Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-09-18
WOMEN BEHIND TIE DESK.
from . Maa's Point ~ View How one
woman Treats Another.

Woman Treats Another.
II pains me to learn that woman In
office is somewhat of failure; at least In
New York. 1t seems that she carries
into her official life certain traits that
are characteristic of her sex, but which
are not III harmony with business affairs.
In the first place, the woman official is
severely offensive To women, from whom
she exacts more than the legal pound OF |
flesh and for whom she shows a con
tempt and lofty liberation that are out.
side the limits of law. The cause of this
attitude of woman against woman has
rs yet eluded the search of science and |
confoun,Ssd the theories of philosophy; |
and, To conclude, even | have no solu- |
ton to offer. And yet, If we consider |
the matter closely, we shall find rea.
son, If not cause. A man appears be-
fore "A woman In Office already crushed;
il has absorbed all Isis courage to face
official femininity, and If he does not
receive all the snubs and the contempt
that he is prepared for he is more disap.
pointed than surprised.
| The woman behind the desk is an awe
| inspiring object To the bravest man; she
Is her sex plus authority, Charlotte Cor
day and Minerva combined. She Is not
the more imposing by reason of her office,
but the office is imposing because she fills
it, because the Office il herself. Such "A
woman may insist on anything unhinder-
ed of man He is even content, at her
command, to concede that the earth is
FIAT for the time being. He appears be-
fore SO much majesty in commanding
attitude; lac waits her pleasure patiently
before receiving the postage stamp for
which he applies, cash in hand: he sti-
fles his haste to obtain his letters until
she sees fit to give them to him. For
these reasons the official woman does not
go out of her way TO annoy or to torture
man; she accepts him as n worm, and be-
cause he il weak she refrains from tread
ing on him, and goes no further than to
turn deaf ear to his application for let.
!, tiers or stamps, and 10 gorgonize him
: with her Tennysonian 'stony stare"
A woman approaches the official wo
man guarded window in "A different atti
; tude. in fact in a belligerent attitude
: and the monarch of all she surveys re-
ceiyes her in an equally bclligercnt spirit
. Two hungry dogs approaching the same
: bone will give fair idea of the situa
ton. The passive indifference shown tc
:, that humble creature, man, no longer
J, exists; the adversaries both have theil
: lances in rest, and eacl, is looking fol
:, the weakest spot in the armor of tn,
" other. There Is an ominous silence
= during which the fashion of garment
!. and fashion Of features are criticised
i there is an ominous sniff, swapping o
eyes, an elaborate exhibition of a chip OF
the shoulder for opponents to remov
violently, a lofty staring at tops of head
instead of into eyes. an aggressivcness o
? excessive 0vcrpoliteness, the fine malic
! of preventing to the utmost the consum
:, nation of the object that both have a
heart, the ovorzealuus desire Ia make
fault and find it, to imagine an insul
y, and resent 1t, 10 compel insulence tina
y breeds the insult Naturally, the womc
- who are not officials complain Of I'll
- women who are officials, and the woma
= behind the window complains of tn
- woman in front of it,
= This is the serious danger that cor
n fronts the woman who hspires for publ
oflice-the weight that drags her dow
when in office. The fault il hers ind
" viduaily but it is tho failing of the Sc
gcnerally-the impossibility of woma
"a treating a woman in any other way tina
~ as a rival or an antagonist. The woma
:, In Office cannot escape from herself Sl
- refuses to see, or cannot see, any difIe
ence between free. If tax paying, pull
y lie and her own family circle. She cal
ries her homo characteristics into publ
4 affairs, regarding men ~ the possessoI
:, OF obnoxious latch keys, anl women a
= the victims of them. Her clients ar
- punished for her toothaches and respor
!" sible for her dyspepsia. That she is con
Il PEELED To hold lowly office is the fault 1
!, the world, and the world must sufTt
:, for il. She knows that She is better tina
= other women, and demonstrates her ST
:, periority to anticipate their doubt, or th
= doubt that she has invented for them
L This Is not gallant, but, unfortunately
il is true. There can he no questio
that. with time, the faults indicated wi
- be remedies; but, until they are. woma
- in office will be a constant exasperatio
20 woman out of office. Ii is true tina
woman ont of office IL equally eNaspeI
= ating To woman in office, and the pre-
= verbal mans inhumanity To man is thu
= furnished with a parallel in woman
: antagonism 10 woman. -"Chatterer' i
Boston Courier.