Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 243, 25 July 1919 — Page 5

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1919.

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noMANk, TRU& STORIES

How a college girl etarted out as a I ribbon clerk and climbed to a' $5,000 a year position. I When Frances Adams was graduated from a small college In Ohio she went home, taking with her her di- j ploma, a man-sized ambition and noth-! ing more definite than a desire to doi "anything but teach." Her widowed ! mother framed the diploma, knew j nothing of her daughter's ambition, I and was disappointed that Frances ;

would not accept the second, third and fourth grades in the small school in a neighboring community. Frances looked over her home town

for two full weeks. At the end of that time she decided that there was nothing there for her to do. She declared that she would set out for the city and "there make her fortune," es she playfully put it. Again her mother was disappointed. The city was too far away for France to be able to get home often and then there was the worry. Frances knew scarcely anyone there and she would live alone with little money and no friends. Frances was more optimistic, however, and after many days spent in figuring and juggling the figures that represented the Adams Income and after many nights spent In mending and sewing the day of departure finally came. Starts at Bottom. Frances entered the busy metropolis full of youthful eagerness and assurance. She brought with her a letter from her college president to Mr. Straus, senior member of the StrausHelman Company, one of the largest and most exclusive department stores west of New York. After the customary preliminaries of filling out an .application blank and Bitting anxious

ly awaiting an Interview, Frances finally was able to present her letter to Mr. Straus. The letter was like ,miany others which employers receive dally except for one sentence. Her president had written a formal reference and then had added a note which said: "I feel that Miss Adams will always give something of permanent value to her employer in whatever she undertakes, at least if her business life follows the path of her college life. We feel here that there are many improvements which we owe to her." Mr. Straus decided he would try an experiment. He would put Miss Adams through the mill and if she stood the test well, he decided that tJme would solve the problem of what should be her reward and his. Frances, therefore, found herself in the basement of the Straus-Helman Company the next morning promptly at eight. She had sole charge of a "bargain counter where remnants of

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ribbon were selling for twenty-five cents apiece. She was surely "starting at the bottom," she said when she wrote her mother that night, and her salary was six dollars a week. Proves Her Worth. Frances was not left at the ribbon counter long, but before she had left it, Mr. Straus, at her suggestion, had had the ribbon counter moved up to the front of the store near the silks, where there was daylight, which was very necessary for matching colors. For three years Frances passed through many departments like thi3

and almost always, no matter how

short her stay, she introduced some change for the better. One of the most notable ones was made when she was in the gown department. Here she became acquainted with Amy Lee, a seemingly colorless girl, who was very evidently out of her element selling chiffon and velvet evening gowns. By this time it had become a habit with Mr. Straus to consult Miss Adams often concerning the department she was "observing," as he had come to term her work. He happened to ask her about the sales in the gown department. They were poor, he thought, and he was considering letting Miss Lee go because her sales were the poorest. Miss Adams said, "Yes, let her go; let her go from the gown department, but don't ever let her go from the store. She has a most wonderful knowledge of books, and their authors and their bindings, to say nothing of their contents. Why not put her In the book department and see if she does not do better there?" The suggestion was taken, and today Miss Lee is the head of the best book department in the city and she has a following so large that Mr. Straus offered her many inducements to give up her plan to open a book store of her own, but that is another story. Shortly after this Incident Mr. Straus decided that he wanted his store to be one of the first to introduce some of the theory of selling and he conceived a new plan which included Miss Adams, as most of his plans seemed to do. He sent Miss Adams

to Simmons College to take a course i in salesmanship and business man-j

ageiueui. was guru a. jroi a leave of absence and all her expenses were paid by the firm. When she returned a new position was created for her which was a far cry from selling remnants of ribbon in the basement at six dollars a week. She is what might be called a consulting expert, assistant manager and employment director all combined, and her income is Bomewhat over four thousand dollars a year.

Lady Henry Somerset. Lady Henry Somerset, the noted English temperance worker, declares that to force prohibition now would be the undoing of all her years of labor to obtain a sober England. She believes that America differs from England and that while prohibition may be all right in the United States it would mean a revolt in England. She intend? to ifrnore the prohibition drive in Frflnnd.

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS

By Mrs. Morton

SPECIAL RECIPES Cherry Tarts One-quarter pound

butter crackers, one-half pound marsh-

mallows, one bottle maraschino cher

ries.

Put a whole marshmallow on each

cracker and a maraschino cherry on top of the marshmallow. Place in a shallow baking pan and heat in mod

erate oven until the marshmallows puff. Lift from pan with a knife and put on paper to cool. This will make about twenty-five tarts. They look dainty and are very nice to serve with ice cream or hot chocolate. Surprise Qems Three cups of flour, three level teaspoons baking powder, one and one-half cups milk, one teaspoon lard or butter, one-eighth teaspoon salt. Stir up well and when ready for gem pans put a portion of batter in bottom of gem pan, making a depression in center of batter. Into this put a teaspoon of Jam, jelly or fresh fruit of any kind. Put another spoonful of the batter over the top of this, and when baked it will be a surprise to find the filling. (Chopped dates,

raiBins or figs may also be used.) Fine for lunches, as they keep moist. Frozen Marshmallow Pudding Place in a saucepan, two and one-half cups of milk, four tablespoons cf cornstarch. Stir until dissolved and then bring to a boil and cook slowly for five min

utes. Now add two well-beaten eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of marshmallow whip. Stir until well blended and then cool. Freeze, using a mixture of three parts ice to one part salt. Let stand for one and one-half hours to ripen.

CHURCH NOTICE

o'clock; Children's Day program at 7:30 o'clock. Pastor, the Rev. Charle3

Shultz, of Newcastle.

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Williamsburg Methodist

open air service at 8:15 p. m. ThVs j -

will be a special service. Music Is

being arranged for which all will wish to hear. Webster Methodist Episcopal Church Another talk on the Centenary celebration will be given at the 9 a. m. service. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Quarterly meeting will be held at Greensfork Tuesday, July 29, at 8:00 p. m. R. M. Morris. Pastor.

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PARIS. Julv 25. France mav aeain I dav school t ft-30 n'Hnrk rhurh

be put on bread rations in September, cervices at 10:30 o'clock, the Rev. It wa3 said today that the system Robert Morris of Williamsburg in of bread cards probably would be re- charge. established in that month because of Christian Church Sunday school at a possible shortage of wheat. 19:30 o'clock; church services at 10:30

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HEART AND BEAUTY PROBLEMS By Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson

Dar Mrs. Thompson I am a girl 1.'; years old. I have a boy friend and my mother doer, not want me to go i V him. 1 have a girl friend and my lovrr comes to her house and X ro over to see him. Should I do this? BROWN EYES. You are going wrong by allowing the boy to go to your friend's house. You are deceiving your mother who is quite right, about objecting to your going with the boy. You are too young. Dear Mrs. Thompson T have a boy

friend whom I cared a great deal for. He came to see me a great deal. 1 had a girl friend who cared for this fellow also. She has a friend whom she was going with occasionally. This boy asked me for dates and 1 gave him one but kept it a secret from both my girl and boy friend. Then my boy friend did not ask to come to see me for some time. Tho girl went to him and told him and asked him if he cared and he said no. Another time the friend of my girl friend asked me for a date and I gave it to him but did not keep it a secret. I then went away and when 1 came back 1 found out that this girl had been with my former friend twice. I am going with her friend steadily. Do you think 1 am doing wrong? Is the girl or my

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boy friend treating me right? Should my old friend ask for a date again or should I make up? I do not. love my new friend like I did my old one. LONESOME BROWN EYES. You did wrong by keeping your first date with the other boy a secret. Neither you nor your girl friend are engaged to either of the boys and you are under no obligations whatsoever. However, considering that you deceived them they are treating you just as well as could be expected. Tho best thing for you to do now is to treat them all as your friends and go with cither one of tlvm.

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Lloyd George Attempts to Settle Coal Strike

(By Associated Prcss LONDON, July 25. The executive of the Miners' federation met Premier Lloyd George and other members of the government this morning In an effort to settle the dispute in the Yorkshire coal fields.

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