Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-17
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NJ 50 your dearest girl friend is going to
De married, z, said the lnatron, turning to

ssSo your dearest girl friend is going to
ssbe married, said the inatron, turning to
III the girl
Yes, and 1t a fortunate man who gets
q her. She'll make him the best of Wives
igsanswered the girl. with enthusiasm.
Well, we, can't tell about that" said
$gthe woman Your friend has led !. semi
Il public life for n good many years Her
Work has brought her into contact with
the world. with all classes of .,len women
and children. This, believe, spoils the
" naturally feminine taste for domesticity
The average business woman is an excite
ssment craving creature. Eternal change
n and variety are to her what rum is to the
q steady drinkcr, as people call him, though
q never could think of any hahitual drink
LET being particularly steady. Shc feeds on
this contact with many men of many
minds. I've heard people say that bust
NJ ness experience was Il distinct advantage
Ito a wife, but do not believe IL Bust
mess women learn too much for their own
4 bappiness. They learn to criticise and 10
s. apalyze people, and this becomes second
nature to them, and the husband docs not
n escape. They aualyze him and his love
N and the minute we begin to annlyxc love,
ITO separate it, to tear it apart, to weigh it,
smeasure it, do you know what h;l,;;cnsr
Love disappears. "
sggslSfs$S $ Bosh and nonsense" exclaimed the
3 elderly man. III /, truly womanly woman
u is forced into a business life the effect on
d her is good because it fits her for the prop
\ er realm Of woman and that is ho1ne.''
iSsss In what way2 asked the girl eagerly.
Well, you know the average woman
! has mistaken idea OF marriage Sho
4 thinks that ends everything, when it only
begins things. She thinks on the day she
enters the church maid and leaves it 4.
bride. I'm married now, and there is moth.
ling else to do. This man is mankind for
s#1ne, and she settles down, and, while she
does her duty toward him and perhaps
really and truly loves him, she makes no
effort to charm, bcwitch, to fascinate, to
senslaye him. She thinks it is no use. A
woman who has had experience in busi-
mess life does not feel that way. She has
Saearnad the value Of an extended ;lcu uaint-
SRnce, of the Importance OF our relation
zone to another, of our dependence on each
other, and she feels that her external life
sstsnot to be bonnd up in this one man
n She knows that she can best help him by
holding others. Then, too, this business
woman has t. larger respect, larger re-
gard, more sympathy for a husband Per
&sonnl experience has taught her to be L.
;$nlent, to be consdcratc Of every human be-
ing. She knows that success is obtained
only by concentration. by single minded
ness, and she won't hari,ss her husband
when he comes home with tritlinS things
/ that will right themselves She will show
4 q keen consideration for him that the other
kind OF woman is incapable OF. The bust
I ness woman would not ask business
man, even if thnt business man is her
husband, any IN ore about his affairs than
:5he chooses to tell
fsss7s That all may be true enough spoke
up the girl, "but does man want his
wife to help him in his business career?
u don't believe he does. think he'd
rather just think Of her as q sweet COM
Il panion who will be waiting for him when
~ he comes home, n dainty creature, loving
u and loyahle, and most people say thxt any
woman who has ever worked for living
lin any capacity loses her fcmininity.
y8Some miscall it innocence, but 1 think
Il they mean girlishness. How often we
~ hear it snid of u brcadwinning woman,
ASsOh, yes, she is brilliant, charming, f;,s-
#$cinating, but she has lost that thing pos
4sessed by women who have never work
sedl' I've wondered If 1t was the spirit OF
i#dependeIsSe they meant, because II working
woman does lose that until she falls in
81 love
sss sS But look at the strength, the cndur-
Snnces the self control she finds in place of
IT,, =, argued the man Tor everything we
q .ieo. 1-ou eIJG;tK
e OF Business women losing that indeilnable
ssassmething. Did -uu ever stop to think