LADIES COLUMN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12167, 16 January 1903, Page 2

LADIES COLUMN.

THE HELPFULNESS OF A W£FE.

. There are >so /many parts^a woman fiktn " _, play -in as^i^ting' ,to - build, vp ► - fet business that ofiten the husband, with' whom she is associated in such enterprise, alone can fully her share in his labour and his success. Within my own knowledge, says a -jwri-ter- -in— The — T-j?ade9man-arndr*Jaop-keeper, a case occurs in which, at the wife's death, the husband's business fell off to ■>, the enormous extent df £120(K a year. She was essentially_ji.n. 08-faiHbried 7 bd3y,7and "bt "later year^' could, not, .be said, to Jiave - taken -any really active part, but she was always ready with a kind wor£Tand a smile -for everyone who patronised the place. . The time had long passed when it was j even necessary' to put in an appearan- j cc, for her personality was as- great" a ; factor,, xo: keeping up success as it had been in building the -business. . The fact remains, whether assisting publicly .or otherwise, - woman is a considerable factor in. the success or faik are: of any business with which she! is, associated; In. business life more than, any other a'man's future is .dominated 'by I*ke kind of wife hewns. Many of thjßrmost successful m^rcb-int princes are not ashamed 'to jyiVe ail the credit' of their positions, to the cLcer•hig and intelligent 1 interest taken' in their business by their' wiv.js. ' In one instance, where the architect of his own huge fortune is still unwed, .he doe's not hesitate to acknowledge that "all he* is and has he owes to ' his nidther/* Therefore,^ '"whptner as a' personality' visible [ijo tlie general public, or as the small, invisible help, in practice" or in theory, "-as wife or mother, woman's' influence. in the. business "life of ■ the world is greater and more potent than appears, to the unthinking.. v • ■ ' ■ •