The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-04
FOR FEMININE READERS
THE PRESSURE on BUSINESS MEN AS
1T AFFECTS HONE LIFE,
Thoughtless Act of q Woman Who
Wrote Club Paper-School Girls
Dress-A Club Paper.

American business men to let pressure gov
ern them and their time, says writer in
the New York Evening Post. They set
fixed time for going TO work and do not let
any comfortable circumstance change 1T;
for their return they have a sliding scale.
and give themselves over to the mercies of
that public which forms their clientele.
Can any evening be bright and alive with
clever talk and refreshing sound OF song
and merry laughter when the master of
the house comes in an hour late, worn To
the last limit of nerve endurance, and has
to bear the consequences? He cannot take
time to look at the thoughtful preparation
of the pretty room; he has no leisure to
note the careful toilette made for him, and
fails to see that his wife has worn his
favorite gown. He knows that delicate
forego refreshing change of dress, which
would have shaken off the dust of the
town. The ud-bits on which thought and
money have been expended for his pleasure
are tasteless and uninviting: he has to
wrench his thoughts with affecuonate eli
fort from the trying involvement of that
new responsibility taken at the last mo-
ment in his office. and he can only talk by
himself upon the nearest sofa, and before
his cigar is half consumed falls asleep
from sheer exhaustion. The dullness OF
long evenings seems accounted fori
just TO have allowed himself one brief
hour-even half an hour--more OF freedom
would have changed the whole aspect OF
his return and made him master of re-
freshinG, relieving side to his overburdened
lifes that would act like barrier against
a disabled brain and nervous prostitution"
rEs.-A
men.
An atmosphere Of discomfort has deve-
ored Throughout the whole home during the
ex attended tour in which the hard-pressed
man. whose energies are its support, has
striven TO secure larger treasure Tor its
enrichment. In the kitchen a spirit of
don't care" seizes cook and maid. What
as the use of trying to have anything nice
Mr.. - is never on time" The children
have had to be undressed without the jolly
meeting for which the curls had been
smoothed and the ribbons been tied as
oaintily as II TO charm a lovers eyes. a
weary, dull nour of expectation has made
the waiting wife dispirited for herself and
anxious for her best beloved. 1t comes TO
be very serious question, when ali is
weighed in the domestic scales, rs the play
worth the candle?'
Extra occasions call for unwonted effort.
and every life has its emergencies, which
10 woman of common sense will ignore
times that we thinking. The germ not
only of dull rural evenings but of many
iull ana listless lives, is the habitual dis
regard CT the necessarily fixed hours of
every family. The yielding to the stress
OF any and every daily arising demand,
| unit! all allied business connections know
that If representative ''can catch Mr..
Blank before he starts for home he will
| talk with him.
great or even a vigorous small business
| never finishes off its ragged edges, the close
OF a days work never sets aside all the
| interests involved in it's transactions. Given
a practically real closing time, these late
corners, these OBTAINING demands could, at
| least nine times out of ten, be passed over
| to the early hours of a new day.
In no country of the civilized world do
men see so little of the possible delights of
| domestic life do our average young
Americans, either busy in commerce or the
/ professions. Our mechanics, with their vic
! torious eight-hour rule, are now the only
| class of workers fitted to really enjoy wife
| and child. Many a brainy man, with the
| stored treasures of the world at his COM
| mand, may we'll envy his laboring brother
who throws down his tools at the first
stroke of 5 O'Clock and stays not for either
| the benefit of his work the interest of
his employer. He has freed himself with
Vengeancei
But he is also an example; when he I'M
armed with anything but his strength and
skill, said, will not live only to toll, but
| if have to struggle for a home / will have
time to enjoy it, he won. Even the wealth
of the whole world could not turn him
| aside. He would have time TO live and he
| secured il.
| There must be a way in which his better
prepared, better born, more intellectually
endowed brothers of the counting room and
| desk and bar can make for themselves such
| liberty that they shall not be bound in
withes stronger than those which held
| Samson.
! We shall never be truly joyous, social
| simply hospitable nation until they, too
have their Federation of Labor" which
| gives them what they need.