The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-15
WHY NOT OWN YOUR BUSINESS?

at is strange thing" said prom
inent business woman of Washing
ton Yesterday, that so few womer
plan for business proprietorship, ane
vet one of the best ideals that thu
young business woman can have II
mind for permanent occupation is thu
building of her own business. Ie
women who do go into business fol
themselves succeed more often thar
men do. That is partly because it is
usually only the woman of real de
termination who undertakes to run
her own business and also because
women naturally have certain quail
tiles of economy and judgment that
makes for this sort of success. WON
en- are, through training, better buy
ers than men and that helps in most
lines of business ownership.
81 have noticed, too. that when a
woman knows that she is working
for herself she will do ten times as
good work with no more tax on her
strength than as if she were working
for some one else"
1t is a strange thing, isn't it, that
comparatively so few women launch
out by themselves in business al
though they do not hesitate to COM
pete with men in all lines Of profess
sional work. Women have made
successes as proprietors OF florist
shops, of restaurants, of fruit stores,
of delicatessen stores, of laundries,
CT bakeries, of women's tailoring es-
Establishments. But these women have
not usually been drawn from the
ranks of the American business wom-
en-. They have more frequently been
the wives or daughters of foreign
born men who for some reason have
handed on their establishments to
the women of their families. Many
an Italian mother OF a large family
runs a profitable fruit store. German
fraus, too, have made decidedly sue
cessful bakery proprietors and ig-
norant Russian Jewesses have made
more money in the tailoring business
than many college graduate could
hope for.
The wonder is that more Ameri-
can women, women Of business train
ing and knowledge of the demands
of high class American trade, do not
compete with these daughters of
Europe and wrcst from them some
OF the profit that would be sure to
come because OF their better knowl
edge OF American business life.
At the meeting of the Council OF
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs held recently in Portland, Ore,
Mrs. Thomas c. Winter, of Minneap-
oils, suggested that each club wom-
an in the country, that is 2.ooo,o 900
women, deny themselves a pair of
silk stockings each year and give
the money to the endowment fund
of the General Federation. The
plan was opposed by the women
present, and it is doubtful whether
any suggestion of the kind will be
made when the G.. F. w. c. meets in
New York next June.
Not since I6I7 when, in the Mary
land assembly. Mrs. Margaret Brent
demanded voice and vote" has a
woman in the South pctitioned for
the same right. Now comes Mrs.
c. Hamilton Tebault, a New Orleans
woman who desires to qualify as a
candidate for election as delegate to
the constitutional convention.
Mrs. Tcbault rccitcs: Il, Mrs. c.
Hamilton Tebault, femme sole and
widow, hereby tender my check of
500 for the purpose and right of
submitting my candidacy as a dele
gate from the Third ward, First pre-
cinct, of the city of New Orleans,
State of Louisiana, to the approach
ing Democratic primaries to select
delegates to the approaching consti-
tutional convention"
Mrs. Tebault's fee was refused by
the registration clerk, and she has
appealed to the attorney general for
a decision on the right of women
taxpayers to qualify as candidates.
Meanwhile Mrs Tcbault is max
ing history. At present she is dis
tinguished as the founder of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton in Louisiana. In future annals
she will rank with Maryland's
famous representative of advanced
voua nhood-M,rgare Rrent