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her salary raised, the sort of girl who "makes good."

Here are two quotations which will prove immensely helpful to you. The first is from a poem by Dr. Henry Van Dyke:

"This is my work, my blessing, not my doom;
Of all who live, I am the one by whom
This work can best be done, in my own way."

The second is from Elbert Hubbard's little magazine, The Philistine.

"Get your happiness out of your work, or you'll never know what happiness is."

When you have mastered their philosophy, and can go to your work each morning with a song in your heart, you will be the sort of girl the business world needs—and pays well.