The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-25

VI DIS CH0 nurse people Say, gets
into his stride" while he is in mis-
early twenties, and the rest depends
absolutely on himself, as to how he
will prosper. We have a healthy
average of very decent men in this
country, and they have been willing
to do their part towards the women.
In business, personally would a
thousand times rather do business
with a man than with a woman, and
for exactly the same reason every
other woman will give you; and this
is where the business woman realizes
more fully than any other woman,
just how much the feminine mind is
dominated by theories.
Have you ever attended the
graduating exercises of one of the
public schools? And haven't you al
most cried at the pathetic ESSAYS
that have been read in all serious
ness by the girls who are going out
into the world?
And SO often, when she does "get
a position,' isn't her poor little head
so chOck full Of the theories she has
about business, that she nearly
drives the boss" crazy the first
week she is on the job?
John Jones is tired and hungry
after hard days work; he has Wis
ions of a hot supper, with maybe a
good, big beef steak, or a dish of
stew, or any of the other things he
likes to eat, and for which he has
allowed enough money to get The
Ladies Home Maker has Just ar
rived at his home that day, and it's
a beautiful magazine, with a cover in
six cOlors, fourteen different direc-
tions, about how to make all sorts
of fancy work, and seven pages
devoted to making al sorts Of GRO
quotes, cakes and jellies. Mrs. John
has also been reading a beautiful
article by Susannah Jenkins on
"How to Make Home Attractive to
Your Husband" (and it's dollars to
dOughnuts that Susannah never had
a husband and her home is a room
in somebody's boarding house), but
the article is to touchingly written,
Mrs. John has to feel for her hand
kerchief every few lines. She rises
from the reading straightway, and
puts on her frilliest dress, fixes her
hair in the way John always likes
best, lays out some of the old songs
and music he used to love in their
days of courtship-and by that time
John is home, there is no fire in the
kitchen stove, and he has to fill I'D
on hastily scrambled eggs and bak-
er's bread, because he is too hungry
to wait for the dinner he wanted to
be cooked.
Then Mrs. John cries some more,
and wonders how she ever came to
marry such a brute, when he makes
such fuss over so small a matter as
meal.
Theoretically-it was noble
thing for Mrs. John to go to all the
trouble she did in trying to make
herself attractive, but Johns need
just then was for food, and not for
frills; and an attractive meal would
have appealed more to him, than the
sweetest song ever written or warb-
led or the very latest wrinkle in
dresses.
Another style of Mrs. John reads
in the newspapers of the awful civic
conditions which exist in her town,
and she straightway decides it is up
to her to reform them. She knows
little or nothing Of the inner wheels
which have made these conditions
possible; she makes a deduction on
somewhat these lines: you fill offices
by voting; the man who is ''in'' is
not fit to be "in'' and she is sure
her influence will do much toward re-
moving him and keeping him and
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