The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-25
SPEAKING OF CAREERS AND
THE WORKING GIRLS LIFE
No Matter How Much of Start TART Has, Girl Always
Hands Out Her Heart When the Right Man Comes Along
Is it Worth While After All, for Woman to Strive
to Win Applause?-Most of Us Play to An
Audience of Cone
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

Nonsense" the man said haughtily.
THE point / am trying to make in all this
is that every girl ought to go out and
make her own living in order to appre-
eiate a home when she gets it. It's the
woman who has the comforts Of life from
infancy, who rushes out and comes into
contact with disturbing factors In her life,
later on. The woman who is forced to sit
at typewriter all day, soon learns men
and learns their true worth She knows
them as they are, and when the days
work is done, she's glad enough to get
back to her own Preside and stay there
until she has to leave the next day
But aside from the regular business
woman, am speaking of the woman who
adopts a profession-like-say painting.
music or any of the fine arts" the woman
went on.
"All very excellent lampposts for a
young woman to lean against" the man
began, until life makes it's first appeal
to her. Then ] say
but a girl of braiHs," the woman pro-
tested
when love enters a girls life" the
man interrupted, "she tells her brains
to run along and go play You see, then
she has business With her heart"
when a woman is as serious as l am
about working the other declared, such
things as you are saying at the least,
are in very poor taste. The attitude of
the many, I'm inclined to thinks"
See here" the man stopped her with
an uplifted hand. we will look this
question squarely in the face The girl
that you and have had in mind all dur
ing this talk is fond of painting and
wants to be a Professionalism let her,
The experience viii do her more good
than anything else In the world.
MY friend Marianne" said the other,
lis a born artist. Painting is her life
work.
Don't know about that" said the man.
II have weird theories-I suppose from
your standpoint-about a woman and
work. l don't think that her life work
can ever be bigger than her life. In
other words, a woman who is going to
write a great book has to know some
thing about life; and an artist isn't going
to paint bigger pictures than she feels.
Books and pictures and all the little side
lines labeled CAREERS are only tiny
thumb prints and miniatures of life?"
what is LIFB?" asked the woman
thoughtfully.
If / told you, you wouldn't believe
me- the man returned.
How could you expect me to-" she
answered, when l asked you about my
friends career you answered with the
frivolous remarks that 1t was a good
thing for her to lean against until"
THE RIGHT man came along" he re-
peated, and persuaded her he needed a.
Cook That was only my hgurative way
of speaking. / am most solemn and seri-'
Gus when / say that the biggest thing
that can come to a woman is the oppor-
tunity to make a home for the man she
loves. If / had q daughter, I'd rather
see her happily married than to know she
would make the greatest artistic success
along the lines you have spoken of for
your friend-or any other as for that
matter Most of us after all play to an
audience OZONE"
when / think of woman, said she
thoughtfuly, high above the sea of
ordinary mortals, great artist winning
the applause of the multitudes, and
rs it worth while for woman to strug-
gle and try to win the applause of the
inconstant crowd2" he asked, medita-
lively. 1T seems TO me. man that I am,
and who has studied the matter, that
a sweeter music would be the same girl
singing a happy Lullaby at her own fire.
side She'd be sure of the music keeping
up-there. But the inconstant crowd that
the artist works to please may turn any
night and rend her, and that, my dear
Annabelle, isn't pleasant experience for
any feminine creature. It's hard enough
TO ra man to stand tt
'TIow you DO talk the woman OBJ
served emphatically, ana with no under
standing.
And then the conversation languished
and the Man smoked quietly on.