Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1918 — The Woman of Forty and What She Should Do and Not Do to Hold Her Job [ARTICLE]

The Woman of Forty and What She Should Do and Not Do to Hold Her Job

The woman of forty and over must learn to obey orders In an office. The woman of forty and over must forget the rules of her former employment and yield to those of the new job. The woman of forty or oyer should bejieat. The woman of forty and over must demand no especial consideration because of her years. These are just a few of the warnings offered the middle-aged woman seeking employment by Mrs. Alice McBride of the Woman’s Association of Commerce of Chicago. She has given them to Miss Elizabeth Bennett, temporarily of the employment bureau of the women’s division of the state council of defense, and applicants for work will be with all due delicacy informed that these be good rules to follow. “Too often I’ve seen-the middle-aged woman lose track of herself, as It were, when she is employed, and I know employers put up with her just so long and then she is dismissed. “Men like a neat woman in an office. She need not be a raving beauty if only she be neat and prepossessing. And she need not think that a bit of cosmetic, a bit of powder or a good cream are only the young woman’s prerogative. The older woman needs to look well and must see to it that she does. “But most of all, the middle-aged woman finds it difficult to adhere to rules in an office, and too often she irritates by saying, ‘At my last place we did so and so.’ “Now, then, all the employer cares about is having his own rules carried out and the woman employed will do well to take his viewpoint.” Mrs. Mcßride is a—well, she will not tell her age, her weight or her financial standing. “I am old enough to know,” she says, and those who know her say she most certainly does know from the top of her glossy white hair and perfect complexion to the tips of her perfectly shod feet. Mrs. Mcßride is a stenographer.