El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-01
~ Anita Stewart Talks To Girls
No Every Girl Should Trade
By Anita Stewart.

M na 'aos@-~a T rssn 'f', ~ss
little girl TO prepare me 10 be
self-supporting- 7 had a very sweet
strong. high soprano voice. and it was
intended in those days that I should
be singer. but chance opened the
door Of a moving picture studio to ma
I made good. and my fate was
changed. +
But how I make my living is mere
detail. The main point is that my
mother did not trust my future 10 luck.
as is the common way with parents
with their girls although they are
careful enough to try 10 safeguard
their boys.
Ny mother didn't say. Anita is
pretty. she'll be sure 10 marry and
live happily ever afterward''
WAY to Head OFF Possible Misfortune.
She said, Perhaps Anita may marry
Perhaps she may not marry. Perhaps
If she does marry, aer husband may
turn out TO be a poor business man,
who has no faculty for making money.
or he may become an invalid. or die.
and leave her with children. and she
may need to know how to make money
hundred times more desperately than
any single woman ever does.
I've seen all Of these calamaties
happen over and over again. and
don't want my daughter TO be one Of
those helpless. futile women who have
never made a dollar. and couldn't make
q dollar 10 save their lives If they were
thrown out on their own resources
That's the way my mother looked at
the subject. and If every other mother
lot of useless misery and suffering.
, for its the unpreparedness Of girls for
life that makes so many of them make
! such mess or it.
Every Girl should Be Taught
Profession.
If every girl was taught some trade
or profession BIZ which she could sup
port herself il would do away with
nearly all Of the unhappy marriages
Then a girl could wait until the man
she wanted for a husband came along,
instead OF having to take the first man
who proposes to her becau use her family
show her that they think that they
have supported her long enough. and
that she ought 10 get out OF the way
Of her younger sisters
The girl with her own occupation
doesn't have 10 marry for home but
the dependent girl does. only too often.
The girl who has good trade or pro-
fessfon is treated better By her hus-
wives stand for drunkenness. unfaith-
fulness and brutality from their hus-
bands It's because they have no way
OF making a living for themselves
They've never been taught how to earn
q cent and its a choice between being
abused or starving with them
The Woman With Profession Bound
10 Come Out ahead.
But the woman with a good pro-
fession at her fingers ends simply
serves notice on her husband that If
he doesn't treat her right she'll go
back TO her old position. and you are
going To find out that when every
woman is self supporting. there is 90
ing 10 be the greatest reformation the
world has ever known In the conduct OF
husbands.
And fl gives a girl such sense OF
Independence and dignity 10 know
that she can stand on her own two
little feet ard doesn't have to be like
a Hopping vine hanging on 10 the near
est support. u makes her feel that
she's a human being and some account
I'm the world. and that is about as soul
satisfying an emotion as We ever get
SO I say. girls. by all means learn
how TO do some one thing well enough
70 make living by It II doesn't mat
ter whether you are rich or p0or- Tor
no enc knows what sort Of luck -
waiting for US down the road-CoDy-
right. 1915. international News Service
(The next article by Anita Stewart
will appear in the next Weekend Her
add.