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Show TRAINING GOOD FORAJJJOIN CHICAOO, Juno 24. Entrance Into business by large numbers of women who are not obliged to support themselves, them-selves, but merely desire more spending spend-ing money, la disapproved by Mra. Kdlth Jarvla Aiden, the recently ap-I ap-I pointed assistant aecrelary of Ihe Chi-I Chi-I cugo. Burlington A Qtiincy railroad. After only four years of experience ! Mrs. Alden was given what la aald to be the hi-heat railroad offtco held by I a woman. I On the other hand, Kirs. Alden he-I he-I lieveg some business experience would I profit almost any woman, If only to make her more appreciative of her 1 husband's problems. "A wife can understand un-derstand better how her husband feels on coming home after a hard day's , work If ahe has been there herself," I she said. "Before I had business ex- perlence I Imagined that business de-. de-. mands were sometimes unresaonable. Then, too. It Is well for a woman to be equipped to earn her own livelihood I If neceasary. "Efficiency and hard work seem to be the keys to success In the railroad buslneHS aa In every other. It ls undeniable unde-niable that business off era a more promising field to women than ever before. "My own work Ms been simplified I by the knowledge nf railroad mattera Which 1 absorbed as a railroad man a daughter. My father's children. Including In-cluding myself, referred to trains ,by Iheir numbers even when ws were little. lit-tle. My father, II. E. Jarvia, was with my company forty years, and was assistant as-sistant accretuiy twenty yeara. "I entered the company's employ In the Lelberf y bond department during the war. After the war I assisted my father, and gradually took over his duties when his health failed. I was appointed to succeed him when be re-signed. re-signed. He died aoon after." |