Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-29

The Woman's Home Companion for
November has a fine article on me
Business Girls Home Rights. ana the
orIv fault that I can End with IL is that
II ala not 10 far enough. There are plen-
~ OF fathers and mothers who seem 10
think that the business woman Is out IN
the world for the fun Of IT, There are
some who are there TO shirk the duties
az home. / must admit. but they are NOT
the successful sort. You can put it down
As a fact that a shirker is not going 10
climb very high in any calling
Only last week 1 was talking to girl
Who leaves home at in the morning
rides an hour and works till $50. getting
home about Z. Her life is a regular
treadmilI she rises about ana you
know how IL is when you have 10 eaten
n train. L saw an opportunity for her TO
get out OF the trouble and told her about
IL she came back next day ana said
that her mother absolutely refused u
move. that she was sure her health
would not be good In town. that she
would be lost without her chickens. and
IN short the matter could not be con-
sidered-
7 -s1wQeSted> a home here on car line.
with a ward and garden. there are plenty
az them. but the truth. Miss Thomas, lies
IN the fact that my married sister lives
there and mother won't leave her She
can't live with sister because both want
their own ways and both are going to
have them"
then asked the girl the plain question.
How much money lave you in the
bank
Not a cent. I got in the habit Of turn
ing il over TO mother and I verify believe
she would have spasms II I tried 20 save
any. she buys all sorts or things for sis
ter's children. and I never dare say q
q word. Once when ! merely sug-
xested that Mr. williams should pay for
his chfldren's clothes she cried and said
that poor Charley and Fannie were try
ing 10 nav for a home. and Il didn't leavs
q cent for the little extras that girls
needed reminded her that we were not
home owners either. and she said that
vas what / got for working. that IL
would stay at home and be more wo-
manly. 1 could get married
II was a pitiful story. but I had TO
laugh at the mothers idea To her mar
rfage even with q man who allows
his mother-in-law TO take another's
money to help his family. meant the goal
OF q woman's life
told her frankly that II she did not
90 into a gymnasium or ease up her
nerves she would have to give up all
work.
Another case that I've IabOred over
was a girl wh0NEas about as much fitted
for Office work as a wren could be sub
stituted for a canary got her a nice
place I'm home. she was treated like
daughter and was really happy. Every
week she had her money paid her and
was at no expense. II Leaked OUT that
she was in Atlanta doing a servants
work. Some OF the family wrote to her
and reproached her for 'disgracing the
family" That did not move her. so her
mother came, made a scene and took her
home. She cried and the lady she was
with would have cried only she got mad
20 see the girl mistreated.
In two more months. this year Of Grace
VIII be a sealed book. Have we done our
very best with each day as it came TO us7
IL 50. we are to be congratulated. II not,
let US look back only long enough to see
our stumbling blocks and be able to
Identify them next time.
Let us take the talent God has given
us and make the best Of il. One may
have talent for one thing. and another's
be quite different Don't let the contrast
make discomfort. The girl who was help
ing the woman make good home for her
family was serving God quite as much as
you and I
Once, In The Outlook. came across
these encouraging words:
Starting with what the Ai-ni~',y has
given me be II ever so littIs though
my advance be away behinu other
mans starting point. am /. +. law unto
myself. progressing? That is the point
Let me feel that am. and I shall have a
blessed sense OF independence. I shall not
care II others are ahead. an doing my