A Business Girl’s Chance of Marriage.
- The girl who goes out to business lias certainly a better chance of marriage,, more offers, than her stay-at-home sister. In the first place the girl who proceeds daily to town lias a better opportunity of meeting young men. All day long she is in the company of the opposite sex; one way or another she meets her fellow clerks, gets to know many of them intimately; has, moreover;, t-h© advantage of seeing them day after day, and thus is enabled to judge their character more closely than the one who sees her lover only on his best behavior, and out of business hours.
Men cannot help admiring a girl who, trim and neat, without any great ostentation or affectation of .the latest fashion, always appears well and suitably attired at business. The very presence of a girl’s sweet smiling face seems to brighten up the dullest office or workroom, as the case may be; and many is the man who has met his fate this way! Almost unconsciously at first he had looked forward to her coming ; he : liked to see the bright face near him, while the pleasures of being able to flielp, the very thought of her leaning upon him, the fact that he is able to assist her in any way, no matter how trivial, becomes an ecstasy, and is looked forward to and seized upon by him with =avidity. Again, the presence of a woman, or girl either, in office or factory lias,, without doubt, a restraining influence upon men, helps to cultivate and pen lish. their manners; few men will be coarse or rough to a girl in business 1 ; they like, to appear at their best, well in her eyes, even though not in love with her, for a woman’s weakness arouses all the slumbering chivalry in a man’s nature.
Them again, if of a sweet, obliging disposition, the business girl .makes both friends and admirers ; for how can a young man who is constantly in the society of a. fair lady clerk or other assistant, help learning to love her p
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2752, 5 March 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)
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355A Business Girl’s Chance of Marriage. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2752, 5 March 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)
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