Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19

-@~-o IN everything
Many thanks for the many fine letters
mat have come to me personally, IN
Indignant protest OF what was said by
one writer about the low morals OF bus
saess women IL does not do to make any
sweeping statements concerning any
class or people. You remember that
Squeers was once considered one type
OF the British school master, but was
merely a caricature OF an exception TO
the rule.
When l hear people say hard things
OF any class or people 1 am sorry
mat they nave had more experience
18th people Of that sort than with the
sr~trs- class The longer I live and the
more | meet people the more convinced
i am tHat people should find the oc-
cupation that fits them and sticks TO IT,
/ don't see why a girl should inherit
merely a fathers cOlOring, temperament
~ voice and not his fOndness, or apti-
tide for law. medicine or architecture
s-sad inheriting such. why not perfect
Oneself in the same l shall never for
get the arguments that were used by
the LOIS cOmforters" TO convince my
mother that she was "fOoling away
good money by employing a teacher
Eho could teach me Latin and Greek as
eel as the three RS She also faith
fully kept me TO my home duties, see
<r1g that I sewed the long. long seams
with my fingers, darned stockings, took
NY week in the kitchen and did my
mare OF preserving, pickleing and jelly
making.
shed my share OF tears over stitches
10 be taken out, and corners that had
10 be swept the second time. puckered
- - .~wFw II Ell
ally makes. but the training went stead
lily on and today / am as proud OF the
good bread l made for breakfast as CT
the check What The Journal will give
ne for tsis work. 1 am no exception 20
the general rule. i could mention hun
dred wofa=n who work in stores and o.
fees who are accomplished in all the
nne arts that go TO make pure woman
hood. But IL all lies with the parents
how the next generation will be- When
girls are allowed TO quit school at u
or Il years and allowed % receive com
pany and 60 to work outside OF the
home the child is bound to suffer. Had
the making or the laws that would
certainly be ore Of them. In cases OF
poverty or misfortune / would see that
q certain amount of studying was done
and that the children went straight
home and helped in the home.
Here are some statistics OF women IN
business. and you can imagine the hard
ships many have 10 endure because men
make laws that often bear directl-
against women and their interests.
like Mrs Hornet. would like very much
20 see the state in which a woman
could write a note and give IN her
taxes. / know that nOn-residents have
70 send them in 10 an official, and
happen TO know at one man paid taxes
on a hundred acres OF Georgia land for
his sister, and with her money until
ne had il IN his name
wish every one OF You could read
the September number Of The Pictorial
Review. There is a splendid article on
the Millionaire girls who are helping
their less fortunate sisters. There is al
so one on the Business Girl that is
so good l am going to clip a portion OF
ft for your benefit. Here il Is:
six million women are wholly or par
TALLY self-supporting in the United
States today. OF this number. 14.oOO are
S years old or over. One-half OF the
single women in America are self-sup-
porting. and so are one-th.rd OF the wild
ows.
do you know what that little para
graph OF figures means?
We'll. IL means that the American
woman has ceased TO be dependent either
before or after marriage. The widow,
facing the world with two or more chill
dren. who once sought home and help at
the hands OF well-to-dO relatives or chart
u workers. nox has some trade at her
command and holds her little family to-
gether by her own intelligent manage
msnt and the labor OF her hands and
brains.
The girl Of wealth who suddenly be-
comes poor does not plunge into a love-