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Show -MARRIAGE NOT THE WAY OUT .Working Girl May Find Her Lot Harder Than Ever When She Enters Wedlock. One of the most serious obstacles to woman's advancement in Industrial Jife is the general feeling on the parti of the woman that it Isn't going to be' necessary to work for any great; length of time, because the "knight"' will soon be coming along, when she. will have a home of her own, declare Detroit Journal. .' . "What's the use?" many a woman, has said when it was suggested to hen, that she give more thought to her task. "The work is only 'temporary,' so what is the use of bothering one'a brain with thinkiii-'t out details?" The exaggerated expectations of) girls as to the Improvement of their lot when married In the matter o work Is something wonderful. Society; helps to accentuate this belief by society frowning on woman workers, and insisting that they go to house-i keeping and get out of the industrial grind. Now a woman In "the lower walks-of walks-of life," as one puts It, which means( a woman who Is one .of a family with an Income less than will support all' the 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 wore pressing than when single. For married life presupposes more than one stomach to! be fed or one back to bf clothed. IoV due time, ordinarily, tlere 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 BotJ become a "helpmeet," Instead of being; simply a "help eat," has missed her calling In getting married, just as sha missed her calling when employed in store or factory or office In not becom-, Ing efficient. |