Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-01-18
Has u Hige Ideal of Dignity
of Catholic Woman
hood.
Rev. Father Garrigan Points the
Way Girls Should
Pursue.
WHAT WORLD DEMANDS TODAY

Doubly armed, writes the Rev.
Father Gavigan in the Christian
Year, is she who is a graduate of a
Catholic high school and frequent
visitor to the confessional. Broad
minded she may be in many ways,
but her Observation-Disclosures never
countenances any moral laxity. She
has a high ideal of the dignity of
womanhood. Her entrance into the
Industrial world is another influence
for uplift. Temptation may some
day put forward the alternative,
"Give in or give up your position,
and she gives up her position, even
though her salary is needed at home.
She knows that nothing can COM
pensate for the loss of her integrity.
gentlewoman. She has acquired
self-mastery, the first essential in
education. "What is the education
of the majority of the world?" asks
Edmund Burke. Reading a parcel
of books? No! Restraint and dis
cipline, example of virtue and
justice, these are what form the
education of the world" And James
Phinney Monroe adds ''Self-re-
straint and self-discipline are what
public education must instill II It
would rightly preface and forestall
the work of the greater school, the
world. Without these the furnish
ing of mere book learning will be
like giving dynamite to children and
Calling guns to war-thirsty savages."
The world today demands that
education shall be efficient. The
world stamps efficiency on that
education which fits the girl for the
needs of everyday life. Graceful
manners in pouring at an afternoon
tea, ability to discuss the latest fic-
tion, knowledge of the matinee
IDOLS life off the. e.-stage. sympathy-for
the tenor, the professional opera
singer who makes love so beautifully,
but can not get along with that
"cross woman, his wife," are not
fundamental courses in an efficient
education. They do not swell the
pay envelope of the business woman.
She has a commodity to sell-her
labor. She may be working for a
corporation that may have been
so close that, when asked by a
stranger to tell the time of day, he
took off five minutes from the cor
rect time for his own commission.
The corporation is interested in
dividends. The officers expect Miss
stenographer to be graceful at the
typewriting machine, to have the
ability to take rapid dictation, to
have knowledge of spelling, punctua-
ton and good English, and to have
enough sympathy to work half
hour overtime occasionally in the
rush" season. Such young woman
is not the first to be laid off or let
go when depression hovers over
business. Such a young woman is
found in positions of responsibility
In every important city in this land.
In many, many instances she is
earning a larger salary than her
brother. The man, 1t must have been
a man, that started the rumor about
woman not being able to keep a
secret, had not received complete
returns from all the business houses
when he framed the slander. Many
employers prefer a woman employe
In positions where patience, loyalty
and dependableness are required.
Woman has "made good" in the
business world, and she has come to
stay. AS years roll on she will be
Joined by an ever-increasing multi
tude OF her efficient sisters, whose
number will depend in no small
measure on the increase of Catholic
high schools for girls.