'Alice's Blighted Profession: A Sketch for Girls' is a one-act play written by Helen C. Clifford. The story begins with Diana and Alice discussing the latter's work as a stenographer. Diana is trying to convince Alice to go on a trip with her and others, but Alice declines as she has a lot of correspondence to answer and has been unable to find a qualified stenographer to help her. Diana then discovers that the letters on Alice's desk are not real and that she has not had any clients. Alice admits that she has had bad luck and that the letters are pretenses to make it seem like she is prosperous.