El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-06

Beatrice Fairfax Says
Come In without Knocking and Go
Out the Same Way Good
Motto For Girls.

ONE in without knocking
reads a sign hung on many
- business doors. 'tand 80 out the
same way
Woman goes in without knocking.
Does she go out the same way2
We viii leave that question to the
thousands Of girls who earn their bread
and butter on the other side OF tie
counter. When they get home at night
and show their bruises. they display
also a wOefu1 lack of consideration
which many of their own sex have
shown them
The woman o. the buying side Of the
counter never received better treat
ment by forgetting the second clause
OF the motto she saw hanging on the
door If she got out a hammer. the
girl who waited on her Immediately
displayed harder resistance That
is human nature
But it is a good motto. so good it
should not be confined exclusively TO
business doors There is an urgent
need for it on the doors Of homes
You go into your homes at night
without knocking OF course you do,
for it is your home and you enjoy the
its threhold. do you conduct yourself
in such a manner that you can say
next day that you went out the same
way?7
Taking Troubles Home.
I do not ask the question OF the
men Every woman knows that it is
more or less Of a masculine privilege
to possess the hammer but ask IL Of
the girls
They go home from school. from the
little pink tea fOOIshness Of society,
or from the more serious places in life
where they are engaged in earning a
living, and enter without knocking
The school girl has known her days
defeats and humll1ar1OnSs as acute as
any she viii experience in the years
to come. and is cross, the girl WAC
comes home from the pink tea foolish
ness. saw much there to envy, aud as
pink teas are not conducive to sensible
thought, is somewhat resentful, and
the girl who goes home from hard Ia
Dor all day argues that she had 10
be pleasant all day. and can't be pleas
ant a moment longer.
Just as all complaints are told TO the
trouble man with a telephone com
pany, so do all complaints in the home
reach mother. She is the central who
hears of all that is wrong, and re-
ceives scant praise when everything
is right The girls. from v7hereVeT
they come, regardless Of what they
have been doing all day, exercise the
privilege that being at home gives them
and proceed TO knock as soon as they
have crossed the threhOld-
Mother hears a complaint because
the teacher was unfair; there IS
whine because some other girl has
prettier clothes OF prettier home.
there isn't anything for supper worth
coming nome Tor OF II IS late. and
should be early when a girl wants to
dress to so out
Hammer after hammer is raised and
brought down mercilessly. and the
woman on whose shoulders these blows
IAN isn't one who is denying the
family one jOt Of comfort that is with
in her power to give She has never
considered the daily sacrifice she
makes Of herself in her effort to please
she has denied herself necessities for
gotten that the world holds any lux
uries, known nothing of rest. and. so
farNas possible. has effaced herself IN
every. problem OF division that there
might be a larger share for her chill
dren-
Girls when you enter your home to
night, do il with this little resolution:
That you viii be able to say when you
leave it tomorrow that you went out
without knockingI