Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-25
BUSINESS WOMEN.
Bah Is Thoroughly Interested in the
Woman Wage Garner.

THE PRACTICAL WOMAN NEVER
LOSES THE ARTS OF FEMININ-
ITY, AND IS NOT CHUMArY WITH
MEN-A WOMAN IMPROVES THE
TONE OF AN OFFICE-THB
CHEERING UP" BUSINESS
FLOWERS ON MEMS DESKS
BRAINY BUSTERS - Bah ON
ETERANL PUNIsHMENT-THB
KIND OF SERMON SHE LIKES
LOVING BOOKS.
published. 1886, by the Box Syndicate
Press, New York;
(From Our Regular Correspondent
New York, October 24.-There is no
doubt but that the number of ladies in
trade is increasing every day. Society
permits a woman to go into business,
since she is only following the example
Of the Countess of Dash or Lady Blank.
1t is just as well that society does ap-
prove, for it gives, does this seal of So
coal aspiration, a pleasant feeling to the
workers themselves. A woman is less
than woman when she does not value
the opinion Of the world. And the Wo-
man who tells you she doesn't mind
what anybody says about her is either
absolutely lying or else she has lost some
Of her womanliness. A gentlewoman
gives considerable thought to what the
world says, and she is willing to throw
her heart and soul into her work when
she is encouraged by more fortunate wo-
men.
I have taken much interest in
watching
THE WOMEN WHO SUCCEED,
and have come to one conclusion-the
woman who succeeds is the woman who
does her work to tho best Of her ability.
who is properly business-like but who
never loses what might be called the
arts Of femininity She never becomes
chummy with men. She IS polite with
them, but when business forces her TO
talk to them she never let's them forget
that she is a woman. Not because she
whimpers to them; not because she tries
to fascinate them; but simply because
she's herself Then, meeting her, the
average man saws or thinks, Mrs. Floyd
Robinson is a clever little woman; she
means to succeed, and I'll throw IN her
way any work I can" And he does
Some newspapers and public speakers
have an unpleasant way Of telling US OF
the disagleeable things that happen Wheh
q woman is introduced, in a business
wav. into an Office where men are.
They forget the other side Of the story.
A man. who is no better than any other,
probably, from a moral standpoint,
worse than some, told me that he had
never regretted taking lady type
writer into his office. He said she had
improved the whole tone OF the place;
that no man in his office ever used
prolane word before her and that by
common consent a nasty fellow VINO
started to tell an off-coiOred story be-
fore her had been ostracised. He said
the men were all more polite than be-
fore her arrival, and he believed it was
entirely due. this change for the better,
to the woman herself. And yet she had
said and done nothing. She had only
taken il for granted that the men around
her we're gentlemen, and when she was
not well posted about her work she
hadn't hesitated to ask their help. Ana
she had gotten it because she expected
to. She wasn't young and she WASH o
beautiful, but she was a woman VINO
had that peculiarly womanly power OF
influencing men for good 1t is a power
that comes from the woman as uncon-
sciously as the perfume from rose.
SOCIAL AND BUSINESS-LIKE.
Then. too. the successful woman has
not been the woman who lives her So
cial life with the men who were about
her in business. If you will think it
over you will find that men in the same
office are seldom in touch socially; and
that woman who goes into business
makes her first and greatest mistake
when she accepts the invitation, or in
vites a call from her felloW-wOrker, a
man. But to return 10 the women who
are in business. Another girl who is ex-
tremely versatile. but who isn't sufii-
GENTLY strong in any one point to make
her profession one of music, or languages
or anything else, has followed the first
bright girls example and is another
worker in the "cheering-up business"
For a dollar an hour she will come in
where there is an invalid and entertain
her: she will read; play checkers; dom
inoes. or any mild game; she will show a
new stitch in crochet or knitting; she
will sing a pleasant song or play
quiet little tune, or, if il IS preferred,
she will entertain the invalid with in
Vulnerable stories and interesting gossip.
Suppose you were i'll, suppose you were
getting better and you had an invalid's
WEAKNESS of everybody around you,
the invalid's desire TO be amused, and
the invalid's longing Tor a fresh face.
Here comes a bright cheerful woman
who offers what you want. Well, Il
seems as if the "cheering-up business"
ought 10 be a success, and so far believe
it has
WOMEN WHO MAKE DAINTY
THINGS.
Then. there are two young women
who have gone into the flower business.
For twenty-five cents a week they will
put on your desk a little bouquet every
morning, which will prove a rest to
your eyes and a reminder, all the day
long. of pleasanter things than accounts
and percentages, Of debts and credits,
stCrks and bonds. I like this idea. It
is getting at the people who enjoy the
daintes of life, but who can't afford to
pay for them the prices demanded by
some of the big shops. There are wo-
men making bOnnets and women max
ing frocks for little children; there are
women busy hemming ruffles to be put
upon the linen that goes to form the