Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-03-26
When the Business
Woman Becomes a Wife.

Woman becomes VINE.
There is some suspicion nowadays of
girls who have gone out into the world
te do work instead of doing it at home
,rhe old cry about the place of woman
being her own nearthstone has died
natural death, and so has that other
about women not working at all.
People have grown to see that many
women must choose between work and
starvation, and it is not odd that they
rrefer the former of the two.
1t is also observed that work at home
is about as rare the roc's egg, and as hard
to get, and that if a woman wants TO
earn her living, she has to go out into
the world and work shoulder to shoulder
with men.
But the doubt that still turks in the
minds of a good many people is wheth
err this hand-to-hand struggle with life
outside has not spoiled girls for life
at home.
ground for wives; the world of business,
and the qualities there developed. some
times kill the qualities that make the
home. A girl who is all day long at
business gets to live like Il fowl OF the
arr. or like a working man.
She understands to the full the making
of money, and the spending tit would
be well if she knew, also, how TO save
it-but the details of life and home com
fort are not in her outside education.
She is used to having place TO sleep
in-be it home or "d:=SinSs," or residen-
tial fiat mansions-she knows the neeJ
of place where ode can rest at night.
and snatch 4 hasty breakfast, and be Ill.
on occasion.
But as TO its workings. or the power
she has to cultivate in order 10 make that
place comfortable. what should She knoN
from experience:
How does she understand the ccon0ul-
lcal marketing of 4 small income. She
who takes her meals in hurried turn in II
restaurant When she comes home III
night meal is ready for her. but SHE
has no more TO do with its preparations
than if she were Il guest in the house
She is worried by dust and untidines~.
no doubt, to IN extent that no mere man
would be worried, but she has no tinr
to use buster, or brush, and put it
right.
She is formed in habits of the hotpj--
where all Is done for one. and where ole
does nothing either 10 help or to suDeril,-
tend. When she suddenly comes into pos
session of a home Of her own. what sorI
of training has she for making home com
Portable and pretty and charming. IN
Tor running the household train on the
lines of economy?
She is plucked abruptly from tho old
life of the typewriter or the desk, or ths
counter, or the musical instrument. Sha
- set down in the midst of 4 new king
dom as strange to her as if She were A
uSurping sovereign
She is expected TO fail at once iEto a
new groove. and do her duty in il accord
ing to the call that has brought her there
How is the poor girl to do it, when she i,
ms ignorant OF the first principles uf
household management as is Il man?
she must put good dinners on tho
table when she has never looked into i
cookery book. She must use with discre
tion the money her husband gives Ley
to manage with, when she has been used
to make money for herself and spend i,
according to her own inclination, with ne
one to call her to account.
She has probably now even to dress
herself and cover all her ordinary cX-
penses of q personal sort with what she
can scrape or save out of the housekeep-
ing books, when she used to have n fire.
hand over her own income II is a task
so fun of heavy demands that the oniy
wonder is all business girls who marry
don't wreck the household ship
They may undoubtedly do so, unless
they are cautious and careful.
But the very training a business girl
has had ought to give her an enormous
pull over other homemakerS. if she USES
experience in the right way.
1t is true that a business girl is mostly
ignorant of all machinery of the house
hold. but the workings of that machine
can be learned by anyone who has resoiu-
tlon. patience and q good will. There are
cookery books and there are busters II
be had for the buying-there is the
strong motive power in making home
charming and comfortable, when ii is f..
the man you love.
Her training in business has taught
her habits of punctuality, accuracy.
falthfulness to detail, power of sustained
work. She has learned the value of
hkw hop Nty,rV ,NFfS CHI h.,s
been drilled into carefulness over dollars
and cents. She has had TO be neat ami
quick and Industrious. she has had t.
acquire self-discipline and self-control.
Above all, she has learned to long for
some comforts. and to appreciate them as
much MS any miserable bachelor who has
spent his life since manhood in wretchcd
lodgings.
She has all woman's love for pretty
and dainty surroundings. for a home that
Is her own, and in which she can rule as
she likes. She brings 10 her new duties
me fresh eagcrness for them that no girl
mas who has worn ont her first pleasure
IN them by long experience.
The business girl ought to make an OK
cellent wife IN spite Of all theories against
t. and she onght to add to her qualidca-
tons one which other women do not al
ways possess.
She has had to do with men on their
own ground: there is generally more Of
good comradeship between her and her
husband than he finds in the girl who
has always been Mt home.
Altogether. it may he said that whore
business girls married are n failure the
iault lies not SO much with their former
dfe as with themselves The woman who
IS not the less womanly whatever her pro
fesSion is the woman who will make "a
satisfactory wife. whatever vocation she
IS taken from 10 adorn a home.-New
York Daily News.
Few Dont's for Fathers and Mothers.
The children. bless their hearts. have
to swallow the medicine of instruction
each and every dav.