Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-07-28
Two Sisters
By ETHEL HOLMES
BY ETHEL HOLMES

AM6CoOAC aSC IN AlaIUCI III q NdAtCi
was discussed between them.
II believe said Margaret, I'm the
entire equality of woman with man"
Il believe" said Belle, 'that a wo-
man who marries should be her hus-
bands partner In every respect"
Il am going into business said
Margaret, and shall show the world
that a woman al run a big business
as well as a man"
IF you q secure the management
Of a business her sister supplied
Margaret was twenty years old when
she secured a position as typewriter
and stenographer, a sort of secretary
to a friend Of her fathers who man.
aged a 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 Whitcomh, I'd like to make a
deal with you. Teach me ste~nography,
and whenever you have to be absent
for a time III do your work for you"
Margaret agreed She taught Johnny
s~tenography, and he remained at the
Office after business hours, pacticfng
typewriting on her machfra- He kept
his word, and when she WIS 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 n else IN the office; he
helped them all and learned something
of the duties OF each
When Johnny was nineteen years old
some one vas needed to go somewhere
to straighten out something Margaret
would have liked to go, n1f she was
not very well at the time. Johnny was
tough as a nut and was sent. He had
learned so much about the business
that he found it very easy to undo the
snarl He succeeded 80 wei that he
was thereafter used to go about un-
doing snar1s and accomplishing OBJ
jects. Pretty soon It was generally IN
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 sucf .ss, 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 sutton.
Johnny married, and when a little girl
came to him he remarked:
"By crackey, now I've got to hump
1t, sure enough, to put stufffng into the
kidd"
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 n day, she said to him:
Johnny, years ago you and 1 started
In this business, l having every adj
vantage Of you. Now you are at the
head Of 1t and I'm out of the C Is
1t because l am a woman and you men
won't give US a chanceY'
"In this particular CASE vas the re-
ply, 1T is because when l came in here
1 at once became absorbed In my work.
When I wasn't at work I was miser-
able. 1 was four years younger than
you and had four years. advantage l
had to be away from business. l
was so cage for work that I did some
of your work and some of every one
else in the business In this way 1
learned it. When SoIne one was need
ed for a purpose 1 was the best equip
ped for it. Perhaps you thought if you
failed you could marry. l felt that If l
failed 1 couldn't marry. When I did
marry 1 realized that the responsibility
of a family was on me; If l didn't sue
coed the wife and the kid would starve.
If you could have been absorbed as 1
was and stood the racket of training
as 1 did perhaps you might have got
where 1 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 t~rousseau. When her first child
came she remarked:
81 should have been at this bust
ness instead of the other eight years
ago"
Meanwhile her sister Belle had mar
ried a 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 fin
ished.
But one day he brought a 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 thatT' ask
ed her husband, surprised
There's somthing about his nos 1
don't like"
Tho 1auUhnd