Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1887 — The Honesty of Women. [ARTICLE]

The Honesty of Women.

.. „ ______ Harper s iiazar. Women are being employed more and more as book-keepers and cashiers, and one avowed ground of this employmentis that they are more honest than men. Unquestionably they are so up to this time, and it is ptobable that they will havesomepermanenUad vahtageni;Ttiat way. Their normal instincts are some-

what higher and thei? lemptations less on the side of perilous indulgences. But it has been pointed ouu m6re than once by the more cautions Jriends of women that a good deal of the present mo?al advantage of that Aex in matters of honesty comes simply from inexperience. They have hitherto had so littlfl td do with the handling of money that they regard it with more reverence than men; the bare thought of an irregularity alarms them; the conscience is wholly fresh and sensitive; *tlu?y can not conceive how a person can wrong anothetoutlof a dime and live. Moreover they overrate the difficulties and perils consequent upno wrong doings. A young book-keeper told me once that whenever her accounts failed to balance if it were only by a single cent, felt as if a policeman were just coming in at the door. It is as we find to be the case with lending money—any prudent person would rather lend it to a woman than to a man, because he that the chance of payment is greater. In the present state of society a debt of $5 seems a tremendous affair to a women and a very small affair to a man; but let that woman borrow and repay a few times and the fine edge of sensibility begins t« wear off, precisely as it does with a man, but more slowly.