The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
By wINIFRED BLACK.

| My daughter is completely spoiled since
she went downtown to work
| she used to be so sweet and obIiging,
end now she sulks if we ask her to
match a skein Of silk for us, and she
goes right by the store every day, too.
don't know what is the matter with
her"
| l heard woman say that about her
daughter the other day, and she looked
| as If she'd lost her last friend when she
said it,
Tell me, good mother. do you stop your
husband on the step and try to get him
| to match skein of yarn for you on
the day he is going to try a big case
In court? Do you make him wait till
you can run in and get a sample for
him to go by when he's on the way
downtown to make a real estate sale?
If you do, you're good deal of a failure
as a wife
That husband of yours is making G
living for you and your children. You
know better, or you should know bet
ter, than to put hurdles in the way for
him to climb over before he can get tC
the place where the money is
He needs his brain. every bit of it, and
| his energy, and his nerve force. and if
| he fritters it all away matching worsted
or finding samples, what's he going to
| have left to make a dollar or two with
pray tell?
Daughter Due Same Thought.
Why shouldn't you look at your daugh-
ter's work the same way?
It's bad enough for a woman to have to
90 downtown every day, rain or shine,
hot or cold, sick or we'll: but when it
comes to carrying her mothers worsteds
and samples around with her, cIuttering
up her handbag. why, she might as well
give up and do tatting for a living.
A woman's brain isn't any more COM
plex than mans, but her work is.
What man on earth would ever amount
to anything in business If he had to wash
out his own shirts. press out handker-
chief or two, do his socks in the wash
bowl, mend his gloves, put braid on the
bottom of his coat sleeve every other
night before he went to bed, and spend
half his lunch hour racing from one
crowded shoproOm to. another looking for
| bargains in decent shirt waists and sales
| in shoes?
Yet thousands OF women do these things
right along, and run all the downtown
errands for a whole family of thoughtless
time wasters besides.
Needs Energies for Work.
That girl OF yours needs every ounce of
brains she has TO compete with the young
fellow who doesn't 90 a thing in life that
! he doesn't like to do-except the work
he's paid for. Why do you try to handi-
| cap her still further, and then wonder
why Mary. who is so much cleverer than
John, never gets ahead as fast as he
does?
Mary is going right past the butchers,
| let her order -he meat" says Mrs. Mar
ried Sister, where Mary boards. Mary
passes the grocery, why telephone? It
costs a nickel; let's take dimes worth
of Mary's time and a quarters worth of
her strength and make her order the
| things for luncheon.
Mary can run into Thread Needles and
get those little things the seamstress
wants. She can take time at noon," and
| poor Mary does all these things. and her
| head feels like waste basket full of odds
and ends of other peoples letters, and
other peoples bills, and other peoples af-
| fairs in general. and there isn't room left
! in her brain for the business she is paid
| to do.
Changed" is she. that daughter of
yours? Well, then, there's some hope for
her. She may make success of business
in spite of you, oh, foolish, selfish, inCon-
siderate Mother.