WHY WOMEN FAIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 778, 30 March 1910, Page 3

WHY WOMEN FAIL.

According to ail Australian paper, a man who has had much experience as ;a business agent, says that 50 per' cent, more women than men,.fail in business/ and for very simple reasons.' It .is'true that there are women in Melbourne who have made splendid successes of : ventures in , which men would,probably-have failed had they tried the samo experiment ; but such cases; arc comparatively few. The factis that half the women who fail do so because they have had 110 previous knowledge of the enterprise they have entered upon. To attract, or perhaps,-' to ensnare the woman who has" a little money to invest in a. paying'concern, winch she thinks she can manage her-, self, there are plenty, of. unscrupulous agents lying in wait. ■; "If women, would only, when, .purchasing a busiiil€ss, instruct a solicitor or-respectable accountant to investigate the matter— '"ost men would—we should not see half the women insolvents we do see," ivas a-remark made by an i official in the Bankruptcy Court. -The chief causes of the failures of business women seem to. be purchasing businesses,under . . misrepresentation, aoqijirin-'' businesses of which they have little or no experience, want .'of knowledge of proper account keeping, and inability to assimilate new methods, or ■ meet keen competition. ■ 1

Owing tq marriages being prohibited during Lent, a great rush of-weddings occurred on the last' Sunday of carnival m Austria. All records were beaten No fewer than 1000 weddings Were celebrated m Vienna, and in the poorer quarters twenty pouplos wero married simultaneously. Cabmen, innkeepers florists, and photographers reaped a rich harvest. ' - , In Arran, where the'maidenhair ferns grow plentifully, some of the inhabitants use it as a substitute for tea.