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HistoryBookkeeping does not soil ones hands; he usually began with that. Gradually the few remaining clerks taught him many things which he ought to have known before. But more and more classes were called to the co ors, and then, horrified, he saw that the only alternative to business failure was to impose commercial activity upon his be- jeweled wife, and his quiverful of young daughters, who had heretofore considered only one occupation worthy of them the acquisition of lawful husbands. There must have been gloom at first, but now things have put on an air of happy per- manency; and whenever those women consider that their only alternative would have been the hard life of a Red Cross nurse, (since no woman of the Italian middle class is left idle nowadays), they find ample consolation. War has taught them the great American lesson so far overlooked, that work ennobles life. prev next |