The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-05-15
M,KrNG rr ron LOST TIME.


,cndous economic waste Of pas
.gyH. due to the restricting Of va
mans activities Ca the business %
hild bearing and home making
Dr Marden
IN the early days so great was
The prejudice against female
writer's that many q oma
wrote under a mans name. The
business woman was looked upon
with suspicion and deriBion The
very idea of a woman In business
was unfcminine. aud, as man
thought. tended 10 unscx her
"Nune of that sort of girl for
me-. cried young men when
women first began to go into
business offices and to have In
dependent vacations. she Will
be unsoxed. She viii not de do
mcstir. she will have lost much
OF aer femininity her a her
charm aud sweetness which have
made her 81 attractive in he
past.
Because OF such mistaken ideas
In the past. %rogarding the girls
vocation, young women who were
forced by family reverses to enter
q business career very frequently
did 80 secretly. have known
girls Of good family who en-
ploycd every effort to conceal the
fact that they we're employed In
business offices They would
often walk blocks cut OF their
way 90 mislead friends or ac-
q~uaintances they CHANGED 20 meet
on their Journeys to and from
work
one well-educated youug wnW-
an OF an impoverished aristo-
crutic family for years got ~ at
O'Clock every morning. even IN
ths winter. Co take AN early train
io o distant cts where she was
employed rather than work
where she lived and Doe %ostracizcd
ss a wage Garner. The people
Of her home town believed she
was a student md that her daily
trips were Go ana from college.
Think ~ the humiliation the
SRI Of the past generation sui
fcrcd because of the false stand
ards Of society in regard To- hcr
sphere
Women everywhere ia every
held they have entered are now
proving the mllncy Of such au-
tiauated standards The old-timc
prejudicos are rapidly being relic
gated 10 the dust heaps Of the
past.
The twentieth century business
woman is demonstrating that a
career m the commercial world
need not. and does not. unscX
her on the contrary her bust
ness experience and better
knowledge 81 affairs are broad
go. 49, .-.HHHL..N IN NHH. .HaH
helping her |marvclously 20 i'm
prove the conditions Boz hcr home
The woman lawyer the wom-
AN physic.1u-the new vomau iu
th, professions, boz business aad
ln social work. are otmoustrat-
iup how tremendously i,llizatiun
would have been advanced above
its present status. II instead of
the waste 81 the greater part ul
womans a1ility Ca the past i
had been utilized FOR toe uphu
and prusress of the race SO
other such %stupeudous economic
waste as that ol woman power,
and possibilities has ever biottou
tho pages of human history II
has crippled humanity progress
more than cly other thing
one b. compelled 90 admit u
there h. something ln what
learned philosopher Says about
economic waste of the past, by
convincing evidence Of woman's 20
out activity n an ne fields 60 VIII
he refers We wonder, however.
n really has been waste, and n in
voting herself almost * lusiyely
the work ~ perpctuating the race
the past woman has not. in real
been couser,ing enough enersy
the use oi future generations to m
Than maxi up for the losses hum.
iy b. alleged to have suite
through her absence from those h'
which in year, part have been oc
pied by men one is mpeiled
wonder just where the human p
would boz IN this year OF grace li
if unta through the last TIVE
CENTRES had been deYetins az m.
81 her time 30 the law aud medic
sfenography and snltswomanHl