BUSINESS WOMEN AS WIVES.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 357, 12 March 1903, Page 6

BUSINESS WOMEN AS WIVES.

Tact in Fiscal Affairs D«*s Wae »petl ♦as Woaaaa of To-Dar is* Matrtmoar. A feminine writer does not regard he business woman as unfitted for the Mities of a wile and mother. She re:>rds it as a matter of personal taste pon the part of the man in the case, f he wants a clinging vine, some ope vho will put him on a pedestal and be •Tateful that fate has given her a god -usually tin—let him keep away from h<* business woman. But if he wants i chum who will take him for what ac is—and in spite of it —who will be i wife and pal. and will be a solid comfort to him, let him choose a woman who lias been out into the business world and gained a broader visw of he world and of man. Such a one will take a man for just whnt he is worth-—no foolish ideals ibout his greatness; just a plain man -•rood fellow who won't bluff, because ie knows he cannot, and they will be liappy, because nsithsr ezpscta too much. Business never unfitted any woman for matrimony who was originally fitted for it. She can go through a V.isiness career without any loss of my kind. Tt rests entirely with her ind she can gain much which will be if incalculable advantage in making her life happy and that of th« man •vho pots her. Business broadens her ind gives her common sense—or, to be more polite, mors common sense.