The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-19

/ OF WOIldIl.
This announcement i; of interest be-
cause 1t shows that women have ar
rived IN business that women are be
ginning 10 be factor m the world OF
| higher finance as well a m the work
ing world. In a word It Is 4 publlc
recognition Of the fact that women NOT
! only know how to make money but no"
10 invest II. and that their accounts
are courted instead Of Scorncd a, ihcy
used tn be
Heretofore a superstition has existed
| that woman and finance were as an,
tagonstic to each other as oil and
water and that there was some curious
and ineNplicable qulrk in the feminine
| brain that prevented It from ever
! GraSpng the idea that YOU could DC
anything else with money except to &c
shopping with It.
That theory has been the excuse that
million, Of tightwad husbands have Oh
icrcd for never giving their wives an
( allowance. and for forcing the poor
. creature, 10 de- the humble wcndlcdnt
act lur every cent uu which they ran
I the house and clothed thcmsclyc, and
/ lhcr children
Women haven't got any business
/ sense. you can never make a woman
understand the simplest business
proposition" ha, likewise been the tea-
son given hy thousands Of other men
for never telling their wives a word
about their affairs, thus leaving the
women 30 founder along hlndly IN the
dark. not knowing when they were eN-
/ travagant or thrifty, because they did
rot know the extent OF their husband 5
/ income. and who were left utterly
'uuordut and helpless, and at the mercy
of whoever wound up their husband S
estate when their husband, died.
Heaven alone know, how the idea
/ ever originated that women arc IN
, capable oi comprchending anything
pertaining 10 finance and are not 10
/ he trusted to handle money Certainly
We don't get II from our daily cNperl-
cucc and observation
In ninety uluc famllc, out OF hun
rdcd IT IS the wife and not the husband
. who !, the economist. and every
ordinary. commonplace little woman
, who run, a flat clothc, and feeds her
husband and children, and keeps the
/ hill collector away from the door ON
/ SIS or so a week. perform, prodglc'
90 tinduJicrlug that would make a
Wall stree, stock jugclcr green with
envy
II Is a practical tribute to woman as
inaucler and economist that the bar
| gain sale exists Men would not bother
with It for the ,akco saving the penny
ol two ON things that arc marked down
from s. to Sl97. When a man wants
thing, and has the price OF It, he
walks into the handlcst shop and buys
II rcgardlc>, OF what II costs, but a
woman scourS the town until she finds
the thing she wants al the least pos
Siblc price
ANY woman can make dollar So
! farther than a man can, and IT IS Gig
nlilCant that IN business houses where
/ the men and women get an equal wage
or even where the women get a smaller
wage. tho women are not constantly
+ borrowing as the men arc, and a TAT
greater proportion OF women than mcr
/ have savings bank accounts
II the ordinary domestic woman, whC
has never had the handling OF am
money seems stupid when man tric
] to explain to her the intricaclcS q
/ banking or stock transactions or th'
difference between first and seconr
mortgages, i, is because she has ncve
been taught anything about the hand
ling of money
The men OF her family have no
talked To- her, or before her about II
naucial problems Understanding then
! Is a matter OF teaching, and not a proc
oi native intelligence. and she's not
win, more stupid IN graSplng the i'm
point, than Mr. Morgan or Mr. Rockc
icllcr would be ii some woman under
took suddenly to explain to him th
mysteries oi the Rattcnburg stitch =
embroidery or how TO make a lace
trimmed boudolr cap.
Indeed, SO lar from women hayin
]
play singular aptitude Tor It and TAX
to u like ducks to water when the
Get a chance. More than that, they loy
IT, and | have vet 10 meet the woma
no matter how well off she was, VIII
hasn't expressed a wish that she coul
do something that made money nl
wholly for the sake oi the money hr
because the great American game lure
her and called TO her.
Md that is instructive Biologist
tell us that daughters inherit more d
; 'rcctly from their fathers than they u
from their mothers and so /, !, pei
tcctly natural that the daughter, ,
keen, alert. huStllng American busnc,
men should feel IN their own veins n.
onl, the same urge that sent the
i fathers up the financial ladder from o
ice bows TO the heads oi the firm, b,
that they should have a lot of the n
hcrl,cd talent for moncy-makng 'h
made their fathers millona,rcs
What lIe,,y Green and MIS- Narr
man have done has passed into tlnanrn
history. One oi the most SuccCS,ll
department store merchants IN thiJag
!. woman. New Orleans has woma
who took the wreck OF lumber bus
, ness that her husband had reduced
, bankruptcy and made It one oi Il
leading lumber concerns ot the Sou'
Every town and village has simll,
story of some woman who has show
extraordinary business ability and Vt
quite within the bounds of posSiblli
that when women 60 generally in