Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-05-16
AMERICAN WOMAN IN BUSINESS.
Her Accent Deplored by English-Her
Energy Admired.

Ahe leading woman's journal of Great
Britain is somewhat surprised at the apt-
itude of the American woman in business
occupations and comments at some length
upon their growing tendency TO engage in
callngs hitherto exclusively reserved foi,
members of the opposite sex. 1t speaks
OF the part women Will take in the COM
ing ST. Louis exposition and of the ap-
pointment of Miss Florence Hayward to
the important position of commissioner to
Europe, and says: This really remark
able instance of the growing powers ana
responsibilities Of women could at pres
ent occur only in a country and among
a people existing under the economic and
social conditions which obtain in the
United States. For obviously two causes
have conduced to such a state of things.
One Is the general respect paid TO wom-
an by all sections of the Anglo Saxon
race and the other the absence of the
conventions which are imposed upon
women in the states of the old world.
winch, though sometimes CALLING to the
individual and represSiye to the develop
ment Of the sex. were vet founded for
their protection and nave resulted in the
present high position enjoyed by English
speaking women all over the world.
Thus, while not detracting for one
moment from the mary benefits accruing
10 women by reason of we'll established
conventions, we must admit that the alb
Sence from many of them has resulted
IN Woman's taking in the United States
higher intellectual and commercial
status than is enjoyed by the majority
OF women in a similar rank of life i'll
England. Thus it has become possible in
America for 81 woman to be commits
stoned by a great public body to travel
abroad and make arrangements with the g.
leading artists and manufacturers of
Great Britain, France, Holland and Ger.
many TO exhibit their respective products
at an international exhibition.
The personality of and the work done
by Miss Florence Hayward are them
selves evidence of the status to which
woman has attained in the great Amer
lCan republic and the characteristic OF
the kind of woman with whom Eu-
rcpeans generally come in contact. In
her own words she has written on most
subjects from pig iron to grand opera.
shingled a rocf, run circus and studied
metallurgical industries and art with
equal impartiality.' 1t is this admiXture
of Theoretical learning and practical ex-
perlencc which constitutes the chief
charm in Englishmens eyes of the aver
age American woman. For they not
only know as much as a Girton girl but
are able to express their knowledge and.
If need be, translate it into action with
the swiftness and certainty of a trained
business man.
And, though we admire neither the ac-
cent nor the DruSQuerle of the average
American woman, we cannot but admit
that her English sister has a good deal
to learn from her in the matter of enter
ing more thoroughly into mans life and
mode CT thought and claiming from him
as a matter of course an equality of
treatment, both in the practical and intel
lectual planes of life. Nulgarities of ex-
preston are doubly offensive when they
come from the mouth of woman, and an
undue familiarity with the ways and
slang of her brothers does not tend to in
crease a mans respect for a woman On
the other hand, an intelligent and appre.
ciative interest in the life and work of a
man adds very largely to the attraction
of the woman possessing it, and many
English women would do well to take to
heart the lesson to be learned from the
fact that the person chosen to represent
the worlds fair of 1904 in the leading
countries of Europe is woman-even
though an American ONE