The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-08-30
Women in Business.

The aim OF the New I Ork average hn0
woman is to find some man to pay her
bills. After he is hooked she lets him
run and }astens the line to her girdle,
so he can be pulled in on rent day, bon
net day and holiday. He must be SOL
vent, he may be faithful. After the man
ceases to be solvent creature he ceases
to be blueiish to our sleek sea-gull and
she duplicates bis former self or indie
pendently sets upon a business career.
There are some of the clevercst trades
women in the world here, who have
been ladies of position. Before their
credit has gone too far down, whilo they
yet possess spirits, and appearance and
some little means such obtain indor-
sers and 90 into dressmaking, millinery,
picture dealing or something kindred,
and their education and tastes one daily
perceives in the promenades of the me-
tropolis or in the ii III boudoirs thew have
assisted to ornament.
These elegantly dressed people were
not made by chance; their equals in in
tellect and culture put their clothes upon
them. Hence men are often seen here
as business accessories to their wives
in manufacturing modes or in some
purely FEMININE trade.
think men and women will be more
just to each other when their enterprise
is mu ual. Germans the next nation in
force to the Anglo Saxons. make the best
husbands, because they marry with ca
gives Labor in place of it. My butchers
actual shop money. He markets and
cuts the meat up, and the same horse
that serves the customers on week days
takes them both out Sundays. Four
bands and two heads are at work in that
family. The woman is not q peacock,
making Broadway interesting for the no
tel l0ungers. No wonder they have
plenty Of children, which never become
burden to the parents. It seems to
me there is new baby every time buy
a roast, either inst come or nearly in
sight, and still that perennial woman
comes ont and runs the cash book, and
the very sausages in the window seem
to wag the tail of the invisible dog with
in them to welcome her to the shop.
Now, the American life of this city is
borrowing the continental independence
of the sexes in Europe. We are more
French than English. Whatever criti-
cism may be made on the women of New
York I think everybody from afar
applies the word stylish" to them. Il
means that they know how to dress
even with little: That sense of style is
the basis of the great manufacturing
prosperity of New York; it is the chief
element Of manufactures here, which in
the aggregate are said b. the census to
exceed Pkiladelphia's whole product.
You can buy a buggy in Cincinnati for
SIS; You pay $3.50 fora Brewster buggy
style. Quality, perfection make the differ
ence. You pay 500 for suit of clothes
in New York. 1t makes you worth
500, 900 more in your creditors estima.
ton; it will last you three to five years.
In all this ming'iDe of style with
necessities the women are playing their
part. Virtue is as we'll based on industry
as any thing else; in this swelling mart
everything becomes commodity. Yet
is this worse? look for woman's inde-
pendence to come from their power to
earn money and be self supporting. BY
the aid of women, New York will one
day set the fashions for Europe and
print the fashion.plate for Asia and
Paris. It is the all but universal remark
that after leaving New York on the ship
for Europe you say good-by to beauty
and style in women and to q good table.