Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-28

until defeat or success terminates il.
This new and delicate growth is easily
blighted, and wherever it meets check
the growth is not only retarded, but like
the tender shoot that lnsinusteb itself into
the cleft of the rock grows on but carries
with 1t the oioatpice or deformity the
struggle has caused.
In the economy of life there Is a place
for each worker, and while shriekers for
a free ballot and convention orators on
woman 8 rights have their place there is
quite as much room for q quiet observer
to do work as for the louder phiIan-
thropists.
The constantly growing demands of
civilization seem to make it necessity
that women have place in the arena of
| business, and the problem that confronts
the sex Is how to deport themselves so as
to be successful and to win the confidence
of business men, while not allowing any
real or faucied advance to rob them of
| womanliuess or induce an assumption of
masculiuity.
One of the prime benefits resulting to
| women in their contact with men in bus
mess is the knowledge that a sound body
is the hrst essential. Men may pander
to fine ladyism in the drawing room bat
| in the counting-room there is no place
| for smell. e salts. Women learn that in
| order 10 do a man s work they must have
| in degree at least man s endurance
| and strength. They recognize very soon
| that if physical weakness or costumes not
adapted to their work hamper, they are
at disadvantage. This then has led to
| commendabIe modifica tons in dress and
cultivation of muscle that tends to the
athletic. The Development in this last
direction has gone on until even men
themselves are ready to admire those
women whose charm is robustness rather
than fragilitv.
A big bar across a woman road to
business success is the want of a true
estimation of the value of time. This
lack is quite as fatal in what some please
to term her legitimate sphere as in the
arena OF business. That man OF woman
who aCcomplishes much is one who
jealousy guards the ''little foxes -
Ten or fifteen minutes spent in idle chat,
q few wasted half hours and the day is
gone. Not that these intervals of recrea-
ton are not legitimate, and in fact
necessary, nor that there is not another
extreme that is detrimental in either
sphere, still a business woman, TO be in
earnest, will have to economic time and
value it correctly. She will have TO learn
"u6l i've hluuLes Will 10. anu Know
when an appointed hour for an engage
ment arrives it does not mean fifteen
minutes afterward. The bank closes at
3 p. m. and the train starts on schedule
time, man in his counting room lays
down his pen for business interview,
and not for a prolonged social call.
These are samples of what is meant by
proper appreciation of time.
Any woman who would launch out in
business enterprise has to combat fixed
opinion that may have originated IN OBJ
seryetion of household management,
which tends to belief that women lack
a proper appreciation of the value OF
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-
lieve that they themselves have not
spent it all, because forsooth they can
not "think. A business firm with the
discussing member only a thinker of
what is paid out would soon cause a red
have its affairs in the hands of a re-
ceiver. Women as 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 caloula-
ton of profit and loss, the proper rate of |
interest on an Investment, and to make |
practical demonstration thereof il 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 g 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 ''will or nil' upon them.
Applied knowledge contributes largely |
to success, for this few women have any |
faculty. Whether this lack is due to the |
life they lead after leaving school or
whether it is constitutional defect
others must decide, but no one will deny |
that 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 manycollege bred
10 "OuAd huOn III" " lESdJ d soheTeu
artery situated above or below the heart?
How many understand the chemistry of
the kitchen after spending months in
For instance, how many
girls with the ingredients for chlorine
gas at hand remember its bleaching
quality and know how simply 1t is pre-
pared and the readiness with which it re-
moves stains from white fabrics. Bridget
blunders in the kitchen over brewing and
baking and the mistress fumes. Her do
mestio life Is made up of experiments
into which the 'wby" never enters.
Men feel that thus it would be in busi-
ness, that earnest purpose, careful an
alysis and patient investigation, often
the work of years, have not been patent
in women who have entered the race,
and while this state of things exist it is
vain to expect the equal rights for which
women olamor.
In recapitulation of essentials named,
the writer is thoroughly aware that
proper valuation of time and money and
an Intelligent use of the acquired knowl-
edge, even when united to earpestness
and fxedness of purpose, are not all that
20 TO make the success which women de-
sire, yet the conviction forces itself upon
one that careful cultivation of these
qualities will remove many barriers that
are by some considered as fixed.