El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-19

where some member is not known to
play a crooked game.
She has been caught at her tricks,
but does this horrify the other women
so that they rise up boldly and cast her
out? Not at all. They watch her as
well as they can, and try to keep her
hands off the puncher, but that is all.
They my dear" her, and go to her par
ties. and invite her to theirs, and she
suffers no social ostracism.
And the woman takes her crime-the
crime for which men have the ugliest
word in the language equally lightly
as the other women do, and it never oc-
ours to her TO put herself in the same
category as the blackleg gambler who
stacks the cards, with whom no gentle
men would play, and who could by no
possibility get across the threshold of a
gentlemen's club, if his character were
known.
The fact that women are the chief
'Smugglers, that they pilfer from hotels
and cheat at cards would seem to inGi-
cate that they were less honest than
men. and had less keen sense 0f hen
or; but this is not true. The marvel IF
the whole matter is that when it comes
TO handling money and dealing with
things of intrinsic value women are
much more honest than men.
Women as Cashiers.
There is a reason why in almost ev-
cry store in the land. there are women
cashiers. 1t is because the contents of
the till are sacred from the girls fin
gers, as they are not from the boys
A prominent banker in this city, who
has substituted women cashiers for men,
says that he has never lost a penny be-
cause of dishonesty since he put the
women in, and he was never able to
prevent losses while he had men han
ding the money.
All employers of women bear tesrimo-
ny to their honesty and cons c1enticus-
ness as q class, and it is also true that
a woman who has the handling of mon
ey, and is personally responsible seldom
lncurS debt that she cannot pav. or
skips her rent or beats tradespeopIe.
Most Of the bad debts On merchants
books were made by men or BIZ some
woman who expected her husband to
pay
The confidential clerk who gees
wrong. the embezzler, the bookkeeper
who makes crooked accounts. the en-
pIoye who speculateS with the firms
money, is almost invariably a man. The
women in such places have clean
hands Their consciences would recoiI
from the very thought of robbing the
cash drawer or classifying their ac-
counts. though it would be perfectly Sc
rene under the ordeal of getting in
dozen pairs of gloves without paving
duty or taking home a cute little mus
tard pot in the front of their blousas
from a restaurant.
All of which leads to the difference
that women are not less honest than
men. but differently honest-that thew
nave not less conscience than men. but
hat their conscience acts along differ
ent lines
by She RObs the Government.
Perhaps, also, women can never es
ape from the personal element. and the
'eason they are enabled to steal from
ne government and hotel or railroad
While they Will not from an individual.
s because the government and the rail-
Dad and the hotel remain vague ana
Intangible to them-a sort of DrOv1-
ience that can't be robbed, whereas
ney have an acute sense of tn cnorrni-
y or taking things from The store Ct
dr- Brown or Mr.. Smith
However. there IS no disputing rho |
act that the feminine conscience is \
earful and wonderful thing, and that
moves at an ungueSSable tangent in ,
stead of along straight lines And We
VII have to let it go at that