WOMEN'S BUSINESS METHODS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 625, 30 September 1909, Page 3

WOMEN'S BUSINESS METHODS.

: Tire .business;education I '.of _.women has been : .-attention ■! in the press .lately, .«ays-an .English writ*r^that:is;,uot ; their edu-. .icati6n_lp>;sptoe:.particular';business; -but their ;,eduction, ;in sucVmattorsofnnanco and-'law ■ : an ,4jWw.'methods'is'are''necessary, if..they ;',arb'to'io.auage'.thejr.own,affairs. As'one writer ... pqmfa'put/o.'bpy mfce> in business from the time-fio'.'leavesLschool.-.but.a.gii'l goes : cither' ■ ; . ?.°, me ; 9 r w work ■ which [.seldom runs ,on these '.■ lines," and-;by. 4he ■ timof sho, marries, or' is ■'.■'. otherwise-.lndepohdeut-,- she "has'almost forgot- ;, ten : the;, rules'- of 'arithmetic.'. In'.matter's -of .'.law,,-women',,are "nearly always' ignorant/ and ;;as. for .the intricacies-of percentage ■ and in- ; J Br !? t ''i, th - e .machiMry' of investment,"-: and ; so" : ■ forth, they are usually-completely at the ■mercy '■ -of -the nearest ; male: into.lligcnco/'.which' may .^.,, w ? afc '' ;W,-:pr.erocc«pied;..or.'. interested, "or,- '.-. 6tiU worse,, uninterested.; :'.,.■..,•;• . ' ■•.-'....Woineiv' Sto perfectly .-capable- of'standing :• on. their ..own ,-fect,,jn, these, matters'if.they ; would-take; tho-trouble' to do so, and.if ;thoir •'■','■ P" - ??^.. .would . see,r that ' thoy were properly grounded; in.the.economicar machinery, of life.' In France,-'and .in,the working classes in England,.,women, are. the ••economists';.'.' they have .the charge,of the money,; and: they, prove their : ,quality .bytheir wonderful of 'it la trade,. both;.,horo.-' and -in Ifrance,'." women : Bhino conspicuously. ;It■is'-ohly .in,tho circle .•of gentlehood that.wom'on are -left helpless''in .these_respeiits; and-;iii:all;c6nscieiico thero are .;• sufficient ..drawbacks -to".boihg . a 'gentlewoman : jnthqut .'adding,- ■,'.this,-:'one • ,to ■'■'• them! :P ■. is: 'hard".: enough' '.: to'.' earn ,■ a -.- liv'inß in;.: spito:, of,; : this'; .cramping - and :ih--superablo. difficulty,,;but, it ;is :,Wdef • sti Jif ' one is, not, ablo'to. menage and defend the • money.:whenjt is barned.",: ,•;.' ,'....'