New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-10-04
BUSINESS WOlLEN ARRAIGNED
THEY ARE PRONOUNCED MONEY
WARPED" UNTIDY AND IN
ACCURATE.

Business class. and stenographers
and typewriters in particular. were arraigned on
variety of charges at the New-York City Leglsla-
tive League, which met at the Tuxedo yesterday
afternoon. Miss Edith Griswold was the speaker
OF the day, and her address upon What Consti-
tutes Success in Business from Womans Stand
point" followed by heated debate
Inaccuracy the leading complaint. The
tendency of the woman breadwinner to marry was
deplored also her propensity to shed
tears Miss Griswod ascribed much Of the fall
ure OF business women to the fact that most OF
them who are in business are there from necessity
and for the weekly wage. This situation estab-
fishes a standard among them in which success Is
measured by money. and the result is condition
which she described as money warped" In her
opinion the average does not know what
absolute accuracy means. and her disposition is
always TO lean upon somebody. Her tendency to
incorrectness Miss Griswold believed TO be the rea-
son that the business woman is found so seldom in
positions OF trust.
One speaker said that the Office boy has adj
vantage over the woman stenographer IN that his
employer would not hesitate to blow him up on
OCCASION while. dreading the inevitable Mysteries
and weeping of the girl. he would refrain from
Offering her correction. She had seen many an
Office boy pass the woman stenographer on his way
a higher place because of this fact.
Mrs. John +. Trow thought that getting posi-
lions through friendships is of the most i'm
portant stumbling blocks, and cited a number OF
instances to support her theory. Friendship is
extremity" she said. IF woman cannot OBJ
tain work on her merits she had better go
without it" In a downtown luncheon room. which
Mrs. Trow frequents she meets large numbers OF
young girl breadwinners of the better salaried
class. Among them she finds faded and soiled
shirt waists conspicuous, instead of neat wash
waists; she sees badly kept nails and hears audi
BILE conversation about tom" and Jim
Another woman said poor health and bad spelling
distinguished nine out of the candidates for
he he eli ST
is unpopular because she bangles her bracelets.
shrugs her shoulders. writes personal letters in
her employers time, has visitors etc, ad infnitum.
She thought that when women are willing to enter
the ranks on the same terms men their success
will be assured.
Upon this DR.. Phoebe Waite for the defence
and introduced herself spared monument OF
the business class" She had been surprised, she
acquaintance had attained. and stated that if the
among those whom She had known. in business '
professional scientic and educational spheres, the
the She had found women accurate
known to be superior because they attend better
TO detail As TO the charge that they shrug their
they did i prettily. She spoke. she said, as
her opinion that the girls seemed to enjoy flirting
no more e an equal or hs
She knew men who refused to employ men type
writers because e. Of their their inaesur ss
nra hsr
and honor any business will get along $
SSds as sng sRs viii shH nd if she has not
4 speaker in reply to opponent who had
stated that men who employ women in their of
fees do in all cases to save expense. said that
in an Office with which she is familiar from twenty
IN thirty have taken the places formerly
occupied by men. and that the employer asserts
that they more accurate. more obedient and
never come with big heads Monday morning.
;rbe highest price that he paid
sys and a woman, $50. week.
one woman believed that the twentieth century
woman differs particular from the eighteenth
century woman. and that she wants husband,
home children and some one TO lean upon as much
as the woman OF two hundred years ago Atten-
lion was called the fact that in the Dead Letter
Office at Washington women are REQUIRED to read
ono letters a day while only LOO expected from
,,nen But the men receive a third more salary and
have twenty days year in which TO go to their
homes 70 vote. -, A.. -
oiatv closed the debate. She said that the fact or
soy always tells against the business woman, Men
as a rule prefer 10 have men about them IN tie
ofHce as women prefer to have maids IN the house
Men and women she said. ARE a good zeal thke
on All great lines of humanity. We both get nun
,yrx and sleepy and tidy or untidy. MRS STAKE
said she could cite men, as well as women VINO are
Stevens -. 49, ro.,,,,s5 hc-
Mace treasurer. Mrs. Helen NJ Bent was