The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-11

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" haps even now. after fifty years
OF trial. they are yet too new
to money earning and business ways 20
adopt the best methods Of conducting
enterprises to success. Perhaps during
decades OF centuries they have become
so accustomed TO gaining their aims
through tears and mournful appeals TO
the sympathies OF others that-pocr
souls'-they drop through hsredity into
this lugubrious style when they want
YOU TO hire them TO work or to buy from,
them a new patent shirt waist fastener.
At any rate. many q woman'S first
essay IN the Industrial world IS
wretchediy unbusineSslike appeal TO
the sympSthies OF others Say Mrs.
Tobias BODY is canvassing for the xrip-
lt-fast shirt waist clamp She comes
into Your presence and sinks into a
char With the sigh OF Il lost soul Then
she opens out She tells YOU she Is a
widow with small children 10 support:
.hat she has been cheated out OF her
little property-the more fool she FOR
allowing herself 20 be cheated, she tells
you how inIirm her health il and how
she suffers from some Kind Of aIifneni.
II may be this or IL may be that. but IL
Is always chronic. like her own down
ln-the-mouth face-a face 50 woepexens
and unpleasant that you inxtinctively
want 10 look away from IL She en-
larges or how dreadfuily hard she has
TO work and how tired she gets and
oh-ah-oh, Till you feel es though YOU
would rather see "A sheriT's sufnmcnef
como Into your house than q self SIP
porting woman.
Even a girl who earns q good salary
too often takes this woebegone fali-to-
pieces attitude. She counts business
hours as so much OF her time that xhs
is defrauded cut of by Iadve-se fate s
and whines because she has 20 suppoEY
herself instead OF gIoryins in the n n
This down-in-the- mouth attitude
seriously in the way OF business woul-
EN- OF all conditions. IL is the attitude
OF the beggar who stands on the street
corner and parades his deformities 20
draw money out of people. Because We
are widows with children TO support
because we have a chronic toe ache or
used 10 be rich and were fools enough
TO let ourselves be cheated our OF our
wealth-none OF these Is any reason
why other people should put Their
hands in their pockets and give us
money.
Business is business. II presupposes
that two parties make an Interchange
Of labor and money or Tchandise
and money on mutually advantageous
terms. give and take. fair and square
Sentiment and sympathy have absa-
lutely no place in commercial trsnsac-
tions, only IL seems hard for women 10
learn this.
II is not hardship to work for ones
living. whether at cooking or anything
else 10 Is being a useful member of
society. contributing 10 is economic
strength. IL - something 20 be under
taken with pride and satisfaction. The
woman who has the brains and grit 90
maintain herself is to be congratulated
not pitied She IL not in the least de-
serving Of anybody's sympathy on the
contrary.
Why she should attempt 90 draw on
peoples sympathies is mystery Per
haps she imagines she viii gain by H.
II SO. she is mistaken. All other people
have troubles OF their own. as many as
they can carry. and they therefore have
so much sympathy for themselves that
little Is left 10 spill over upon others.
A whine and a doieful tale n fsw times
repeated will harden any mortal and
close his ear against all who approach
him mingiing business and beggaTy.
The Two do not mix successfully.
Undoubtedly the attempt 20 succ
IN trade by drawing on mems symH
thies has something 20 DO with so ma
women's failure in the business wor Z
II does not work. Il never VIII ~
The noble. self respecting attitude
the only one.
The woman who succeeds r. she who
Is prepared TO give full market value in
the trade or labor world who keeps all
her troubles and weaknesses "a herself
and thus gives the impression that she
is strong and capable. who greets ali
the world with q brave. cheerful con
fdent mien and words. thus giving the
impression that she r. successful Ia
what she has undertaken.
ALICE A. BROWNE.