The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-06-23

I that just 20 be doing IL clothes US
with glory and distinction in order
90 accomplish anything worth while,
NJ the ronographer who is
ashamed Of being denOgrapher
who never learns 20 spell or pune
tuate or gets any more speed, and
who never rises 20 the position OF
private secretary. It's the boy
who is ashamed Of being q carpen-
ter, who b. such poor carpenter
that be- never got 20 be a contrac-
tor, and so on, through the whole
lim of human occupations We
have got 90 have pride inro our
work 90 make it good work
Jane considers herself highly
modern, up-tO-date young woman.
She would be amazed and indignant
II anyone called her mildly Victorian,
but surely her idea that people look
doar 0n q girl FOR earning her own
living belongs to vanished day
shes wrong there The girl chat
people look upon with contempt in
these times ID the husky, able-hDd-
led young woman who sits around
and twiddlcrs her thumbs, and lets
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death 20 support her, or the girl
who crafts her living 81 her rela.
lives. or the public, instead Of going
out. and earning i herself
Nobody admires the parasitic
woman now. On the contrary, ev
eryone looks upon her with the
same loathing they feel for the mas
culine loafer The world IL Just
A. full 81 opportunities for women
o. il IN FOR men, and we are filled
with disgust when We see a woman
who would rather accept chariy,
and be- q beRgar. than roll up her
sleeves and 90 o. work, and make
decent living Tor herself
Indeed. this general feeling that
there is such dignity. and self re-
spect IN making ones own way, and
that there is such joy IN feeling
ones own strength, and that one
can stand on ones own feet, has
made many women forsake homes
~ eave and luxury and 20 into
business They don't want 90 waste
their lives on nothing but foolish,
frivilous seeking after amusement
They want 20 do something con-
structive. and worth while, some /
thing tha, will justify their having I.
lived Undoubtedly, the reason I
that many women fail IN business I
is because they are like Jane. They I.
are ashamed Of what they are do /
ing. Therefore, they never do il /
well. All Of us can recall having /
boarded with women who were I
ashamed Of taking boarders, and !
who camouflaged Il under the pre- 4
text Of loneliness, and taking IN q |
few paying guests. Because the /
woman was ashamed Of being an /
honest boarding house keeper, she !
spent her time reading novels, or /
playing bridge. and never saw that /
the maid swept under the beds or 1
the cook prepared decent meals, ]
and eventually that boarding house I
went bankrupt.
And We also know the women .
who are ashamed OF being dress
makers and who -ever take the /
trouble 20 learn even the rudiments 1
Of their trade, and they fail; and /
we know other women who are |
proud Of their calling and who turn /
dressmaking into an art, and we I
pay lntm Wn1ifNtT lUtg WANT i'i I
their cOnfoctiOns
We know women who sell thing
in shops, and VINO have TO be called /
"snles. ladies instead Of sales-girls, !
and they are SO ashamed Of selling T,
things that they never take the I
trouble 20 try TO please you, or 90 /
find what you want. but brighten /
and COVER 20 with their grand duch-
ess airs that you slink out Of the
store, and 30 some place where there
is a little Mamie or Sadie who I
thinks that being sales-girl Is the
grandest job on earth. and who viii
rnmmage over the whole place 20
find you what you desire.
There is something wrong mcn-
tally and morally with the woman
IN these days who il ashamed of be-
ing a working woman, for 20 be q
working woman Is her badge Of
honor. Il il the reward that gen
orations of slave women, Of depend.
ent women, have won for her. II
frees her. The ability to earn their
own living sets the woman Of this
generation apart from all other
women in history, as the first
women who did not have 20 sell
themselves In marriage, or out OF
IL, for their bread and butter.
The only work that women should
be ashamed Of doing Is bad work.