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Show i 1 9- There fs An Old, Old Story j Told by Josoijhu;, of a Jewish captive who argued I in a pri.e essay read before King Darius and hi-i I princes and grandees that, the care and preservation preserva-tion of all household business" is dependent on woman's wo-man's administration which goes to show that such an argument could be understood and appre-eited appre-eited throughout the whole Persian empire from Indian to the Danube. To the J reek, as Xenophon pictures for us. ihe home criterion was a department of economic administration, ad-ministration, demanding of women a goodly measure meas-ure of business ability. Aristophanes in his comic argument that women should be also at the head of all outside a tt a it's, says that they are already taking care of everything every-thing within, a-, from the days of old. they have always al-ways been doing, and adds that for ways and means there's nothing cleverer than a woman; that as for negotiation, she's hard indeed to beat or cheat. Besides, says he, a domestic economy which does not join to the exterior talent for acquisition th-j interior gift of managing and utilizing, and especially especi-ally of calculating expenses so that they shall not exceed the receipts, is like the sieve, or the buckert piercd with holes, with which one tries to carry water. Where hi Aristophanes was of a surety not wid of the truth. |