Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-01 | Page 8 | The Problem of Feminine Idleness

this kindly office for her. The society soci-ety girl Is fortunate Indeed who can find a congenial occupation that will make her economically independent. Then she will find her reward both from without and from within She will fit herself In character and capac- Iity to be a happy wife and a successful success-ful mother. For the supremo guarantee guar-antee that a girl will find the right . mate is to have high Ideals embodied j in her own character. I.Ike will find I like. And though, by working she may slightly lessen her actual mathemat-l ical chances of marriage, she will undoubtedly un-doubtedly whether sbe marries or not vastly Increase her human dignity dig-nity and usefulness and happiness. THE PROBLEM OF FEMININE IDLENESS. This investigation seems to bring convincing support to the principle : that every girl should work consist- j ently and seriously at something, says 1 Robert Haven Schauffler, In his ar- tide, "The Society Girl's Ideals," in J September "Success Magazine " j Merely to hang around, living on the fmily, with all her thoughts centered on dress and pleasure and "the not impnsKlble he" is ruinous to her chaiacier and her chance of married happiness. She is apt to grow morbid and cynical and then to marry too hastily, on too low a plane, aud from a too narrow circle. 'And she seldom realizes that her idleness is a fruitful source of depravity in the men of her acquaintance and thus still further reduces her chances of finding a desirable de-sirable father for her children. " "If Idleness be the root of all evfl," quoth Sir John Vanhrugh, "then matrimony mat-rimony Is good for something, for It sets many a poor woman to work." In our day of specialized servants anil housekeepers however, not even marriage mar-riage can be counted on to perform