The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-16
On WOMEN IN BUSINESS
LAST NIGHTS SESSION OF THE
NATIONAL COUNCIL DEVOTED
TO SYMPOSIUM
ALLEGED GAMBLER ARRESTED
Some Excitement Caused by the
Burning of a Barn In
the Down Town
District.

The closing meeting of the National
Council of Women last evening, which
was devoted to Woman in Business
was a meeting which exemplifed in every
sense the claim which the business wom-
en- put forward, business trains to def
niteness, efficiency and alertness, and fits
woman to take up we'll any pursuit which
she may choose"
The meeting was presided over by Miss
Matae Cleveland, president of the Ma
tional Business Womans association.
Miss Alice Manning, the delegate from
the National Business Woman's associa-
ton, said:
The business woman is too close to
the problems of life to take a wide survey
of them and gather her conclusions of
them up into a general conclusion. 1t is
The woman of leisure who can get this
broad outlook and trace the path by
which the business woman has come.
The worker is busy contemplating the
platform on which she stands. L hear
constantly of the displacement by women
of men in the business world, but 81 out
Of every 100 women who are in the bus!-
ness world are there because of necessity
alone If you answer to this that woman
has robbed father, brother, husband or
prospective husband of his earning pow
er, 1 shall reply, What of the first
woman who entered the ranks? 1t was
because the family lacked the proverbial
bone, or it was because she was not al
lowed the use of her energies in the
home in proper manner, it was not love
of excitement that took her out into the
world.
Newspaper women, and women who
have responsible positions, often work
because of love of their work, but for the
many this is not true. Woman nan
to give orders quickly, 20 be
alert and energetic, and grace takes
time She parts with her Illusions at the
threshold of business, and she mas to
adjust herself to entirely new conditions.
Whereas heretofore she has thought ali
things good, she is apt to go to the other
extreme and think all things bad, and
through this condition she must struggle
alone.
woman gains in business accuracy,
definiteness, efficiency, self-reliance, be-
cause she learns discipline, and discipline
Is strength. She is not united to be-
come a wife, because she is more com
panionable for her training; business
does not change the nature of woman,
the coarse will be coarse, and the selfish
will be selfish either in or out of bus
lneSs''
Miss Martha Scott Anderson spoke for
the local Business Woman's club making
B. point of its unique place among the
clubs of the city on account of its size.
Mrs. Spencer spoke briefly for the w.
e. T. u.
Mrs Lillian Hollister, supreme COM
marder IF the Ladies Maccabes of the
= World, spoke Of Woman in Business
associations"
Miss L. NJ. Crafts spoke of women in
y the Professions Miss Edna Hall sang
two solcs, Miss CARRIER spoke for the
Consumers league, and Mrs. Spencer and
Mrs. Gaffney said farewells and thanked
the local council for its hospitality.
This evening Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer
will speak in Plymouth church on 1.-The
Development of the Family"