The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-21

your duty to stay at home With your chill
dren and let Mr.. Mulngan manage alone
the business end Of the partnership was
suggested.
Il know that Is tho old fashioned idea,
and 1t goes along with another once popu-
! lar belief that necessarily there is sometbinp
unfeminine about married woman who
chooses to follow business or professional
career when her husband is abundantlv
able to provide for her especially a woman
who has children.
My father, Capt William J. Murphy
entertained that belief. I remember hear
Ing him declare whenever the woman's
rights question was preached in his hearing
that he believed that every family man
should wear the breeches and carry the
pocketbook, and he did not favor the idea
OF womans appearing in business Office
unless it was absolutely necessary.
ana yet he was man Of large expert
ence, who had been almost around the
world. and was a veteran of the Mexican
and OF the civil war at the time he settled
down In the real estate business. His
father was Judge in this county in 1881
and his maternal grandfather was George
Warner, Mayor Of New York in 1902 and
1902 whose house stood where Cooner
Union now stands, adjoining what was
known as Vauxhall Gardens.
so strongly indeed did he feel IN this
point that it was only on the pretease Of
busting his Office that / was allowed TO
enter t'even when had reached the age
OF Is. was the only girl in a family of
seven children, and tho baby.
les, even at that time think I had a
llkng Tor business, and fortunate thing
IL was Tor me. too, for soon afterward nv
lather was stricken with an incurable dis
ease and died in three years, leaving the
business 70 me practically, for mother,
VINO Is Southern woman, has no more
heao for business than a baby.
during the three years when he wac
confined to the house father used to write
h!s instructions on slate every day. ard
would carry them to his head clerk, In
that way learned so much about the
routine work that when the business. mo
into my hands was not at all afraid IA a.
sumo control.
In order to get better insight into
drawing up legal documents, took The
law course at the University Of New yo,L
and 1t was there | met MIR. Mulligan. whose
name Immediately preceded mine on the
roll. ! remember when enrol cd NV name
on the line below his, remarkine q: WIN
there is name even more Irsh than
mine
When We were married my intenhon
was to stay at home like the ordinary house,
wife and to that end Mr.. Mulligan took
over the business, which has since been
entirely in his name. But was well known
in this section and n, , nv ~ tho o,,, HI.
kept asking for me.
Il am rather proud OF the fact that the
first big sale Of real estate in this neighbor.
hood was put through by me. 1t was the
Ryer estate Of sixteen acres, which was
sold for $4,000.
Whenever call was insistent I went
70 the Office just to be obliging, and little
by little drifted back into the old routine
with full permission from my husband
who was MO than able to manage the
business without the least aid from me.
Indeed, had he raised the least objection. /
would have remained at home
II have had five children, but their coming
did not interfere with my Office work. And
let mo say right hare that although handle
perhaps as much business az does nv hus-
wear the brooches or carry the pocketbook
have no separate bank account and when
ever need dollar or thousand dollars
l must ask my husband for it, We're it
not for his torethoughtt probably all the
but he always insists on ha wing every deed
made out in orr Joint names
why should object TO asking for money
when | know my husband always stands
ready TO shnre every. dollar with me? Speak
my own o".ericnce l would advise tie