The evening world. Newspaper, April 10, 1919, Page 24

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1919 How Much Is a Wife Really Worth? “One Is Worth $15 in Africa; Value Here SOMETIMES Less,” Says Author Chamberlain “In Africa a Woman’s Market Price Is in Direct Ratio to What She Is Worth, “Here in America the Highest Bids Are Made for the Most Useless Women, and the Men With the Least Money Marry the Sensibly Trained, Efficient Girls.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Coprricht, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening Wortd) N Africa a wife is worth three pounds—fifteen dollars. she often is worth less than that!” The quite appallingly frank commentator on the local matri- monial supply is neither a savage chief nor a crabbed curmudgeon, but George Agnew Chamberlain, a tall, graceful, personable young man, who has written a number of interestin and widely read novels. One of them, “Home,” published anonymously a few years ago, roused animated discussion as to x the authorship of such @ broadly planned and moving 2 i piece of fiction. Mr. Chamberlain's new novel, “White ae) Man,” is a otirring romance of an American flyer and a Ww Eee British heiress, who cloped by aeroplane to the heart of an African jungle—with the usual result, effected after various unusual happenings. As the heroine, the Honorable Andrea Pellor, remarked to her ab- ductor, “Some of the things you say are almost clever enough for a book to read in bed.” One of the clever passages is his ungallant comparison of the beautiful, costly, useless flower of civilization with the black woman of Africa—very much to the disadvantage of the former. “What are you worth after all, “ In America | coming down to carpets and tacks’ he demands of the Honorable An- @rea. “The best specimen of woman im this camp represents an invest- ment on tho part of the husband of two pounds ten shillings—say, three pounds at the most. Every girl child she bears and rears brings him a hundred per cent. return and in ad- dition she keeps house, cooks, chops wood, totes water and tills bis flelds.” “Did you mean to measure me against that three-pound standard?” the lady protests imdignantly. “I did,” he coolly admits, Tt is against the throe-pound stand- ard that the Chamberlain himself measures civilized woman—and, tn bis epinion, she frequently 1s overpriced at this valuation. He looks like W. L. George, but doesn't think like him. The author of “White Man” had = = GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN seven years’ service as A ican Consul at Lourenco Marques, Portu- muese Eust Africa—he ts now our Consul at Mexico City, And he boldly maintains that in fundamentals the black woman of Africa often makes a man a better wife than the white woman of America and Europe. “Woman in Africa,” Mr. Chamber- lain explained when I talked with him at the Hotel Seymour, “is on @ strictly economic basia, She has @ market price, based on her actual Usefulness and worth. In this coun- try we think a man cannot make a bappy marriage unloss he is roman- tically in love with the girl he chooses as a wife. Of course we all know, however, that such marriages tre- quently do not out well, In Burope romance considered not Rey go easential an accompani- ment of marriage In Africa it is not considered at all.” “For what does the African value bis wife?” I asked. “For two things lain repiivd prompt give him children for his house. After those the fundamental demands man ie justified in making on Woman he takes int use? Yet how many American giris « Well-to-do class are able or w , to satisfy them? work is Mr. Chamber- “Bhe must must She care all, are not It has reached the Point where you must ask even the nant youngest and most innocent gir! be- fore you marry her how she feels » about having children. She is likely t@ say flatly that she won't have/I did, and don't give him the sati 4 women want m "In Africa it would be all off then and there. A childless wife is sim- ply returned to her father, and her obolo, or market price, ts demanded back by the aggrieved husband, In the native speech she is ‘a woman who is not’ Nobody will marry her and she must spend the rest of her fe helping her father harvest his I suggested to Mr. Chamberlain that marriage by purchase is not | unknown even in this country. “Only wealthy young men need apply” ts the sign hung out by many a mateh- making mother, “But the Africans are much more logical about it,” he pointed out. \“There, as I have said, a woman's | market price is tn direct ratio to | what sho is worth. Here the price 19 likely to be in inverse ratio. The | highest bids are made for the most | useless women, the daughters of the | rich who cannot even keep a house oF supervise thelr servants. And tho men with least money marry tho sensibly trained, efficient girls, “The only time \-hen I saw African women going at a price based on ar- tifictal rather than rea! values was in | certain tribe where there had been an admixture of white blood. Natu- rally there were some throw-backs— girls who were nearly white. Their price in the open market was high— forty pounds, as against three pounds | for the usual native woman, Yet | when the wise old chief of the tribe | Was urging me to take a wife he warned me carefully against the white girls ‘They cost too much,’ he Said, ‘and after you have them they cost more to dress. Also they are vain and they will not work. They are a bad bargain,’ It reads like an tndictment of a | Professional beauty anywhera, | In African tribes there seems to be | no code of sex morality governing the | unmarried girls, and, in Mr. Cham- berlain’s phrase, “they rarely marry |the boys with whom they play around, since it is the older men who | have the purchase price.” After mar- | rlage, however, a wife 1s an economic asset, and no poaching is allowed. A |married flirt is brought before the tribal council with her aMnity., Says the h and sterniy, I give you bread, I give you a house—and you sin with that man! Then you gv to his ho you eat his bread!" his father-in-law the hui ceives back the monial ment, and father-in bursed by the Lothario is almost as atrictly damages which ( er From re- settle reim It logical as the offended Britis husband asks for and obtains trom matr aw in n the case wife's co-respondent, "I believe civilized man ts becom- ing convinced that in the marriage of to-day he not get value ceived,” maintained Mr “He ts finding there it for him, That 80 many bachelors. re Chamberlain, ts nothing there Unless age to had t ples, in is. why are ur ko 0 together prir ractised by A they tt basic as unde And when I told this greatly da he letter novelist w an indig New York woman who kn he smiled his urbane amile and said he could stand it. 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Petticoat is of pale pink chiffon and Val lace. In the lower picture is shown a combination of white satin with Val lace. The rosettes of white satin ribbon each contain an orange blossom. Petticoat is of pale pink Georgette and chiffon with Val lace and French knots. 4 THURSDAY, APRIL 10, “‘Busiest Man in New York” Is Frank W. Frueauff; He Has 137 Jobs! His Directorships Foot Up Two Columns in the Directory of Directors. Yet He Has Nothing on His Desk but One Inkuell anda Blotter. | Began His Career as a Newsboy When He Was Nine | and Has Accumulated Work, Experience, Pros- perity and Is Authority on “How to Get a Joband Hold One” —He Has “Seven Rules for Success;”’ You'll Find Them All in This Story. By Zoe Beckley Copyright, 191%, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) ERE ts a man with 138 jobs. Frank W. Frueauff is his name. No. 60 H Wall Street is his business address, Forty-five his age. Red the color of his hair, Until his birthday last week, Mr. Frueauff had only 137 jobs. Even at that, he occupied more space in the New York pedals of Directors than any other man listed. His directorships foot up over two columns, against Henry L. Doherty's on. They begin wit! } the Alliance Gas and Power Company and end with Woodstock Gasligh Company. The X's, Y's and Z's remain. But there was so much time left on Mr. Frueauff's hands and his desk was so suspiciously clean that his partner, H. L. Doherty, wished a Colorado public utility company on him , With a “See here, Frank, take care of | this one too and I'll put something extra in your pay envelope”—or | words to that effect. Thus F. W. RULES OF SUCCESS, Frueauff, busiest man in town, busi- 1. Be willing to think, Most nessly speaking, becomes something | of an authority on how to get a job | folke aren't, and hold one. | “Please give me instantly,” we be- gan hopefully, “the magic rule for ; success, Ifow can the average young man start out in life and continue | happy, useful and successful to bis | {dying day?” Frank W. Frueauff’s \ | 2. Work. Few persons make ! @ real effort. 3. Stick, When things look hardest spit on your hands and |T The First Telephone Conversation HE first: mes nd of the by a length of was to human voice a triumphantly ri From his with the a medium, was room in th of a t ding house Alexander sham Bell | to his 0 stant, . Watson, on the floor be- low: “Mr, Watson, come here; 1|At the want yo! That first telephone was adapted guly to sending from gue ge to be 80 up the stair heard wire, you. n 1876 upper story at Boston telephoned ‘Thoma wa and his ec many obs: same year Bell and on a conversation over a hla telephone, Watson's reply houtin It @ moment of joy for the inyento y still had In the 1 carried two-mile wire between Boston and Cambridge. Philadelphia Exposition that ear Bell exhibited a crude model of but it attracted Uttle : | “How I wish I could answer that } question!” And sincerity was in his ‘ voice, “Fact is,” he went on, “there is the same amount of magic about succeeding in life as there is in snatching rabbits and flower pots from a hat. Looks like magic—but isn’t. “First thing a boy must do if he is bent on success is think, Sounds trite, doesn’t it? But it is amazing how few people really do think. If you make a slip of the tongue in dic- tating a letter, how many stenog- raphers will stop to figure out the : |sense of it, and correct you? They don’t think, How many telephone operators will think to say, “Mr. Blinks is not here now, but T'll take your message and have him call you.” How many grocery clerks will wrap sp the eggs at the top of the bundle and not underneath the grapefruits go at them again, 4. Look to to-morrow, A toorkman sces to-day only. An executive plans for to-morroto, 5. Cultivate personality. Ap pear and behave at your best. 6. Take advantage of tuck. But don't depend on it. 7. Move heaven and earth to work at something you like, things look impossible, that {a thr time to spit on your hande and g° at them once more. But there ts : point beyond which tt is fooli#h t stick. The trick is to know whe this point ts reached. Sticking afte @ th.ng becomes tmpossible of aceom plishment has brought many a mac ind cans of tomatoes? Business men “| positively grateful to an em- loyee who thinks things out for him- elf instead of running to bim for in- \ structions, or doing things wrong. I j ess housek don't they?" ors fecl the same way, | a re feel she a6 Jaceomplished in this war, Mr. Fru |auff says, make It a ticklish busine: | Mr. Frueauff was evidently born| downfall, One of the hardest thing in this world to learn 1s when to stui sticking. It is a sort of sixth sense ings that were saying what is {mpossible, Impor with the ability to think and has) «sipitity is so much a matter of view j! cultivated it ever since, ‘| thinking how to earn his living when most millionaires— Only he added bottles And the scene was the assic way of ‘selling papers. for variety uproarious mining camp of Leadville, | | Col, whither his parents emigrate during the height of the mining fever, Small Frank was thrifty with his papers and bottles and by his tenth birthday had quite a few dollars laid by with which he planned to go into business and support his mother, his good dad havi pa on, But mother thought a little ‘echooling| would come in handy, so they went to Denver, and Frank put in several years on reading, writing and arith- metic. He went to high echool bu never to colle, And be it recorded for the encouragement of those who cannot go that this notable captain of industry does not regard a gencral college education as at all necessary wouldn't lke to have| “so that I could meet! » Bo to say, only on| ground but in pretty | fields of rhetoric, But I hadn't time for colleg I went to instead Which brings me t a'r rule’ for good hustling. “Mighty not technical work agic success, name! hard tow through effo met by,’ out mak are willing t apr college ye learns in colle worth ue wi fled } Nuidity » in busin : unne an technical tra It ts can't be rld by I-hanger, then coll ad “of giving t needs for “When I sary, I don't me unnecessary. necessary. You wi not n ine es. is absolutely a figure in electrical to a famou: the appren You'll engineer by . nining ng a hole in the you do strike oil, You'y nd you've got to work. “And st Stickativeness real gift, though like brain power, it can be cultivated, As soon an a thing becomes bard, most people give Jk, That's he bine to eich, When is al und, even if} ts in the mill fot to study | In ro He bern! point. Rule No. 3 for Success, then, 4s, <1 ' he was nine or so, and did it In the/«stick—but learn when to quit Rule No, 4 embodies a neat aphor ‘sm by Mr, Frucauff which we think you will greatly admire “The difference,” says he, “betwer a workman and an executive is tha the workman does the work of to y while the executive plans wha is to be done to-morrow, Have vision Look to to-morrow." The Doherty firm, of which Frueauff and H. 1. Doherty equal heads, maintains a sort of lat oratory in which workmen are tran: muted into executives. “In order further to encourar young men to fit themselves into ou enterprises," says Mr. Frueauff, have offered to giv a technical co lege course to the son of any old em ployee who will put his boy throu high school first." Which b Mr “w ngs us to Rules for Su 6 and 7, Personality xecutive Frucauff, r: an acquirable talent, although insists it can be “In getting a sonality “learned” in a way says, "pe the 1 stands at the of emendously wort © best of figures in the get no use denying first good Job was luck ppened to be in an electric en Mr, Doher suppose my for 1} Dew ths opportun nd w, t vantage of b Now n than to b int does not like, 1 liked electri it was a | » learn | nd step by t nk wh fight tooth and nuil fe that fine work } ity tragedy ans of Square workers nd hole “And how shall they get still pleaded for the n “By eternally trying! Think, work, stick, look ahead, fight and hope, ‘Th greatest sttmbiing block of all is net earing. If you only want terribly hard to muccerd, thee are plenty of nelan ~somerwenneneth it?" we gic ru 4