Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — French Women as Business Helpers. [ARTICLE]

French Women as Business Helpers.

Miss Anna L. Bicknell writes an article on “French Wives and. Mothers’’ for the Century. She says: In the families where the father conducts any business the wife becomes his best clerk, and usually his cashier. The wives are exceedingly intelligent and acute, extremely sharp at driving bargains, and accurate in keeping accounts. They are their husbands’ partners in every sense of the word, and it is wonderful to see how they acquit themselves of such a multiplicity of duties. Self Is completely annihilated; and if weak health is mentioned, it is never an impediment to what they have to do for their children or their husbands, but is mentioned only as a disagreeable accompaniment to a necessary fatigue, without an idea of using it as an excuse for shortcomings.