The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
WHEN SHE COMES NORTH.

They were deep in the discussion of
women in business, that subject of
seeming perennial interest to both sexes
in this busy metropolitan city. says
the New York Tribune.
There's all the difference in the world
between the woman in business and the
business woman said one, unmistak-
ably of the later variety, her tone
clearly indicating the estimation in
which she held the former.
"Impecunious Southern women seem
to flock to New York like flies to a
pot of molasses," complained another.
what do you suppose they expect to
find here? Many, and perhaps most of
them, are not trained for any useful
occupation, and they know it. And
yet they keep on coming, shoals OF
them, every year, and expect to make
living or get married, or be taken
care of somehow
yes" chimed in another Of the par
ty, land they have a way of appealing
to your sympathies that is irresistible.
I often have outside work, you know,
that / can give, and when these pref
ty young girls and frail, sweet-voiced
women come to me l simply can't re-
fuse, though I've learned by sad ex-
perfence that they never do anything
without exception, to be done over
again. They are usually late in hand
ing it in, and resent any criticism of
it as If it were personal insult. When
/ deal with a Northern woman, even
if she Is inexperienced in business, 1t
doesn't take any time to make her
realize that she must give a hundred
cents worth of work for every dol
lar she is to get. She knows she has
to do the work to please those who give
it to her, and not according to her
own preconceived notions of it, and
she takes comment, adverse or other
wise, just as a man would. South
ern women want all sorts OF little ex-
ira indulgences and allowances: bust
ness routine gals them. and they are
forever acting and talking as If it was
great condescension on their part to
enter an office anyway. They are in
sufferably airy, and they are not at all
particular about the truth"
i've heard Mrs. Brown say" said a
quiet voiced woman, that the Blank
Association" mentioning the New York
branch of a well known organization.
composed of Southern women, is prac-
tically carrying 200 or 300 semi-de-
pendent Southern girls and women who
have come here to make a living, and
have fallen down on 1t. 1t does seem
strange; as a rule, they are as well
e0uCdte0 as lHG average WOHIdI1 IIoIl
other localities"
s'But they are not educated for any
particular purpose; that is, their prin-
cipal trouble-their hopeless ain1less-
ness" was the rejoinder, "and they
seem to think that because they had
grandfathers or because they never
had to put their hands to anything
before, therefore they should be allow
| ed to draw fat salaries and do next to
nothing as a matter of course. Some
of them won't even condescend to en-
| ter an office, and only accept work Il
| home, with the provision that mo one
| shall know"
| A man appeared upon the scene at
this point in the impromptu symposium,
and he was appealed to for his views
on subject under discussion.
Yes he said, II have employed a
| good many Southern women i'm various
| branches of my work. II seems to me
| they are very much like the rest OF
woman nature. Yes. they are rather
more inclined to sociability than activ-
! ity,'' he continued, with a smile; but
/ have had one in my employ for
nearly fourteen years now and /
haven't a more conscientious, intelli-
| gent or trustworthy worker She is al
| ways gentle hammered and obliging,
| and always pleasant tempered. Though
happen to know that she has tenn
per- ana "a quick one, sHe - 100 gent
| ly bred to show 1t, no matter what the
provocation and ! always feel that /
am literally and adequately represent
ed by her, whether / am in my Office
or not. There are plenty of expert
stenogra pliers, bookkeepers etc, who
are personally crude or impossible and
many a man would, like myself. prefer
some one who has perhaps less teehni-
cal training, but IL nevertheless gem
tleman. to the reverse"
But" objected one Of the previous
| speakers. there are plenty 81 North
ern gentlewOmen IN business. II Is just
the Whitney. helpless, dependent atti-
tude Of these SOutherners that appeals
10 the purblind masculine tempera-
mont"
The man laughed. ~ admit" ne
said, that I. though a New Englander.
like the unself-Rasertlye aiasSanCs o.