The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-18
HER BUSINESS EDUCATION.
Training Necessary for the Young Women
Of the Present Day.

Every girl who enters upon her woman
hood with her mind fully equipped with
a business education, will be saved from
q great deal of pain, and will find much
more happiness in everyday life than the
girl who becomes a woman with only the
conventional sort of schooling. the school
ing that teaches her how to read. write.
sing cook and sew, writes Hetty Green IN
the woman's Home Companion.
when | say that all women should have
n business training, | mean women OF all
classes-poor. middlng rich and well-to-ao.
The assertion does not apply merely to
those whose circumstances seem to indi-
cate that they may one day be compelled
to make their own way in the world. Every
class OF girl win make a better and hap
pier woman II she has a business educa-
ton. whether her womanhood sees her a
maid. wife, mother or widow. / have
heard ii stated that for a woman TO get
a business training Is to crush all the
poetry out of her life This il sheer nom
sense. A woman with knowledge of bust
ness appreciates music, painting and other
finer things of life just much as the
woman who is ignorant OF all business mat
tiers: and the former has the decided adj
vantage, in that she Is able TO turn her
knowledge OF business into securing more
opportunities of seeing and appreeiating
these fine things.
girls can get q business training, and each
girl should select that particular way
which is most accessible to her and most
to her taste. BY the necessity for girls
getting business training do not mead
that she should necessarily 20 out 10 work
The business training she should have
Is one that will enable her 10 best look
after the mana cement of her own private
affairs. the training that will make her
counsel valuable to her father, her brother
her husband and her sons; the training
that will enable her to look after her own
business interests-her bread-and-butter
matters-if she Is suddenly thrown upon
her own resources and the business traiil-
ing that will make her a good housekecper
for every honsekeeper Is a business woma y
the degree OF her excellence as q house
keeper being the degree of the business
training she was provided with before she
entered upon her domestic duties The
successful and economical management %
the house calls for the same kind OF ahll.
Hy and Judgment that Is necessary to
the successful management od a oommer-
cial enterprise.
THE FIRST step 10 be taken. however. Il
probably the most important Of all. and
g Is the same no matter ia what station
of life the girl may b.. This first step
Ia TO learn the value OF money; to learn
how much Il costs to earn ~ TO learn how
necessary It Il to have u IN order TO get
along Unfortunately. nearly All Young
Children today are led 10 think that a
nickel n nothing but a sort OF token hy
which the corner candyeelier l. 70 know
that the child II parents wish hlm to give
the child a handful Of candy And as a
matter OF fact. many girls grow up %
woulsnhood In the same childish ignorance
OF the true meaning Of money. ~ how !,
Is obtained. that Il BY any chance they
should ~ thrown upon their awu te-
sources with utS one 10 keen them sflnrlf.s,g
with the necessarIes 81 life. they would
be entirely helpless,
BusIners Training.
Because girls father happens 20 be
weU OF financially T. no reason why sne
should not have a business training Re-
sides being allowed a certain ann uni for
her clothing, she should ~ allowed 90
have a share or more IN some corporation
ia which her father owns stock and she
should ~ allowed 20 manage this stock
herself not through lawyer. business
man would do Weu 10 give his daaghir
a small interest in his businesE-let Il ".
ever so snaii-sH thai she will set her
mind TO working TO how Il can be- iu.-
proved. Parents who have real estate
would b. wise 20 give their daughter tha
title 20 q house. and let her manage II her
seif-coiect the rental. bargain Tor re-
pairs. getaways with her parents con-
sent. Of course
Nos. whore docs al The benefit coaae
ing Weil. Ia the arsi place. The fathers
oRa business interests Will improve By