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"Woman and Labor"
BY Olive Schreiner From Frederick
a. Stokes Co.. Of New York through
the Bell Book and Stationery Com
pany. of Richmond.
In the late sos OF the nineteenth
century THE Story OF an African
produced profound sensation in tho
literary world. 1t at once ranked
olive Schreiner as an advanced think
err and the leading woman writer OF
South Africa.
Woman and Labor" In Its present
limits docs not embody the original
form of book written by Olive
Schreiner. the manuscript OF which
persisted In fire during the Boer War.
Into what is hero presented In six
chapters and an Introduction the
writer has put the strong, passionate
force and clear insight into life around
her, that has distinguished everything
she has written from the beginning or
her authorship -
The changes which have taken
place during the past centuries. which
wo sum UP under the compendious
term of modern civilization" says
Olive Schrciner, constitute our mod
ern woman's la Dor problem"
She continues: Our spinning wheels
arc all broken. our hoes and our grind
stones passed. from US long ago. when
the plowman and the miller took our
place; day by day machine prepared
and factory produced vIands take a
larger and larger place In the dietary
of rich and poor; the army OF rosy
milkmaids has passed away forever,
TO give place to the cream separator
and The largely male and machinery
manipulated butter pat. In modern
cities our carpets are beaten. our win
dows cleaned, our floors polished by
machinery or extra domestic labor. AL
ready the ancient needle has bcen al
most supplanted by the sowing ma
chine. Year by year. day by day. there
is silently working hut determined
tendency for the sphere of woman's
domestic labors to contract itself.
Time was when the woman kept
her children about her knees till adult
years were reached, Hers was the
training and influence which shaped
them. Among the wealthier classes OF
to-day. scarcely Is the infant born
when II passes into the hands OF tho
trained nurse, and from hers into tho
hands of the qualified teacher. y wo-
man of almost any class may have
borne many children and yet at middle
age be found sitting alone In an empty
house. all her offspring gone from her
to receive instruction and training al
tho hands OF others. Looking around
then with the uttermost Impartiality
on the entire field OF womans ancient
and traditional labors we find that
three-fourths OF 1t have shrunk away.