Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-21
ONE WOMAN'S WAY
THE STORY OLA GIRLS FIGHT FOR SUCCESS
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! for the position, which she would not
| bc-nct for many, many years. 1t
| would not tncn be strange but very
unpolitic."
| But why, if she were capable?"
| TITS a full sized mans Job, being
president OF this great country, even
| in peace times. No, [ should not like
to see woman president, Annie. In
| fact dear, here are any humber of
| positions which women ara not fitted
to fill. Women in politics some way
never appealed to me. In economic
! positions they are, or will be in time.
fully as desirable AS men. But when
women enter politics ct any extent I
| to say it spoiled them in a way
caused them to lose their feminin-
ity."
well, I'm glad there is something
you think our sex can't do?' She
gave my arm a loving squeeze. BE
IS if you expected me, just me, An
ME Fagin, to do some big thing,
something impossible to me but
which perhaps. you yourself could
do. We aren't all big like you, Olive;
neither have we the education and
training"
Il know. And that if what we have
to do. Train women to take their
place in the business world in an eff
cicHt manner. Anything less is verse
it gives men real reason to object
to our entrance into what they have
claimed as their b2lliWiCk."
L was pleased at Annie's bit of
news, however, and looked up the
item of which she had spoken. 1t
women were making fast strides in
their chosen endeavors. Scarcely a
day passed that new opportunities
were not opening wide for. them. l
drew the presidents attention to the
clipping L had taken from a morning
paper when l saw him later in the
day.
Banking is one industry which
will perhaps gainfully employ women
at once. They have found them
courteous, painstaking, honest. or
course they must have certain edu-
cation to have positions of any inl
portance or which carry large sala-
ries But that-the salaries-will
come with the education. Education
in business, 1 mean. For it never
that man with college education
necessarily outstrips the man who
lacks one in the business world"
1 left him all full of enthusiasm,
as l always dig g., Yet as the days
more was L building upon my fu-
ture. not my future in business.
which at one time had seemed all
important, but my future with
Frank, When l started my story it
was in my mind to write a story
which told only of my life in the
world of affairs; to let others write
of their intimate lives, their loves
their. griefs, and their joys. But
find it is not easy to separate our
selves from what we do or from
those who companion us in our lit
tie journeys, grave or gay.
I wondered if it meant as much
to Frank as it did to me, our COM
ing companionship,, and always de-
cided that it must be so else he
would not have brought it about.
I 1onged for him to like Annie. 1t
would be q real sorrow to me if
they did not F'hit it off, together
They were the two people for whom
[ cared most. They must be con-
genial to make me perfectly happy
Frank had been attracted to her
in the office, but the careless admi-
ration for an office girls pretty face
was no indication he would like her
rs a companion for his future wife
although 7 had to admit that Frank
wasn't at all caddish or that he
placed undue stress on his social DO
sition.
lust as was leaving the office
heard good news. The Maureta nj"
had been sighted. She would DOCK
the next morning.
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