South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-28
RY Dorothy Dix.

woman sends me a letter in which
she asks me TO write a scOrching ar
ticle TO working girls, scoring them
for making themselves so attractive TO
their employers. She says II is the
stenOgrapher, and the salesgirl, and
the factory girl who constitute the
real home-wrecking craw, and that
they fuss up their hair, and paint their
faces and wear p-tO-the-m1nute
clothes, and hirt with their bosses,
and go out TO dinner with them. and
that this breaks the hearts of the poor
neglected wives at home.
And this jealous wife thinks that
sOmethi awful. with boiling oil in
il, ought to be done to these giddy
girls and that law should be passed
against permitting them TO look so
pretty. and be so young and gay, while
wives get old and worn and can't al
ways be dressed up.
Perhaps. Heaven knows the busi-
ness girl who has a sentimental af-
fair with her employer, and who goes
about with him TO places OF amuse-
ment when he is a married man, does
a foolish enough and a wrong enough
thine and one for which she pays
de- enough in the end
D. why blame everything on the
girls What about the recreant hus-
bands who take the girls abOut2 No
theater with her employer unless he
asks her TO go. She can't compel him
to treat her TO such diversions or TO
make her presents or TO spend money
on her that should be spent on his
wife, as any elderly and plain and
homely working woman can testify
Moreover. ii is the privilege of the
employer TO have only those about
him of whose conduct he approves,
and if he didn't want little Miss stem
Ographer TO make gOO-gOo eyes at him
he would send her packing at the very
first roll OF her Orbs in his direction.
A girl can fiirt with a stone saint on
a monument in a cemetery as easily
as she can with a nina who isn't fir
tatious himself, and you may be very
sure that any husband who gets stolen
away from his own freside. has been
guilty of, at least contributory negli-
gence.
Cynically Amusing To Hear Wife Ac-
cuse Girl of rs Without Experience.
When YOU come TO think of it, il
is cynically amusing TO hear a wife
accuse a little Is or 19-year-old girl
with no experience of life. no knowl-
edge of the world. of kidnapping a man
old enough to be her father. if not her
grandfather, and bearing him,
struggling and protesting. away from
his once happy home
According 10 the wives the hus-
bands. no matter what blear-eyed old
FOUNDERS they appear to be. are mere
innocent unsophisticated infants en-
tirely unable To cope with the arts and
/ wiles of any little girl behind a counter
( or before n typewriter
Undoubtedly the reason that wives
cling 20 this theory OF their husbands
/ inability TO resist the hypnotic power
! of their female employees Is because il
\ saves their own faces. In their hearts
\ they are bound TO know that in every
! affair between man and the girl he
! employs the original instigatOr is the
/ man. He is the aggressor. and ne is
/ the one 10 blame, because ne strikes
\ the note of the relationship between
| himself and those he employs
He can make IL purely businesSlike.
! as is the case in the great majority of
| offices He can nip any sentimentality
/ in the bud. lie can dismiss any girl
/ who shows flirtatious tendencies. He
| can do more. He can form the man