The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-09
LADY WARwick,S UTOPIA.
Englishwoman's Dream of How to Help
Her Sex.

One more solution of the Industrial
problem in England has been offered
this time by woman VINO has devoted
much attention to the subject, especial
ly as affecting her own sex. Lady War
wick is responsible for the scheme.
which she has already outlined in
lengthy magazine article. Her lady
ships inves legation of the matter has
continually forced on her attention Two
main facts-agriculture is distressed
and there Is always a superabundance
Of female labor in the large cities. it
struck her that perhaps the Two evils
might perhaps counteract each other
in some degree, so she set about devils
ing the necessary plan. This she has
now evolved, but with CHARACTERISTIC
modesty asks that friendly critics Will
shape her proposals into what may per-
haps be more practical lines than she
has laid down. Her plan embraces three
features First, to open "a new neld OIL
work for women, second Ia stay the de-
population Of rural districts and, third,
to keep In England some-may ne. most
-of the money annually sent abroad IN
payment for imported dairy, poultry
and horticultural produce.
For the attainment of this Satistac-
tory condition of things Lady War
wick proposes TO establish an agricul-
tural training college for women in or
der that a systematic training may be
efficiently carried out ri 4 moderate
cost to the students. The college would
be under the control Of a woman prin-
cipal, aided by thoroughly efficient
staff of lecturers and practical instruc-
tors. In addition, Women's agricultural
settlements are also advocated, where
the students may with profit to them
selves and their country make practi-
cal use of the knowledge acquired in
the agricultural college or elsewhere.
A duly qualified female warden would
e Ia of fl.aTN ant
which. it is suggested, should consist of
a certain number of holdings or cot
lages tfrom six to ten or twenty is
suggested), situated either within easy
distance of the large manufacturing
towns IN the midlands or near railway
station in direct communication with
London. The object Of this is that the
settlers might be sure of a certain mar
ket for their produce which would nat
urally depend upon the district In
which it was situated.
The practical work would include
dairy work. milk, butter and cheese
making. pig keeping, poultry rearing,
turkeys, ducks, geese. guinea fowls.
etc. for market; horticulture, market
gardening and fruit growing: bee keep
ing. jam making, the making Of home
made wines etc. The qualifications
for becoming a settler in Utopia would
be either the demonstration of practi-
cal experience in one or more branches
of the above industries or the holding
of certificates from certain given agfi-
cultural societies. students from the
proposed agricultural college being. Of
course, also eligible. Intending settlers
would further be expected to possess
| incomes from 500 to $3.50 a year. which,
according to the scheme. they should
substantially increase. besides the fur
Their advantage of living both healthily
| and cheaply.
"3ut this appears To be millennium
| from which man is excluded, observed
one of the friendly critics 10 whom
| Lady Warwick outlined her scheme.
Not at all. was the reply We
| hope by systematic training TO give
women an opportunity Of supplement-
| ing the work eff their husbands and
| brothers, and, moreover, it is not pro
posed to organize the settlements on
| monastic lines. but 10 introduce into
] them that social element and inter-
| course which has now been made pos
| sible in the country by increased meth
| DDS of communication
Whether In the proposed scheme Lady
! Warwick has allowed sufficiently Tor
i the possible Discrimination of the Wom-
] an to condemn herself to the compare
tive isolation which a small income
must involve in the country, subsequent
| events must he left to prove.