The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-11-09

with business she had supposed every
check stood with the bank for just as much
as she chose to write down on its face, and
considered herself a pattern of praise
worthy economy that she had two or
three specimens Of this invaluable and
Foriunatus like sort of check left.
Every girl, we think, should be given
knowledge of certain business matters
as much as every boy she should have
a sufficient Insight into banking to make
her independent of the kind services of
men. She soon learns naturally the
nature of bills and receipts, but she
should know also the nature and forms
of deeds and writs and leases, powers of
attorney, contracts, bills; she should
know what steps to AXE to get out of
business difficulties if she gets into them;
she should be taught the manner in
which to maintain her rights with firm.
ness and without anger, so that in ex-
tremity she may not be left at the mer
cy of any with whom she deals, and who
may be disposed to cheat her, and, as
preliminary step, she should be taught
to file her papers alphabetically, and her
letters by date. If in addition to this,
every father would give his daughters
in their early girlhood fixed allowance
in SO much money, representing what
he can afford for their expenditure, aud
demand that they shall keep strict
account of it all, subject to his own or
to their mothers inspection, no will
have established beginning of business
habits that may at some after-day be of
Infinite service. Nothing is more absurd
than the customary accounts of one of
these young ladies who undertake the
matter without assistance, and with no
knowledge of either double or single
entry, but who have plan of their own
of multitudinous entry-debts and cred
its in the same column, and an inds-
eliminate happening of the words
amount brought forward" or amount
carried up" without any specific sum
against them, as if they were like the
cabalstic characters with which every
physician prefaces his prescriptions, aud
the whole about as undecipherable to
any one obliged to scan it as if it were
set down in Chinese. But u very few
lessons, a very few hints, indeed, from
father or brother competent to give
them, will reform the whole matter, and
make the way of those accounts so clear
that she who runs them up may read
she never could before.
Yet it is not merely as a matter of
money, as matter of properly plain
serving property, or OF being ready at
call to earn her own livelihood, that it
is important for every woman to have
business habits. 1t is quite as valuable
TO her as means of general comfort
during every day of her life, be she rich
Or poor. Without them she does moth.
ing deceutly or in order; with them
she is mistress OF every situation she
controls the unknown, provides for the
unexpected, and lifts herself beyond the
need OF the kindly contemptuous as.
'istance Of those who have been wiser
han she, and have made themselves by
means of business habits all that she
night be. Without them she is only
waif and drift, cared for and kept, in
act, only by what may be described as
he business habits of the great universe,
which, in is foresight, looks out for the
apparently useless atom as much as for
aces aud continents, while with them
he might, if only in6uitesimally, assist
q its works.