The Mena weekly star., 1898-02-16
LADY wARwIcK's UTOPIA.
Dream of How ~
 HeIp Her sex.


 Help Her Sex.
 One more solution of the industrial problem in England has been oHereu this time by a woman who has de- voted much attention to the subject especially as affecting her own sex Lady Warwick is responsible for the scheme, which she has already outllneo in lengthy magazine article. her ladysbip's investigation of the matter has continually forced on her atten- tiou two main facts-agriculture IS distressed and there is always super abundance 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 devising tie necessary plan This she has now evolved, but with characteristic modesty asks that friend ly critics will shape her proposals into what may perhaps be more practical lines that she has laid down. Her plan embraces three features: First, to open new field of work for women; second, to stay the depopulation of ru- raj districts, and, third, to keep in Eng
 
 money annually sent abroad in pay ment for imported dairy, poultry and horticultural produce.
 For the attainment of this satisfac- tory condition of things, Lady Warwick proposes to establish an agricultural training college for women in order that a systematic training may be ef- foia T fa to the students. The college would be under the control cf woman principal. aided by thoroughly efficient staff of lecturers and practical instructors. In addition, women's agricultural settle ments are also advocated where the students may with profit to themselves and their country make practical use of the knowledge acquired in the agri- cultural college or elsewhere A duly qualified female warden would have the control of each settlement, which, it is suggested, should consist of a certain number of holdings or cottages (from six to ten or twenty is suggested), sit uated either within easy distance of the large manufacturing towns in the
 
 direct communication with London. The object of this is that the settlers might be sure of certain market for their produce which would naturally 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 demonstration Of practical ex- perienee in one or more branches of the above industries or the holding of cer- tificates from certain given agricul- tural societies, students from the pro- posed agricultural college being, of course. also eligible. Intending settlers would further be expected to possess incomes from S10O to s250 year, which, according to the scheme, they should substantially increase, besides the fur ther advantage of living both healthily and cheaply.
 But this appears to be a millennium from which man is excluded" observed ore of the friendly critics" 10 whom Lady Warwick outlined her scheme.
 Not at all," was the reply. We hope by a systematic training to give women an opportunity of supplement- ing the work of their husbands and brothers. and, moreover. it is not pro- posed to organize the settlements on monastic lines. but to introduce into them that social element and inter course which has now been made possi- ble in the country by increased meth ods of communication"
 Whether in the proposed scheme Lady Warwick has allowed sufficiently for the possible Naturalization of the woman 10 condemn herself to the com parative isolation which small in- come must involve in the country sub sequent events must be left to prove. Chicago Chronicle.