The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-05
BUSIN ESS.
Girls Should Learn
the Principles.
MAY BE USEFUL.
Such knowledge viii Fit
Them for Real Life.

she might be left a widow, and have the
entire direction Of her husbands pro
perty. No knowledge is ever lost. The
more one knows, the more one real
ICES how little one does know. l main
tain that woman's intellect is perfect
~ capable of coping with and under
standing business affairs. In some mat
tiers she is far shrewder than the aver
age man, and in many cases her quick
insight sees a a glance that which man
requires time TO penetrate Only give
her half a chance. l do not wish for a
moment to be understood as advocating
women becoming stockholders or law
yers; nothing could be more unnatural
or unsuitable. 1t seems to me only in
accordance with the wishes of a reas
enable woman to participate with her
brothers in such rudinentary knowl-
edge as will enable her to oversee or
take the entire charge of her own prop
erty.- Take. for example, wel-to-do
New York business man. He has ac-
CURED through his own industry and
shreWdness a large fortune He maps
out the education for his children His
sons are sent to the best schools, and
afterward to college. He determines
that no expense shall be spared to fit
them for their future career
For his daughters expensive foreign
soVernesses are engaged. who teach
them the languages. music. and other
accomplishments. Or the daughters
are sent to some high priced fashiona-
BILE school where they are nut through
course of training to enable them to
Shlne in society Having reached
the age of eighteen, the daughter re-
turns to the parental roof
What does she know in exchange for
the large sum of money her education
lFg7rg liz l..
pad and illeg1ble. Her knowledge of
arithmetic very slight. These two es-
sentials of education are not her forte
But she is good dancer. and per
haps at the assembly or some such
junction the fathers heart has swelled
Win pride as he noticed how eagerly
she was sought as a partner She can
sing French songs. probably those
winch are ia Their Tisque. She can con-
verse, perhaps, in two or three differ
ent modern langua ges. As a general
rule her French can scarcely be under
stood by the foreign attaches at New
port
The girl is absolutely unequipped for
real life and the man of sense. who has
passed the boyish age and is looking for
partner for life, knows this Possibly
TINS Is one cause why there are com
paratiNely few marriages in our best
society, What man is less likely to
seek as VIE woman who knows some
thlng bout the care and value of mon
eFth Ut is strange thar a father should
ne SO blinded to the best interests of
ms daughter. Is it because he CON
Siders her intellect so far below that Of
ms son that he makes no effort to in
struct her in regard to the care of mon
ey? The only thing she knows about
money is how to spend it-generalIy- on
herself, for clothes and Jewels Per-
fret fr
the bills for his daughters extrava-
gdnce pour in on him he is vexed: hut
II his fortune is large. and it is no in
convenience for him to paw them. he
generally does so without a mllrrnur.
Let her have good time while she
IS young, he sOliloquizes
In a few years the father dies. his
property is divided; the daughter re-
eeives her share. If she is married to q
good business man who has time To
take charge of her fortune, possibly
during her husbands lifetime the diff
Guilty is bridged over But the chances
are she may not be married, or again
the man she has selected as husband
may be worthless as a business man,
lt rs not to be expected that a brother
teyen if she is fortunate enough to nos
sess one). however kind viii overbur-
den himself with the manifold details
OF looking after the property of a sis
interests
demand his attention. He thinks his
DUTY accomplished when he has chosen
man to look after his sisters affairs.
whom he believes to be reliable !
The person whom he has appointed
as guardian over his sisters 'interests
may have an honest and high character
nut that is no guarantee that i'm q mo
ment of weakness he may not WELD ia
the temptation Of abusing the trust He
Knows the woman is absolutely ignor-
ant Of how her affairs are being con
Quoted and in all probability would not
ne the wiser If he appropriated some
OF her fortune to his own uses. Her
very ignorance is his security. Who
can not recall several such cases .
II each day for half an hour
the father had instructed his child in
the essential of business-how In
calculate interest quickly. the manner
ot ming out lease in renting prom
erty' explaining about mortgages. and
giving her lesson as to what were
the best investments-she would know,
enough to steer clear Of the many
sharks and vultures which usually find
her ready prey. The woman who
does not know the difference between
a registered and coupon bond should
he ashamed to acknowledge such ig-
norance
A parents neglect in teaching his
child about monetary affairs is culpa-
bic, almost amounting TO a crime
There is nothing so costly as ignor-
ance.
This very fortune which you have
taken infinite pains to accumulate win
be perhaps dissipated. owing 10 your
want Of forethought in importing the
requisite knowledge to your child
This information she will in after Years
buy for herself at a heavy premium
IT knowledge is power in Other
matters, 1t is more than ever true in
monetary affairs. Power to keen your
fortune is power worth having. and
more difficult to acquire than to make
fortune. Let a girl but try TO earn
fve dollars, and she win see the task
Is not an easy one. Then unless she
be fool, she will realize that what
Is so difficult to obtain should not be
wasted
I recall the case Of a fashionable wo-
man in New York society which came
under my own observation. Her nus
band told me he had deposited i'm q
bank large sum of money for his
wife to draw on giving her a bank and
check book, explained and showed her
how TO draw checks. He very sensiblv
thought that IL would be n Far better
man for her to pay her bills herself.
instead OF coming to him every time
she needed money. His relief from he
Ing her almOner was Of short dura-
ton, for in less than a month she came
10 him. and, throwing the check and
bank books on his library table, told
him IT. was too much trouble-she
could not make head or tail Of II: she
wished to return 10 the Old system
He could pay her bills in future. This |