The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-07
No Partnership for Women--Miss Mark.r to Study Music in Munich. Mrs. DOwnyr Meet.r the
 Wheelers in London.
Social Affair." and per-
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BY MRS. J. N. DE CoTTEs. Ir No coNsEouENcE AT ALI.

Of all the small, tnconsequential. of-no- importance, tiny little things on earth. the smallest. most inconsequential. most of- no-importance is an Editor of . 'Wo- mans Department" or as those who wish to belittle her. and her work. term her Society Editress' (with stress on the tress) on election night.
 There Is no place for her. there is no space for her. By all. from Editor-in- chief to the devil" she is on that event. full night looked upon as superfuous superfiuity. And the candidates and others who flock to the editorial rooms to learn of returns pass her by with not even the compliment, of . vacant stare.
 The mere men" who gather on olec- ton night in the editorial rooms of big daily and make the air blue with the cigars in their smoke stack mouths. and bluer with their emphatic denunciations of the "other man. or the other mans man, and still bluer with their gloomy forebodings and predictions as to ulti-
  to fomininity to even do her the honor of being annoyed by her presence. On such a night recently when the clan began to gather and crisp yellow ''re- turns" that had flashed over the wires from other counties heard from" were waving in the air, and 'matorities' was the topic, the foreman" afraid to en- trust the "devir' with such a mission, at such a time, came himself. He tremb- lingly approached the editor and asked for society stuff."
 If such a thing could be. that foreman would have vanished into nothingness; annihilated by the whitening, scorching glance of his majesty as he thundered: Society stuff! Don't want any. The de- partment ought to be abolished during the campaign"
 "Abolished!" That was what she heard as she stood without the portals and wished she was a man that she might meet in battle each of those self-eiected beings whose outlines she saw, as through glass darly, in the blue fog that seemed thick enough to cut with knife.
 That was early-just dark. The editor walked out to give some order and meet ing She-of- -no- importance, said to her:
  I wonder if he knew how sad it made her to be thus suddenly dethroneda How as limp and crestfallen thing she wend- ed her way adown the stairway she had ascended a proud monarch of all she sur veyed. How later from force of habit she did return and sadly view the land scape o'er. There she saw in front the eager motley crowd of ''returns'' seekers standing without, as she, the portals; while from the windows of that smoky blue editorial room came forth music on the graphophone punctuated with Ire turns" and interspersed with yells of sat- isfaction from the crowd without
 She wasn't missed up there where, in other days she was greeted with warm welcome, and her copy was above par.
 She had thoughts of days to come when peace will reign over the affairs of state, and she will be reinstated.
 NO PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN.
 It Is next to an impossibilty for two wo- man to enter into a bona fide business. on really manly" basis. But for this fact there would be in every town firms in which two women with energy and enterprise would by their combined efforts
 
 than either could separately.
 This state of affairs in the business relationship of women due to two deplora- ble traits: Short-sightedness, and a petty grasping The former. from lack of business training; the latter due to heredity from past generations of penury under which regime she has always been a pensioner on mans bounty.
 Convince a woman that there is a scheme by which she could control the beef trust and make millions, and she would not be willing to divide profits with the man who leads the animal to the slaughter pen, to the extent of his sala- ry.' She wouldn't see why she could not save that, by driving them herself just for exercise. Put in the palm of her hand the mighty steel combine and rather than have Schwab receive his $, 900, 900 salary she would give up the en- terprise.
 Two heads are better than one. Man | knows this Woman has not discovered | it. The benefits of cooperation are too | removed for the feminine short-sighted- ness to grasp.
 The start Is made. but the women firm is of short life, due to one or two reasons. If the scheme fails, dissolution is the re- suit; friendship breakes up If. as usual, that is the basis, and mutual recrimina- tion. interspersed with T told you sos" Is the finale
 When two women discover a good thing" in a business line. they don't see why. ''I should not have it all" and in their endeavor each proves herself the false mother. not la Solomon story. They tear into the infant they both covet and destroy its life.
 knew two young Southern society girls who during a visit to New York. being struck with the amount of admiration which their dainty Southern toilettes of lawn and organdie received, conceived the Idea of designing together such toilettes for the New York women who had so little knowledge of them, and so great admiration for them.
 They hugged each other with delight and mutual congratulation over the bril- Iiancy of the plan, and went to work. The business was a success from the beginning They soon had to have corps of girls sewing for them. The first trouble came when discussion as to whose idea it was arose. Like, as IS the fate of many great thought Doth claimed it. Each began to try to out do the other progressively in matter or bringing business to the firm. Soon a new arrangements was made by which each was to claim the money for just the business brought by herself The inevitable dissolu-