Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-04-20

little chat with friend through the telephone may
not, at that time, interfere in the slightest degree
with the interests of your employer, but what do
you know OF the engagements Of the young lady
at the other end of the wire.
The fact that employers do not complain Of any
thing of this kind is not proof that they are sat-
isfed. Most of them dislike exceedingly to find
fault with the refined and ladylike girls in their
employ, and rather than do this, will either bear
these annoyances in silence or, which is more often
the case, conclude to dismiss the young woman in
fault and hire young man.
If all employers would take the same course as
one of whom | recently heard, who requested
young lady in his employ not to receive, at his
office, calls from young lady friends, such sugges-
tons would not be necessary But, unfortunately,
this is very seldom the case.
A man who at some time had in his employ
giddy girl, who was in the habit of spending her
leisure time in chatting with the clerks, can never
be convinced that this is not the common habit Of
all women in business, unless previously he had
employed one who had been valuable assistant.
If young man in his employ proves trouble
some or incompetent, he dismisses him and employs
another. 1t never occurs to him to say
II will never employ young man again, young
men are idle and incompetent, you cannot depend
upon them" Yet'these are just the kinds Of ar
guments that are use against women, when any
one of them makes mistake Women have not,
in popular estimation, reached the heights where
they can be considered as individuals. We have
not yet attained to the dignity of having our work
estimated as that of Ellen, Sarah or Jane. We
still belong to the ncongomerate mass called
'women" and must stand and fall together.
When the standard of womanhood has been
raised so high that men will not say, when some
woman of their acquaintance makes a mistake or
has done some foolish unbusinessike act: ooh!
These women"
When we have advanced to such position that
we may be judged as individuals, then the respon-
sibtles which rest upon our shoulders will be
lighter but under present conditions, and in every
act Of our lives let us all remember that on each
of us rests the responsibility Of sustaining the
dignity Of all
Mrs. MARY L. Doe, president Of the Michigan
Equal Suffrage Association, said in her address at
the recent annual meeting:
The machinery of government, the financial in
terests of the nation, have received the chief
thoughts of men, These are important and ought
not to be neglected. but there are other interests
as much greater than these as the boy is more val
liable than his clothes. These interests require
the united attention of the wisest men and women
They are closely related to the domestic interests
of the home, the very fountain Of government.
Beginning our political work as we have with the
school ballot for the children, we now ask the mu-
nicipal ballot to keep the surroundings of home
pure and sweet, to protect the youth beyond the
ITO In hoof off ~ oil
for the common good of all, woman's ballot with
mans would perpetuate what they have founded.
No man, no woman, can sone make and keep
complete home; together they can and do. The
State should be but larger home
AN anxious inquirer wants TO know:
/. Who is Emin Bey?