The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-01
DOES MARRIAGE AFFECT A WON
ANS CAREER.

OF all the griefs that harass the dis
OF the most bitter, is a scornful jest.
Fate never wounds more deep the gener-
Gus heart
Than when a blockhead's insult points
the dart.
The girl who has the career bee"
in her bonnet should think long and
earnestly as to whether she ought to
marry a certain dear fellow who is
very much in love with her or fling
sentiment and all thoughts of mar
riage to the winds and follow, alone
the bent of her ambitions.
There are those who disapprove Of
pretty young actresses tying them
selves down in wedlock to a husband
whom they must live the greater part
of their lives away from if they fol-
low their profession. At five-and-
twenty they are at the zenith of their
youthful beauty. They are far hap
pier single, with the whole world
signing at their feet-that is the opin-
ion of the great public.
A decade of years, aye and another,
fit by before the pretty favorite of
the footlights wakens to the truth
her youth and beauty have fitted
from her like song that has been
sung. Those who declared the loud
est and most eagerly that she should
remain single are the first to
thrust her into the background, smil-
ing upon younger, fairer beauty
whose comeliness is all her own, and
not the result of clever makeup to
hide the ravages of time.
1t is then that the actress grieves
with all her heart over her folly of
listening to the advice of those who
had no interest in her future to re-
reer for herself
The business girl faces the same
problem 5hould she marry and cling
tenaciously to the paying position
which she has gained by years of duty
and unceasing toll? Friends tell her
she is earning more with which she
can purchase comforts, nay, luxuries,
than any man she might marry could,
or would, buy for her. She has seen
those young women about her whose
prospects for advancement and the
accumulation of money were equal
to her own, wed and struggle hard
against poverty to keep the wolf of
hunger from their doors when sick
ness or misfortune assaulted them. Chill
dren whom it was hard to provide for
were continually being added to the
family circle. The single woman looked
on pityingly.
In after years the wife who had
struggled in poverty had all cares lift
ed from her shoulders and her heart
by her strong, willing sons and daugh-
tiers. 1t was her turn then to pity
the single woman who had bartered
happiness for business career, losing
in old age because of her infirmities,
and being forced to pay strangers lib
orally for every hands turn they did
for her, little by little the full amount
of her savings. She knew too late
marriage would have been best.
The great singer, the artist, the
teacher, stenographer, she who is en-
gagged in any money-making career,
should realize that her years for max
ing and saving money are all too few.
What then? A lonely and disappoint-
ed life if she must carry her burden
the rest of the way alone.
Taken all in all, marriage is the
best career woman can engage in
for happiness at time she needs it
most. One cannot engage in business
pursuits and attend to rearing fam.
lily at home at one and the same time,
but home life is best The love which
shelters a woman therein is worth all
the wealth the world holds or the
worldwide plaudits of a tickle public,