Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-11-10
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
Some of Their FaiIings in Financial Mat
fers-A Wy TO ImnroNa.

Some of Their Failings in Financial Mat
ters-A Way TO Improve.
There is more common complaint
made by women who are employed
against women who employ them, than
that women are mean in their business
transactions. Women of wealth who
do not grudge money for Injuries, for
dainty foods, for superfluous articles Of
ornament, either for their houses or for
their persons, will yet pay with g1udg-
ing complaint, the price asked by a
dressmaker or milliner for her work.
Even more conspicuous is the DISPOSE
ton to cut down the wages of the poor
seamstress who does plain sewing. And
the common argument used is, You
know wages are very low now" as
though the fact that seamstresses'
wages are at starvation prices were not
a reason why just. not to say gener-
rather than keep them pressed to their
cruel level
1t certainly indicates great Thought
lessness. IL not 9 more hlameable habit
OF mind, for women who have money to
spend for the abundant supply of their
own personal wants to allow them
selves TO be Influenced by this mercen-
airy spirit OF trying to save by paying
low wageA The price of an ordinary
plain seamstress is dollar day.
Think how hard and wearing the toll,
how discouraging ire results! Think
how hard 1t is to Il 70 on six dollars q
week and clothe ones self comfortably,
let alone assist or even support depen-
dents, as SO many hundreds of seam
stresses do. Suppose one should pay
her seamstress a dollar and half 1t
might be pleasant surprise to her. 1t
might enable her to get warm and
needed pair of stockings, or a pair of
rubbers which are so indispensable.
And then in order to equalize expendi-
lures her employer might forego that
box of candy or that new neck-tie; or
might take some health-giving walks
and soon save fifty cents in street car
fare. Depend upon it the good done in
cheerfully and generously paying for
work done by those who eagerly seek
employment is the best bestowed benev-
olence in the world.
Times have greatly changed within
the last ten years in the general rela-
ton of women to money matters. The
control of money is a power which is
more and more coming into their hands
and for which they should feel a deep
moral responsibility. An earnest OBJ
server of the progress of social organi-
yaf inTt no ,-lxead fhof bas
responsibility thrown upon women in
pecuniary matters, more than any other
characteristic feminine traits, into
strong, reasonable, reliable members of
the social structure. 1t is the testimony
of many bankers and business men,
that honorably disposed women are
among their best and most desirable
customers. This speaks volumes of en-
couragement and perhaps fully offsets
the occasional woman upon whom bust
ness cares have fallen, who seems utter
~ incapable of compromising the ma
ture of a business engagement or bust
ness transaction; who expects all sorts
of privileges and immunities in business
on the score of being a woman. No
more disagreeable customer to have
any business transaction with can be
found than such a person. Women of
this character discredit not only them
selves but their sex, upon which they
bring the reproach of their own weak
ness and want of perception of the true
relation of things. They are among the
worst stumbling blocks in the path Of
woman's progress; and none feel this
more keenly than good and honorable
women whose ambition is to be just
and generous in their business dealings;
to have their word as good as their
bond, and their bond worth one hum
dred cents on the dollar Chicago Sat-
urday Evening Herald