The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05
Marriage Grab Bag-Rules and Advice Don't Go"
Says the Old Bookkeeper T=1zsszn

knows little about men and their ways.
"Oh" said the bookkeeper, stil! pur-
posely misunderstanding. well, my son,
It would take wise man to help you out
and a wise man Will not mix up in It,"
Il don't want any one TO mix up in
lit and / don't need any help, the
question and you haven't answered It,"
How can I?'' the Old Bookkeeper went
on, with amused gravity When ! was
Of your age and began to think that
was vitally interested in marriage. there
were no business women as you cal!
them, or a. least they were not numerous
enough 10 set apart In a class 1ou
see. the business woman is In process o,
evolution. She is still called the 'third
sex by people who for long time lookeu
with grave misgivings II not with do@n-
right suspicion. on any woman Wno
worked with men in offices and at WORK
formerly monopolized by men. They used
TO say she could never learn the intrica-
cies Of office work so that an empower
would dare to trust her WITH lmportant
details Of his business. Yet she mas come
TO hold positions of great responsloillly
and to do her work with a faithfulness
and intelligence fully equal to that OF the
men"
'Yes, and these same people say now
that this constant mingling with men IN
their work will unseX her-make hsi
mannish in manner and mascuiineS tn IN
thought and action. What do you think
OF III" asked the Junior Partner, VINO had
been an amused listener.
Nonsense" replied the bookkeeper
"The working girls in offices and stores
and other places where women are en-
ployed along with men have among tnein
about as many sweet and winsome giIls,
about as many gracious and pure -mindsa
young women, as VIII be found IN the
same number of high school or college
bred girls outside OF business houses.
Now they are saying that, anyway, II Is a
mistake to allow a girl TO devote herself
10 office work, because she gets no chance
TO learn anything about the making of a
home, and that no man dependent upon
his earnings will marry woman who
cannot cook a meal or darn her own
stockings. Yet the business young women
and working girls seem TO be sought after
about as much as their moro sheltered
sisters"
"Wel. / would never marry 10 get a
cook" said the Smart Cashier airily. but
should want my wife TO know how TO
lady or stenograuher lady or any OF the
other ladies who go into office work as
soon as they get out of grammar school
know anything about making home?"
Huh, 1 went through the high school
an graduated" shifted the Pretty Ste
nogrnpher.
tato an get it done clear through
The Old Bookkeeper ignored this bit of
airy persi1aee and continued: Your
home girl. ii she is not such through in
dolence or lack of definite ambition. is
apt when she comes TO preside over her
own household to make too much OF her
housekeeping and too little of her hus-
band. She will have more systems of
housekeeping than he ever dreamed Of.
but she will know nothing OF n man and
his ways, Her system will soon get the
mastery of her and when he, rebels
against it she will weep or sulk. Her
system says there shall be cereal for
breakfast. He doesn't want oatmeal or
cracked wheat, but does want beef
steak. or course. her way is right.
Mamma always did 1t In that way and the
health books recommend so much farina-
ceous food for the first meal in the day.
He wants his roast well done. and she has
been taught that meats too we'll done arc
not as nutritious or so easily diSeSted as
when left rare. So IL goes. She takes II
as a personal grievance that he prefers
rolls bought from the baker to the gems
she made herself from mammals own
recipe. and papa always liked them. She
cannot keep a servant because she is
over particular and fault-ilnding. He likes
to find her prettily dressed and looking
cool and pleasant when he comes home
from work. Instead, he finds her flushed