Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-05-13
The Business
Woman's Attitude to Marriage.

Everybody is familiar with the man
who tells us that the possibility of wom-
ans marrying is in itself sufficiently a
drawback TO justify linn in paying her
less money for her work than he pays "A
man for exactly the same thing.
Frankly, although | am Il woman.
agree with this masculine view. Most of
us are neither so old nor SO ugly but that
the DamOclean sword in the shape of
opportunity TO marry may some time or
other hang above us. 1t does lessen our
valGe to an employer who prefers Il per-
manent staff. So far as one may count
on anything in this world, he knows he
may count on a mans permanenCe. other
things being equal, as greater than Il
w0mans simply because under all Ordi-
nary circumstances men are breadWin-
ners as long as they live; women only
until someone wins bread for them
| once heard the suggestion MADE that
business men who wanted women in
their offices permanently should try those
who he'd husbands to support.
Or widows" | added Their zest for
matrimony may have become a little
dull. Or
| was interrupted by EXPLANATIONS of
irony and disgust from the men in our
circle.
"A widow! Permanent! If there's one
thing that isn't permanent its a widow"
In spite of this state of affairs there
is, however growing up III the United
States class of expert business women
who are almost immune from the dam
gers Of matrimony. No one except the
women themselves know this. nor do
people believe it il told nor do | think
the immunity exactly happy. Regardless
of its fascination it is essentially pa
thetic, in Il quietly accepted fashion. The
immunity comes with few years on in
the thirties with comfortable quarters
u liSb ,s.,I Faf., g.
Sured, business success an accomplished
fact, Selislness, perhaps. growing apace.
This type of woman thinks long time
before she puts an end to the stability
of her single blesSedness. Moreover, |
am inclined to think even the most at
tractlve of her type are not daily given
the opportunity of ending such stability
Say what You will, marriages are less
frequent among those educated classes
who devote little time to social life than
to those who devote much. Our success
tul business woman, pleasant though her
life may be. diversified and not without
its social pleasures. makes no business
OF society. She meets comparatively
few eligible men, and when she does
meet them, it is quite likely that she will
not appeal to them ut all.
But, YOU say, IF it is merely mat
Ter ol pfoplnqultY, what of Ter constant
meetings with men in her business?'
W ell, IL ISM merely propInqulty. as |
have implied in the first reasons why
this business woman is almost immune.
And, then, of how many business wom-
en- can YOU think, now that | put you to
It, who have married men with whom
their daily work made them acquainted =?
/ am willing to wager that you can name
only very small number. However de-
hghttul working companion the bust
ness woman proves to a man, it is the
natural impulse which makes him turn
outside OF business to--someone else
Mess there is d case of unpremeditat-
ed falling in love. upon which situation |
nave nothing whatever to say. When
the average experienced. level headed
business woman in the region of 80 IS
sought in marriage by the average ex-
peuenced. level headed business man.
II sober, sensible question of CON
genial companionship. not the mad ec-
staSy of love.
we must remember that the race of
hgh-Salarled women, whose positions,
carry prestige with them. is compare
uNely young, and that out of it spring
our class of immuneS. So the future
may nave more to say on this phase of
the business woman'S relation to mar
fllge.-New Idea Magazine.