anagement of a large
business would have been impossible for an inexperienced girl, but it
comes easily to the young business woman.

In the same way a nurse began a business preparing supplies for doctors.
Soon she added invalid cookery to her other work. Her venture developed
into a business partly catering, partly a dining club, and in part a depot
for surgical dressings and home made cooking for invalids. Another woman
has inherited a large catering business from her father. It was a
considerable business when she became manager, but she had gone to work
with her father as soon as she left school. Still another woman has
established a system of hairdressing businesses. She began with one room
in one city. Her business has been extended to over forty cities. No chance
good fortune can account for successes such as these described. Managing
ability, foresight and character are responsible for a great part of the
achievement. The woman in each case made the discovery that the best
commodity of its kind offered to the public in the right way must bring
success, if the business enterprise itself is well managed.

Examples of the wise judgment of women in business are found in every large
community. A girl who makes good marmalade for home consumption began to
make and sell this product in a small way. She is now part owner of a large
business. A woman who went into a factory as an office helper proved to
have a gift for designing dresses. After spending a number of years in the
employ of the firm with which she began work, she has gone into partnership
with a woman dressmaker in a small specialized factory. A large wholesale
fish business is owned and managed by a woman, whose knowledge of the
business, including sources of supply and distribution, is entirely
adequate.

Women who own and manage business enterprises when they succeed often do so
because of their womanly qualities. There is no conflict between capable
thorough work and womanliness. The normal woman has always a capable and
helpful side to her character. She generally retains in affairs her
gentleness, considerateness, and patience in dealing with all sorts of
people. No quality is more important in business than a natural ability to
understand and sympathize. A woman's ideas may be original and her
knowledge of business details exact, but it is her power to work with
others and to make the best of them which is the highest part of her
business ability.