The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-13
WOMEN I'm BUSINESS.
Practical Education Essential to Suc-
cess-WhO should Teach them.

Practical Education Essential to Suc-
cess-VhO should Teach them.
One the strongest arguments in the
minds of many against woman's rights,
says the Christian Union, is the want of
aptitude shown by women, as whole,
for business. Now and then woman,
strong and mighty, will make her ap-
pearance and seem to be proof Of the
hidden talent possessed by her sex. But
the vast number of women prove conclu-
sively that If they possess the business
talent tits most securely hidden, and moth
ing but practical education in the laws
governing the transactions of the business
world will reveal it. Fathers and brothers
are largely to blame for this ignorance, as
the majority Of them are educated to be-
lieve that business affairs are none Of q
woman's business, but that it is field 10
be occupied entirely by themselves.
A Well-known writer on the subject, al
luding to the fact that some business men
and some corporations refuse to do busi-
ness with women, says;
Business men or corporations have, OF
course, the right to put upon their trans
actions such limits as they think fit, but
men will certainly adopt and maintain
Ollly buCH ltlMS anu u5 DlOL-
table. 1t is well TO know what disadvan-
tages women rest under in business; but
all Of them can be traced to the one dis
advantage of not being trained into care
full business habits. Every girl should be
taught to keep her accounts in an orderly
and business-like manner; she should be
trusted with an allowance, be held respon-
sible for its management and made to
abide the consequences Of Its mismanage-
ment: and every girl should be taught
arithmetic in such practical way that
she can compute interest, buy and sell,
and depend with perfect confidence on her
own figure7.
1.-The injustice that parents-rich and
poor - do their daughters by bringing
them up in a state Of infantile Ignorance
Of affairs, and by keeping them In condi-
tion OF pecuniary dependence even aftei
they have reached wOmanhood, Is hardly
to be computed. 1t can indeed be meas.
ured only by the modification, the incon.
venience, and the actual suffering In which
such raising involves its victims.
Have not walked openly, says Mrs.
Helen Campbell, into choice selection OF
the pitfalls which yawn before my sisters,
and all because certain business knowl-
edge, which q man seems to get through
his fingers ends fails 10 meet, or, If 1t
meets, fails TO become a part Of ordinary
women. With the man there is an inher-
tied aptitude, and observation and con-
slant opportunity to confirm the habit.
With the woman there is equally an in
herited inaptitude, aud not only this, but
an indifference and placidly accepted ig-
norance that to one who has learned what
shocking wrong may be the result Of this
state, is simply appalling.
Property slips away suddenly, rights
are invaded or set aside, children suffer,
lives are spoiled, through failure to find,
out precisely what certain forms mean
or what the bearing Of an action may be.
Every week brings to us the story Of some
woman's suffering through blind conf
dence that things were safe and right;
and while thousands, through sharp eXpe-
rience have learned their lesson, other
thousands are ruined beyond hope or re-
dress. The bearings OF common law
should be as much part Of girls educa-
tion Us arithmetic or any other essential" ]"