Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-09-10
UNREASONABLE WOMAN.
She Has Never Learned to Submit to
Criticism-Her Pleasure
Is Law.

! bCA2ANHAt 10 iEStHA ttilit4ouis ~ hialltl
how just it is. and to keep right on doing
things their own way regardless of the
rights and protests of others? Is it some
thing inherent in the nature of woman or
is 1t something arising from the difference
between her training and experience and
that of men?
Every business man will admit that
when he first started to make his way in
the business world he thought he knew
it all" and was highly indignant if any
one tried to tell HIM that he did NOT.
ms is the attitude of nearly every youth
when he starts out for himself. And it
is especially true of every young man
who has been brought up in good circum-
stances and we'll educated. Every mature
man expects to find this conceit in the IN
hedged youths who go to work for him.
But the mature man in the high tide of
| MS success aims TO learn something from
every one he meets. and it is his boast
mat he can digest and profit by all criti-
| Gisi1, gust or unjust, that is aimed at him.
How did the business man arrive at this
| wisdom! how did he so completely
change his attitude from that of know
ing 1t all and resenting criticism to the
rational attitude of readiness TO learn
from every one he comes in contact with?
| he says he learned it from experience by
+! hard knocks out i'll the cold world He
never could have learned that wisdom if
| ne had been eOddled at home NIL his life
as the average woman is during her
/ youth.
The average woman of mature age. liv-
ing at home, has never learned as the
man out in the world has, to submit to
criticism. She does not easily submit to
rules of order and procedure. She is not
/ reasonable" Her pleasure is law
enough for her and she feels bound by
no other No matter what mistake she
| makes iii the conduct of practical affairs.
she resents criticism and refuses to profit
! by IT.. For instance she is told how to
get on a street car but, as Il rule, she
! THINKS the directions are of no imnor-
lance. She is angry if the conductor
makes q suggestion. In most things she
| follows her own within or pleasure. and
! woe betlde the man who tries to argue
I with her. If he be her husband she takes
! refuge in tears; if he be mere acquain-
! tance she looks, or says in words. lyon
! are no gentlemanr' OF course this is NOT
universally true, but it is so true that lots
anything"
Most men say it is hard to make n
woman keep contract if She happens
to change her mind before the contract is
executed. When she comes out ahead
she thinks a contract is a fine thing.
when she loses she too often draws back
and shows herself willing to let somebody
else shoulder the loss. 1t Is commonly
heard among business men. II hate to
transact business for woman
inns Is not because women do not
mean TO be honest and honorable: il is
simply because they do not recognize the
value of contract or of other business
procedure. They do not look ut these
things in the strictly rational way that
men are trained to do
1t appears that eNDelipuce in the bus;
ness world has done for the man what
experience In the home world has failed
to do for the woman. There is reason
for this difference in result arising from
the fundamental difference betw cen these
two worlds of experience A home is y
mimic world that may be run ON indie
pendent lines according to the par
| tcular ideas or tastes of an arbitrary
ruler. At the most home is made 70
conform to the ideas of only three or four
people, and as a rule a home is run ac-
cording to the ideas of one pprson-the
mistress of the home
A woman in her own home is some
thing of queen: her pleasure is the law
of that home. There are a few civic
regulations as to sanitation. etc. that inn
pose themselves on the home. but out
side of these there is nothing 10 restrict
the absolute liberty of the mistress She
may make up the beds before breakfast
without airing. or she may leave the beds
open until noon there is no one to dis
pute her right to do as she pleaseS. She
may clean house one room ut a time M.
she may tear up the whole houSp and !
Keep every room in confusion until every |
thing is done. Every woman has hsr |
own theory about every detail of her |
housekeeping. and she usually manages |
TO follow it,
mere max might say. 'WeU. there |
must he right way to do everything. |
and the woman who does things The |
poorest way IS poor housekeeper and /
4 nature Every woman knows that /
her way is best and she follows II.
But business and professional life |
moves on larger lines. 4 mans business |
life Is directly connected with and is n |
part OF the whole great world of affairs. /
1 ne business or professional man finds /
himself part of a worldwide scheme of /
thlngS Ills attention is. therefore con-
stantly hcng called to the necessity of /
submission to broad general laws of pro- |
cedure that he sees are obtaining every /
whore in the civilized world.
Women under the infinitely smaller
horizon or single home tends to develop
only on the line of least resistance. Sh,.
becomes more and more like herself ono
less and less like the world at large. I'm
the home and in social life personality is
magnIhed: charm, personal magnetism
FANNY, count more than exact procedure
IN taet. when these are opposed i'm great
measure one Is released from a strict fol-
lowing of exact procedure Women do
submit TO the arbitrary decreSs of fash
ION hut these train women in the wrong
direction. since the law of fashion nre-
'scubeS constant aud utterly illogical
change.
The business world is stable. conscrya-
tlve. and its laws change slowly. Every
business Is earned Gu under the same
general laws ami i successful in propor-
ton as il cxemplitieS those laws Tba 10.
nestle world is comparatively unsta bic
capncious. arbitrary. because each little
nome has independent laws for its in
terna government
Here, then. in this difference in experi-
ehce We md sufficient reason for WON
an 'nnrea condolences her tendency I
IL resent criticism and her tendency io
make her own whim or pleasure her only
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