(From "Good Housekeeping")
1, Remember that your office girl is human and has an outside life of her own to live—a life that is quite as important to her as her office life.
2. Be considerate.—Show forethought and kindness.
3. Do not rush her unless necessary. Why dictate like a streak of lightning and give her writer's cramp when you are really not in a rush-and may just go back to your desk and spend the next half hour or so dawdling around?
4. If now and then you find it necessary to work overtime, why not, at the first opportunity you can conveniently do so, let her.go home a little before regular closing time?
5. Remember you only pay her a salary. Be sportsmanlike, and do not ask her to give you double value. A man would blush to ask a girl for five dollars in money, but he can deliberately appropriate ten dollars' worth of her time and think nothing of it.
6. Try to be a, good dictator. Spell out the proper names or tell her where she can find them. Pronounce distinctly the little connecting words, such as "if," "and," "an," "but," etc.
The games room in many country houses played an important part on the festive programme. Darts was perhaps the prime favourite, but billiards, table tennis and cross-word puzzles were all close runners-up for the popularity prize. Every week, the once small but enthusiastic little band of dart players in this country grows, larger, and a few days ago the King and Queen tried their hand at the game. The Queen won.
By night, candle-lit roóms are in vogue and in one town house where much entertaining is in progress these days, tall green candles in crystal chandeliers hang over the
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