The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-07-04


4 a drop Of sporting blood IN your
,eriu. said man the other day on
are gamblers at lie without the gam
bler'S merit OF nerve and pluck to stand
by your own best bet You plunge
and then wclch when luck goes against
yOu
you don't play the game fairly and
qQuarely. and that's why so many OF
you fail all along the line.
ITS your worst handicap IN bust
ness and why no man wants to do
business with YOU II he can avoid IT,
He's afraid OF you A man goes into
deal with another man II It turns
out prosperously, we'll and good 1t II
fails, the other man shrugs his Shoul.
dcrs. He took sporting chance ana
he lost. and that's an end OF IT. lie
never dreams Of holding anybody else
responsible for it. =,
But if you go into a business deal
vith woman and it fails she conSld,
crS YOU a robbct and thlet TO the end
of the chapter She would have gladly
eharcd in the profits had the venture
.ucceeded but when It comes to pay
ing her part of the loss, she renegeS'
That's why ladies' arc persona non
grata around respectable stock brok-
crages.
PERSONALLY, often have It IN my
power to help my women friends to
make little deals that would net 'hem
muc,> needed pin money, but | don't
dare do it could say to Brown,
Say. old man, ?. y. Q. looks mighty
good to me. happen to have some
inside information that II is making
money hand over fist, and the dividend
is going to be increased
Brown would know that | was CIV
ing him the best advice | had IN the
qhop and he would take IT or leave II,
MS his own Judgment dictated and
whether he made or lost would never
hold me responsible But ! oouldn
say that to Mary Brown because II by
any possible chance my tip turned ou'
wrong and she lost her money she
would always believe that ] was deep
designing villain who lured her into
making bad invcstmcn.Bor my own
nctarSuS ends.
"And find the same fault with my
women employees. They are not sport
ng. either, as our English friends say
fhey want a mans chance IN the huSi
ness world and a mans pay, and they
don, want to be treated like a man
They want you TO always remember
that they are ladies instead OF Just cog
N big machine for grinding out dol
lars which is Ill that any business is
One OF the chief reasons that womer
- seldom rise to hugh places IN buH
rsSs houses is not their lack OF ability
lnt because the, have not enough sport
~ blood n stand the punishment h'
which Young man gets mauled INT,
the shape in which he ,s most useful
By that mean that when ! get holt
Vt a promising boy. 60 after him will
sl.dge hammer when he makes mis-
iakp or shows symptoms OF SIackneS'
and If there is any stamina IN him h
doesn't sulk. but learns how to do hi
work efficiently. and eventually i
worth good money TO himself and tn
firm
But when ! tell my stenographe
that she is balllng mp business by com
ing 20 her work an hour late, or that
refer the spelling OF the late NoaI
Webster to her peculiar personal va
rietv. or that it doesn't add to the crcdi
ui a. business house TO send ont smear
and untdy letters. why she bursts int
tears and sobs out that | don't treat
poor working girl as If she was a lady
TITS easier on the nerves 10 ire a
incompetent girl than to stand for he
wounded feelings while you are tryin
to teach her, and that's where the youn
business woman loses out, through nc
having the sporting spirt--one OF N
most valuable assets that her brothe
has
And its women'S lack of gamene'
that's a, the bottom Of haf OF the de
mcs'ic misery IN the world Statistic
show that more than three-iourthS G
the divorces are asked for by womel
This is not because men make so muc
worse husbands than women max
wives but because the average man
pretty good loser, and the averas
woman is bad loser.
There are Just az many men VIII
have made fatal mistakes in the
choice OF a life partner as there al
women There are Just aS many ME
married to women who do not unde'
stand them, women who make the
lives unbeatahle hv temper OF naggln
women who arc lazy and ShileSs an
,ytravagant,aaS there are womc
married 10 men who are bru,es but Il
man generally shuts his teeth on h
misery and bears II, while the woma
tells her troubles to all who listen ,
goes with them to the divorce court,
And look at the way women pluns
in matfimonN. and the WY they baI