HINTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2139, 14 March 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

HINTS.

There is no better pudding-cloth than a piece of cheese cloth. Tins material being coarse does not retain the grease, and is easily cleaned.

To hem the ends of a veil haste an inch hem at each end and then baste a piece of paper under the hems. Stitch the liems on the sew-ing-machine through the paper, afterward tearing off the paper. Finally press the ends with a warm iron.

iSalted almonds can quite easily bo prepared at home. Blanch the almonds, and to each half-pint add one teaspoonful of fine salt. Stir it well, and then spread the nuts in a shallow cake tin, baking them in rather a cool over until they become brown, which will take aboiint twenty minutes.

A mixture for restoring plated cruet-stands and other articles, when the silver is worn off is made, as follows Get two pennyworth of mercury and a halfpennyworth of prepared chalk; mix them well together, make- them into a paste with a little warm, water in a saucer, and, with a small piece of leather, rub the tarnished article until it is bright again.

To keep a child covered in bed especially'when the child is sleeping alone in a small bed, use for the second sheet a large one made for a double bed, instead of a small one. This sheet can be tucked in so securely on both sides of tfie bed that the child can only turn under the cover instead of rolling up in.it. and the blankets will not be destroyed.

Gloves for ironing and housework will protect the hands, keeping them in much better condition than when they are not worn. For ironing days, keep a riglit-liand glove of thick leather with the ironing materials. It will be found a .great protection for the palm of the hand. For housework take old street gloves and cut three slits in the backs of the gloves and one at the base of each thumb, in each case following the line of stitching. This plan gives ample freedom in grasping articles, while the palms and lingers are quite protected.

LITTLE LIFE STORIES AIISS MARY E. ORR, THE FIRST WOMAN TO BECOME A DIRECTOR IN A BIG CORPORATION. (Jjy Claudia Q. Murphy.) Miss Alary E. Orr, 'assistant treasurer and director ol the Remington Typewriter Company, is the first woman over to enter tho directorate ol a great American corporation. Tho fact that she has done so simply by her own efforts is also a wonderful phase of her (life story. Beginning with a silaj-y of six dollars a week, with no influence, no “pull,” no relatives to advauco her, she has placed herself with the few remarkable business women of the world. Twenty-four years ago Aliss Orr t.ocided to abandon her plan to become a teacher ,and, although she was already nearly through her normal training course, she began learning to operate the typewriter. Alter a brief training she took tier first position as copyist in tlio Commercial _ Typewriting Office, in Now York City, at six dollars a week. Aliss Orr soon demonstrated that she could copy neatly and well —so well that I'-er salary was soon advanced to ten dollars ii week. Shortly afterwards her salary was raised again, this time to fifteen dollars. , Aliss Orr had begun to. “arrive. Next came a partnership with her former employer under the name ol Stewart and Orr. The new firm did copying of all kinds. Tho oflicc ' v ns located in the; great iinaiieial and insuvauco district iu New York, and business was good. Shortly after this, Miss Orr opened another ‘copying office under her own nainc, and while she was in business for herself, she entered a speed contest in order to demonstrate her alnlity to do typewriting fast and also to do it well. Iu August, 1888, an international typewriting contest was held in Toronto, Canada, in winch sho took part, winning the gold medal which represented the championship of the world. There were ten contestants. Ilcr record was Jo.i words a minute for ton minutes. Speaking of this Aliss Orr says; “Perhaps you will bo interested in knowing how I linp on oil to enter tint contest. A short time previous to this, D. Appleton and Co., in connection with an article on typewriters which they were preparing tor their encyclopedia, had requested tho different‘typewriter companies to seI’ect an operator to write certain matter on their different machines. One day while 1 was busy at iny office Air John F. ALcClain, now vice president of the Remington Typewriter Company, requested mo tq write a snort article for him from dictation. I did so, and when I had finished ho said, •That- is the host result vet attained, and tlio others have been practicing for some days on the matter. . . “Ho then explained Ins mission, and said that he had tried several operators and had about decided on one, when a lady who ran a largo copying office in this city asked him if ho had seen me. He told her he had not, nor had lie ever heard ot me. He then decided to defer the selection and camo over to my office. A few days later I was chosen to represent the Remington Company in connection with tho encyclopedia article. “Up to this time I had no idea that I could write faster than many others. From the beginning my ambition liad been to liavo the copy that I turned out just- right, and I think 1 owe much of my success to this. In the Toronto contest tho committee commented on the accuracy of my copy, which was of course an advantage, »s errors were deducted in arriving at the final result. Then I taught myself shorthand.”

After joining tho Remington house, Aliss Orr’s duties grew like the fabulous pumpkin vine. To-day all the confidential, executive, and administrative matters of this great corporation pass through her hands. As acting treasurer she attends to the financial duties of treasurer and disburses as well as receives the funds of the corporation. Sho has entire charge of the detail work of the secretary’s office, but, ill addition to this, and. perhaps, her most important work, is her general oversight of the work of all the women employed by the Remington Typewriter Company. They number over a thousand ail’d are employed in different capacities all over the world. It is Aliss Orr’s business to get in touch with them, to know them and to know their character and abilities, so that sho may he able to make the proper recommendations, whenever advancements, promotions, or dismissals become necessary. Sho, made herself so valuable that tlio Remington people had no alternative but to make her a member of their board of directors. In a personal letter concerning the opportunities and possibilities, lor young women who are planning to take up typewriting as a serious business, Miss Orr says: ... “Regarding the possibilities that lie before a girl who takes up shorthand as a profession, I know of no field better calculated to insure advancement to one who really attends to business and is ambitious to succeed. In her position as stenographer, the secrets of a business are entrusted to her. As a rule, a woman is selected in large corporations to fill the position of confidential secretary. The barrier of sex is fast being broken down, and the capable woman who grasps her opportunities is not confined to tho narrow sphere that some would have us believe. “YVc have heard a good deal of talk about tho ‘pretty’ stenographer, being the only one who need apply for a position, hut that has more lounuation in fiction than in fact; it is mainly newspaper talk. An employer is looking for -a girl who can do things and do them right, and it matters little to him whether or not nature lias endowed her with beauty, so Hong as she combines a neat and tidy apnearance with a businesslike manner. Tt is the girl of ability and the one who proves herself trustworthy who is wanted and who succeeds, and ability is ofttimes simply the product of one’s talent multiplied into one s industry.’ ’’