Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — TALKING SHOP AT HOME. [ARTICLE]

TALKING SHOP AT HOME.

j Drop BnaineM a. Far a( Poaaibla with Bnaineaa UoaM. ’’There are time* when It seems that ; a man’s house Is the beat, and at times l It Is the only place for a husiness consultation of Importance, and no wife will resent such occasions,” write* Edward W. Bok, In an editorial protest against " "Talking Shop’ at Home,” In the Ladies’ 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 husban I aud because his Interests are bens. Shs 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.iso far as possible, with business hours. A man's mind needs diversion; It requires exercise in entirely different channels from those In which it has been running d::v lug the day. For this reason the pr. verb Is so full of common sense that every man should have a personal hobby as far removed from the nature of hit business as possible. A sensible hobby has saved many a business man froi:early collapse. The mind needs rest, and a man's home Is the only place ' \ all the world where such rest should be given It. And American wives s/tonld more rigidly Insist that this mental lie taken by their huxbnnds. U is nor an easy matter in sin., cases for tin* woman of the homo to dtlte such a stand and persist in It. But she can. do it if she win. A woman can do almost anything with the man who loves her If she only goes about it in the right wUy The trouble Is that sc -many women choose the wrong way. Tne practice of ‘talking shop’ should censer Ik our American homes. Our wives* are right in the interest which they take In their husbands’ ousiness 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 Inisloc.s as Ins wife’s faith, Interest am! co-operation In that business. So •long as sic . colts her interest and sympathy <*.. ,c; only as u means of encourage:' »»” *>''» la wise.”