The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-22

ward financial independence that
will bring about vastly improved con.
ditions for American women.
Daughters of American parents
are overdressed. Their foolish moth
ers and complaisant fathers heap
one costly garment after another on
them and make them human pea
cocks. The result is they grow up
vain, silly and useless.
III a man in very moderate cir.
cumstances-say a clerk-instead OF
overdressing his little daughter.
should lay aside a hundred dollars
a year for her at twenty-one she
would have very respectable lit.
tie sum. She could put 1t In a bank
or wisely invest it, so that she
would always have a little money OF
her own for her personal needs.
She would not have to ask for
money and feel degraded by a re-
fusal.
that is the purpose OF the dowry
as ! view 1t. and l you'd have the
woman always keep her own bank
account.
Common sense Is valuable In
household affairs, perhaps even more
than anywhere else. A woman OF
intelligence should not be a slave
to her housekeeping, but the mis-
rress of It,
"I don't believe the saw that an
intellectual woman is a poor house
keeper. On the contrary. the clev.
crest women know are the best
housckeeper The truth Is that they
bring to bear upon the household
problem a trained intellect. They
plan their work better and oredr
their households as q systematic
man does his business.
Common sense Is needed in busi.
ness. receive thousands OF letters
q year from women who want to
become self supporting. They always
indicate what they would like to do.
and this without any proof that they
are at all adapted to II. They want
10 go on ths stage, or they want
to write or oalnt pictures. Never
has one said: I am a good house
keeper and think ! could run a
boarding house successfully or 4.
am a good cook and am yearning
for one OF those twenty-one-thousand
a-year positions read about In the
New York papers,
"If women would stop thinking
about the so-called polite pursuits,
which are not so profitable as some
of them believe, and turn to supply.
Ing the universal needs, the big fe-
male army OF wage-earners would be
better OFF.
I'VE can get along without books
and pictures, and we can stay away
from the theaters without any Sc
rious loss, but we can't get along
without food, nor shelter. nor
clothes. That is the reason that
cooks and clearinghouse keepers
and dress-maekrs should be the fe-
male capitalists OF the world. If, In.
stead OF wandering far afield. they
would do the things that fare natural
for them, they would be richer and
happier.
Every woman should have pur-.
pose In life. and that purpose should
be to find her work and do II vcll
But many of them either don't find
II or don't do It well. Take the
clearinghouse keeper. for instance,
Women are the natural homekeepers,
They ought to be perfect in that
art, yet how many boarding houses
are well kept?
Women are natural cooks, and yet
how comparatively few well-cooked
meals we eat. And dressmakers tell
me they have to give up business
because 1t is impossible to get
enough girls who sew well. Yet sew.
ing is natural vocation for women,
and every city is filled with women
wailing for well cut, well fitted
gowns. The trouble with women in
business is that they are forsaking
their last.
"In affairs OF the heart woman
needs common sense more than In
anything else, for in these she has
always shown her superfluity OF SEN
timent. There have been too many
Griseldas, and ! am glad that weak
spirited women are goils out OF
fashion. II a man isn't faithful he
isn't worth worrying about, ! have
no admiration for fools.
Il should like to see marriage
made harder and divorce made cas-