Evening star., 1923-09-02
Girls and Their Affairs.

IIAiE was when girls were sent
to- school to acquire certain
degree of education. and then to
college or a finishing school to
be taught fine manners and some or
the fine arts. Between school times
she was taught to stitch quilts. bake
pies and make beds, all to the point
nj having completed mental and
domestic ,s,~;-s.j"a by the time she
was married. The speed of the world,
however, has Increased so rapidly that
girls have been catapulted into the
maelstrom Of business and profess
sional activities and, much to the
surprise of their grandmothers and
great-grandmother they like it,
Fortunate 1t is that they do like 1t,
for when glance at the STATISTICS
shows that out of every 100 widows
thirty-five are left in absolute want.
forty seven are obliged to work ana
but eighteen are left in comfortable
circumstances, IL means tha' tne
woman is lucky who knows how TO
earn living wage.
The dependent girl seems doomed
to sit upon lonesome shelf in the
future. for business and professional
careers are opening at every turn, ana
girls who have brains are learning TO
use them to good advantage. y re-
cent report OF the school board OF
New York city stated that u higher
percentage of girls than boys in the
forty-ciEht districts received diplo-
mas. and that in two Of the districts
the girls graduated 100 per cent.
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a glance at the daily newspapers
will reveal steadily widening circle
of interest which calls girls into the
field of affairs. Some OF the occupa-
tions are startling in their daring de-
parture from the usual. For instance,
a girl in New York city Is handling
large contracts as a heating and Ven
tilating engineer. while some woman
in Kentucky recent = donned oNeraliS
and repaired fiv .-mile section OF
roadway. Another interesting wage
Garner is a woman IN Cleveland VINO
gave up a bookkeeping position to
become a policewoman. Police work
for. girls is growing more popular as
municipal officials catch up with the
idea. East Newark. \. D., recently
appointed a woman to the position OF
police recorder.
Women of wealth are going into
useful enterprises we'll as the girls
who must seek gainful occupations.
a Los Angeles woman of wealth and
Kansas City to cook for the hired
hands on a big farm which she owns
there. Another woman whose flnan-
cial and social position is assured
has gone into dairying. trucking,
livestock breeding and general farm
ing down in Mississippi. Textile de-
signing has become popular in Ala
bama. and at Birmingham school
has been opened to teach this faS-
cinating work to girls.
Woman pharmacists are obtaining
licenses here and there over the
country, and lawyers are so numerous
that they are organized In thirty-two
states with annual conventions that
keep on lively competition between
cities for the honor of entertaining
the sessions.
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Girls are becoming bankers also.
At the recent convention of the United
States League of Local Building and
Loan Associations, Anne l.. Rae of
Niagara Falls, y. Y, was elected
president. Banks everywhere are
adopting the policy of allowing girls
who grow up in the institutions to
Eucceed to the titled positions when
kiey are next in line for promotion.
a woman in San Francisco goes each
hummer to Paris with her paint brush,
living by acting as guide to tourists.
An Interesting note in the census
figures shows that five women in the
United States earn a living by coop
ering barrels, while another note
states that $4,000 girls and women are
employed in the government depart
ments in this city. Railroad cor
porations are looking more favorably
upon girl workers now than formerly,
with the Pennsylvania system en-
ploying 300 in one department in
Philadelphia. Girls are taking UP
real estate and earning a reputation
along that line. The real estate
board of Olean, y. Y, boasts a woman
Secretary-treaSurer.
Politics naturally comes into the
reckoning of careers for girls, with
the doors now open for official posi-
tions in municipal. state and national
government. Columbia University re-
Gently opened special course in poll
tics. with sortyfive girls enrolled.
The i>~entiNe genius of girls and
women has also made its mark. for
the records of the United States pat
ent office reveal that patents granted
to feminine inventors include every
thing ina stIlable from an eggbeater
to a rotary plowshare.
Truly there are no restrictions as
to what line of work girls may take
up. Every door is open,s with a "wel-
come" on the mat.