Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — “TALKING SHOP” AT HOME. [ARTICLE]

“TALKING SHOP” AT HOME.

.-rop Business as Far aa Possibly with Business Hout's, •‘Thvre are times when It seems that a man's house Is the best, and at time* It Is the only >lace far a business consultation of importance, and no wife will resent such occasions,” writes Edward W. Bok, in an editorial protest against “ 'Talking Shop’ at Home,” in the Ladles’ Home Journal. “Those fines 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 uvery evening, or nearly every evening. <s nothing short of an imposition and au injustice. Men ought to be wise enough to see this. And they ought to he sensible enough to understand that, for their own interests, it is best »">'<• them to drop business matters, so far as possible, with business hours. A man's mind needs diversion; It requires excr cise in entirely different 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 as possible. A sensible hobby has saved many a business man from early collapse. The mind needs rest, arid a man’s home is the only place in all the world where such rest should *e given it. And American wives should jaore rigidly insist that this mental rest be taken by their husbands. It is not in easy matter in stray cases for th« woman of the home to 'iake such a stand and persist in it. But she can Jo it if she will. A woman can do al most 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 ‘talking shop’ should cease it our American homes. Our wives are the ‘Surest which they take husbands’ business affairs. tad uence is frequently seen an<’ the business world. And it ii an Influence which every right-minded man respects, knowing, as be 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 :o a<enly as a means of eucour;igem<>r»i' kt wise.”