Evening star., 1940-01-01
Dorothy Dix Says >>>
Business Career Is Hindrance
AS Well as Help to Wives

Nowadays when the great majority
of girls fit themselves to follow some
trade or profession and 60 from the
schoolroom to the counting room it
raises the very interesting question
of what sort of preparation business
is for wifehood.
Much is to be said on both sides
of the subject. At first glance it
would seem that business training
was almost must requirement for
a girl for matrimony, and would
produce wife whose price is above
rubies. She would, for instance, in
the stern discipline of an Office have
had drilled into her habits of ac-
curacy, promptness and efficiency
whose lack in their mates drives so
many husbands to drink and
profanity.
Sally, who has learned to punch
the time-clock on the dot, would not
keep her husband waiting 20
minutes while she put on her hat.
Nor would Mable, who was a cracker
jack bookkeeper, do her cooking by
guess and trust to luck for the re-
suits. Then the girl who has been
through the business mill and whose
job has depended upon her getting
along with cantankerous boss
should know how to smooth the fur
of her husband the right way and
keep him eating out of her hand
She has learned to take criticism
without getting in a huff or bursting
into tears; to accept blame for the
things she didn't do; to give the
soft answer that turneth away
wrath. This is the technique that
keeps a marriage from going on
the rocks.
Business should also teach q
woman the sympathy and under
standing of her husband that only
those can have who have shared
a common experience. She knows
the tired businessman is no myth
because she also has come home SO
tired from a hard days work that
she felt that there was nothing on
earth she wanted so much as to flop
on a couch, and that she would
scream if anybody spoke to her.
Hence she does not drag an ex-
hausted man around to parties that
last until am. Nor does she expect
him to be a gay and brilliant con-
versationalist. She simply let's him
alone, and her husband blesses
heaven for her.
Finally business training teaches
woman how to handle money. No
woman who has earned her own
living ever looks at a dollar with the
same eyes as the one who has had
everything given to her. To the
one it is something to throw at the
birds. To the other it is something
that has been wrought out of ones
very life blood, that is made up OF
strain and weariness, but the only
thing that stands between one and
want and beggary, and that is to be
used wisely and well. Hence the
business wife is nearly always a good
economist.
But, on the other hand, the busi-
ness girl rarely knows anything
whatever about domesticity, and the
intrepid youth who intrusts hi.
digestion to her keeping only toe
often finds that loves young dream
has been blighted by dyspepsia.
Another drawback to the business
| wife is that she is too independent
to suit the man who believes that
wife should be meek and humble
and subservient to her lord and
master and take whatever Language
and conduct he chooses to bestov
upon her.
And possibly the only real way II
which business units girl for wife
hood Is that after the first thrill o.
being married and having her owr