OCR Text |
Show CARRIAGE NOT THE WAY OUT Working Girl May Find Her L-t Harder Than Ever When She Enter Wedlock. One of the most sortous olstele to woman's ndTuncemont lu Imlustrliil life is the general f it'll us on the ptirt of the woman that it Isn't going to t" necessary to work for uny great lecgth of time, beonuse the "knight" will soon be coming along, when sh will have a home of her own. Ueolarea Detroit Journal. "What's the use?" many a woman has said when It was suggested to hep that she gire more thought to hep tasi. "The work is only 'temporary,' so what Is the use of bothering one's bruin with think out details?" The exaggerated expectations of; girls as to the Improvement of their lot when married In the matter oC work la something wonderful. Society beips to accentuate this belief by society frowning on woman workers, sad Insisting that they go to housekeeping house-keeping and get out of the industrial, .grind. : I Now a woman In "the lower walks et life." as one puts It. which means j a woman who Is one of a family with 1 an Income less than will support alt tlx members on the wages of the father, cannot escape work by getting, married. With married life on a small Income the necessity of work is more pressing than when single. For married life presupposes more than one stomach to be fed er one back to b clothed. In due time, ordinarily, there will be three, four or five mouths to be fed and backs to be clothed. Work? Most women know little about work until they are married. So married life Is not an escape from work. The woman who does not become a "helpmeet," Instead of being simply a "help eat," has missed her calling in getting married. Just as she missed her calling when employed In store or factory or office In not becoming becom-ing efficient. |