The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-14

| q Hian IN Wall street,
My experience - tnat wonen will
investigate more Patiently and care
fully tnan men; that iney Will insist
upon more direct and decisive an
SWerS and that tney will turn down
a proposition without merit oftener
tnan the other sex. A man VINO is
investing VIII devote his attention for
nVe minutes a week to his own in
VeStTnent, and the rest OF his time TO
MS business, his club or his vices. A
woman stays with her investment
days. nights and Sundays. II there
Is anything doubtful about il, she
gets out OF 1t in time to save herself.
II there is anything particularly good
about it she finds it out in time to
increase the Investment. II there Is
anything dishonest about 1t, she
makes life miserable for everybody
in sight.
Il think the first provision of ev-
cry wage-earning woman is to have
a home, ever il she lives in it alone.
as IL shelter for her bic age-for III
earning power dies long before we
do.
There is nothing sadder in my eX-
perlence than to see the number OF
women between forty and fifty, VINO,
through some mischance OF fortune,
are LETT penniless. Youth with its
charm is gone, so their chances in the
matrimonial market are slight. They
were brought up in the days when it
was considered vulgar to work. and
So they wasted their lives N parasitic
living, even learning enough to
balance their check books. And h
do they face-old age, dependence,
sen1i-beggary. They cannot learn,
because they have not the hope. en-
ergy or adaptation of youth. Such a
vicious system of educating women
that results in n~1isplacing them must
pass, and it is.
The tightening Of housekeeping
desire, are compelling her to get into
the workaday world for mere occu-
patton, whether she narries or not.
Apartment housekeeping cannot oc-
,cuDy any intelligent woman more
than a minimum Of her time. Sew
ing, baking, all the simple, homely
duties are done by experts in the city
and distributed; it is more conom
zeal to buy than to prepare them
The only way to fill her day, if she
does not work is by bridge, tea par
ties, shopping, or %dawdling children
else-but the few children OF the
present day leave a woman when
very young, with her little family
reared and nothing to do; every ele-
ment in modern life is sending women
to work"
| but what Cnance mas 4 woman SOt
in business against man.
1T depends upon her own sell. h
has to. fight prejudice and tradition.
A boy and girl Of the same age and
same capability apply for a position.
He is choosing a life career; she Is
merely filling in the pre-matrirnonial
period. Every step the boy takes is
a definite striding to a definite goal.
The woman works to kill time, earn
pin-money, have excitement and look
about for a husband. Naturally the
boy will be preferred In promotion.
That Is one type and she is passing.
Now, the modern girl pauses n
| picks her work after reflection. viii
she 60 into business? Yes-if she has
a practical, exact mind, is equipped
with a good common school educa-
ton and has tact. Knowledge OF
English is necessary. too, too-lt
counts tremendously to know just
| what kind Of a letter to write to
| different individuals. who have to be
| hattered, coaxed. threatened or sub
tlely insulted. Stenographic ability
is an essential. and 0 l would ad-
wise all girls anxious to make a cred
liable start IN business life to study
law-this can be done through night
school-not to practice-but legal
| knowledge will increase her business
! value.
IF she possesses loyalty and is
more Interested 1ie "e'
than her own advancement, and sup
plements the man-at-the-head's
, breadth by knowledge Of details
such a woman is bound to succeed as
| certainly as a capable man.
1.-THE best places for a women to
| enter business are the large cities.
| where opportunity swings wider. Had
remained IN my New England town,
I would have had no chance to show
| whatever power I have. I think in
time 1 would have got restless
do you find the industrial condi-
ton OF women depiorable?"
THE average wages or the WORK
;oo woman not in Homework, but in
factories and mines, is q disgrace.
| Modern slavery is mad up OF these
Door superf1uous women.
Il think our education all wrong;
school should be a preparation Tor
Efe-not the incubator Of Impossible
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