Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-02-10
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undoubted. Years passed and she wearied
of the road, and then opened an Office in
New York, which grew and grew.
and no man oppressed her. Her paper in
the bank was as good as that of any man in
the city, and one banker mentioned after her
death that he had for years forgotten that z.
Bartlett was woman. She was sturdy, alert
decisive, just and kind She did what she
could for women, but frankly mentioned that
they we're IAN untrustvorthy lot'' in the
quality of their work, in the keeping of their
promises, and also In their respect for q bus
mess engagement. Women appear to be
proud of forgetting an engagement You
may tell them daily for a hundred years that
time is money, and you may prove it to them,
but they will not arrange their affairs, as If
they believed what you had said Had Eo-
men always kept faith with me and been
careful to do their work according to their
best abilities, should die by and by and
leave behind me name for having disap-
pointed no man Women have been my worst,
and, in fact my only foes. / sometimes
made promises and they broke them for me.
but not very often. It is sadly true that few
of them have even the smallest of business
consciences, as honest and upright as they
may be in all other matters. Il is not the
ballot which they need to make them success
full, but integrity in their fingers, honor in
every fibre of their characters Pray tell this
to them whenever you can They hare every
talent for doing whatever they want or
choose to do, but they do not discipline it,
and then they blame men for being their
business superiors." This testimony of Miss
Bartlett was given to the writer but Ia few
months before her death.
Another immense business success has
been reached by the proprietress of the larg
est and most respected German daily paper
in New York. This lady vas left widow
with six small children and a little nevspa-
per which she desired to sell. Only $500 was
the largest sum offered for il. Hoping to
find a more generous purchaser later on size
persuaded its editor to remain at its head for
q short time, but no one wanted the
little journal. Its editor was a clever
writer and judicious selecter of
news, and month by month the pop
uiarity of the little sheet grew and grew,
and at last, after year or two she re-
linquished the plan of parting with it at all
She married the editor. but she always kept
the business of the publication under her own
care, learning by each experience how to
purchase paper with more intelligence, en-
pioy work-people, manage money and vet
ind time to watch over and direct the
education of her boys and girls. After q
time she became rich, fell into the habit
of driving down to her handsome and re-
tired Office daily at tan O'Clock 10 return
again at three p m to an elegant
home, from which her accomplished daugh-
tiers we're happily married, and from which
her honored sons went forth to homes of
their own She has erected with her earn
ings one of the handsomest buildings IA NszA-
York. She recently gave fifty thousand dol
lars to an old ladies' home (German). and
during all these years of prosperous toll she
has never been prosecuted or oppressed by
men. Indeed they have not even desired to
rise In her path or stand in her way. aud she
has never ceased to be lady of high breed
ing and sweet womanly sympathies. Der
Stats Zetung is the leading German news
paper, and Der Zetun9 building is q most
beautiful monument of woman's capacity to
do the very best bread winning soFk In the
world, provided she gives her mind, heart
and enthusiasm to its accomplishment. This
tender mother, who must needs provide food
for her young wrought with such materials
as she had within reach, and she never cried
out to the world to ask it if she might