Evening star., 1927-10-29
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
Is Business Girl Luckiest?

OF course the American girl is en-
We'd by women of most countries.
She's envied because in this country
there's a chance for every girl to start
in business and make a big name TOR
herSelf-alSo lots of money.
In foreign countries, girls are still
sitting patiently at home, waiting for
husband and domestic responsible
ties, while our breezy Young tiappers
are earning enough to buy pretty
clothes and expensive cosmetics.
I'm not here to say that | begrudge
a single happer a bit of her pretty
pretties. nor would l discourage any
girl from going to business as fast as
she wants to.
But let me urge all you aspiring
Young females to have look "Tound
the house before you plunge into the
bu "ineSS world.
Also have a look at yourselves.
What. honestly. do you intend to do
with that business career you talk so
much about?
Are you really planning to rise to
the top of your profession and set the
world on fire. Well, yes, maybe a
few of you are, but I'll bet the ma
iority of you are telling yourselves
right this minute: mot much.
What most of you are doing is to
90 TO work to earn money. And the
money will go to work to buy clothes,
and all the expensive trlf1es tather
can't afford to buy you.
OF course the clotfes will be used
for good times. Clotnes often heip
out on good times tremendously.
Eventually you'll arrive at what
you've been seeking subconsclousiy
oil oln eo1a
home.
So you'll find yourself back in the
old home circle again where you were
before the business urge found you.
Now / ask you, where are you?
You've either married nice boy
whom YOU love--a boy with decent
income, but no more--or you've mar
ried a rather older man whom you
love, and whose income permits serV-
ants.
If you're the nice boys wife, you've
got to do cooking and cleaning and a
few other things like that.
No use your telling me that you
will work at your office while he works
at his.
When the babies begin to put in
their appearance, that arrangement
will be ended.
Sooner or later with poor man,
you've got to face the housekeeping
problem-and then what good has
your business career been to you?
If you stayed at home and made
rather a thorough study of domestic
problems as taught by kind mama,
you'd be a thousand times more COM
Portable in your new circumstances.
The rich mans bride has just as
many domestic difficulties-if her only
training and experience has been In
the office.
The woman who is wholly dependent
on servants will never learn to man
age either them or the house.
She'll be a slave to the people who
ought to be working for her.
Now don't get the idea that / dis
approve Of Office training for young
girls.
/ appreciate and sympathize with
their anxiety to have pretty clothes ana
good times via the job they're holding.
But ! do think that they're making
trouble for themselves If they refuse
to have anything to do around the
home
Evading household jobs now won't
make your future any brighter.
After all. what most girls are out
for--is a husband and a home. Well,
home means housekeeping-and some
day or other they've got to learn it..
Why become absorbed in a job that
YOU know leads to nothing-when you
might be studying for bigger job
than you've ever held before?
Mimi will be glad to answer any in,
quiries directed to this paper provided a
stamped, addressed envelope ls lnclosed
Copyright. 1927