Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1898 — “TALKING SHOP” AT HOME. [ARTICLE]

“TALKING SHOP” AT HOME.

Drop Business u Far aa Possible with Bnaiaeaa Hoatta, “There are times when It seems that a man’s house is the best, and at times it Is the enly place fer a business consultation of Importance, and no wife will resent such occasions,” writes Ed ward W. Bok, 1 u an editorial protest against “ ‘Talking Shop’ at Home,” It the Ladles’ Home Journal- “Those times are, however, rare, as every man knows, and they should be kept so. Business, itt its best, Interests a woman simply because It-Interests her husband and becaus hls interests are hers. She has no Inherent love for Ir. She cannot have. It is not her sphere. And, therefore, to impose business talk upon her every evening, or nearly every evening, ,e nobbing short of an Imposition and au 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, «o far as possible, with business hours. A man’s mind needs diversion; It requires ex or ciee In entirely different channels from those in which It has been running during the day. For this reason the proverb 1« so full of common souse that every man should have a personal hobby as far removed from the nature of his business as possible. A sensible hobby has saved many a business man from early collapse. The mind needs lest, end a man’s home is the only place in all the world where such rest should *e given it. And American wives should shore rigidly Insist that this mental rest be taien by their husbands. It Is not in easy matter in si. m? £a«es for tin! woman of (lie- home to bike such a stand and persist in it. But she )can do it if she will. A woman can dij> almost anything with the man who loves bar if she only goes about it in the right Wily The trouble is that so many women choose the wrong way. The practice of ‘talking shop’ should cease Is our A merican homes. Our wives are right in the interest which they take in their husbands’ ouslness affairs. Their Influence is frequently seen and felt In the business world. And it i? 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 b<§r 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 aha permits her Interest and sympathy io act only os a means of enoourageiacnr #h« is wise.”