Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-23


voice for expostulation.
'But, Henrietta, it is not woman 8
place. Contact with men in business
life disarms woman of her best weapon,
and withal her greatest charm. She
wrecks her own matrimonial chances !;
for, you see, when men marry, they
do not choose the girls who have
thrust themselves forward, but tie for
Ife to the home girl. Then, too, :"
continued he, with touch of pomp-
oslty, "woman's brain is of such diff
ferent cnlibre that she is never sue
cess in the business world. While L
esteem you very highly as n friend
and cousin, [ could not give you a
place in my Office. | must have the
broader outlook of man, and do not
feel that 1 could trust any woman with
such q responsible position as that held
by my bookkeeper.
This time there was no mistaking
the real Indignation in the girls face
and voice.
"Harry, I should be very angry
with your insinuations, but 1 really
only pity one who holds such warped
views. want you to understand that
| girls nowadays are not compelled to
go about on tiptoe and with bated
breath for fear of spelling their mat
rImonial chances. Talk about trust
worthiness! Who absconds with the
employers money? Not the woman.
| Talk about the broader outlook =
Wait until your crosseyed bookkeeper
goes to South America with the con-
tents of your safe, and you will wish
you had one of the untrustworthy
women in his place"
Don't let us quarrel, my dear, 3"
patronized Harry, "for did not wish
to offend you. / was shocked that
you, SO young, SO pretty, wished to do
mans work"
sit is not mans work, Harry" said
the girl, quickly. "Worl is classified
according 10 its excellence, and not
the sex OF the worker. But there is
no use of arguing with you, turning
to leave the room. son second
thought" and she paused on the
threshold, 'let me predict that you
will fall hopelessly in love with one
of this very class OF women, marry
her, and become n thorough convert
to the idea of women in business.
"Marry creature of that stamp
Not until | become an imbecile. /
shall marry for companion; q
woman who will know her sphere and
keep it."
cab, it will certainly happen, my
sapient cousin, and how L will gloat
over you and remind you of these
spicy conversations of ours?"
With n merry laugh the girl closed
the door and ran lightly down the
hall, leaving behind her much be-
rutlled young man.
Harry McDougall was not at heart
an intolerant young man, but his
whole life environment had been con-
servative in the highest degree.
His residence in the West had been
but short, and he was daily surprised
Mt the freedom accorded women about
him. He marveled at the uncon-
sciousness with which business men
accepted into their precincts the en-
trance of business women, and alb
norred, through ignorance OF the
thought OF the times, their "lntru-
sion, as he called 1t.
| HIS disposal OF the superllous wo-
man mad been by matrlmony, or re-
legation to her own roof-tree, not con-
siderlng that the superhous woman
had no one to marry her, nor some
times male relative to provide roof
tree or support 1t beneath Its shelter,
even did the bread OF dependence
taste sweet to her.
But few months before young Nc
DouSall had come to Kansas from
connecticut, to take charge OF flour
ing mill lately purchased by his
father, property situated in small
town some thirty miles west OF Ellis
ton, Henrletta's home.
The business was prospering, and
prosperity does not make an intoler-
ant man tolerant; SO upon his visits