The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-01-18
Is the Business
Woman to Become
Universal -?
BY WILLIS S. EPSON.

any the worse for the possession Of this new element.
The foreigner has gazed aghast across the ocean and thanked
his lucky stars that the vastly deep rolled between his own country
and the land Of the new woman. But while he has been gazing and
plying the american man for his helpless condition before the re-
sistess. on-march of the female wage Garner, the same ether, which
Marconi is Harvesting to his wireless telegraphy, has evidently waited
across to other lands this female commerciaism peculiar to American
soil and sent a new thrill o. life, with its possibilities, pulsaAng
through the women there, and THE AFORESAID AGHAST FOR
EIGNER HAS SUDDENLY FOUND HIMSELF FACE %
FACE WITH A NEW PROBLEM.
At least such is the case in Germany, where the rapidly growing
invasion of business life by German women has precptated a vgor-
Gus protest on the part of the male wage earners Of the empire
Columns of bitter complaint have been published in the Berlin news
papers. many of the locked-out sex urging the need Of legislation
for the suppression Of the female peril" But the women, because
they are women, are not allowing the men to monopoEze the dis
cussion. They declare that women are compelled to work in Ger
many because the men of the nation have inherited objections to tax
ing dowerless brides. Women, they alege, will be forced to desert
the households as long as the selfish matrimonial traditions Of the
country are recognized and pracdced. And SO the contest goes mer-
rIy on and the American can guess pretty nearly how it will end.
And If stoid old Germany, who is already grooming under the
comfort Of the American shoe, is to become infected with the spirit
Of the American business woman, what is to- become Of volatile
France and Jolly England and all the rest Of the dry bones Of Europe?
All must inevitably surrender to the new order Of things.
The nineteenth century has witnessed the production, on the
wonderful soil Of the American continent, Of the business woman.
She likes it and has come to stay. 1t now remains for Europe during
the twentieth century to shcw what She can do towards writing wom-
ans triumph in heavens arck of fame. And with Europe at the feet
ofthe fair conqueror it will be but a step for her across the Siberian
steppes to the land OF the rising sun and the scene OF the present
triumphs Of their worthy predecessor. the undaunted, imperturbable
dowager empress, the peer Of them all
The advance which woman has made in the last decade in this
and other lands leads us to ask the question: rs the business woman
to become UNIVERSAL Uncle Sans large family of girls is helping to
answer the question with a decision and precision and swish of her
natty business skirts which is ominous. Germany, as the newspapers
are chronicing at the present time, is lining up her women in the
counting house and mart Of trade ready to answer in the affirmative,
and it vii. not be long until the Sunny daughters Of Italy the vvacous
girls Of France, the brightgowned damsels Of Spain, the Scotch
iassies, yes. the girls from every cline, will be joining their voices
in one united cry, "tbe business woman HAS become universal"
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