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money and she had considerable earning capacity because she proved herself so able.

I don't know what posts she held during those interim years, as I can't remember, that were wage-earning posts, but she always had a salary paid either by the committee for Smith, or some other committee. For instance, Raskob, who was nobody but a rich man, always saw to it that the committee for Smith was sufficiently financed to pay Mrs. Moskowitz a good salary, that some committee was financed to pay Mrs. Moskowitz a good salary.

I never knew anybody of my generation who had any choice between a home and a career, or made any such choice, or even had the question posed in those terms. I don't think people realize how much professional and cultural life women had if they wanted it before the days of woman suffrage. In the part of the country in which I grew up - New England - there were a great many women who earned their own living by a variety of professional means. People can laugh about teaching, but it was the first great woman's profession. They went into it professionally. Don't tell me that they were just doing it because they had to. I realize that there has been a great rise in the number of women doctors, lawyers, judges, etc., because as educational facilities have increased more women have been able to prepare