Image 2 of The Colfax chronicle (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.), June 3, 1905

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The Chronicle COLFAX LOUISIANA Women in Business The pronouncement comes from Chl eago that the new woman is dead commercially speaking that prominent employers of that city have decla ed that they do not want women and that some have declared unequivocally that they will hire no more women Variou3 treen are given for this policy but Dmon that has not always existed and wlil not always exist asserts the In dianapolis News We have heard so much in recent years abxout the prog res of women in the business world their succeess their adaptibility their loyalty their good habits and what not which made them superior to men that this announcement from our most strenuous center of commerce comes with a good deal of a shock How much force really lies behind it is doubt tul That women are now employed in many places in preference to men is un questionable that they will continue to be employed in such places is altogether probable Affairs of this kind with women as well as with men have reached the utilitarian basis Where work and women are not suited the women must drop out There is a sur Vival of the