St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-16

| she gain the one she must lose the
other. Success for woman means
absolute surrender in whatever direc-
tion," says Avis. whether she paints
picture or loves man there IS no di-
vision of labor possible in her econ
omy." DR.. Clara Atkinson is of the
same opinion. "a woman cannot serve
MATnIMoNY AND MEDICINE,
| is her verdict. 'If were to marry
should feel it my duty to retire from
my profession. ] have had enough ola
taste of trying to keep house and prac-
! tice medicine at one time, TO learn that
! such a course means wholesale disaster.
| A woman dies between the conflicting
! duties, satisfying neither"
1t is settled beyond dispute that the
| majority of women engaged in business
| careers retire from active service when
| they marry. This is true. however. liz
| instances where women have mace
! business occupation means to an end,
! rather than an end in itself. and applies
! more to women engaged in commercial
| life than in professional. SaleswOmen
| quit work when they marry. and Il. l..
| Goodkind. of Manufacturer Bros, is au-
| thority for the statement that they make
very good wives, but very bad custom
ers. Their experience in business
| life is sufficient to cause them to appre-
ciate the protection and pleasures of
domesticity, as a woman who lacks
their training does not. do you be-
lieye in business women marrying?
was asked of saleswoman in Mann
heimers'.
well, rather"
"What would you do in such case?"
"Retire from business and rest and
keep house."
i've always looked upon housekeep-
ing as pretty hard work. y
wait till you have sold dry goods
over counter for six wears and you'll
know what hard work isl
81 should think that very task would
unfit you for housekeeping.
Not bit of it. 1t has taught me pa
thence. the habit Of making the best OF
things and horror of boarding houses.
Ia hop over this counter and marry
good man this minute, and trust to the
instincts bequeathed me by my mother
to make home pleasant from the start"
Statesmen and salcSwomen do not
marry each other commonly. Mr.
GOodkind assigns as the reason that
they become too well acquainted to
adorn each other with the ideal virtues
that enticr pair into matrlmony.
Miss \. w. Cunning, the enterprising
young woman who put through the law
here empowering women 10 become
nOtarieS, is convinced that an independ-
ent woman has no business marrying
unless she WedS a man III sympathy
with her work, or give up her work.
Miss Cunning believes, however, that
the growing independence Of woman is
q blessing TO men in two ways; by it
they are rendered less liable to be i'm
posed upon by unprincipled, helpless
beings who ''marry for living" ana
when a woman who has asserted her
ability to stand alone becomes wife,
she carries with her the assurance that
HER MOTIVES ARE CLEAN,
and her nobility OF purpose beyond
doubt.
DIR. Jennie Fuller averred that pro-
fessional career, while it changes
woman's position in the home, does not
operate i'll upon the happiness of the
household. Mary a. LiYermOre, for
instance. has one of the pleaSantest
homes | ever entered. 1t is managed
by two Spinster relatives and everything
in and about it moves smoothly. Then
in my class in college were women who
have since married and still practice
their profession. / have visited some
of their homes and found law, order
and happiness in them. Naturally a
professional woman'S place in her home
cannot be that of h0uSemaid, and,
perhaps, not properly, that of house
keeper. think the question lies. not
in new division Of labor among women,
but whether, having assumed new du-
ties. the old ones are neglected. AS
rule women try to do too much. and 1t IS
in this they most frequently fail.
But that she does not keep house
is 10 argument against the
professional career of woman. Look
at the number of fashionable women
who refuse to discharge that duty and
assume no other. Think of the fats,
hotels and boarding houses that are
filed by such women in st. Paul. A
women who enters q profession Is
doubtless one who has no domestic ten
denotes anyhow, and If she had no pro-
fession would give herself up, body and
soul, to church fairs and literary clubs
and societies for the ameliOrati0n of all
sorts of conditions. When a woman
suffers to sew seam, it is better she
should thrill to paint a picture, or to
dsSect the human body, or to solve
knotty law problems than to turn from
q mortal antipathy-such as houSekeep
ing is TO some women, you knoW-t0
dispense her energy over nothing in par
ticular." DR.. Fuller further said that
an aim in life benefits the health of
woman, and that physicians revenue
would suffer greatly if all fashionable
women were to 20 into business.
Miss Flanders, superintendent of the
Business WOman'S club. said that the
older she grows the more clearly she
sees woman's business is in a home.
She would establish training school
for wives and mothers in every city,
where all girls should be put through 4
course of domestic instruction, and she
would make a commercial or profess
sional education merely incidental to
this. She thinks there are fewer
WOMEN WHO SUFFER
from the want of the latter than from
the want of the former, and that a
woman can more effectively adapt her
self to business methods, falling
chance to become a houSekeeper. than
one can. without training. adapt herself
to the latter sphere. Miss Flanders
makes an exception of individuals, not
uncommon among the fair sex, who have
the ability TO adjust themselves to any
circumstances, easily and quickly.
Neither does she mean TO assert that a
commercial or professional life units
them for wives. 'BusineSS experiences
has tendency to broaden the intellect
and to strengthen the character. 1t
only leaves them in relation 10 home af-
fairs unframed if willing servants"
Miss J. ID. Hess. who, as stenogra-
pher aud principal of school OF stem
ography has had wide experience. says
that in her opinion successful business
women make unsuccessful wives. That
the general tendency of an independent
career is to make women Indifferent 10
matrimony. and when they allow their
emotions to get the better of sound
Judgment and to lead them into it, after
the first glamor is Worn off they become
rs miserable as a convict engaged in the
fruitless task of carrying stones from
one pile to another inside the prison