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sap its popularity with persons OF strait
ened means, time will show. 1t was
predicted that the establishment oil
purely women's clubs would result 10
in the demise OF the Albemarle and the
Grosvenor, in both OF which institutions
men and women are qualified for mem
bership. So far, however, these pre-
phecies have not been fulfilled Man,
although shorn OF his power, still retains
a measure o: bis attractiveness." A club
with decidedly practical benefits for its
members, is the Writer'S Club for wo-
men. Nine-tenths OF the writers are
struggling women. and the other tenth
is made up Of ladies whose influence
and rank are used to help the other
nine -tenths. 1t now has a membership
Of about three hundred.
The English woman is Away interest
ed in philanthropy and politics, but as
yet gives no consideration t. the subjects
now OF paramount importance to the
cub woman of this country-education
and child study.
have no mind 10 harrow up the
minds of my readers with any exp!ica-
ton OF the miseries and mysteries that
confront the average housekeeper in the
daily maintenance Of a simple but com
Portable existence for her family; as for
herself, an existence at al seems strug.
gle which at times che would gladly give
over. One might define heroine as he
average American woman who does her
own housekeeping. But come hint of
the unnatural and unhappy state of af-
fairs existing at present my be dsduced
from the consideration of two economic
facts. First, woman il. by nature, a
home founder and home maker. This
is net int nded as an assertion of per-
sonal belief, but as statement OF scien-
tific fact. 1t was wOman-not man
who opered the industrial world; was
w ,man who made the first rude dwell.
ings, and dressed skins, and wo,e tex
tiles for clothing 1t was woman. ard
not man. who made the first fire. and
the first Utensils for cooking, and the
first rude too.s for industrial ends. All
Ter activities clustered about the hearth
and ministered TO the home. IL the wo.
man and the work had not reacted upon
each other SO that, today, women should
be by nature home-makers and home.
loverf. there are still depths for the
sc;entiets to sound in the working Of
heredity and Of natural selection. And
!et-here is my second fact-the eaor-
nous piles OF stone and brick RAPIDLY
filling the choice plots of ground in our
large cities and shutting out the light of
heaven with their gab!ed tops. are mute
il not magnificent witnesses to the fact
that The investment Of capital is all
against the perpetuation of the separate
home. The sbrewd modern investor i,
wiling to PUT hundreds of thousands
ayains. hundreds Of d liars that Cfcr his
LIFETIME at least women are going to pre-
fer the ease of the apartment hotel to the
separate house with its privacy, its own
table. and-alas-its own service.-From
Ths Unquiet Sex-The Case OF Maria,
by HELEN WATTERsoN MOODY, in the
February Scribner's.
The sFortnigh'ly met with Mrs A. g
Raymond on January 81. Mre. E. H.
Barbour presented the results of three
month's investigation into the music and:
drama of Holland. An abstract Of Nrs
barbour's paper will be published in