The Washington herald., 1911-08-24
WOMAN CONTENDS THAT
HOMEMAKERS HAVE BESTPAID JOBS

The following is an answer received
yesterday to the question:
do you believe in women working out
side of the homer"
The Herald has asked this vital ques-
ton, to which I will answer that I have
been earning my living for many years,
making more or less a study of the situ-
alton. have tried everything as nearly
as possible and I most emphatically say
No. No. No. A woman in the first place
is not physically built for it. She is much
more sensitive than man, her instincts
are all from the heart, she is made TO
love; to give love, comfort, and help
that is her whole nature, to give her
very best to and for those whom she
loves; to get her greatest happiness from
those whom she loves, her nature is love,
gentleness and kindness, and she gives
her all
Offices Calculating Places.
Now take this creature and put her in
an Office to work, Offices are cold, heart
less, calculating places. The heart must
he left at home, the nature must be
calloused. The first lesson to be thorough
Iy learned is distrust-to know an in
pretty gentle manners which were taught
the lady, to learn to meet a man as a
man and when insulted to plunk him one
in his eye.
Take typewriting, for instance. vari-
Gus men give dictation, they are also
equipped with natural instincts or weap-
ons or charms as you choose to call
them. Each male child as quick as he
is born is imbibed with the attributes of
I'LL - L.
the most wonderful creation of his Maker,
and that is quite proper. 1t is a neces-
sary equipment for meeting and master
ing the world. He feels this and he tries
to impress his wonderful charms on every
body. If he has wife, she also thinks
him more wonderful, so he sits down to
dictate to the pretty typewriter.
Ordinary Man to EmpIoye.
To her perhaps he is an ordinary, COM
monplace little man with a wart on his
is a big man in the firm. She has got to
use diplomacy from morning to night SO
as to keep an even adjustment
She must shove the char of the dicta-
tor away, so he cannot come too close:
every typewriter has that to do unless
she has an exceedingly fine place to
work. Not that men are scamps or vii
lians They are just foolish. They think
because their wives and mothers think
they are wonderful that they are so to
every one. They like to prove it and
captivate the typewriter, and if she does
work for a number of men, she has to
handle them like dozen eggs in a paper
sack in a crowded street car, they get
so jealous.
Jealous of Other Men.
If their letters are not given the iden-
tical and a little more so attention than
Mr.. -, they will get sulky and
pouty. Perhaps she will even be boy
cotted, l have known typewriters who
did beautiful work to be boycotted for
that reason-to just sit day after day
without work.
The training of the young girl of the
present age is enough to frighten people
looking to the welfare of the country.
She goes out to work. For what reasons?
Her parents have sufficient to give her a
good home and some luxuries, but she is
encouraged to be independent; she is not
required TO pay board, room rent, or
washing. She uses her money as she
pleases: she has absolutely no unselfsh
thoughts; she never dreams Of saving her
money to give her father a much-needed
summer vacation; she spends $40 for hats,
$40 for shoes, lunches, theaters, and no
end of clothes.
Fifty dollars per month is great
amount to be used for only pin money; 1t