Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-25
HOW GIRLS MAY SUCCEED.

Girls are as ambitious to succeed as
boys are. Their ideas of what consti-
tuteS success, however. are more linz
tied in some directions while more ex-
banded in others. There are boys who
believe that success means becoming
great banker, the head of large man
ufacturing corporation. the president of
railroad or a telegraph company.
Probably few girls imagine that they
can climb to these dizzy heights of sue
cess. Their sex bars their way.
On the other hand there are girls who
are of the opinion that good marriage
is success. or the ability to buy clothes
little finer than those Worn by their
associates is the browning glory of life.
Naturally boys and young men do not
think so much of dress as the gentler
sex does and look on marriage as an in
cident in life rather than its main OBJ
ject.
Nowadays, however. when so many
respectable and profitable fields Of en-
ployment are open to women, there
must be many girls to whom success in
life means something else besides a
husband. 1t means to them ability to
earn decent living for themselves as
trusted and well-paid employees in bust
ness houses or as the heads of small In
dustries. A woman who has the bust
ness sense and who has been properly
trained Is quite as competent to run
small dry goods or grocery store as any
man Is.
As there are so many girls who hope
to be able to- earn their own living. the
article is yesterdays Tribune. giving
the views of a number of Chicago wom-
en- as to how success is to be Won, can
not have lacked readers. Most Of the
girls who did read it must have been
of the opinion that it told them little
they had not previously been told.
There are few young women whclhave
not been advised that If they wish To
get ahead they must please their ern-
ployers by showing quickness. honesty
Intelligence, and zeal The qualities
which boy must display to deserve
success must be displayed by girl all
50 If she hopes to rise or 10 keep her
place.
Some of the advice given by these
Chicago women is good, but not always
easy To follow. ii is we'll that a wom
an worker should not be .supersensi-
Tive" but many women and few mon
are born thir-skinned and cannot
tougher their hides / is desirable that
| a girl should have IAN equable temper
and healthy mind and that she
should be able to rise above jealousics
and petty rivalrIes.' but an equabse
temper is born. not made, and nature
has planted ineradicable jealausies and
lsrivalriss in many feminine breast.
There is perplexing difference of
l.opinion among the advisors as u matri-
mony. According To one a girl should
marry anyway, even tho wrapped in
her ambitions. Another does not believe
a girl should marry unless sure her
| prospects will not be injured thereby.
\ Another does not think a young woman
/ can give UP her life To business and a
| husband at the same time.
| Happily, these matters OF matrimony
regulnte themselves If a desirable
young man talks TO the young business
woman Of love and life In fat she
| Viii marry him without asking any
| body's advice. AS a rule. she Will
cheerfullH sacrifice her business pros
I poets 10 get a good husband. For this
/ still means success 10 most women.