The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-08-10
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.


Their Male Friends Largely Rssps.ssshs
One of the strongest arguments IN
the minds of many against wesnsa
rights is the want of q titads shown BY
women, as 8 whole. for business. Vow
and then a woman. strong and migkty.
will make her appearance and seem 10
be q proof of the hidden talent pos
sessed by her sex But the vsss
number of women prove conclssivsly
that if they possess the business talent
It's most securely hidden. and nothing
but practical education in the lsws gov
erning the transactions Of the business
world will reveal il Fathers sad
brothers are largely to blame for ths
ignorance, as the majority Of Them are
educated to believe that business af-
fairs are none of 9 wOmsn's business.
but that it is field TO Do occupied 81
tirely by themselves.
A well-known writer On the subject.
abiding TO the fact that some business
men and some corporation refuse b do
business with wossR. saws:
Business men or corporations have,
of course, the right TO put upon their
business transactions suoh limits ~
they think lit, but mon viii certainly
adopt and maintain only such laws
and limitations as are profitable 1t %
well to know what disAavan Ia yes
women rest under in business; but M.
of them can be traced 10 one di,ad-
vantage of not being trained into care
full business habits. Every girl should
be taught how to keep her accounts IN
an orderly and business-like manner
she should be trusted with an allow
ance, be held responsible for its risn-
agement, and made TO abide the con
sequences of its mismsnagement; and
every girl should be laugh. arithmetic
in such practical way that she es2
compute interest. buy and sell, and d.
pend with perfect confidence On hoS
own figures.
The injustice that parents-rish and
poor-do their daughters by bringing
them up in q state of infantils igsorsnes
of affairs, and by keeping them In 8
condition of pecuniary dependence even
after they have reached womanhood. il
not 30 be computed 1t can, indeed. be
measured ONLY by the modification. th,
inconvenience and suffering in which
! such raising involves its Victims.
"'Have not walked openly, says
Mrs. Helen Campbell, 'fnso q oboics
selection of the pitfalls which yavn be-
fore my sisters. and all because certaia
business knowledge. which man seem.
to get through his fingers ends, fails to
become a part of ordinary women.
With the man there is an inherited apti-
tude, and observation and constant op-
portunity TO confirm the habit. With
the woman there is equally an inner
tied inaptitude, and not only this. but
IN indifference and placidly accepted
ignorance that, to one who has learned
what shocking wrong may be the result
of this state, is simply appalling.
4" Property slips away suddenly
rights are invaded or set aside, childrez
suffer, lives are spoiled. through faiiurs
to find out precisely what certain fornAs
mean, or what the bearing Of an action
, may be. Every week brings to us thu
story of some woman's suffering through
blind confidence that things were safe
and right; while thousands, through
sharp experience, have learned thsiI
lesson, other thousands are ruined be-
yond hope or redress, The bearings Of
common law should be ss much part
of a girls education IS arithmetic OF
any other essential. - ChrSsIsas
Ups0H.