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sap its popularity with persons OF strait
ened means. time will show. 1t was
predicted that the establishment OF
purely women's clubs would result in
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
q measure o: his attractiveness." A club
with decidedly practical benefits for its
members, is the Writer'S Club for wo-
men. Niue-tenths OF the writer's are
struggling women, and the other tenth
is made up Of ladies whose influence
and rank are used to help the other
nine -.enths. 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 to the subjects
DOW Of paramount importance to the
cub woman of this cOuntry-education
and child etudy.
have NJ mind 10 harrow up the
minds of my readers with any explica-
ton OF the miseries and mysteries that
confront the average housekeeper in the
daily maintenance of simple but com
Portable existence for her family; as for
herself, an existence at al seems strug.
gle which at times she would gladly give
over. One might define heroine as ths
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 dfduced
from the consideration of two economic
facts. First, woman is. by nature, a
home founder and home maker. This
is not intended as an assertion OF per-
sonal belief, but as a statement OF scien.
tific fact. 1t was woman-not man
who opened the industrial world; was
w,man who made the first rude dwell
ings, and dressed ekins, and wore 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
her 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
loverr, there are still depths for the
scientiets to sound in the working OF
heredity and Of natural selection. And
yet-here is my second fact-the eaor
nous piles of stone and brick rapidly
J filling the choice plots Of ground in oul
large cities and shutting out the light o.
/. heaven with their gab.ed tops, are mute
, il not magnificent witnesses to the fac
I that the investment OF capital is al
against the perpetuation Of the separa.'
home. The shrewd modern investor i
wiling to Iut hundreds Of thousand
! ayains. hundreds OF dellars that fcr bi
! Lifetime at least women are going to pre-
: fer the ease Of the apartment hotel to tn
separate house with its privacy, its Owl
table, and-alas-its own service-Fron
tn Unquict Sex-The Case Of Maria,
by HELEN WATTERsoN MOODY, in tn
February Scribner's.
: The sFortn;gh,ly met with Mrs. A.
Raymond on January 81. Mre. E. q
} Barbour presented the results OF thre
months investigation into the music an
drama OF Holland. An abstract OF Mrs
. Barbour's paper will be published i
. these olumps next week. Mrs. Barbour