Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-16
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.


school or college graduate.
As a woman she is just as pretty and
engaging as she ever was in the conser-
vative good old times. II anything
more so, for eyes which sparkle with
cultivated intellect and form devel-
oped on the lines of scientific physical
culture cannot fail to be captivating.
The period of evolution of the bust
ness woman has reached that stage
OF progress recognized as type. She
is most likely dressed in dark blue
or black tailor made gown. 1t does not
sweep the sidewalk. nor does it come to
the tope OF her natty, common sense
boots. She wears shirt waist, jack.
ct with numerous pockets in IL, and
plain hat. She is neat, trim and up TO
date In style, and she steps off with the
grace OF Hebe, and looks good deal
more like a goddess than the woman OF
fashion, who either rides everywhere,
or walks, swaying like ship under full
sail.
The typical business woman knows
how to walk gracefully, and IL is often
a compliment to her employers good
taste when he falls in love with his
stehographer, bookkeeper or type
writer.
But, the typical business woman is
not given to sentimental episodes with
the bald-headed old gentlemen, or
spooney younger men. whose dictation
she takes down, or whose money she
helps him earn.
In business hours she attends strictly
to business and ignores everything out
side OF the regular routine. That Is,
if she is saIf-respecting, and in business
TO make money.
The typical business woman often
enters into schemes for profit hitherto
supposed TO be mans peculiar projects.
For instance, she may become real
estate agent; enter into the practice OF
law, medicine, or any one OF the higher
professions. She is not crowdinR any
BODY thereby. Culture and liberal
education give her as good right to
compete for honors and profits as an
other. 1t is question Of mind and not
Of sex.
In the colleges she is carrying of
many of the prizes for scholarship, and
il she does not belong to the college
team, or play foot ball, 1t is so much the
better for her. as those manly sports do
not appeal to her, and she is OF wom-
only woman still in her sense pro-
triety. If she is highly educated on
business lines.
Nature has drawn certain innate
limitations about the sexes, which rem
der them individual, and which liberal
education does not breed either in or
out. 1t only developes.
The woman in office-Rovernment
Office l mean-in Washington, Is not
necessarily business woman any more
than many men in Office are business
men. They are clerks, employees. That
is the status of both sexes.
But when good old General Spinner
put women in the the United States
Treasury, be opened many other doors
by doing so, hitherto closed on account
sex distin ctions.
He made an innovation that public
sentiment sustained, aud the present
conservative policy pursued by this
ad ADMINISTRATION, is hardly destined to be,
WlpQ III Is buUIUuku
The United States Treasury Is al
ways the bette noir OF civil service.
Every four years politicians hover at
its doors for places for political reasons.
and il clerk has ventilated his politi-
cal opinions on the other side OF the
fence in a manly fashion, he is turned
down and soon ousted "for cause"
But women having no vote are being
hustled about in that melancholy build
ing which sits vis-a-vis with the Capt.
toll, In a fashion unheard OF. There
are rumors that Logan Carlisle has
said that In two years from now few II
any women will be left in the Treasury
Department. Men have earned their
places and deserve them. Hence women
who have also earned good reputation,
and were rated as worth fourteen or
sixteen hundred year to the govern
men:, all at once are discovered to be
deficient in every respect, and when
they cannot safely be dropped, the
present regime takes 1t out In reducing
them several hundred dollars per
annum, and increasing their work, II
not putting them to teach three or
four OF the new men put 10 TO take the
places they have vacated for them.
Then, too, it is also runored the same
official, logan Carlisle) has been heard
to say: "No woman's services are
worth over twelve hundred year"
and hence during his incumbency that
is to be the highest standard Of pay.
One lady clerk In the United States
Treasury whose salary was sixteen
hundred was recently reduced 10 nine
hundred. Another fourteen hundred
woman enploye was reduced TO eight
hundred.
Men for political reasons have been
jostled about without much ceremony,
and they do not loudly complain al
though they may bewail in private, for
they have vote aud votes are still
counted and labeled cause for reduc-
tion or dismissal. But women are not
voters and 1t is rather hard on them 10
be treated as though they were, since
there is no redress in that line.
II any course were deliberately CAL
culated 10 make suffragists OF women,
a better one than Logan Carlisle's
method cauld hardly be hit upon.
Indeed, this administration so Tar,
has rather committed itself 10 a conser-
Vatiye policy toward women in Office.
In the General Post Office and Interior
Department the policy is so similar to-
w1rd women, 1t looks as though the
subject has been discussed In cabinet
meeting and a decision arrived ~ to
inaupurate q crusade against women.
A.anv rate thu women emDloyes 10
Uncle Sans offices feel very uneasy
ana dis\rustful OF the futurA.