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HE OMAHA
AMUSEMENTS
EDITORIAL
TEN CENTS
VOL. L NO. 40.
OMAHA', SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1921.
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Modern Maid Scraps Masculine Idea
that It's in the Home and Is baking
in the Coin in the Business Vocld
She Appbopbiates His Cussedness
and Even His Job -
Still, Even in the Busy Marts op
Trade, That Yeabning foe Soap'Suds
and the Dust Cloth Remains in the
Feminine Breast Some of Omahas
successful business women
Wistfully Declare
iAlVAN A. RICHARtB
SpliEVES BUSINESS MAKES
MRS. MARvThTcONANT,
nvuWCO ae ccvPDAL HOTELS
DECLARES SHE HAS ACQUIRE'
BEUEVESJ BWNw n A ,s vlcupojNT AND IS
WOMEN Bti l. nw THROUGH WITH HOME LIFE -
QHEYN photo;
"A woman can do both!"
"No woman could do both!"
"A woman is a better homemaker
for having had business training, or
if she does both, the diversity of the
two react favorably on both."
"No woman can serve two mas
ters." "Home-making is a natural in
stinct with every normal , woman.
She never loses it."
Home love atrophies if ret ex
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;HlK, OEPARrWENT fe) xffl f ftpK
E 8UVERV insists, '7 In
I AT THE HOME IS - S A '
THE PLACE POR MrF: -ff Q fjOg '
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MRS. RANDALL POLLOCK FM05ER GREATEST
JOY IN HER0,000 MANSIOM, TrtOUO
THE MANAGEMENT OF HER 8l5 CAPETE&iA
AlVOWS HEQ BOT LITTLE TIME TO SPEND
IHIT
MK. LEO GROTTE.
OMAHA CEPRE6ENTATIVE
OF LARGEST ART
ADVERTISING CONCERN
IN WORLD, SAVS HOME
m UFE WOULD SORE HER
TO EXTINCTION"
MRS
ALICE
AB50TT;
5 TATE.
CFT7PPf.P M TATivP
FOR A LARQE TONIC .
COMPANY FOR 20YEARS
AVERS THAT BUSINESS
LIFE HAS MADE HER A X
8ETTER MOTHER AND V
ViIFE lX06lOHOkPHOIOJ.
MRS
PEARL HliNQATE
STaiT OFFICE BUILDING,
SAVS MOST OIRLS OO INTO
BUSINESS LIFE MERELY AS
A TEMPORARY. PROPOSITION-
By ELLA FLEISHMAN.
A few years ago, a certain trite
little phrase fell from every mascu
line pair of lips, and some women s
"Wnmm'i nlace is in the
IUV, ' ' v I -
home!" 'u i
Today no one argues that anttqu
homily. .
The dear girls up and proved the
contraryl
Now they look upon home as
merely a place to hang their $30
bonnets, so the men say. They
won't keep the home fires burning
at all. They don't marry or won't
stay married. They're too busy
"raking in' the coin " -With
a fat oav check or annual
dividend, the long-coveted ballot, a
marts hitherto untrod by dainty slip
pers. '
in many rieias.
Building managers, realtors, sell
ing farm loans and mortgages, ad-
nlnvment soecialists. trade iournals.
r.rii7;w rnrH to all her brother's ,u, anaK-st Hpnartment store Then as if to wilfully emphasize the Myrtle
clubs and a few of her own besides; manaKers atvJ buyers, heads of their contrast, come a flock of successful Hungate.
J . - .n rWtior r. J. .. 1 " -11 ... Arrnti
Variation in the above "quotes"
show that the dear girls themselves
don't agrsi on the subject.
Ask Mona Lisa.
"Ask the Sphynx or Mona Lisa
they may knowl" was the most illu
minating response to the dilemma. .
At any rate, the investigation
brought two important results; one,
a confession from several prominent
women that confidence in their abil
ity to make their own way led them
to the divorce court rather than sub
mit to a husband's iiicompetor.ee to
support them adequately, and second,
gave a new highlight on the scope to
which women's activities now ex
tend, outside of the teaching and
stenographic fields.
If all th2 prominent business wom
en interviewed were to be lined up
for a debate on the question: "Re
solved, That a successful business
career lessens her regard or atten
tion to her home or "home life." this
time, I'm getting to be an utter would be the lineup:
stranger, almost, to my children," How They Vote,
confessed Mrs. Mary Hulst. advertis- Affirmative: Mrs. Ben Marti, Mrs.
ing manager for the Napier com- Mary Hulst, Miss Louise Srhumate,
pany and correspondent for several besides Mrs. Conant and Mrs.
ijroue, auss lyaia Sturgeon, Mis
iitz Roberts. Mrs.
Mrs. Grotte confessed her person
ality underwent a strange metamor
phosis after a scant two years in the
ercisen, just as one s musical talent, business world.
"I've lost almost every domestic
instinct I ever had. I would never
be satisfied to stay at home again
and cook and putter around and go
out socially, the way "I used to do.
It would bore me nearly to extinc-
rcctor for the board of education. But
Miss Roberts is not pessimistic about
the lessening of woman's interest in
the home, generally speaking.
"It's hard for successful women to
settle down to just housework and
to beg for every nickel and dime
she likes to be independent," said
Miss Fay Watts, head of an employ
ment agency under her name. She
and Miss Lennie Montgomery, em
ployment supervisor for the Western
Union traffic department, indeed ad
vance an entirely new angle of the
tion. in contrast with the busy life just walk into a store and buy them.
and daily meeting with so many just like a man does,
people which I now have. "If I had a home, I know I'd leave
, Forced Into Business World. the dishes unwashed, the beds tin
Forced into the business world in made and forget fo dust the furni
middle age by her husband's break- ture while I sat down to write a bus
down .their fortune gone and with a iness letter," Mrs. Conant freely ad-
young son to support, Mrs. urotte mit8,
"Just like a man's," is Mrs. Co
nant's self-confessed attitude toward
home, life and the world in general.
"I live just like a man don't know
a woman's viewpoint about a home,
or home things. It would be hard
for me to describe a home even, hav
ing been wlftiout one for 26 years.
I don't sew or cook or plan my question quite the opposite of the clothes, even to underwear, by sew
clothes even. When I need any I debate now being waged. incr at nicht? ako mad mv n.
Many Better Off at Home nouse flresses, done all the baking
The fact that women are alwavs .de!b SunJay di"ner- be"
rtJiT.-tic I :4. - ' . 'ues running my omce. ioc once
"Business has made me a better
mother, a better wife and a truer
friend it has assuredly not lessened
my interest, in the home. I am just
as domestic in all my tastes today as
if I had never set foot in a business
office." '
Mrs. Abbott is a "marvel" in
what she accomplishes, so her
friends say. This is how she re
ports it herself:
"For 20 years I have run my seven
room house from cellar to garret,
raised my children, made their
HE. VOl PHOTO
'MISS MARY STURGEON, ASSISTANT
GEM. MANAGER OP DEPARTMENT
STORE, AFFIRMS THAT BUSINESS
WOMEN LOVE THEIR HOMES- .
is one of the most successful women
in commercial life here. She is rap
idly forging into the annual five
figure class, say those who kn-w.
Mrs. GrottVs motto is: "Don't
mistake a difficulty for an impossi
bility." '
It was like climbing a mountain
before breakfast, Mrs. Grotte ad
mits, when she started Out.
"I used to tremble like a leaf when
I had to interview some big business
man. Now I have sufficient confi
dence in what I am selling and the
returns my patrons will receive."
Success as Mother.
"When I go into my daughters'
homes I am like an utter stranger.
When they pass me anything I set it
down. I don't know what to do with
it or where its place is. When I get
through visiting in my children's
homes I'm always glad to get back
to my own little corner in the hotel.
One doesn't get out of the habit of
public life easily."
For all these proclivities, that Mrs.
Conant was a successful mother as
well as business woman, needs no
other test than to mention the names
of her two sons, Harley, associatea
mayhap a car and mistress or her
own establishment, a sort of glori
fied bachelor's apartment with a
siirht latchkey and taxi service at
her command what's to prevent
her from acquiring the last relic of
bachelor or masculine cussedness
an irresponsible attitude toward the
home, that bulwark of society?
Even Gets His Job
Bobbed hair, mannish knickers.
couar. lie aim
own enterfwises many unique helds
augment the already familiar woman
doctor, lawyer, teacher and social
worker. ,
Some pleaded guilty. Others "not
guilty." ...
Some asked the privilege of enter
ing their defense.
Some pleaded "extenuating cir
cumstances.
young business woman, all of whom Negative: Florence Laboschin,
sigh tor the means or declare tneir eeae .yan, jurs. Alice u Abbott,
intention to work until they acquire Mrs. Randall Pollack, better known
financial release from their desks in as Miss Harding; Miss Anna
order that they may revel in the Doyle, Miss Lena Bellman, Miss
erstwhile so-declared "drudgery of Belle Hatch, Miss Lilyan Richards,
housework." Miss Naomi Schenk, Miss Kather-
Would Be Willing Slaves. in Gow, Miss Mary Sturgeon, Miss
Ti. K ,.,;ii;n,r clnvo. tr, ui,c " l outers.
the dustcloth, the mop and broom
At any rate, the frankness of their -nj tt.p srn,hhintr nail.
replies is as refreshing as it was un- "j-j rather scrub floors and play in
soapsuds than do anything else and
r. And .Staid, d.gnified matrons, mothers rm positively jealous of the woman a,f 'nf nt0 she expects to
oo, and of grown sons and daughters, con- that t see hanging up a line e? J ous ff8,?".:0 tS ord.
General fessed they could never create an- o resh clothes of a Monday morn- h"ldh"w' ' But the w
nraief? other home atmosnhere. did thev Mice k',t. ("..it-m-Up. over her husbands employment e
"1" .nnrnoriated long ago expected, in manjrjnstances.
his iob durinsr the war,
France, too,
i.. tr.- which vxen
Pershing himself gave nign praise. ui.usc.c, um u.cj lng
Whv there's nothing except ne -yc , no w over again.
VnUtcad act to prevent a feminine 1 wouidn t even know where to olease.
version even of the lamp post en- hang my hat, is the admission of "We business women can manage
counter if they wish, argue the ultra- Mrs. Mary H. Conant, president of our homes better because of our busi-
radicals! At least, that daintily the Conant hotel company which in- nes3 training, than does the average
manicured fingers can deal out a ude the Conant, Sanford, Harley, home woman," Miss Doris Goethe,
"royal flush or a lull house xo "u" "' nuieis in us the only general ageni ior any m-
surance company in mc -nj.
It divides even sisters, the Stur
geon girls prove.
The affirmatives make up in con
viction what they lack in numbers,
It Is Just Play.
Softspakcn, of the good looking, w;th her in the hotel business, and
Perle wholesome type and with hair just Homer, New York artist now trav
tinged with silver, her sex gets her ti;ng in Europe; and three happily
an interview irequentiy where men married daughters.
solicitors are not admitted.
Selling art calendars and a line of
holiday cards is just play for Mrs.
Grotte.
"I'd much rather land an advertis
ing campa.'gn account. I sell direct-by-mail
campaigns for everything
from bakeries to surgical supply
houses.
obstacle in the way of the success
many of them could attain in the
business world if thev could con-
rentratP thpcn nrnmon ,nn4l.. , V
, . . ual,t,i. apvjLlus tiojy
fltvcj die.
' "Many women in the business
world today would be better off at
home. Their heart and soul are not
in it," said ' Miss Watts from out
her vast experience. "They work
only for quitting time and pay day."
"The fact that many women go
home at night to wash dishes, or
dust or prepare the evening meal
robs them of just so much energy
which, if expended in business pur
suits, would get them somewhere,"
said Miss Montgomery. .
Have Home Instincts
"If she could concentrate her in
terests, she'd get farther but then
she can't. That wouldn't be nat
ural for her.
Ihe tendency to love and th
did I let go.
Besides raising her own three chil
dren, she mothered 10 boys and girls
until they were placed out for adop-
"TV .jlwavQ tried to make home reSDOnslbllltv ni a home ia inhnrn
in my little corner in the hotel, is in women. Her sympathies are al-
"I would never be satisfied to
merely keep a home and jive the
social life again either," sauT Mrs.
Perle Hungate, in charge of th?
Peters Trust building and the only
woman member of the Umaha tsuua
This is only her second year m fag Owners and Managers associa
te business world. The firtt year tion. "But I think all girls go into
she made 70 per cent over her quota, business life with the idea that it is
ways quick enough to draw her to
the home ties, no matter what her
occupation may be."
There is, no danger women are
falling into man's outlook in this
regard, she is confident.
"Business training" is essential to
women no matter what and where
sne isi ine untrained woman
never knows the value of a dollar
Goes on Lecture Tours.
"The only domestic help I had in
all that time is someone to do'tho
laundry work and help around "the
house," she said. She concedes there
may be some kinds of business which
tend to make Women masculine.
Mrs. Abbott goes on lecture tours,
too, but she always manages to pre
serve the atmosphere of a real home,
about her house, her husband and
two grown children testify.
Sharing Mrs. Abbott's views is
Mrs. Randall Pollock. We mean
the former Miss L. C. Harding, no
relation to the president that she
has discovered yet. but well-known
in Omaha, before Warren Gamaliel
or Harding blue had ever leaped
into the national eye.
Mrs. Harding-Pollock is proprie
tress of the Woodmen cafeteria, re
puted to be one of the best money
makers in town; former owner of
the Seven Oaks poultry farmland
for 16 years before that secretary of
the Omaha Board of Trade.
The Greatest Insult.
"My home is the achievement of
my lifetime," said Mrs. Harding,
and those who have glimpsed the
$40,000 mansion in Minne Lusa will
I.HOI1 wnai iucy kick in numuers. t .7 . i t .:,.- l,,t j t. j ,7 n"u,uw inaiiMun in .uiimc iusa win
"I would never again want to This yer, despite : poor conditions, on y temporary-that sometimes they and how to spend it economically bear testimony it is "some achieve-
double last year's rec-
quoth Miss Jvaie tjurneuc,
deputy United States marshal, if you
,.; a rvritincr 9 tune as the male string.
-,-iii;n ewniW ia fin revolu- "I could never go back to my old
tlnnarv statement Il,e as something of a society wom-
Notice of the charge that they so an.
lightly regard the home in favor of
their new love, tne Dusiness wonu,
agency on his death, several years
ago.. I have learned that I am
capable of doing bigger things than
cleaning, scrubbing and dusting."
Husband Must Have Money
She said many successful busi
ness women would not marry un-
woman who wants to
make a success in business cannot
be troubled by the details of house
management, Mrs. Grotte is con
vinced. She maintains a combina
tion suite and office in the Welling
ton hotel
will have a home of their own.
Conditions Are Changing.
"It isn't women who are changing,
it's conditions," according to Mrs.
Hungate's theory. "Many women
are forced into business by necessity."
Mrs. Hungate is one or mc icw
as the business girl does," said Miss
Watts.
Leading the "home guard" forces
is Mrs. Alice G. Abbott, for 20
years state representative of that
mysterious elixir, ViavL
What is Viavi?
Suffice it to say that enough
women buy Viavi to keen Mrs.
"I find my work takes all my en- yomen who have done both-kept Abbott a d eight field represent
liuilic dim . ti. ' . ...v - -
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was SCrvea vy inc jjcc uyuu iuuh
than a score of the most successful
Omaha business women.
They were found in all the busy
said Mrs. Leo Grotte, who has
taken a most successful fling into the
advertising world as Omaha repre
sentative for the Gerlach-Barkalow
company since her husband's health
faiVr! sir vnarft acrn
' n'ia downtown so much of the fthcr score just as vociferously.
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less thev could wed some one with
"But doesn't business, especially a enough means to assure you immun-
successful career, tend to atrophy ity from the slavey tasks.
leisure then? Would you not tire, of
what is known as the home instinct
they were asked.
"Nol No! No!" chorused a score
Take Your Choice.
Yes! Yes! Yes!" re turned an
inaction after your busy life down
town r she was asked.
"I would give my time to social
service or civic betterment," Mrs.
Marti replied.
ergy and time," she said.
Has Man's Attitude.
Taught by lier husband's break
down, Mrs. Grotte adopts, a pro
gram which could well be utilized by
all women in industry.
"I forget all about my business at
night a man's habit usually and re
fuse to let the day's work encroach
on my evening with my boy,"-
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sent them to the university, besides
keeping to her desk daily.
"It appears to me that home life
would be exceedingly dull to a busi
ness woman who has led as active a
life, as the present day downtown
world demands, said Miss Myrtle
tives on the job all the year 'round.
Runs Seven-Room House.
"Do I believe women are losing
all regard for their homes and
household tasks?" Mrs. Abbott re
peated over the telephone."
Well, since I had to turn otf an
ritz Koherts, employment manager electric . natiron in order to answer
of the Orchard-Willielm company this phone call, . I should say, as
and former, vocational guidance di- suredly notl" she replied.
ment."
"Though I have scant time to
spend in it, it is my greatest joy.
I planned every detail, even to fur
nishings and grounds."
The greatest insult any one can
offer her is to make the careless
comment, as many nave done:
"Why do you want such a beau
tiful home? You are never in it
much."
Mrs. Harding confesses she alt
most burst into tears the last time
some one made the careless query.
"Why, that's the reason 1 app're
ciate it so much because I've
worked so hard to attain it."
Indeed Mrs. Harding believes she
built up her financial success by
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