The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-16
Two Sisters
BY ETHEL HOLMES

| rlageaDle age tno matter OF career
was discussed between them.
Il believe" said Margaret, lin the
entire equality Of woman with man.
81 believe" said Belle, that wO-
man who marries should be her hus-
bands partner in every respect"
II am going into business" said
Margaret, land shall show the world
that woman can run big business
as well as man."
| IF you can secure the management
of business" her sister supplied
| Margaret was twenty years old when
she secured a position as typewriter
and stenographer, sort of secretary
| to a friend of her fathers who man
aged large manufacturing business.
She thus started with every advantage
! Johnny Hartwell, an Office boy, fifteen
years old, started in at the same time
as she. One day he said to her:
Miss Whitcomb, I'd like to make a
deal with you. Teach me stenography,
and whenever you have to be absent
for time I'll do your work for you"
Margaret agreed. She taught Johnny
stenography, and he remained at the
office after business hours, practicing
typewrittng on her machine He kept
bis word, and when she was unable to
do her work he did it for her. AS for
Johnny. he was never absent from
business. What he did for Margaret he
did for any one else in the office; he
helped them all and learned something
Of the duties of each.
When Johnny was nineteen years old
some one was needed to go somewhere
to straighten out something. Margaret
would have liked to go. but she was
not very well at the time. Johnny was
tough as nut and was sent. He had
learned so much about the business
that he found it very easy to undo the
snarl. He succeeded so well that he
was thereafter used to go about un-
doing snarls and accomplishing OBJ
jects. Pretty soon 1t was generally un.
derstood that when the head of the
concern stepped out Johnny would
step into his place.
Meanwhile Margaret was gaining
nothing in a business way. Unfortu-
nately for her success, a certain man
wanted her to marry him. Whenever
she was discouraged In carrying out |
her agreement with herself she felt |
like yielding and marrying her suitor |
Johnny married, and when little girl |
came to him he remarked:
Onu |
it, sure enough. to put stufi1ng into the
kidv
And he worked twice as hard as ever
before.
Margaret within eight years occupied
four different positions. But, not being
any nearer a business manager than
before, she retired. Going into John
ny's office one day. she said to him:
Johnny, years ago you and started
in this business, having every ad.
vantage Of you. Now you are at the
head Of it and I'm out of the race. Is
it because am a woman and you men
won't give us chance"
IN this particular case," was the re-
ply, ut is because when came in here
at once became absorbed in my work
When ! wasn't at work I was miser-
able. / was four years younger than
you and had four years. advantage. II
never had to be away from business.
was so eager for work that did some
Of your work and some Of every one
else in the business. In this way
learned It. When some one was need
ed for a purpose | was the best equip
ped for It Perhaps you thought If you
failed you could marry. | felt that II !
failed couldn't marry. When l did
marry realized that the responsibility
of family was on me; If didn't sue.
coed the wife and the kid would starve.
If You could have been absorbed as
was and stood the racket Of training
as l did perhaps you might have got
where am today. But you couldn't be
absorbed. and you couldn't stand the
physical requirements"
THANK you very much" said Mar,
garet and she went away to procure
her trousseau. When her first child
came she remarked:
oAStAo uaNO ONCu Ut tuiS UuSl- J
ness instead Of the other eight years
ago."
Meanwhile her sister Belle had mar.
ried successful business man. There
was friction at first because she
thought her husband did not tell her
enough about his affairs, but several
children engaged her attention, SO that
when he talked to her about his bust
ness she was glad when he had I'm.
ished.
But one day he brought man home
to dinner, with whom he told his wife
that he was intending to enter into a
large business deal
IF you do" said his wife, you'll be
swindled"
What makes you think that?' ask.
ed her husband, surprised.
There's somthing about his nose |
don't like"
The husband laughed.
Six months passed. One day her hus
band said to his wife:
DO you remember, dear, a man |
brought home to dinner, whose nose
was not to your taste. and on that az.