New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-01
MAY BE. LACK OF woMANLINESs.
a Tyro Hears Why Business Women Rail
at Mans Discourtesy

you'll change your opinion Of men after you've
been IN the business world a year two" said a
weary looking young woman TO one who was evil
IDENTIFY hesitating. wfde-eyed and somewhat fear
ful. on the verge OF that unknown territory OF
earning living" AT least you Will If you go to
work in New-York. New-York don't give
women half chance. They treat them as II they
were chattels about the Offices. and the streets
and in the cars-well. they just don't recognize
their existence there"
There were a half dozen at . little round table
IN a downtown restaurant Three Of them had evil
IDENTITY had experience in the workaday world.
7 hardly think you ought TO give Janet such
impression that another spoke UP, woman OF
thirty perhaps or a little more, plain with quiet
smile and sweet restful gray eyes. I've worked
in New-York for the last ten years. and believe
human nature is about the same here as il is any
where else I've noticed carefully since I heard
much said about the rudeness Of New-York men
In the business world. and I've discovered this
that II 8 woman elbows her way along the street
she's bound 20 come IN contact with other elbows.
II she gets on a crowded car and purposely plants
herself in front Of the first she encounters and
glares him out OF countenance long he
mains seated he's pretty apt not TO feel like budg
ing an inch. ] can't blame him She has prac-
tically forfeited her right TO his gallantry As I
understand mana gentleman-pays TO
woman the hundred little courteses which are over
and above what the law might demand OF him, just
because OF her womsnliness. largely in proportion
she recognizes his generosity in the matter and
her inability 70 force them from nirn- IhoSe ntle
thngs-not little. however in their import-are the
poetry OF the business world. and il by no means
lacks poetry when you come 10 know it at first
hand: but you can't hammer poetry out with
sledge you know.
] don't believe in any preachment 10 the
periority OF But they at their best. they
are civilized creatures and courtly Just long
women demand il Of them by-beng womsnly, be
ing gentle and not hristling with ideas TO their
sThen you think began the first speaker. that
II for instance. woman goes into car ana STANDS
in front OF woman. perhaps. and LOOKS out OF the
window as II she were enjoying ner posluon every
man in sight VIII Jump 10 her rescue
I've rarely IL fail replied the gray-eyed
worker. even at the rush hours when seats are at
premium. II a woman j. LhootI 1slNe a-o Goes
not glare wrathfully around. as II she owned the
car ana every seated man were hlghway robDef-
tesy in men general than does generous &C
Acknowledgement on q wonlan's part smile ana
You f,s- a great deal Of tank about mems jeal-
0usv Of women IN business said one II the NTH
erto silent diners but haven't encountered II.
Ay star. iu the wOrkacay world was sl-tl ae py
over the graystoneo graveyard = unity Up
10 that Office I'd 90 for advice and help and point
SIse5s frieds I've Rad have been mennea who
gave me- equal chances with themselVes-and went
1sgt after an however She may try 20 Eee3 up
original standards began another. don't you
world Inevitably suhtraccs subtle metllug ITlm
the sum Of a W0man's woma uness2 ] pnce heard
canning woman soon loses her cn4Tm re cid not
mean In any physical sense liut isn't wage
doesn't the hustle and MOL OF workaday life rub
the lines OF courteous preference for each
margin q time2 How can woman who must
make trains and crowd into y SIDEWAYS. who
must for her works sake. however disagreeable Il
NAV be 20 her personally. assert her rights and
demand her share OF advantage keep that woman
called THAT is the natural endowment OF the
genflevoman whose first thought has bean gra-