Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1913 — Ever a Woman [ARTICLE]

Ever a Woman

DOES A WOMAN ever get over betas a woman? Does she ever become eo inter•oted in business that she doesn’t worry when In &n office because the sun is shining on her new rug at home? . : When she goes to work does she leave what she calls her “feelings” at home, or does she take them along that she may win a little sympathy when they are stepped on? Having found tears an effectual weapon when in the wrong at home, does she expect to win in her business career by keeping the pumps In readiness for trouble at the office? As a proof that she never gets over being a woman, there is the business career of Daysey Mayme Appleton, which was like a Summer showervery short and very damp. T am a Thorough Business Woman,” Daysey Mayme had always boasted, “and hold myself above the little annoyances of which my weaker sisters make great tragedies.” Having gone into the training for a business career by making an office apron with a big ribbon on the pocket, and by doing up her hair in such a way she could stick four pencils and a pen In it at once, she bought a little vase in which to put the flowers she expected the men at the office to give her, and went down town to take a job, with this difference: She called it “accepting a situation." As she sat at her desk she congratulated herself that she was a Thorough Business Woman, above the weaknesses and foibles of her sex She would not fret if there was rain on washday, or the steak was overdone. Woman, she said, had a career above clothes lines and frying pans. It was with this feeling of Superiority to her Sex that she wrote a letter of four pages for her employer, marvelling as she wrote it that one so young as she could have such wonderful self-control and great strength of character. When she had concluded it, her employer pointed out to her a name she had mlspelled on every page, and told her she would have to write it over again. The throat of this Thorough Business Woman began to swell, her eyes filled: the predictions were for rain and the predictions soon came true, for she cried and cried till the floor was soaked, the air became so damp all the office force began to sneeze, and her employer had a chill. > And still she wept, eo freely and continuously, that her employer had to send for a boat to get her home. All of which leads to the query: Does a woman ever get over being a woman?