Business . she must. A mangoes into business for life, a woman until somethingbetter or worse turns up. Womans business is of herlife a thing apart, while it is a mans whole existence. These facts in themselves are sufficient to account forthe whole difference, but the chief reason remains to begiven. As a rule, a man comes to the exigencies of busi-ness well trained. From the cradle to the threshold ofhis business career he is in a course of training. Rich orpoor, in this country he must be trained. If necessaryalmost everything is sacrificed for the training of the boy,and if there is no one
Business . she must. A mangoes into business for life, a woman until somethingbetter or worse turns up. Womans business is of herlife a thing apart, while it is a mans whole existence. These facts in themselves are sufficient to account forthe whole difference, but the chief reason remains to begiven. As a rule, a man comes to the exigencies of busi-ness well trained. From the cradle to the threshold ofhis business career he is in a course of training. Rich orpoor, in this country he must be trained. If necessaryalmost everything is sacrificed for the training of the boy,and if there is no one to train him he must train himself,for no one expects anything from an untrained man. But a girl until very lately, too lately to be generallyeffective as yet, has gone on to womanhood untrainedfor business, until she appears before the credit manwith all her imperfections on her head. On the one hand we have the well trained, well pre-pared man, on the other the inexperienced, unequipped,untrained Afterthe painting by v. s. aiuBERT Artificial Flower Making Women in Business 59 We shall never reach a fair estimate of woman in busi-ness until we give this most important fact due estimate is just without it, but with it I myself feelbound to give women in business highest praise for theshowing they have made under this great disadvantage. We have capable men who have had but httle businesstraining and the same may be said of some women. Butuntil the conditions are more nearly equal with men andwomen in business, we may well reserve our judgment asto their comparative ability. Who can question the ability of a widow who has suc-cessfully conducted a large wholesale business since thedeath of her husband some ten years ago; or of anotherwoman who took in hand, at the death of her husband, agreat manufacturing, wholesale and retail business con-ducted in two cities, and carried it on, in increasingvolume, every year since, imder her own personal manage-ment? The b
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