The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-17
Dorothy Dix Talks

BIZ DOROTHY DIX
worId's Highest Paid Woman WI

The Business Woman rs Wibe-1.
DO you think that going into bust
ness units a woman for domesticity
Do you think a business woman
makes a good wife?" asks a young
man.
think that the business woman ls
the preferred risk in matrimony.
think that there Is no other training
for a wifehood equal to that which q
girl gets in a business office, and that
it is a pity that every woman has not
had the experience of actually earn
ing her own living for year or two
before she marries.
There are many reasons why the
business girl makes better wife. all
things considered, than the domestic
girl. The first is of course, the OBJ
vious one that she is apt to be more
thrifty, and economical, and knows
more about handling money, and get
ting the value out of it.
No woman who has ever earned a
dollar looks upon it with the same
ewes as does the woman who has never
worked for money, but has always had
it given to her. To the one the dollar
mark is the symbol of toll, WEAKNESS,
strain and anxiety. To the other it
simply stands for pleasure and the
qualification of desire. Therefore the
wife who knows from experience how
hard her husband makes his money
is more careful of it than the wife
who has a vague general idea that
greenbacks grow on trees, and all that
a man has to do is 20 go out and pluck
them off and bring them to her to
throw away.
The second reason why the business
girl makes good wife IS that she is
more reasonable than the domestic
girl because she understands the de-
mands of business. She knows that
the very fact that man is prospecting
n hi1S
hard up for ready money so that he
cannot afford the new car or the FUR
coat that his wife has set her heart
! upon. and that she thinks he is mean
not to give her because he admits that
business is good.
| Therefore when a man explains to
his business wife how they must econ
! omize in the present, in order to be
rich in the future, she understands.
and is glad to cut expenses to the bone
/ 10 help him realize his ambitions in
| stead of weeping, and fretttng. and
complaining as the domestic wife SO
/ often does under such circumstances.
| Also. knowing the exigencies or
business, she knows that man can
| not always break UP an important
conference just because his wife is set
on having meals on the strike of the
clock, and that there are times and
seasons when he must stay down town
, to entertain out-of-town customers,
and SO she does not have Mysteries, or
get greeneyed with jealousy, every time
her husband does not punch the time
clock at the appointed hour.
! The third reason why the business
woman is a preferred risk in matri-
1nony is because she has more sympa-
thy for her husband than the domes-
tic woman has. There is nothing that
teaches US pity like having suffered
/! ourseif. The woman who has toiled
| in the commercial treadmill knows
f, that when the days work is done, men
| and women, alike, are exhausted in
body, mind, and soul. They have
been thru struggles, and fret, and
worry until their nerves are raw and
quivering. and they have reached the
place where one additional. burden IS
/ the straw that breaks the camel 8
backs
| Copyright. 1919, by the Wheeler Syndicate
| Incl