Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-01-25
WHY DO NOT WOMEN SUCCEED
IN BUSINESS?

uomen's non-success in busineEs,-
allowing what many will not admit
| that she does not succeed, lis aoly
| treated by Esther Lewis Jones In the
| Working Wonlen's Journal.
Tue rule is, she says, that women do
not sue ceed in business. When they
are forced to make their board and
clothes, they do it with more or less
comfort. Four walls, a seat, or stand
ing room, are offered for six days In
the week, to make living for seven, by
becoming q part of curiously differ
| eptiated mechanism, which makes
money for It's projectors. Many there
are who accept these terms-incarcera-
ton for a livelihood; wages, therefore,
are low.
Your average woman has reputa-
ton for being late. She has little idea
of values, of proportion, Of the sacred
ness of appointments. Your average
woman las also a reputation for crying
! when attention Is called to her short
cominga She has made this reputa-
tion for herself. The employer has .
reputation for putting up with 1t; 1t
saves emotions, it raves pennies. Her
cons scientiousness goads her to make
MP for her shortcomings by rushing.
| This Is wearing to her nerves. Your
woman requires special treatment
concessions-on account OF her sex; at
/ least, SO men say.
Your average woman will not take
risks; she lets another take the risks
and reap the benefits. Her bird in the
hand is of more value than the two In
the bush which might be hers, il she
dared to use her first to catch the two
she wants. She will not 60 into debt;
and vet the business OF the world is
done on borrowed capital. How in
teresting statistics would be as to the
number of women who, from their re-
sources as wage learners, are able to as
sumo the responsibility Of q three-thou-
sand-doliar house, with all its ex-
penses. man is doing little il he
does this. II woman supports her.
self and another in rooms, the world
says she is doing nobly.
Your average woman is out OF health;
therefore, she cannot assume for q time
responsibility, though she rarely
shirks those that are bequeathed her.
She is such q spendthrift of the vital
force; to use this wisely comes not by
nature to q woman, but by discipline,
which she must administer to herself.
Not until she realized that every action
calls for the control of the emotions,
not for dissipation in them-thst is to
be successful she must learn to make
mind d save body, or else keep forever
In the ranks-does she begin to grope
toward her own salvation.
Women's clothing-workiDg wo-
mems especislly-is ada ted neither
for use nor for beauty. 1t is intended
for the latter, but it lacks fitness, an
essential of beauty. Women's waists
are too tight, their skirts are too long;
they cannot be made use of as general
factotums. How ridiculous to expect
slim wasted, be-frizzled, drape ry-
entrammeled maiden to sweep the
store, run errands, or work her way
up to membership in a frmi They are
generally made places for" little
above errand boys, which they are
known to retain till matrimony or
death seizes them; such positions are
so steady and ladylike.
Your average woman's interest in the
future is but dreary wondering as TO
how it will all turn out, she takes no
active measures to make it turn out
her way. Recall two women-one who
has plan and who works it out; an
other, who has no plan, though she ,
work long and hard; you have your
pictures of the woman who succeeds
and the woman Who fails.
Your average working woman rarely
saves. Gladly she saves for a wedding
outfit; dismally, and later in life, to
gain entrance to Home, or to insure
decent burial. Take your woman that
saves-does she know how to invest her
savings? Again, statistics would be IN
teresting as to the number of women
who have from a few hundreds made
thousands, millions. 1t would be re-
freshing, after the stories of vicious
squanderings of inherited fortunes by
men trusted of women.
Mems attitude towards women is
quite as formidable factor to be over
come as their own lspses and laxness.
Consider the men who are making an
ideal lfe for wife and children; the
men who are making homes for wife
and children, or mothers and sisters,
and who wisely or unwisely, are sorry
for the other women who, from choice !
or necessity, trudge along alone. |
Consider the men who take women as |
a Joke, her efforts to be laughed at
the men who scorn and belittle her |
efforts. Consider also the men who |
are not fit even for business association |
with women; consider the composites, |
and how many are left to take a ration
al attitude? Men are chivalrous to |
men; they know how hard it is to sup
port family; therefore, the higher
salaries are reserved for men with |
families to support.
Not to sntagonIze, not to placate,
but to hold and enrich her own is |
woman's work. Mans attitude will |
veer when occasion demands it, not be- |
fore. 1t makes some men feel badly |
to see a lady making her own living,
so they say. She must, however, be q |
lady to arouse their sympathies. Is it |
to avoid hurt to fine feeling that one
in one thousand is the ratio of wo-
men to men in places where it is worth |
while to be employed2
A doctor, writing in a medical |
journal, says: "women making their |
own living are blots on creation"
Think how blotty creation isl
Success is material. Your women |
teachers-those of the public schools |
in partIcular-have they succeeded ac-
cording to this standard? If so, would |
an endowment fund be needed for the |
support of the aged and ailing? A |
teachers influence is so landed; every !
man who lepisiatos and snpropriatas