New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-19
WOMEN IN BUSINESS
An UnAattering View of Their
Value and Prospects.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: VIII some one please explain to me
why it is that so many females feel impelled
to engage in business, many OF them occupy
ing what formerly were mems positions? To
che writer it seems that a really refined girl
is entirely untitled for business life, not be-
cause of her inferiority, but because of her
superiority. Why does not some one sound
a rote Of warning to girls 20 save them from
the consequences OF TINS act?
l. is almost impossible for a woman TO so
to business with men for any length OF time
without becoming slightly coarsened, and
they all lose that refinement and indehnable
charm that the good, modest home girl pos
sesses, and then business women wonder why
men do not give them their seats in the cars
as formerly, why they roughly jost!e them in
the cars sometimes when coming home from
business at night and why they often use
language in their presence that they would
not think of using in the presence OF home
girl. Are the men entirely at fault, or is It
the detastable mannishness of the average
business woman that causes the average man
to treat her with infinitely less respect than
the home girl?
when entering an Office for the first time the
writer always unconsciously feels preJudiced
against. and thinks disparagingiy Of, con-
Germ that employs females. II is fact that
no concern managed by sane, businessllke
men will employ females in preference TO
men, knowing that a woman cannot 90 ou'
and transact business with other men as can
man and also, If it is a stenographic, BOOK
keeping or clerical position, when these WON
en- marry, as many OF them do, IL means tha1
the concern must 90 to the trouble OF break
ing in a new woman, which takes up valuable
time. and perhaps the second woman VIII
! later marry, too, and so on, while man IS
there permanently. Under the circumstances
few real busy, up-to-date concerns VIII en-
plcy females.
Is the business woman superior TO the homS
girl? One has only to watch the disgusting
spectacle of this army of gum-chewing, targ'
loving, masculine females on their way to ousi-
ness in the morning TO be dsabused OF that
| fact Let us hope that the day will come
when this army Of short-skirted, llmb-show-
ling, painted, powdered, peacock-acting, pea
nut Drained apologies for real women ina,
strut Aippantly 70 business will be a thing OF
the past, and that we will see our American
womaphood occupying the glorious place Gol
! INTENDED her 20 occupy; namely the nome
the young lady who will refuse to lose her
! N OBESITY, sweetness, refinement, charm ana
radiant loneliness by entering life Of ousI-
ness that only tends toward coarseness,
brazon manner Of acting and often a dstaste
for home and domestic duties.
! God speed the day when only those IN an
so,uto need will place themselves on the
same footing with men at business, and then
we will see displayed by men that oldtlme
defercntial respect. reverence and adorstlon
for ~hat in reality is Gods noblest creation
a womanly woman.
RAYMOND N. THURSTON.
! New York July 10 1915.