People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — Professional Women. [ARTICLE]

Professional Women.

A professional life need by no means “unfit a woman for domestio life. ” On the contrary, it is only one of the schools in which she is trained to be a wife and mother. She need not lose her womanliness in following a business lifo. How oan she better learn to understand the occupation of her husband and thus be able to enter more fully into that perfect companionship whioh should exist between them than by actual contact with these occupations? What other means afford her a clearer conception j of what her sons and daughters will meet as they grow up and she helps to train them to face life’s battles? In case death claims her husband and she is left alone it is often necessary that she should take up the business where he has left it and either carry it on or settle the affairs, and if she has been a professional woman how much more capable she is at snoh a time. Following a profession only broadens a woman’s views and she sees the more clearly where her best efforts should be directed in tbe home.—B. A. K. in Philadelphia Press.