The Washington herald., 1914-01-25
y,u1. CHANDLER MANI.

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Oft 60 mot 40 easy for a man to make
q living today as It was ten years ago.
conplaiped The-Professional-Man TO Inc
Rusine.s-esiri. "And the reason OF II Is
,n.t women are in a position to undsroid
him when 1t comes to the question u
salary. hsr
whole life in educating nesei W
certain position. as Is the case WIN
noar and she naturally does not expect
snd cannot command as high salary. IN
tIe second place she don't have 70 wofh-
eh. .eIdom has financial Responsiveness
10 urs.e her to insist upon oeeent
amount of remuneration for her Worh.
The-Rusiness-Girl was silent. smlhns
ouIetly up at the speaker, VINO was 20
much absorbed in his argument that ne
--arc.,v noticed that she had not an
swered him.
s.For the life Of me I can't see what
,be rntrairsed woman wants in the ousi-
ness or professional world, for when sne
brings to her work no equipment sAse
the desire to earn money she VIII seay os'
the same round of the ladder upon wnich
she first set foot. and she VIII oe Iortuh-
&c ~ she manages even to stick there.
HTbe truth of the matter is that she
has no business to apply for position
unless she has been trained for II, The-
Professional Man went On TO say. II
isn't fair to the man who must earn
living for himself and likely for vile
and family"
A tone of bitterness crspt into his voice
and the girl who listened held her peace
broad Accusation.
"As for ambition" said her companion,
ga woman has no business with an am
hilton that takes her outside of her own
bn,,e that's the trouble. They want
excitement, they want to get in the thick
of things and live on the excitement oil
the doyn-tovn world. They are smother
ing their instinct for home and mother
hood in order to follow mans work II
which they are not needed. and II ism,
fair to the mani
suddenly, The-Professional-Man remem.
bered 10 whom he was talking. He hac
known The-Business-Girl for year, ano
had wondered at the pluck and ambition
which had carried her from one promo.
tion to another, and when he remembered
he became embarrassed in her presence
and began wondering IL he had sa1o
aught to hurt her heart.
As for The-Business-Girl. she wa
thinking of herself. and the thousands
others whom she typifies. She had beel
thrust by the untimely death Of he
father into a work for which she wa
ot,ite uneuuipped. But she had beei
snurred on to hard work and persever
ance by the picture of the babies a
home whom she was helping her mothe
10 give a fair chance and the, world II
which she had won her success had at
tributed il all to an overweenins per
sonal ambition-the very thing agains
which The-Professional-Man had beel
railing all evening.
Through her mind the nights when sh
had come home from the office so tire
that she refused invitations for IN
evening because she had rather go to oeo
the times when she had sat down o
the steps which lead to her room an
cried out in utter WEAKNESS; the instinc
for home and motherhood with whic
she. like every other girl baby. had bee
born. and which she had persistenti
smothered-all these things marshale
themselves through her mind while The
Professionalism looked at her narrowly
realizing that somehow he had maue
irretrievable blunder.
The Real Reason.
When at last The-Business-Girl spok
she raised her fair head and lookin
The-Professional-Man squarely betwee
the eyes told him:
Ambition is not the power which urge
the unframed girl to enter a bushes
life. Sometimes she must smother tn
deepest cravings Of her own heart; he
every natural instinct, and think onl
Of others whom she must help.
Then The-Business-Girl was silent, ar
Man who had long low
her left his seat and lifted her howe
like face so that he might look into Il
eyes, which for the first time in his lif
impressed him as being tragically tir'
eyes for a girl Of TWENTY-FIVE but wht
he would gather her tenderly into
arms whispering his plea that she gil
II all up for him, two little children WI
had escaped their mothers care rush'
headlong into the room. and The-Bu:
ness-Girl looked upon them as thoui
they were spectres from another worl
She pushed The-Professional-Man asid
and holding out her arms to the til
pair she gathered them in. and buryil
her face in their sunny curls she sudde
ly burst into tears.
With one Of those rare intuitions whit