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Show j Dorothy Dix Talks j 'i PARTNERS By DOROTHY DIX, the World's Highest Paid Woman Writer I Wc have long recognized that marriage is a partnership in which a man and woman enter Into a life j j contract to pool tuelr money, theli ( jfWj labor, their lnt lligcnce and good Eflf will and strive together for the com- I LH men good of the firui f$fl Heretofore woman has been a si- hMH lent partner In the concern, her work S;vl was all done on the outside of the n&W store or office, or factory. All that j she had was Invested In the business ;fJ but she had no voice In Its nianagc- !rJ ment. Generally she was kept In 5J complete Ignorance of what It was i uolng Nature might have endowed her with extraordinary financial ability abil-ity and executive efficiency, but she wWm ne- r had a chance to use her tal- yC entS. And she shared In only such Em of the profits of the firm as the j M senior partner chose to give her if if succeeded, while she went down Into bankruptcy if it failed The entrance of so many clever ijfej and capable women into the business "mK world, and especially the marriage djflL Ol so many men to these aforesaid K9E clever and capable business women fK is beginning to change this left handed matrimonial partnership Into a real partnership In which a worn iEV nn is not only a man s wife, bur his H business partner as well Formerly when a man married a U highly trained business woman he mOg dumped her down into a kitchen where she was miserable, and where B be ascertained that being a rrricker- I I Jack stenographer does not necessar ily make one a good free hand cook, nor does a lightning calculator en-HME en-HME able one to always hare meals on Now. when he espouses the efficient effici-ent secretary who leaves her employer em-ployer tearing his hair when she gets married, or when he leads io the Kl nltar a prize buyer, or a head sales woman, Mr Wiseman, instead of wishing the gas range and stationary wash-tubs on her. Invites her into his own office, or sets up a little bus! ness with her The result Is the woman is happy and interested In doing the work 6he has fitted hei-elf hei-elf for and likes, and tho man pro? pers, and matrimony becomes a grand Fweet son:, with two people work- Uk0 lnc shoulder to bhoulder for the same end. So universally successful have these iirmn of husband and wife become that ' they seom to offer a solution of many of the social problems of our day. They provide an outlet for the energies of women, for one thing it Is having nothing worth while to do that make'; women peevish 'ind naggy and discontented, for the time has gone by when a woman with brains in her head can find suf ficlent occupation for a life time in punching holes In cloth and filling them up again, and going to pink teas and bridges, and realize her highest ambition in winning the blue ribbon at the church bazaar for the angel food Many a man who has a wife wiio Is hard to endure as a do mestic partner would find that she was an invaluable asset as a business busi-ness partner, If he took her Into his office, or store ami gave her the big construct ivo work thut her body and mind cry alnud for. Hfe ' A,BO ,hp "nlzlng of the firm nf Benedict & Co will enable thousands of voung people to marry who other wise would he compelled to remain M single. It Is all very well to say that a man should be able to support the (Woman he marries. Prider present lecotiomlc conditions tho average man lean not afford the luxury of an Idle 'yvlfr before he Is middleaged. and by that time he Is so set In his ways, and case-hardened in selfishness that he is not fit to marry. But there Is no reason why any capable. ca-pable. Industrious young couple, who tare willing to work together, should ,not organize a businep and matrimonial matri-monial partnership while they are . loung enough to ha.e the blood run ! mlng red In their veins, and the i wings of romance hovering over1 j them Morcoer. the business partner I j ship will fume nearer to solving the divorce question than anything else I jTbe reason so many couples drift .apart Is because they have.no com-, 'mon interest to hold them together'. jThe man Is absorbed in his, business, of which the woman knows nothing I The woman's days are filled with idress, with socieix, with clubs of which the husband knows nothing i They are so little in touch they haven't even anything to t n Ik about, and they are so bored at home tl seek affinities abroad. But the married couple who are business partners have the strongest of all bonds tlelne; them together They have a vital, mutual Interest I They speak the same language They have something (hey can endlessl) I discuss together and you will find no husbands and vivos such chums, or so united, as those who work to gether The business partnership of a husband and wife also eliminates strife over money fiom the matrimonial matri-monial partnership There is no fight over every penny with a tightwad husband, nor any' mininr; of a generous man by ex-I trlvagance when the wife shares equally with the man In the profits) of the firm, and knows exactly what they can afford to spend, and Ju8l Whj the can't buy n car or rlo over the bouse this y ear They used to Bay that whenever a man lived oyer his store he always got rich They say now that when level I wife works with her husband I they become rich. The idea of the domestic business partnership Is only new to lis in this country They have practiced it for centuries In France, and it Is what has made the French bourgeois the most generally pros porous people in the world so here's wishing all the firms of Benedict A To., luck. |