Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1897 — “TALKING SHOP” AT HOME. [ARTICLE]

“TALKING SHOP” AT HOME.

Drop Business u Far aa Possible with Iluainesa Hours, ‘‘There are times when It seems that a man’s house Is the best, and at times It Is the only place for a business consultation of Importance, and no wife will resent such occasions," writes Edward W. Bok, In an editorial protest against “ Talking Shop’ at Homo,” In the Ladles’ Home Journal. “Those times are, however, rare, as every man knows, and they should be kept so. Business, at Its best, Interests a woman simply because It Interests her husband and because his Interests are hers. She has no Inherent love for It. She cannot have. It Is not her sphere. And, therefore, to Impose business talk upon her every evening, or nearly every evening, Is.nothing short of an Imposition and an Injustice. Men ought to be wise enough to see this. And they ought to be sensible enough to understand that, for their own Interests. It Is best for them to drop business matters, so far as possible, with business hours. A man’s mind needs diversion: It requires exercise In entirely channels from those In which It has been running during the day. For this reason the proverb Is so full of common sense that every man should have a personal hobby as far removed from the nature of his business os possible. A sensible hobby has saved many a business man from early collapse. The mind needs rest, and a man's home Is the only place In all the world where such rest should be given It. And American Wives should more rigidly Insist that this mental rest be taken by their husbands. It Is not an easy matter In some cases for the woman of she home to take suoh a stand and persist In It. But she can do It If she will. A woman can do almost anything with the man who loves her If she only goes about It In the right way. The trouble Is that so many women choose the wrong way. The practice of ‘talklag shop’ should cease In our American homes. Our wives are right In the Interest which they take In their husbands’ business affairs. Their Influence Is frequently seen and felt In the business world. • And it Is an Influence which every right-minded man respects, knowing, as he does, that a woman always acts for the best Interests of the man she loves. In her Interest and sympathy she is right. Nothing works as much good in a man’s capacity and enjoyment of business as his wife’s faith* Interest and co-operation In that business. So long as she permits her Interest and sympathy to act only as a means of encouragement she is wise." ,