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still found in domestic and personal
service, even excluding the large num-
bers who do housework in their own
homes or those Of others without re-
Enumeration. At present 80 per cent, or
one out of three of all women at work,
are in this sort of employment, but
the percentage has decreased . per
cent within the last ten years, while
in the previous decade the fall was
only per cent, which shows that
women are being attracted more and
more by other kinds Of work.
Farm Women Increase Twofold.
Farming and other agricultural pur-
suits, for instance, now employ almost
twice as many women as they did ten
years ago. II is an interesting fact
also that the proportion of women en-
gagged in manufacturing occupations
has actually declined, from % per cent
in 1900 to % per cent in 1910, although
their number has increased somewhat
from 1,sl2,s6s in 1900 to l,772,O95 in
lsiO).
Some industries have, OF course
proven much more accessible TO women
than others. In the clothing industries
they constitute half the workers, snC
in the textile industry they have large
ly replaced men, especially in spinning
where there arc five women 20 ever,
three men. In other industries the,
appear everywhere in greater or les
proportion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
Volume Just Out Reports an increase
of 100000 Women in Cain
full Occupations Within the
Last Ten Years.

t.orsenuences of that situation may sur
rr;se even the most radical. Further
more, this change is not confined 10
America, which has been called by some
Europeans the promised land oil
feminism," but can be seen taking place
all over the world with greater or less
rspidity.
! I, Au.tria. one-hslf the women have
some occupation outside of the nome
and IN France a third. In France ana
u.,v there is one woman occupied for
.vsrv two men, and in Russis one to
every five men.
In Germany the number Of msrrieo
, ronsn at work increased $50 per cent
in the period between 1882 and lSo"
vbi,. the number of women in all oe-
cunstions exclusive of domestic service
increased So per cent from 1895 to 1907
&c comnared with q gain of only "a per
cent for the previous twelve year
..r;od Inclusive of domestic service
40 increase was from 100000 to
nm 600 from 1852 TO 1895, and from
600 900 to 100000 in the next twelve
years.
Similar figures could be quoted iOr
Great Britain and other countries l"
the United States, in 1910, the wome"
Greatly outnumbered the men in do
mestic service, there being two women
employed to every man in this DIVISION
Four Women to Every Five Men in
Professions.
In professional work there were iou'
vowen to every FIVE men, and IN clet-
zeal occupations one-third OF the per-
sons were women. In manufactures
women constituted ono ." ''>'
,n,,nrs one in seven, and in trade one
IN eight of the gainful workers
While the greatest number OF won
On was engaged in domestic service
(s2 per cent?, agricultural and manu-
featuring pursuits follow closely esen
with % per cent, ard trade and trans
nor,stion. with 10 per cent. PROBES
sionsl services g per cent? come lag
cling after. But the last two classes
., occupstions have increased IN I'M
VOr.snce since 1880. while d0"e''''
service has decreased
It is in the professional field 'hs'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

but they are well represented alss in
the other professions. There are 49,
6S7 women physicians, almost twice the
number for 1900, and of nurses and
midwives there are 193,625.
journalism as a profession for wom-
en- is assuming great importance. The
number of women so engaged (4,lol)
has doubled within the last ten years,
while in 1880 there were only 2ss
women journalists.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

woman is making some of the most
important of her conquests. OF wom-
en- at work, per cent are occupied in
the professions, as compared TO per
cent Of men so engaged, while four
times as many women are doing pro-
fessionsl work now as in 1850.
This high proportion is due in great
measure to the large number of musi-
clans, teachers of music, school teach
ers and trained nurses among women;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
BY ALEXANDER wENYoN SAMUEL.

DUBLIc interest in militancy has
so far been concentrated almost
entirely upon the effects Of mill
tant acts upon property and society.
But s recent tragedy, almost incred-
ible in its completeness and conse-
ouences, has centred public opinion in
England for the time being upon the
results that may reeoil upon those mil
itsnts, who, uneauipped, 80 out into the
world determined TO experiment in sh
phases Of life in their quest for abso-
Lutte freedom.
An inquest was held recently in Lon
don upon the body Of Joan Lavender
Guthrie, young woman of twenty
four. who had so cast all convention
from her. She was born in surround
ings Of refinement and culture. Her
father was an officer in the British
army. who died upon the battlefield in
South Africa, and her mother was on the
court list and had presented this dsugb-
ter at court. Yet the circumstances Of
her death showed that within three
years she had run the gamut of vio-
lence to tradition, first as a militant
suErsgette- four periods of i'm
prisonment to her credit-then chorus
girl. demi-mondaine, drug-eater, and
suicide at the fall of the curtain.
Life a Remorseless Tragedy.
The story told at the inquest was
one that made lola Of the reporter
It ran the complete cycle of human
tragedy at remorseless pace for
which perhsps in all history there is
hardly s precedent.
The effect Of the teaching Of militant
sufragism upon her was to cause her
10 conceive as an ideal life for young
girl one in which she would be inde-
pendent both of the economic and
protective support Of her home and
anti-suHragists have been citing her
life history triumphantly as an exam
nj. Of what will happen to any woman
who becomes imbued with the militant
opinions of the suffrsgettes. AS con-
sequence bitter has been the Srsu-
mentative war wsging around Joan
Cuthrie's acts in both camps.
The Coroner rejOiced the "sntis"
when in his speech at the inquest he
said. speaking Of what he conIeetureo
was her state of mind after the militant
IDEAS had entered. "The effect upon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

The city Of Munich has decided upon
the establishment Of school for the
higher development Of women for the
household and their commercial and
industrial education, in which nearly
5000 girls will be instructed. The
teachers ss well as the directors Of
the various departments are TO Ne
women exclusively.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
eco cRr,r r,yoRIrE is WOMAN UNDER THE LAW

There is law in Austria under which wife seeking refuge IN mat
country may be her husband he wants her back
On the other hand about to depo
Young Cuban woman here with her t~oeaod child seeking
her husband The husband who did to meet her. says IS
reported depo her. by all means as lar as ne Is ms
s will probabv permit her her child back with her.
Husbands must be protected
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
TO THE VOTERS BELONG THh JOBS.

Brne City, who IS trying to Dust MISS 'n
c cr as head the Department where she has reduced
50 o cent is reported given the following reason Tor
his opposition TO her; -, 80. t,or, 90 the
people we get the from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

II EARNG out the contention OF
II tn, feminists that the tendency
of modern industry is to set
women 70 work outside Of the home'
and that there is as much practicSi
sens. in the attempt TO check tns'
tendency as there Was in old King
Csnute's naive request to the sea 70
stand still, comes so dignihed an insu'
,u,;on as the United States Census
Presumably so far removed from tne
dust of party conflict, one would think
-. census would hold itself aloof from
= thing so radical as feminism'
But there it is in black and white
psrading itself unashsmed. 1t may not
be the feminism of the Feminist All
.r,. Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman nor
vet of H. C. Wells, but femini'm IL
surely is. For if feminism places us
greatest stress on the economic inde-
ncndence of woman it has valuable
.uv in the census, which, by the sim
nj. logic of facts, supports the fsmin-
lists contention.
H.. MILAN More Women Employed
than Ten Years Ago.
In III. volume on Occupation" just
is,ues We find recorded an immense
change in the extent to which women
participate in the work OF the "0riu'
There we're employed in 1870 IN all
occupations, s,O75,772 women, as com
ured with 5,sls,Ss7 ten years ago.
4oO55s2 in 1920 and 2,s47,57O in 1880
III. number of women at work to-day
in the United States is three times
that Of thirty years ago. Furthermore
this development has gone on more
rapidly with each succeeding decade
Women now constitute Fl per cent
ofihe working population of the On''e'
States, where in 1900 they formed only
Is per cent, and in 1890 and 1880. II
and Is per cent respectively. They nave
thas increased at g faster rate in the
decade just past than ever before ana
4 the present rate Of increase con
tas,s, it viii not be difieSlt 70
RspAesy that great changes will come
~ eur civilization.
ssnen viii have a position Of per-
1 ~ economic independence, and the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

Will. the men, Young old rush the in
Of ps,hp drill photograph
New orkT Tribune - - 80
HOME
But they been told that WOMEN CANNOT USE FORCE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

and loyalty to the cause you passion
ately love and which is the dearest in
life to US all.
81 send you, therefore, in all honor
and on behalf Of the committee OF the
w. s. p. L. the medal for vslor in &C
ton, and my personal wish that you
have not suffered too seriously in
health a the result Of your heroic fight
for principle. Yours with all greet
ings. MABEL TUNE
Her Sweet Spirit Remembered.
Imagine the feelings Of her friends
az thew read of all this in the papers.
The instinct to spit out spite is uni
yersal. and not even the recollection
of the past days of peace and assured
social position would avert the hail OF
stones the self-thought pious are apt
to throw. And society surely enough
did not spare the afront one Of her
members had seemed to offer to her
rank. Yet not Ill, for there was at
least one exception. For the day after
the inquest there appeared IN "Ine
London Times" a letter from +. W.
Hornung, the well-known novelist
which came like q sweetly distilled
benediction, breathing only love and
chivalry. and which. is perhaps the
noblest utterance that ever came from
his pen.
Sir: To those who knew and
who admired Lavender Guthrie the
pitiful story Id at pitiless length
in to-day's papers must read
rather as the rawlings of crimi-
nous lunatic than as the tragic
truth which her sorrOwing friends
can no longer controvert. For to
know Miss Guthrie, down to the
incredible beginning of an sp-
palling end, was to know beauti-
full and gentle creature; one both
gracious and unaffected, indeed, as
great-hearted and noble minded
and sweet-tempered girl as ever
looked like a Greek goddess and
carried herself like a queen.
Erratic and wilful she no doubt
had always been; the best Of brave
testimony has been given as 10
that; but that much was obsery-
able outside her family circle; and
i my only excuse for addressing you,
4 without sanction or authority from
within that circle, yet while this
horror is still fresh in land, hope,
on) the public mind, is TO declare
with confidence that the last
change rung by those Sweet bells
t tangled" was indeed the very last
$ which could have been foreseen or
c imagined by any one familiar with
( the earlier symptoms of this case.
II is not too much to say that no
, handsome and amusing girl ever
= cared less for the sweets Of soci
. ETY., thought less Of her looks or her
4 dress or of personal popularity,
maintained a eslmer dignity or set
less store by the admiration of
men. Her end is known to all;
her almost impsssioned yet always
gracious sloofness is also known
(snd precious memory it is now
to her friends of, as it we're, only
the other day. Not in "The Bridge
of Sighs,' not in Jenny" not per-
haps in all literature or in life
itself, shall we find even the dis
tant fellow to this heartbresk-
young and beautiful lady who
lives and dies this death, and Of
! whom the first photograph to sp-
/ pear in the press was taken in her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
M YOU KNOW

That according o County Clerk Schneider divorces navy
70 49,, con, in Manhattan in less than year, a.. ;;
t, re with the extravaganza love OF o4n"s s
tn W feminine ashons dress being among the causes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
Woman's Activities

The women's petition asking for the
granting Of political suffrage TO Swed-
ish women has now reached the Swed-
ish Diet. 1t shows 351,454 signatures,
1851 of which are Of married women
and 1883 Of single women. The.
remaining 45,244 women do not state
whether they are single or married.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
By ALICE DUER MILLER

That III. Chicago Domestic Relations Court has kept STATISTICS OF e
causes Of divorce and the order OF frequency oau
l condition drunkenness desertion nhdcy and ncompaonH
TIL net f tho women consulted think that men are more
rosrops;ble for these than women are:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

CHICAGO July district felt The full force OF police
to-day its of esteneeNew York
Evening Post
This is what happens understand ward
al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
POLITICS is NO CONCERN OF WOMEN.

Mrs Gertrude Reilly may for the Assembly Ne" jersey one
wants TO help factory girls THE conditions under which those girls
are unbelievable she SAYS There factory inspection now
ali because they found much graft the department they had to
abolish IL"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
RIFT THE PRIME MINISTER WAS SPEAKING OF IRELAND

The difficulties Asquith are due to the attempts TINS
~ 20 Govern peope it cannot eand by Parliament inper-
fecy equipped for the task
No sufragist could have put her case more clearly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
JOAN LAVENDER, Z GUTHRIE
SYrTcYeD 6,,s DAooopApA TAKEN eEFORE Her DEBUT q

tcrly opposed to suffrage, placed great
emphasis upon the letter and medal
sent her by the militant organization,
which read as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
Give Them a Welcome

"There arc few private letters that
l had not the heart to destroy. You
have probably one or two such your
self. You must not think dear
mother, that | am at all unhappy.
Whatever wretchedness | have had has
come to me from my own doings, and
during this last year in particular |
have met some very dear souls, both
men and women. If you ever come
across them, and they speak to you OF
me, give them a welcome for my sake,
even though ! may have met them in
bad and immoral ways.
"Of course, the kindly Coroner will
call it temporary insanity but, as
matter of fact, think this is about the
sanest thing I have yet done. =.
Dear soul, there are certain ways of
life which it is absolutely impossible
to give up. In fact, one does not want
TO. You are so pure and good that it
is hard to write this to you, but feel
it to be the absolute truth. ..
"No One Had Better Mother"
"No one in this world could have
had better or a more sympathetic
mother than. L. G."
That, shortly, is the story of the
tragedy, a story so unspeakably sad
and full of horror that it has struck
the hearts and imsginations of society
in England beyond anything of recent
happening.
In attempting to fathom the chan
mel Of ideas along which this poor girl
travelled the Coroner. who seems bit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
REPRESENTATIVES, IN CONGRESS NEAR FIST FIGHT-te.din.

WIZ. ma, in Congress come blows something said
,lx,v, notice that shows their blood is quick and red
su, Il two women disagree with very little noise,
IA prove. and to that women have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
FINS.

Yet the price of her life, which Jean
Lavender Guthrie paid, was not alone
for suffrage; it was for the larger
vision OF complete freedom to live her
life as she would, in spite OF economic
or social restriction. The price seems
to US too high, but at least there has
been given a new meaning TO the
words, "Who would save his life must
lose it," though to some II will appeal
that Joan Lavender Guthrie's inteypre-
tstion results in losing everything in
life save the right to end IL.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

The University of Leipsic conferred
the degree Of NJ. d. on Miss Eli Lin
demsnn, Of 0snsbrdek, nov assistant
physician at the Hamburg uhlenhorst
Nursery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
BLAME UkFRAClSTS FOR NOR
AL DOWNFALL AND SUBSEQUENT SUICIDE
OF JOAN LAVENDER GUTHRIE, CHARGING
THAT MILITANT THEORIES RUINED HER
AND UPSET HER REASON.

this young girl is quite clear. After
this she began TO exsggerste her own
Importance. The weak mind probably
gave way. She leaves her home, her
sister, her mother, for garnet in
order to earn her own living and
probably devote herself to this cause.
"She is next on the stage as a psnto-
mime girl, and when a young girl
brought up as she was. starts to live
the free and independent existence we
hear so much about in England men
Of the world know the danger she runs
a danger from (which this girl I'M
fortunately did not escape. Next we
find her in the company of men fire.
Quenting night clubs and taking money
from them.
"Thore is no more about the suHra-
gist movement The girl seems to have
been absolutely degraded, and from
then on her whole history is one Of
drink, drugs, immortality and death
from her own hand. Papers found
show that she was lost to all sense Of
shame and decency, because they found
among them photographs of very un-
desirable character There can be no
doubt that her degeneracy was com
plete.'
Two short extracts, pathetic and
beautiful, may be quoted from the evil
6ence Of her mother, given at the in
quest.
Regulated Her Rich Relatives.
Il seems that Miss Guthrie had re-
pudisted her rich relatives for living
in opulence, as we'll as refused an al
/ lowance from her mother. Yet her
mother used regularly to set out to
meet her as she walked in the streets,
and on the last occasion, in answer to
the question of the Coroner as to
whether she had any conversation with
her about her mode of living, an
swered:
"No. asked her TO come back and
come away with me. told her she was
always welcome whenever and however
she came, that we only wished to help
her. told her everything as
gently as possible, | did not reprosch
her"
Nobility EnEenders Nobility.
But the nobility of the mother found
.A a., 4Ln dauOhter for IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
VAS MILTTANCY RESPONSIBLE FOR HER TRAGIC LIF|
BOTH PARTIES ENGAGED IN a EFT.
TER CONTROVERSY OVER THE
FATE OF FoUR-TIME HUN
GER STRIKER ONCE A
COURT DEBUTANTE.

presentation feathers. at mics
q goblin Of the sun" indeed!
Much has been made, too ufuch
it is perhaps impossible to make,
of the slow and subtle sex poison
inherent in the methods and prse-.
tees of miIitancy both in and OUT
Of prison, but ! think it only fair
to the most notorious leaders Of =
movement which personally abhOr
to express the belief that they did
regard the appeal Of this poor.
chiIds mother, and did not avail
themselves, to the full, Of services
given with irresponsible zcst and
untrsmmelled by any shape or
form of fear. But the mischief
was done, the delicate bloom gone,
the thirst for sepsstion had tc-s
come a passion and the craze Ier
revolt a disease, eating even deep--
or than the mind. By what steps !
the last phase was reached, wheth-
er in the first instance by TIE
tricks and traps 10 which one 50
reckless and so Iswless, and yet
not long ago so guileless, tOe, :
would inevitably expose herself, :
may never now be known, but that
the mind went first, and went com
pletely. none who knew the Law
ender Guthrie of even two or three y
years ago can for an instant doubt. :;
It may be that before the end +
she saw her terrible situation in
its true light, and resolved to help !,
herself to those wages which are :,
death. Nothing could be more y
Characteristic than the iron resolr- I
tion with which the merciless self
sentence was carried out; there
was the old misplaced pluck to the !,
last; the old false yet gallant i.
sportsmanship in and between the q
lines of every one Of those last .
piteous but so strikingly non-self-
plying letters. There, to the END, :
was the tremendous will which
had made her uncomfortable by her
distracted friends; there also the
absolute lucidity which that will 4,
enabled her TO assume, and winch {.
baffled all the doctors who from
time to time were called in, tex "
pecting," as DIR. Helen Boyle de-
posed before the Coroner, ito be
able TO certify the deceased right +.
away" only to find her suffering =
from no decisions or sbnormslitics
sufficiently grave to warrant put
ting her under any restraint"
Sir, it is for others to draw
what moral they may from this
unspeakable tragedy, and to strike
with redoublcd might at the upss-
roots Of whatsoever they may deem
even remotely responsible for it.
My only longing is to show, how
ever feebly, this young girl as she
was before perverted sentiment
made of her the woman who is
dead, and as she will be Affections
stcly remembered in one at least
Of those houses which she some
times Frightened with her then
naive and gracious wit. her then
sweet and kind simplicity.
Yours faithfully,
L. W. HoRNUNG.
FINS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

was sweet and pure and lofty, as evil
denced in the letter found by her body
and addressed to her mother. In thiA
she bravely took all responsibility for
her acts, and forestalled all criticisms
with penetration that put to naught
the offered extenuating opinion that
she was insane.
"My dear little mother" the letter
ran. 81 am hoping that you will not get
this foolish epistle for some time-at
any rate, that it will not be a great
shock to you. / have given you so
many. I am inclosing a few things
that / do not know what to do with,
but | do not think there is any need
for you to come back here; at least
have left nothing to connect your name
with mine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

Father, what is the Legislature7
representative body elected by the people Of the state
Are people?
No, criminals, lunstics and women not people
Do legislators legislste for nothing?
Oh no; they paid salary.
BY whom?
BY the people.
Are people?
OF course my son, just IS much men
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
Nobility EnEenders Nobility.

But the nobility of the mother found
rs counterpart in the daughter, for IN
,nite of all she had endured the sou!