Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-24

extreme that is detrimental in either
sphere, still business woman, to be in
earnest, Will have to economic time and
value it correctly. She will have to learn
what five minutes will do, and to know
when an appointed hour for an engage
ment arrives it does not mean fifteen
minutes afterward. The bank closes at
p. m. and the train starts on schedule
time, a man in his counting room lays
down his pen for business interview
and not for prolonged social call.
These are samples of what is meant by q
proper appreciation of time.
Any woman who would launch out in
business enterprise has to combat a fixed
opinion that may have originated III OBJ
servation of household management,
which tends to q belief that women lack
a proper appreciation of the value or
money and that her Judgment in mat
tiers relating TO financial transactions is
at least questionable. Housekeepers as
a rule keep no account of money
spent; when the roll of money given
them for household expenditures is gone
they have fashion of saying. 81 can
not tell for the life of me where all that
money has gone. - And if they do not
openly accuse servants, are apt to be-
iieve that they themselves have not
spent it all, because forsooth they can
not "think. - A business firm with the
disbursing member only a thinker of
what is paid out would soon cause red
flag hoisted at the place of business or
have its affairs in the hands OF q re-
ceiver. Women as q class have to turn
their attention to figures in a practical
way to understand the relations that
should exist between income and outgo,
and prove themselves equal to calcula-
ton of profit and loss, the proper rate of
interest on an investment, and to make
practical demonstration thereof If they
expect to inspire men with confidence in
their business capacity. Woman's in
buttons are well enough in theory but
men with capital do not venture their
money on ''intuitions, and home
training that teaches girls to properly
handle money is preparing them for q
position in the world TO which many
women aspire, and one that is often
thrust s'will or nil" upon them.
Applied knowledge contributes largely
to success, for this few women have any
faculty. Whether this lack ia due to the
life they lead after leaving school or
whether it is q constitutional defect
others must decide, but no one will deny
tha. girl graduate by no means equals
her brother in the practical use OF
that knowledge acquired in the schools
knowledge only becomes power when its
possessor can use it How manycollegebred
girls would know how TO treat a severed
artery situated above or below the heart?
How many understand the chemistry of
the kitchen after spending months In
laboratories? For instance, how many
girls with the ingredients for chlorine
gas at hand remember It's bleaching
quality and know how simply il is pre-
pared and the readiness with which il re-
moves stains from white fabrics. Bridget
blunders Ia the Kitchen over brewing and
baking and the mistress fumes. Her do
mestic life Is made up of experiments
into which the swhy' never enters.
Men feel that thus it would be in busi-
ness, that earnest purpose, careful an
slysis and patient investigation, often
the work OF years, have not been patent
in women who have entered the race,
and while this state or things exist is IL