agreeable. I wonder if most people know
how all these points are noticed by employment experts and employers.
The way in which the girl looked at me and the way in which she shook
hands told me that she was physically and mentally in good condition.

"She was about five feet ten, and unusually well built and well developed.
She was dressed in noticeably good taste. She was a rather large woman, or
rather girl, for she was only a child in years. She was not what anyone
would call 'a beauty,' but she was so splendidly well and carried herself
so finely that she made an excellent impression. I do not know when I have
been so much attracted by anyone. Almost any employer would have given her
a position if he had had one vacant which she could fill. I wish all girls
could realize what an advantage it is to be well physically and mentally
and to look as well as this girl did.

"When I came to question her I found that her story was unusual from the
point of view of employment. I thought from her appearance that she might
be eighteen or nineteen. But to my astonishment she told me that she was
fifteen and that she had been earning her living for nearly a year.
She was a stenographer and had had three years' training in a high school
of commerce. Her father had died and she was helping to support her mother.
Several factors were against her satisfactory employment. She was under
age and she had not completed her school course when she went to work.
From these two facts it would have been natural to suppose that she would
obtain a poor position, both in the character of the work required and in
payment. She was earning fifteen dollars a week, a rate of payment three
or four dollars a week higher than the average wage paid beginners in the
city where she was employed. It was her splendid health, her look of
substantial character and her good manner which had won this girl
employment when another girl of fifteen, less healthy and less developed,
might have failed to find any satisfactory position at all."

A time is likely to come in the world's history when the laws of right
living are so well understood that poor health will be regarded as
blameworthy. In a number of cases we must regard it as blameworthy now.
To be in the company of a radiantly healthy person is a cheerful blessing.
Let us make up our minds to be this kind of blessing to our friends.

Happily we can do a great deal to make ourselves healthy. We need to eat
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