The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-22
G|R[s GIVE VIEWS
: ON MATRIMOhY
Love and Salary of $500 a Year
Would Make Some OF Them
Leave Commercial Field.
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tory girls marry 10 escape the Toll
that kills. il is different with the bush
ness girl-stenographers. oookkeeps
ars cashiers. clerks, msnicurists, teles
phone operators, etc. They nave none
OF the grinding toll that makes the
factory girls life miserable and hey
are getting better wages, too.
Consequently they are more par
ticular and the right man has 10 come
along before Miss Business VIII give
IN her typewriter for dishpan. Yes
she is mighty particular, more so IMAM
the daughters OF our millionaires,
saws Roht. IL. Schauffier in Success
Magazine for July.
Schauffler has made a wide inyestl-
CATION and study OF the heart lonslngs
OF the young woman who works TOT
living. He has talked TO thousands
from the girl who earns IS week %
the highly specialized woman VINO
manages a business at from $4,000 To
$40. 600 a year anud he is reporting
his findings in series OF interesting
articles.
I'D rather have the chance 10 do
this interesting work. said the head
lady of a department in Philadelphia
store 70 the writer, than be the
daughter OF a millionaire"
"A man would have TO offer me
good deal" said a Wisconsin steno-
grapher, TO atone for my giving up
my economic independence.
Girls in Offices and stores see so
much of men" said Tennessee book
Keeper that they are apt 10 be made
suspicious and pessimistic.
If | could get real good position
for Sl2 week, with nice little
room. I'd never marry" said a labora-
tory assistant in Massachusetts.
Romantic passion is not neces-
sary." said a Louisiana stenographer.
1T often burns out and makes unhap-
piness. I'd want deep respect and
sympathy. wouldn't marry until l
was flst as At for wifehood as for any
other profession that would enter
with expectations OF success"
Il want love- said a Memphis tele-
phone girl. His money might give
out. Love lasts when money Is gone
A millinery clerk said: Il want TO
be loved-not because I'm useful, but
because it's me-
An underpaid Brooklyn girl said:
IT wish someone would fix II so living
wouldn't be so high. We don't want
to work after we get married"
Four-6fths of the business girls
want children, as compared with only
two-thirds Of the factory girls.
Home Is not complete without
children. | love them" said Ten
nessee stenographer.
A Minnesota stenographer said:
II don't want many children. Mother
had SO many she could not give US
much care"
Just so long as there is a clear
tablecloth in the house and love. II
won't matter II We don't have much u
eat" said seleswoman In Chicago.
| The business girl does not expect tc
lido anything hut housework after she
marries.
A southern telephone girl said {:
What, go on with my telephoning
Why, I'd be so tired in the evening
! wouldn't even have a smile left for
my husband"
The girl who boards usually Is a
firm believer in marriage
A IuTnlSNeu IOOu1 Is no way IOr d
girl TO live" said an Indiana beauty
shop worker Il don't know what the
folks in my town would say II they
knew I saw my gentlemen friends In
my bedroom, but there isn't any par.
Tor in the boarding house, and all the
girls do IT"
The business girls ideal of manly
beauty is a tall, dark. square awed
hero. The business girl pays much at
tention TO good looks and good clothes.
The factory girl wants young man
about her own age, 80 we can grow
up together"
Widowers and divorced men do not
stand high with business girls.
mo warmed:over affections for
mine" seems TO be their motto.
The hundreds OF business girls who
named the salaries they wanted their
husbands TO receive struck an aver
age of $29 a week, or 1880 year.
Business girls like good spenders
prospects Of having stingy husbands
DO not appeal 20 them. Two-thirds of
| the girls insist that their husbands
shall have good educations.
Only three-tenths OF them consider
| marriage failure they are optimists