to self take -teaching a situation , or by taking of the lessons kind . in Sometimes arithmetic they , before are they employe attempt d as but

    book-keepers in shops ; these situations are tolerably well paid are Saleswomen not easy to in obtain shops . are erallwell paid ; it is a position that

    requires much bodily strength gen because y of the number of hours they have to stand ; a good knowledge of arithmetic is also necessary , as

    requisite A indeed good it is temper to in secure almost , or invariable all at emp least loyments courtesy the power but towards those of self the of -control ill customers -paid , drud are . gery also The .

    , themselves slightest want unreasonable of politeness and towards rudeis a customers breach of , even honest if they towards are y

    the owner of the establishment ; for , if customers are offended they fore are likel should y enoug enter h on to withdr this emp aw loyment to some who other does shop not . No possess one there entire

    self-command . In all cases where a father with daughters keeps a shop , they

    should learn to serve in it , unless indeed he has already made his fortune and can leave them comfortable independent incomes ; for a

    she daug have hter no thus brother trained , or will if he always enters be som able e other to earn profession her bread will , she , and know will if

    then be able to succeed her father in the business , and how to carry it on . This is sometimes done , but not so often as it ht to beand the custom seems to be confined to some particular

    trades oug for which , there appears to be no reason . If women have commercial , ability h to carry on the trade of bookseller and

    baker dressers , wh , & y c should . ? One they enoug trade not is also probabl be grocers y not much , drapers more , silk difficult mercers to , learn

    hairthat in than , is this another perhaps arrangement , and as difficult the bookselling would and be comp obj trade licated ected , which to as by any women the . daug It is often hters to be engage fe them ared

    fo selves olish , partl idea y that from to a become love of a idleness tradeswoman , and partl is less y because genteel there than is to a

    be a governess ; the silly girls not perceiving that an independent position is in fact quite as dignified , and much more comfortable

    have than that in point of a teacher of gentilit , and y that , are whatever more than advantages counterbalanced a governess by may the

    solid comforts on the other side . where If girls there would is one learn son their and one father daug 's business hter , be , left it mi to ght them then , as in joint cases

    partners , as is often done when there are two brothers . But whether this was done or notthe knowledge acquired behind her ,

    father shops . s counter A girl should would enable always consider to get it good a great situations advantage in to other be

    148 On The Choice Of A Business,

    148 ON THE CHOICE _OF A BUSINESS ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/4/