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w umminDUjlnUdecMrs. Murphy-Mulligan, Real Estate Operator, Against It.Physical Limitations Are Too Great and They Are Almost Certain to Lose Ideals Necessary for Home Life.New York.—Mrs. Agnes Murphy-Mulligan, the only woman member of the Real Estate exchange, has announced her retirement from business after 30 years of money making. She doesn't believe that women should go into business. Their physical limitations are too great and they are almost certain, she says, to lose the Ideals that are necessary for home life and the upbringing of children.Mrs Murphy-Mulllgan began to sell real estate up in the Bronx when the borough was little built up. Her father was William Jay Murphy, one of the pioneers in developing the Bronx and an active real estate man. Ills daughter studied law at the New York [aw school and was graduated when ihe was sixteen years old. Her father died, and the care of an invalid mother fell to Agnes. She took up her father's business wher^ he dropped it and became one of the best known eal estate dealers in New York city.She was among the first women who ever took up a business career in this city, and in 30 years she subdivided and developed large sections of .he Bronx. Her husband is William 3. P.lulligan.“Thirty years of business,” she said, “has convinced me that woman’s sphere is home and motherhood, not business. I have five girls, the oldest seventeen years, the youngest two mouths, and I should consider it the greatest calamity if one of them went hto business. I did it because I had :o. It was necessary to take up my father’s work. Perhaps I have been more fortunate than most women in finding chivalry among men.“As things are today I do not think that women should be in business. Fhoy are not satisfied with ordinary success. They insist on going on and making fools of themselves by wanting to vote and compete with men instead of helping nun. They have a place In the business world, but they Rhould not go away from home to find it. They can remain at home and be partners with their husbands. The most successful business women are married women. Women defeat their dwd ends by becoming competitors.In 30 years I have seen many business women, and one thing has impressed itself on me. As soon as Women get wrapped up in business they forget their homes. They have no longing for home or motherhood, klost women In business lose their [deals. A girl who maps out a business career maps out a career of unhappiness.“The most powerful argument against women In business Is their physical limitations. Their chances of success are remote, because they are not physically fit to compete with men. That cannot be* gainsaid any more than the theory I have formed that a woman, to be in business, must be untrue either to herself or toher employer—to her employer if she thinks about a future with a home in it; to herself if she does not.“Natural aptitude and love for the work may bring success, but the fact that there are so few women in the real estate field seems to prove thatwomen have neither for this kind of work.”Mrs. Murphy-Mulligan has one more sale of lots to handle before she takes down her sign.CURE FOR FRUITLESS TREEAfter Stiff Dose of Calomel Hitherto Sterile Plant Yields Proflficaily—Big Results.Lincoln, Del.—That a dose of calomel is as good for a sick tree as for a sick man is the curious doctrine worked out by William Morrison, station agent here, who claims practical results to prove his assertion.Morrison has a large plum tree in front of his house. For years the tree has borne but few plums, never over one or two quarts. A faithful believer in calomel for the ills of men, Morrison determined to try his favorite remedy on the tree, and last fall bored a hole in the tree and into this hole inserted a spoonful of the medicine and then plugged the hole uptight.The result has been wonderful, for the tree that hardly bore enough plums to give it a name bore several hundred quarts of fruit. 1rvdtcecatfai:ssrfaIsvfEi iMIXING ART ANI1 Jri—-Room in Swell London Restaurant Set Apart for Serving Vegetarians —Wines on Bill.ELondon.—The modest .vegetarian, or the modester still fruitarian, or anybody else who wants art as well as food at dinner time, will rejoice to know that at last a restaurant is tobo opened “where ' every prospect pleases, and only man Is vile.”The name of the Criterion has hitherto been associated in tlu* minds of most people with choice grilN. dainty hors d'oeuvres, and tender joints. But a sanctuary is being prepared in the west room of the restaurant, and there nothing so coarse as meat will he allowed to penetrate. It is to be a temple of fruit and vegetables.The man who lives on nuts and cabbage will be able to order a lunch at the Criterion in future without encountering the pitying smile of a gentleman with a large steak in front of him. There will be no juicy chops to make the fruitarian shudder. Instead the visitor will revel in cucumbers stuffed with mushrooms, hoptlps seethed in cream, artichokes powdered with rich grated cheese, and all the other dainties dear to the vegetarian Lucullus.There will be wines. It remains to be seen whether anything so vulgar as beer will he admitted into the temple of artistic dining.But the idea is to be carried further than this. Not only will every entree be a poem, every savory a symmetrica! wonder; every waitress will be apriestess of art, clad in a princess\£a1fc((»itcti1111! 1h
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Ridgeville News
Ridgeville, Indiana, US
Fri, Oct 21, 1910
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