Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-02-23
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
Some OF Their Fallings In FIuan cial Ms
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Some OF Their FalIlngs In Finan cial Mat
tcrs-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 grudgo money for Injuries, for
dainty foods for superiiuous articles of
ornament, either for their houses or for
their persons, will yet pay with grudg-
ing complaint the price asked by
drcssmaker 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 scamstresscs
wuges are ut starvation prices were not
u reason why n just, not to say gener-
GUS employer should try to raise them
rather than keep them pressed to their
cruel level.
IL certainly indicates great thought
lessness, " not more blamcablc 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 wages. Tho price OF an ordinary
plain scamstrcss Is dollar day.
Think how hard and wearing the toll,
how discouraging the resultsl Think
how hard II is TO live on six dollars n
week and clothe ones self comfortably,
/ let alone assist or even support depen-
dents, as 80 many hundreds OF seam.
stresses do. suppose one should pay
her seamstress dollar and u half. II
might be pleasant surprise TO her. II
/ might enable her to get u warm and
needed pair OF stockings, or pair Of
rubbcrs which are 40 indispensable.
/ Aud then In order Ia cqualizc oxpendi.
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 1t the good done In
chccrfully and generously paying for
work done by those who eagerly seek
employment ~ the best bestowed benev-
olcnoe 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 n power which is
more and more coming into their hands
and for which they should feel O deep
moral responsibility. An earnest oh.
server Of the progress OF social organi.
zation has remarked TINT tho increasing
responsibility thrown upon women IN
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characteristic feminine traits, int,
strong, reasonable, reliable members %
the social structure. II Is the tcstimon,
OF many bankers and business men
that honorably disposed women mr.
among their best and most desirabl
customors, This sucalts volumes of cr
enlargement, and perhaps fully oiTsc,
the occasional woman upon whom bus
ness cares have fallen. who seems ute
ly incapable OF comprohending the nj
ture OF q puAness engagement or bus
ness transaction; who expects all sor
of privileges and immunities In busino
| on the score OF being n woman. \
more disagroeable customer TO ha,
. puy business transaction with can
/ found than such o person Women
this character discrcdit not only thor
r selves but their sex, upon which tn,
bring the rcproach Of their own wca
+. ness and want Of perception Of the 'trl
, relation Of things. They are among u
worst stumbling blocks In tho path ,
, woman's progress; ana none feel Tia
, more kccnly than good and honorab
/ women whose ambition IL TO be- ju
#. and generous Ia their business dealing
, TO have their word m good rs the
. bond, and their bond worth one hui
drcd cents on the dollar. Chicago Sn
, urday Evening Herald.