"So, after a comfortable and altogether delightful trip by Panama we came to Brisbane, my chum and I, and' started out for work. How our knees shook as we made our first application for a job! Our absolute inexperience and our unwillingness to guarantee to stay in a position for any length of time shut us out of any responsible positions, and any way we should have been hard put to it to live on the beginner's salaries paid clerks and stenographers. We thought salaries much lower than in the States, especially for office positions, and the cost of living fully as high and yet the girls we worked with seemed to have money to put in the saving bank. They were a thriftier lot than the average business girl we had known. They didn't spend their money on ice-cream sodas and movies except as a rare treat.
"We got a. position in a peach factory, or cannery as we would cai) it and lived in the same sort of boarding houses that the other workers did. We certainly did get more out of our talks with them than the text-books told us
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