The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-06

she had here. with another firm. and went
back TO work.
The two live together. hut they have
given mp housekeeping. And they have
no children"
A manager OF one of the large stores sa vs.
that many married women apply for work
who have had no previous business ex-
p~cricncc as well as many more who worked
in stores before they were married, and that
no discrimination IL made between married
and unmarried women, thc main points con-
sidered being capability and pleasing per-
sonality.
A woman who paints pictures for a living
declares that married women who are not
al all dependent for their bread and butter
and clothes on their own extertions. who
in fact are we'll TO do. in some cases are
opening studios and making "A bid for
patronage with as much eagerness as i'm
p~ecunious artists. This kind Of competi-
ton is particularly hard for the workers
from necessity to meet. as the well TO do
women nave the advantage in disposing
Of their work of such aids 40 money can
supply.
Think of a woman who is a millionaire
or more in her own right accepting o COM
mission at a stiG price for DE- signs 10 decorate
n certain section Of a public building" the
artist concluded, "as happened only a few
months ago.
"That commission would have meant a
good deal to n mar with a family TO support
or 20 a bread earning woman, and artists In
general agree that there are plenty such
who could have filed the commission fully
as well IA il has been filed"
The phase of the subject which most
interests the persons who try to keep tabs
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industrial situation in New York is the effect
the wage earning wife has On the husband
and the home. The effect in general. some
people assert. il not for good TO either. In
other countries. France for instance. it
may be different.
In this country the man" with a wage
earning wife sometimes bsps ambition and
deteriorates until he il willing 10 he sup
ported by his wife. As an illustration there
Ia cited the case Of a young woman who
married a young man earning $50 a week
and with prospects of doubling that sal
airy within two or three years.
Six months after marriage the bride
began to chafe at the economy che was
Obliged TO practise and proposed that she
again take up certain work at which she
could earn $I2 n week.
The wife had her way and the husband.
finding money matters easier. began to
spend a little more on his own pleasures.
Information concerning the nature OF chese
pleasures came To the ears OF MS employers
and when the time arrived when the young
man expected promotion. and a raise OF
salary another man went ahead OF him.
Meanwhile his wife had Increased her
earnings TO SIS a week and the pair "A
given up housekeeping n gone to board
ing. SIX months later the husband lost
his job and after long search was Obliged
to work at $50 a week. Possibly the time
will come when he will let his wife support
him, II she will. for he seems to have lost
ambition. And yet he started out with
bright prospects.
trial conditions who told the story. that
The young husbands downfall is mainly
due TO his wife's refusal to practise self
denial. to practise economy for a year
or two"
-This tendency Of married women to go
out and earn money is an evolution from
the old condition when women who earned
any money at all were looked upon Al
scarcely worthy Of respect Mrs. Clarence
Burns Sad when the subject was intro