The Washington times., 1916-01-17

~ HE'S gone under-the business
woman I knew she would a
month ago l saw light in her
window one night as | was pass
inR little after 10 o'clock. There she
was, not reading, not loafinS, not SIT
ting in her big chair with box OF
candy and a magazine and pleasant
open fire-not she! She was darning
stockings. and she'd been darning
gloves, and before that she'd mended a
veil, and before that she'd sewed but
ton on one of her shoes, and before that
she'd sewed up a hem on one of her pet
tiskirts. And she wasn't ashamed or IL
she was proud of it! She showed me
the skirt and the pctticoat, ana the
gloves and the shoe, and was quite
brazen about the stockings. Sne even
pointed out to me how beautifully darn
ed they we're and how many pairs she
could do in an evening.
Aren't you ever tired in the morning.
after doing nights work like this?'
! said "Oh, yes" said the business
woman, "of course j am. but then these
things have got to BE done.
WHY | venturcd to query.
My friend. the business woman, stared
at Inc in a way that showed that i was
TT candidate for a lunatic asylum.
want me 10 go down town looking like
Nan the Goou- for \ othins, would you!
Not at ALL" | replied as calmly as l
couid. ''but-well-but why
"But-wel!-but what?" persisted my
friend, the business woman.
Where is that nice little mending
woman heard some of the girls talking
about the other day?" L asked. shes
got day off during the week Why
don't you send for her to come up here
and have her to do all this up in one
do nd ,riH nf
cost you but a dollar and a half to do
1T, and you'd be tickled to death to have
Il done" My friend, the business wom-
all, looked at me reproachfully, almost
with bitterness.
What do you think l am, she SAID
"a milliona ire?"
know that same woman doesn't
think anything of paying 90 cents for
box of candy or bunch of violets, or
Of buying couple of matinee tickets
doing anything that she really wants to
do with a dollar or a dollar and
half. She never gives 1t another
thought But to rest with IT.. to get
some actual. real benefit-perish the
thought! Not while she can sit up TILL
midnight and wear out her eyes and her
mind and her back. and. worst Of all,
her nerves and her endurance.
-: Work, Rest, and Play.
II took me a good long time 10 find
Dut that endurance is just a. real
quality as physical strength. You can
lift little wicker table easily enough.
but when you come to try to carry the
diDtng-rocm table on your back, some
things going to break, and generally
1t isn't the table.
Endurance Of q mental sort is just
exactly as limited as the physica! kind.
You can't carry too many things in
your head any more than you can carry
hoo many things on your back. without
breaking somo or all Of them.
Ny friend, the business woman, had
bIst exactly SO much strength and go
much brain force and so much vitality.
Now, instead of saving It all. every
single bit of 1t, Tor her work, she frit-
ters 1t away on a lot of little fool things
like stocking darning and ordinary
things that she could hire done for her
at almost nothing a week.
The most successful business woman
I know says she never does anything
except three things-shc works. she
rests and she plays.
She never fuses, or fiddles.' or trets.
She's q great and shining success. VI
wonder II her three divisions OF !!ce
and energy haven't something 10 do
with It?
What would my friend. the business
woman, think OF business man who
spent his time and energy mending his
ccat or sewing the buttons on his snoes
instead of calling in the tailor and hsV-