Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-01-05
IN W0MAN'S BEHALF.
woMAN's INFLUENCE.
Employers Admit Its Rcn,Inr Char,ot,
lgut Inn Ih.v D..


Employers Admit Its Rcn,ing Character.
iiut DO they Pay Tor Its
1t is often said that "Selhshness Rules
the World IL would seem that this Is
20, and one of its most stupcndous
forms is comprised in the scale Of wom-
ans wages as compared with mans.
woman receives thirty-hve dollars n
month for work that her employer
would not think Of giving less than
scvcnty-Hve dollars for man. lie will
pay sixty dollars to woman where he
would be compelled to pay one hundred
ana twenty-five dollars to man. And
the sclf.complaisant capitalist will
smilingly assert that woman's presence
in the Office or counting-room is such a
refining influence" that the day that
brought women into business was the
rcd-letter day In all his business cNper.
fence, and the woman he imposes upon
just takes the sugar-plum and say.
nothing about what she thinks, for she
knows there are scores ready to sin
into her place should she for any rcn.
son leave IT, Yes, scores of women
ready to take up the work. so wild has
become the race for business among
women.
II would not be an unintcrcsting
study to note the different plane upon
which woman stands to-day compared
with that She occupied fifty years ago.
But Of that hereafter. She is Ia the
Whirlpool Of mans activity. She keeps
pace with him in ability To perform. in
some instances outstrips him in actual
labor accomplished, yet II is only in
exceptional cases that she receives
mans wages. Wherefore SOP Let us
investigate. In an elegant counting
room, sits the head Of a company own
ing line of steamers. lie has shrcwd
business look, also sclf-indulgcnt APP
pcarnncc. lie counts his dollars by the
thousand, and these In no smaller
groups than hundreds. lie Ii happy.
He has not rs yet learned by experience
that there Is any such word In the
English language MS failure Pros
pcrity has been his constant companion
ever since his name was quoted "On
Change lie owns pulatiul residence
In Gotham thsroughbrcds draw his
handsome carriage, and he has pew
in church, and occupies IL too. Well
there he sits In small inner room
sits young girl at desk. She is very
young and pretty She is the book
keeper for the company. She. works
FROM seven o'clock In the morning until
six o'clock in the evening. Said the
sclf-compluisant gentleman, 81 find IL
81 refining to have u lady in my Office, 4"
"N hat salary does She receiver"
Thirty-iivc dollars n month, and the
wori, she performs is perfectly astonish-
ing Women work more rapidly than
men, and there are hundred things
that u man never secs that Il woman
takes right hold Of. Now, there's our
buok.kccper In the home Office in c. ,
She does more work than any two
men ! know Of, simply because she
finds so many things requiring ntten-
ton. Why, you don't know what an
amount OF anxiety sho lifts from our
shoulders Her salary, did you ask2
Wolf! we give her sixty dollars u month.
That's big pay for woman"
"Why SOP"
because they are more economical
than men They know how to live
cheaper. But then, that is not the only
reason we engage them. As before
remarked, their refining influence
makes such difference in the Office"
well, then, why not pay her the ex.
ira you would give to man instead of
putting II into your own poclSet?"
There's no need of IL, Women don't
require 1t, and of course one always
does the best he can for himself. ANY
woman that goes into an Office gets
more money than she would by staying
ut home, even IL her salary Is smaller
than n mans, and If they're satisfied
I'm sure we should be-
SO spnke the sample capitalist for
hundreds Of his kind IL Is strange,
the self'complacency with which he OK.
patiatcs upon the beautiful influence of
woman, while lac pockets the difference
her coming makes In the gains of his
business. -llousekccpcr.