The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-15
Business Training
is an Asset to
Modern Wives
BY Beatrice Fairfax
An Authority on the Problems Of
Love and Marriage

Love and Marriage
TH1s is the age of the "office
4 wife
Thousands of girls go straight
from school every year, into fac
tories, shops and offices. Even
girls who are not forced to work
because of financial stress prefer
to become office wives" as these
co-workers with men have been
called.
There seems every reason why
earning her living should make a
girl more successful home
maker and wife. 1t need not
harden or embitter her unless
she permits herself to become
hard boiled"
Bernard Shaw is quoted as re-
marking that we have learned in
this age that women are only men
In petticoats But this is not
true, even as an exaggeration.
However capable woman may
be at work once considered mas
culine, she is essentially woman
at heart, in her hopes and dreams.
And her job is still to mother the
world.
This mother instinct often gives
! its trend to a woman's profession.
The wife Of certain lawyer,
for instance. found law absorbing.
Now that her children are grown,
she has studied law, has been adj
mitted to the bar, and is her. hus-
bands law partner. But she
/ takes special interest in the cases
i of children. carrying out her prac-
tice almost entirely in the chill
drens court. Lady Aston devotes
her career chiefly to parlia-
mentary reforms for the benefit
of children and their homes.
The girl who can earn her liv-
ing skilfully will not be utterly
helpless after her marriage, even
II it should be. her misfortune to
, face the world with children to
support. And when her children
are grown. she may be glad to
return to her work to fill in lonely
hours.
In your, business life. if you are
wise, you will not try to initiate
Q mans outlook and manners. but
will remain a feminine girl in
dress and charm. Business ex-
perience and competition should
give you poise, good sportsman
ship, emotional control, executive
skill, an understanding of order
:. and system. And you will get to
understand and like men as they
are, not as they are painted in
novels and movies. All this is
splendid equipment for home
management and will enable YOU
to understand, sympathize with
and prove companionable to the
Y man you marry.
The successful business girl
steers a middle course between
the rigid severity of straight hair
and flat heels and forbidding
manner and the lures of the of.
flee Vamp. She keeps her social
life apart from business hours,
studies her work and improves in
it, keeps fit and rested. She be.
HAYES politely, speaks distinctly
listens with discretion. keeps bust.
|, ness secrets, dresses demurely
but attractively, makes herself
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her work. Above all, Miss Mod.
, ern Office Worker makes herself
the kind of girl likely to interest
the clean.minded, ambitious type
of man she would like to marry.
She does not waste time on men
who are not worthwhile in char
! acter.
my parting advice to gradual.
ing classes always is this" writes
DIR. Elizabeth Thelburg, professor
of hygiene at Vassar College:
mo matter what you do, whether
, you go to work or don't go to
work, don't forget to get married
and don't let the high-grade mo.
rons get all the best men. Mar.
rage is still the great career and
|. the girl who fails to get for her.
self a desirable husband is not a
success