Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-25

I have received letter from woman who
believes that the pretty girl stenographer Is
the greatest enemy that exists to domestic
peace and felicity. She says:
at know hundreds of women who are made
bands stenograrhers. They see themselves
growing old at home, bearing children, and
performing the multitude Of duties incumbent
upon a wife and housekeeper, and they grow
wild when they think Of their husbands spend
ing their days in the company OF pretty little
flappers young enough to be their daughters.
The remedy for this situation is cooperation
Let the wives unite and form unon that
will pledge itself to ostracise all women VINO
work in a mans private office"
Surely this is jealousy gone mad. Any
woman who can look at the army of young
girls who march down the streets OF every
city in the land every morning as they go to
fight their daily battle for bread, and see In
them only constituencies vamps who are try
ing to steal some other woman's husband
away from her, has become so green-eeyd that
she cannot see straight. Her vision is 1aun-
diced.
Why, the very fact that a girl earns her
money by hard work instead of getting it by
devious ways is proof of her honesty of pur-
pose. 1t is no easy thing for a girl to Sec
rifice her playtime Of D. life, and bury her
hard thing, and a pitiful thing, for her to
have to pound a typewriter, add up dreary
columns of figures, when her whole being
cries out in longing to be butterfly, and
fit from pleasures to pleasure.
Wherefore, when a girl has the character
and the grit to elect to work the hard road
instead of dallyfng along the primrose path;
when she has the good feeling that makes her
willing to work eight hours day rather
than be a burden on her POOR, old father;
when she has the herCism that makes her take
upon her little tender shoulders-as thou
sands upon thousands Of working girls do
the burden of her family's support, 1t seems
to me that older women, and more fortunately
situated women, ought to crown her with lau-
rels, and give her every encouragement and
support they can instead Of talking about
ostracizing her.
For one thing wives may be sure, and that
is that office work is no picnic. 1t is nerve
racking, monotonous grind, and no girl does
it for pleasure, or for the sake OF being in
the same room with harried business man.
AS for the danger-well, men are men, and
women are women wherever they are placed
There will always be an occasional woman
who is a siren. There will always be some
men who are amorous, and follow every petit
coat, and some who are vicious, and take adj
vantage of every woman in their power, but
these types are not confined to the business
world You find them everywhere
More husbands have been vamped in ball
rooms than ever were in offices. The man
who flirts with his stenographer flirts with
every other pretty girl he meets. The I'M
happy man who married woman who doesn't
understand him, would find a soulmate in
some one else if he didn't find her in his pri-
yate secretary.
The woman who Is married to a man who
loves her, and who is strong, and true, and
faithful, need never waste jealous thought
on his stenogrpher. The woman who is mar
ried to a man who Is Indifferent to her, and
who is a weakling, rounder, has less
cause to be jealous Of his stenographer than
she has Of any other woman. There are two
good reasons why this is true.
The first reason is because men seldom mix
business and sentiment. The hours a man
spends in his office are strenuous, anxious
ones in which he is concentrated on the great
game Of money-making. 1t takes every
thought, every nerve, every bit Of ability that