The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-25
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON
Merry Christmas to my friends.
We are celebrating a Birthday t


day.
Have you remembered that yet?
Some of us 1 fancy sometimes go
through whole Christmas day and
in the business and the happiness of
the material of it all forget that.
We are celebrating the birthday of
One whose greatest teaching was the
law of Love and Peace.
Have your turned your worries and
troubles out of house and home and
are you keeping open house in your
heart today for Love and Peace and
Good Will towards men?
We are celebrating a Birthday to-
day.
We are celebrating the birthday of
One who despised forms when the
right Spirit was not behind them.
Sometimes we think of Christmas
giving as all there is in Christmas,
but really and truly Christmas giving
is merely the form in which the Spirit
of Love is supposed to show itself
forth.
1t is a beautiful thing, but only
beautiful so long as the Love is be-
hind it.
A beautiful custom from which the
Spirit has departed is as weak as ice
when the water has been drained
away from beneath it.
Is there Love behind all your gift
giving this Christmas?
| We are celebrating a Birthday to-
day.
| Would it not be appropriate to take
down the Book where the sayings of
| Him whose birthday we celebrate are
written, and read some of them?
We are celebrating a Birthday to-
day.
| The birthday of Him who asked US
to Love our enemies as well as our
| friends.
| Would it not be beautiful birth
day gift to Him to seek out someone
| towards whom we have allowed our
selves to feel bitterness - perha ps
| some old time friend-and tell him
how ashamed we are of that bitter
| ness and enmity?
Are you disp1eased that 1 usurp too
| much the position of your preacher?
Forgive me. You must, for you
know this is Christmas day.
| II X
| Leave your sex at home
That's my most heartfelt and en-
phatic advice to the woman Who is
going into business life of any kind.
To be able to meet men without
any feelings of sex is as great an as
set as brains for a business woman.
If a girl can go into a bushes Of
flee and look upon the men there not
as men-creatureS to be fascinated
and interested. to be posed before and
made to wait upon her-but simply
and solely as co-workers. she stands
a mighty good chance for business sue
| cess.
"Why didn't you keep Miss B +? 1
thought she was a very capable girl
I asked a man who had recently dis
pensed with the services of a stenog-
rapher whom 1 knew to be a very
talented girl.
Because everybody had to be al
ways picking up her handkerchief, y
he answered.
And then in fuller explanation
Eyes she was clever woman, a good
stenographer. and an exceptionally
neat typist, but over and above that
she was always a woman and she
wouldn't let anybody in the office for
get it for a moment. Some one was
always picking up her handkerchief
or bringing her a glass of water OF
opening or shutting window or do
ing some little thing for her.
1T wasn't the things themselves
She's mighty pretty girl and nice
, one and if I were to meet her at g
, dinner or a dance I'd probably like
nothing better than to do anything
l. she wanted and I'm sure most of my
, clerks wouldn't, but my office ism
a drawing room or dance hall L
wasn't the time the things took
E either. 1t was simply the unbusiness
l. like atmosphere she created
al Some one is going to protest that
2 want business to be conducted lik'
Y machinery. that 1 am asking womel
E to be and to look upon the men abou
them as nothing but the wheels ant
f stead of as human beings.
am not. I am not advising WON
e en- to leave their personalities a
(. home, only the sex part of them.
: A crowd of men in an office togeth
er are not just cogs and wheels ant
!, bolts. They are friendly co-workers
t In so far as they possibly can business
e women should be the same-no more
J, no less.
Not every woman is able to do this
g.
1 oversexed that they simply can no
: forget their sex for a moment.
: The office is not the place for sucl
women It's bad for the business
! worse for the woman.
If you are that kind, get married
, embroider, paint china or take il
washing but don't go into business
l office.
But if you are capable of being i'm
personal enough to separate the mar
l and woman end of life during bust
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