“The reason, of course, is that
the business girl tries to do her own
work and the t^mestic woman’s work
also, and she gives way under the
double strain, as flesh and blood is
bound to do when you tax it too far.
“Men have more sense about such
matters. They would collapse too, if,
after their day's work was over, they
eat up until midniflht turning up the
hem of their trousers or letting them
down because they are wearing ’em
longer or shorter this season, or if
they did a hard turn at laundry
work, washing out their shirts, and
their crepe de chtiie lingerie in the
wash bowl, Rnd If they tried to stay
their stomachs on some innutrltlous
mess they cooked over a gas jet so
that the price of a decent meal could
go on a fur coat they were buying
on the installment plan.
“Yet that is what thousands of
girls do. and that is why they break
down. Circumstances have forced
them out into the world to earn their
own living, but they have the urge
of the acquired characteristics of
hundreds of generations of women
who have cooked, and spun, and
sewed, and so they reach out instinc
tively for the needle, and the gas
range.
“They must have their own home,
although they must do their own
housework. It is in vain that you
tell them that for a tired woman to
have to get her own dinner Instead
of sitting down to an appetizing
meal that some one has already pre
pared i» little short of committing
deliberate suicide.
