Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-12

To Do
The thing which takes her the shortest
step from her present occupation is often
the salvation of unframed women, so many
of whom have at heart that question of how
to become partly self-supporting.
The business life of women has created a
need of which there is no end for response
bic domestic work from other women, and
the difficulty does not seem, so far, to have
been in their coming together. Where this
kind Of work fails 10 make a living 1t is
usually because the woman who has me
skin has not the strength to do enough OF
It, For the reason that il is domestic such
work brings small pay for the time m
vowed and the best plan for the woman
who can start in some special line OF IL Is
10 study the problem Of how to apply heip.
\ woman who started in to make bread
succeeded beyond her widest expectations
as long as It was matter of pin money
soon her business increased beyond the PIN
money stage and she stopped because,
as she said herself she had too much work.
II she had any men belonging to her,
oitI,fS dead or alive or anybody else inter-
esleT enough to weep for her. they must
have wept then. when the beginning OF
nice little bakers business tumbled down
because she had too many orders.
\ woman rented an office in one OF the
large buildings, with only the price or
months rent and payment for a small
amount of help back of her. She makes
over, repairs. rebinds, turns, rips and COM
hines with new, changes the shape OF
sleeves. and puts new ruffles on petticoats.
She began by simply sending cards. Whch
set forth her work clearly, to everybody she
knew. and now she has her six girls work
ing steadily and has a nice little income
a
business which she handles
For the woman who can do work by the
month for a few people there IS rlcher
field in being wardrobe keeper to the
business woman than to the business man,
as the woman who has no mother or SIS
ter to do these things for her is IN DIRE
need unless she has time to do them lor
Another case, and one in which her help
has been her salvation, is that OF walk
ing housekeeper who takes her boy anu
girl with her after school hours
She spends three hours at each place,
cIcguing or cooking, or doing the more
skilled part of housekeeping, and does the
main part of the work needed in that mousse
hold for the day. She gets the nisn PFC
OF a dollar for the three hours, and always
IS engaged, because she gets so much zone
for the time spent.
More
Than ever before are people looking for
me exact CpiuillpltS NlIlCli mani iOA 'i4SAN
ideal marriage in which the wife identifies
herself with her husbands interests, both
great and small and in which they pool all
the questions which come to him, particu-
larry those Of conscience.
One place where just this arrangement
exists is a house in the suburbs which is
run upon ten times as much a year as the
little nat in which the menage was started.
Tie couple had come home and announced
TO the astOnished families that they We're
engaged, aud three years later they were
married, when the parents had to give over
treating the whole matter as joke and
give in TO a steady and determined per-
Sisteuce.
Two different points Of view gave ex-
preston the other day to concurring opin-
ions apropos Of this.
one the pretty and comparatively young
wife of middle-aged and set-in- his-ways
husband told how she had to manage him
10 get her way.
or all my friends" she said the really
happy ones are those who married when
they were just boys and girls. They don't
seem to mind giving up to each other and
they easily learn each others ways and I'M
learn their own"
The other was an authority On matters
matrimonial and sociological Just as
long" he said, las II is the fashion to marry
which the wife is not troubled with her
individuality and In which there is one
Identity Will be harder 10 achieve. When
they wait until one is over thirty-five and
the other is over twenty-five they will have
habits and opinions which they are abso-
lUtely incapable of giving up for each other,
no matter how much they want to-"
Everybody has known the absolutely hap
py matches in which the wife is a little
girl IN years and yet gifted with that di-
vine insight into the meaning Of life which
has held the lifelong devotion of the hus-
band who has developed with her.
The man who waits until he makes n sue
cess OF life by himself has formed a scale of
values which he finds it hard to change for
q wife, although he may appear to do so
from outward Difference 10 her. If he
chooses the finished girl of the world of the
best type he will find that she has reached
her pinnacle by an evolution which has cast
her In a mold.
If You
Are elegant. exquisite. tailor made, and
have bank book don't resent the clothes
OF the cook who affects furbelows instead
Of the palmer things which would adorn
her better.
And don't criticse the everyday woman
who essays velvets and rich accessories
and sometimes wears them inappropriateIy.
There is more in it than meets the eve.
As to the cook, in spite of your quiet sense
OF the fitness of things, you can rejoice with
her WI Sb - in INIT at of Bo