The evening world., 1915-03-08
tainly know how to keep secrets."
observed.
TIGHT. MoUrHEo SECRETARY
WHO SAVES EMPLOYER.

Indeed they ao." assented Mrs.
Easton. How often we hear OF some
business man who might be con-
victed Of dishonest dealing on the
evidence Of his private secretary. but
who goes FREQ because she cannot be
brought to testify against himi She
member In any event she persists In
her refusal to betray the secrets with
which her employer has trusted her.
even though she Is told that they
were dishonest ones.
1T Ii almost platitude In the busi-
ness offices that women are prefer
able to men as clerks and stenograph.
ers because they are more trust
Office business outside. Many q man
will tell everything he knows, after
he has been treated a sufficient
number Of times. but q business rival
would hardly think OF adopting such
q method with a woman clerk"
Doesn't the fact that a woman
usually conceals any truth damaging
to herself prove that she can keep .
secret?" interposed.
"If tho personal motive 10
strong enough any woman can
keep 2 secret; " she 10 deeply
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harm to her husband, her chill.
drsn, herself, she will remain
silent. A woman rarely tells her
husband Of the love affairs she
had before she met him. A
mother will keep fast the secret
Of her ehiIdrsn's wrong doing.
II once knew q woman In a West
ern town." Mrs. Easton added, retro
spectively, whom We all set down as
terrible fiibberty gibbet. There
seemed no depth to heS character
whatsoever. and she appeared totally
lacking in responsibility. Just before
for some financial irregularity. and
then 1t was brought out that In his
youth he had got into very serious
trouble. And we found that all the
years she had lived with him his wife
had known this old scandal. had
shared with him the burden OF con-
ceaiing 1t from the rest Of the COM
munity.
"The trouble Is that the woman
with the siever brain or the rubber
brain often doesn't realize the harm
she may do by telling what has beer
intrusted to her in confidence. So fire.
quently l have known O woman Of
this sort tell what she never should
have told. then look on In amazemen
at the havoc wrought. and finish b,
murmuring extenuatingly, Why.
didn't mean any HARM
"Dr. Charles Eaton told me th'
other day that a fool was q moro dis
copraging proposition than q sinner
remarked.
"It's true" sighed Mrs. Easton.
"Oftsn II 10 q perversion Of the
dramatic instinct which Leads .
woman to tell q secret. She 10 per-
haps a housewife In . email com.
with her hands, but whose mind
and soul have no vital, engrossing
interest. She isn't pretty; she has
no nice clothes; she dossn't seem
specially interesting TO anybody.
Vet she longs to be In the lime
jiqht. So whom she hears secret
whose telling will make every one
listen to hsr and look at hsr-shs
tells.
. .The woman with a broader. richie
life fnds satisfaction for her dra
mptic sense In plenty Of normal wayi
She doesn't have to talk persona
scandal In order to insure an audi
ence. Her sense Of honor 10 CROWN
all the time. and she can be truste
with secrets.
"The worst thing about tellin
them" ended Mrs. Easton. "is that b
the time they're told they're often nc
true any more. A woman assure
: YOU in confidence that she hates
1 man. BY the time your report Of he
remark reaches him the two are per
haps engaged. Who tells q friend
secret digs trench under his fes
from which he escapes with difacult!
9 e al"