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n RS. SIDNEY WEBB. tcho 1oith hel huybund. has G.
~ scheme for ideal state

cupations, equal training facilities
and equal representation by women
on al official committees and public
bodies. The learue aims particu-
larly to abolish sweating, long hours
and bad working conditions Tor
women. In furthering this work
Lady Rhondda speaks frequently in
public, writes often and gives per-
sonal, daily attention to much Of the
routine work of the leagues office.
The acute problem of the unem-
ployment Of women is one Of her
special concerns. Since the arni-
|stice great numbers of women have
become unemployed. This, added to
the enormons unemployment among
men, has caused (. problem that has
beer disturbing England for months.
Lady Rhondda made thorough in
vestigation of unemployment condi-
tions and the opportunities in in
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more outraged and determined.
"You mean to say that somebody's
trying to give her another dog after
all I've been through With
'It look that way. sub"
"Who did it?'
"Miss Julia ain sayin'; an me,
doe know who done it no MON the
lilies of the valley whut toll not
neither do they spins"
At this, Mr.. Atwater was guilty of
exclamations lacking in courtesy,
and turned again toward Gammire.
He waved his arm fiercely. Didn't
you hear me tell you to get out Of
here?"
Gammire observed the gesture, and
at once "sat up" placed his fore
paws over his nose and prayed. MIR.
Atwatcr was incensed.
Get out Of here, you woolly black
scoundrel!"
Mrs. Silver, startled, uttered cry
of injury, then perceived that she
had mistaken her employers inten-
tion. Gammire also appeared to mis-
take it, for he rose to his full height,
on his hind legs, and in that human
like posture hoped down the steps
and walked" in a wide circle. He
did this with an affectation of con-
scientiousness thoroughly hypocriti-
cal; he really meant to be humorous
and entertaining; but the effect upon
the gentleman for whom he per-
formed was not reassuring.
"My heavens!" Mr.. Atwater cried
lamentably. Somebody's given her
one of those things at last! don't
like any kind Of dog, but if there's
one dam thing on earth I won't
stand, it's trick poodle."
And while the tactless Gammire
went madly on, walking" a circle
round him, Mr.. Atwater's eye furi-
ously searched the borders of the
path, the lawn and otherwheres,
looking for anything that might
serve as an effective missile. He
had never kicked a dog, or struck
one with his hand, in his life; he had
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ever she went there would he 20
.lso, unless she otherwise command
ed. Just now she had withdrawn,
closing the door, but he understood
that she intended no permanent ex-
clusion. Who was this newcomer
at the gate?
The newcomer came to an abrupt
halt, staring angrily. Then he ad-
vanced, slamming the gate behind
him. "Get out O herew he said in
a harsh and forbidding voice. You
get off this place."
Gammire regarded him seriously.
not moving, while Mr.. Atwater cast
an eye about the lawn, seeming to
search for something, and his gaze,
thus rowing, was arrested by slight
movement Of great areas behind q
lilac bush. 1t appeared that some
public building had covered it's dome
with antique textiles .,i was endeav-
oring to conceal it there--a fail
ure.
kitty Silverl" he said. What
are you doing?'
"Suh?"
Debouching sidewise slowly, she
came into fuller view, but retired q
few steps. what dom whur,
Mista Atwater?"
"How'd that dog get on my front
steps?"
Her face became non-committal
entirely. "Thishcre dog? He Just
settin' there, suh."
How'd he get in the yard?"
Mus somebody up an brung him
in"
"Who did it?'
"You mean: Who up an brung
him in, suh?"
II mean: Who does he belong
to-"
Mus be Miss Julia's. I reckon
he is, so fur"
"What' She knows perfectly we'll
won't allow dogs on this place"
"Yessuh."
Mr.. Atwater's expression became
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ways better policy to throw some
thing. "Idiot poodle' ne said.
RUT Gamnire's tricks were not
mere idiocy in the eyes of NJ
Atwater's daughter, as she watched
them. They had brought to her
mind the tricks Of the Jongleur Of
Notre Dame, that simple creature
who had nothing to offer heaven it.
self, to mollify heavens rulers, ex-
cept his entertainment Of Juggling
and nonsense; so that he sang his
thin jocosities and played his poor
tricks of legerdermain before the
sacred figure of the Madonna, but
when the pious would have struck
him down for it, she miraculouslv
came to life for just long enough to
smile on him and show that he was
right to offer his absurd best. And
thus, as Julia watched the little
Jongleur upon the lawn, she saw
that was what he was doing. too
offering all he knew, hoping tha'
some one might laugh at him AMI
like him. And, not curiousl, after
all, if everything were known. she
found herself thinking OF another
foolish creature, who had nothing In
the world to offer anybody except
what came out of the wstfuness Of
foolish, loving heart. Then, though
her lips smiled family as She
thought of Noble Dill, all at once a
brightness trembled along the eye
lids of the Prettiest Girl in Town.
and glimmered over, moment later,
to shine upon her cheek.
"You get out!' Mr.. Atwater
shouted. "D'ye hear me, you
poodle"
He found the missile, stone Of
fair diameter. He hurled it vio-
lently.
"There, darn youN
The stone missed. and Gammire
fed desperately in the direction in
which it had gone.
"You get over that fencc.' Mr..
Atwater beloved. "You wait till I
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any dog, and poor little Gammire'll
probably be run over by a streetcar
sometime in the evening"" Flor
ence's' voice became anguished in the
emphasis Of her appeal. Aunt
julia, won't you give me this dog?"
Julia shook her head.
"Won't you, pleasc?"
"No, dear"
Aunt Julia, if it was Noble Dill
gave you this dog
"Florencew her aunt exclaimed.
"What in the world makes you i'm
agine such absurd things? Poor Mr..
Dillw
well, il it was, I think you
ought to give Gammire to me because
| like Noble Dill, and p
But here her aunt laughed again
and looked ct her with some curios-
ity. "You do?" she said. "What
for?"
"Well," said Florence, swallow
ing, "he may be rather smallish for
a man, but he's very uncouth and
distinguished looking, and think
he doesn't get to enjoy himself
much. Grandpa talks about him so
'torrably' and-and"-- Here such
was the unexpected depth Of her
feeling that she choked, whereupon
her aunt, overcome with laughter,
hut nevertheless somewhat touched,
sprang up and threw two pretty
arms about her charmingly.
"You funny Florence" she cried.
"Then will you give me Gam
nire?" said Florence instantly.
"No. Wen bring him in the
house now and you can stay to
lunch"
Florence was lmpcrfectly CON-
soled, but she had thought that
frightened her.
"WeIl, thcre1l be an awful time
when grandpa comes home this af-
tcrnoon--but it certainly will be
inter'sting7'
CHE proved "A true prophet, at
least to the extent that when
Mr.. Atwater opened his front gate
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sit on many government commit
tees that investigate social problems.
During the war her time was in this
way almost entirely filled. The most
noted Of these Investigations was
that mad by a committee on the
poor laws. Mrs. Webb drew up the
mlnority report in 1909, which has
since become celebrated and is used
as textbook in classes for social
service. The newer humanitarian
legislation in England is based
largely upon Mrs. Webb's report.
Politics is not as interesting to
Mrs. Webb as the Transformation Of
political ideas and the creation Of
new political machinery. 1t is inn
possible, she believes, to have
democratic, equalitarian state with
out the proper kind Of political insti-
tuition, and the trouble with most
democratic states is that they es-
tablished their institutions without
thinking them through Much Of the
machinery Of democracy has worked
out in g most undemocratic manner.
In order to show the kind of politi-
cal and economic institutions that
would work out intelligently, Mr..
and Mrs. Webb, after years of study
and investigation all over the world,
have drawn up Scheme for a
Socialist Commonwealth" eve have
been political engineers" she terse
ly expressed it. This constitution
they are now presenting and ex-
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minute he lays eyes on him and
scare him to death; and then he'll
get lost, and he won't be anybody's s
dog! I should think you'd Just rs
lief he'd be my dog as have him
chased all over town till streetcer
hits him or somep'm.'
But Julia shook her head. "That
hasn't happened yet"
ut did happen with every other
one you ever had," Florence urged
plaintively. "He chased 'em every
last one off the place and they never
came back. You know perfectly
well, Aunt Julia, grandpa's just
bound to hate this dog, and you
know just exactly how he'll act
about him"
"No, DON'T" said Julia. "Not
just exactly"
"Well, anyway, you know hen be-
have awful"
cts probable" the aunt admitted.
He always does" the niece corl-
tinued. "He behaves awful about
everything ever heard about.
He"--
"I9l go pretty far with you, Flor
encc," Julia intcrposed, "but we'd
better leave him a loophole. You
know he's a constant attendant at
church and contributes literally to
many good causes"
"Oh, you know what mean! I
mean he always acts horrible about
anything pleasant. Of course, |
know he's good man and every
thing; just mean the way he be-
haves is perfectly disgusting. So
what's the use your not pivin' me
this dog? You won't have him your
self az soon as grandpa comes home
to lunch In an hour or So"
ooh, yes; | will"
"Crandpa hasn't already seen
him, has hc?"
"No."
"Thcn what makes you cay
"Hc isn't coming home to lunch.
'rc Won't be home till O'Clock this
fternoon."
"Well, then, by 6 you won't have
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that afternoon he was already in
the presence Of q deeply interested
audience whose observation was un-
known to him. Through the inter
stices of the lace curtains at an
open window downstairs the gaze
of julia and Florence was concen-
trated upon him in manner which
might have disquieted even so opin-
donated and peculiar an elderly man
as Mr.. Atwater, had he been aware
Of it; and Herbert likewise watched
him fxedly from an unseen outpost.
Herbert had shown some braggado-
clio, declaring loudly that he intend
ed to lounge in full view, but when
the well known form of the ances-
tor was actually identified coming
up the street out of the distance the
descendant changed his mind. The
good green earth abruptly ceased to
seem secure and Herbert climbed a
tree. He surrounded himself with
the deepest foliage; and below him
some outlying foothills of Mrs.
Kitty Silver were perceptible, where
she endeavored to lurk in the con-
cealment Of lilac bush.
Gammire was the only person in
view. He sat just in the middle of
the top step of the front porch and
his air was that of an endowed and
settled Institutions What passing
traffic there was interested him but
vaguely, not affecting the world to
which he belonged-that world
being this house and lot Of which
he was now, beyond all question,
the official dog.
1t had been rather hard work
ing afternoon, for he had done
everything suggested to him, as we'll
as q great many other things which
he thought Of himself. He had also
made it clear that he had taken the
most particular fancy to everybody,
but recognized Julia to be the head
Of the house and Of the universe. 1t
was love at first sight, and though
he was at the disposal Of all her
family and friends he was at her
disposal first. However suddenly,
she was his Naomi, and whitherso-
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fC0atm9ed from preceding page
aral to them; the love to be little
Clowns if you let them"
But who vas this person that
gave him TO you?"
Julia laughed. Its secret, Flor
shce-llke Gamin's price"
At this Florence looked piqued.
Well, guess | got some manners,"
she exclaimed, Il know as we'll as
!ou DO, Aunt Julia, there's no eti-
gaeth in coming right square out
ana asking how much it was when
somebody goes and makes you pres
sas. I'm certainly enough Of a lady
v Eee' my mouth shut when it's
more po..te to- But don't see what
aar'n there is in telling who it is
''as gives anybody a present.
10 harm at all" Julia murmured
az sne sealed the note she had writ
.s"' Ihen she turned smilingly to
.Sse her niece. only I'm not going
.o.n
vel, then, Aunt Julia"--and
%" Florence came TO her point
"nat wanted 20 know is Just sim
~ ~. Me plain and simple question:
W. you give this dog Gammire to
JULIA leaned forward, laughing.
snd suddenly cIapped her hands
~ s,se'her, c'''se to Florence's face.
=" WON'T" she cried. "There '"
I'VE nlecc frowncd, lines Of anxiety
,avwaf'ng ,I,. upon her young but NAL
ssD.s ~. brow. "Wcll, why won't
: Won't DO ~"
out. Aunt Julia, / think you
Why ough. I to?o
d, Ascapse," said Florence. swell,
~ recessaYy."
"Why!o
Dscause II you don't, you know
= "s' a. do what's bound 10 hap
pm to him"
What is7s
Afs~
nv. .lsndna1i chase him off," sajf
c~ He'll take after him the
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find another rock, and III bust a rib
for youl"
He began to search for another
stone, but, before ne could find one.
Ganlmire returned with the first. He
deposited it upon the ground at Mr..
Atwater's feet.
There's your rock" he said.
MIR. Atwater looked down at him
ferceIy. and through the black chrys-
anthemum two g4rnet sparks CLINT
ed waggishly.
Didn't you hear me tell you what
I'd do if you didn't get out O. here,
you darn poodle?"
Gammire sat up" placed his FORE
paws together over his nose and
prayed. There's your rock" he
said. Lets get on with the camel"
Mr.. Atwater turned to Kitty Sil-
yer. "Does he-does he know how
to speak, or shake hands, or any.
thing like that?" he asked.
TWO mornings later, as the pecul.
lar old man sat at breakfast, I've
said to the lady across the table:
Look here. Who did give Gamin to
u.s."
Julia bit her lip; she even cast
down her ewes.
We'll, who was it,"
Her occurrences still increased,
at was-Noble Dill"
Mr.. Atwater was silent: he looked
down and caught a clownish CLEAN
out OF a blackness neighboring his
knee. well, see here" he said.
"Why can't you-why can't you
why can't what?"
"Why can't you sit out In the
yard, the next time he calls here, in
stead of on the porch where it blows
all through the house? It's Just az
pleasant to sit under the trees, isn't
it?"
"Pleasantcr," said Julia; and her
black-sapphire eyes still remained
demure under the deep lashes.
Gammire appeared to be success
full envoy-it seemed even possible
that, like Orlando's wrestling, he had
overthrown more than his enemy
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DR. MARION PHILLIPS.
A one of the leading aOomam
physicians of England

other to reform the criminal law;
the bill to make the pay of men and
women teachers equal and bill To
secure equal opportunities for men
and women in the civil service.
In addition to these activities,
Viscountess Rhondda is an editor.
The paper that she manages is a
weekly Journal, Time and Tide, con-
tanning notes on the news, critical
articles, reviews Of books and of the
theater, technical articles on social
problems and articles of crusading.
Mrs. Snowden's Candidacy
Mrs. Philip Snowden, a vigorous
Socialist and a member Of the Labor
party, is another woman who is try
ing to accomplish her desires for
social reform by means of Parlia~
ment. For this purpose she has be-
come candidate for the House of
Commons and is standing for East
Leicester at the next election. She
will bend her energies, she says, to
the establishment Of world peace
and a just and equitable common
wealth. She has just spent a num-
Der of months on the Continent,
where she visited and studied nearly
every European country, and has
come back q devoted believer in the
League of Nations. There, she
thinks, lies the security for peace.
She went to Russia as a member
Of commission from the Labor
party. believing in the Bolshevist
revolution, and she came away dis
ccuraged and d--Appointed. Since
her return to England she has been
telling what she ysw in Russia-thc
disorder, the seltishncss, the position
Of womcn---in a book that has had
wide circulation and in public lee
lures. They have attracted public
attention and press comment, so that
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Candidates for Parliament

A woman is a member of the
House of Commons. A woman is
seeking admission to tha House Of
Lords. Other women are standing
for Parliament at the next election.
Women have become justices of the
peace, administering the laws that
they now help to make. The grant
ing Of suffrage hastened the admis-
sion Of women to degrees at Oxford
University and brought that matter
10 Cambridge not as a theory, but as
Z real issue.
In another field public attention
has IN turned of recent months to
the ability of women to accomplish
successful results in field once con-
tro'led by men, the management of
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From The Trtburs's European Bureau

Prom The Trtburs's European Bureau
A CTIVITY in public affairs is
~ no new thing to the
( "A Englishwoman. For years
many women have worked
intelligently and have achieved COM
mendabe results; in philanthropy,
education, social and economic re-
form there have been women who
counted. The women who are active
today are not the pioneers-they
have inherited a rich tradition; but
a new energy and emphasis has been
given to their endeavors.
Elective franchise, which gives
them part in elections and legisla-
ton, has more sharply directed their
activity and brought it into focus.
They can do, or help to do, at first
hand, what they formerly had to do
by persuasion.
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Lady Astor's Work

After the romance and romantic
interest attending her election to
the House of Commons, Lady AS
tor, the first woman member Of Par
lament, has settled down to the
humdrum, workaday business of leg
slation. Her Humanitarian ideals
she is translating into practical hu
manitarian measures. The work she
has undertaken is first of all hu-
name, dealing with the betternlent
of social and economic conditions.
and particularly directed toward tt,.
protection of women and children.
She is one Of the most conscien-
tious attendants at the sessions Of
the House, and serves on seven
standing comr'ittees. They are con-
sidering various measures that deal
with the employment OF women and
children, with juvenile courts (pro-
viding special courts in which wom-
en- magistrates shall sit with the men
in dealing with child delinQuents),
with the provision Of state aid for
the blind, with the alteration Of the
archaic criminal law, and with the
provision for a mother Of equal
rights with the father in the guar
dianship Of children.
Clean milk Is something also that
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Work of the Webbs

In the work Of Mrs Sidney Webb
England's critical social problems
are approached in quite q different
way. Mrs. Webb sees the needs Of
the time through the eyes of a stu
dent and q scientific investigator.
For thirty years she and her hus-
band (for more often than not their
work is done jointly and "Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney Webb or "The Webbs"
have come to be l~garded I almost as
single, yet composite being) have
engaged in social and economic re-
search, using the methods of obser-
vation, selection. grouping, analysis,
synthesis, that ere used in scientific
laboratory. The facts chat they have
observed and analysed are the phe-
nomena Of political and industrial
society, and the books they have
written as a result Of their research,
such as The History Of Trade Union
ism, are now standard.
Mrs. Webb has been appointed to
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MRS. PHILIP SNOW
1'~ DEN, a Socialist c11a-
dad0te |or q seat In Parlia-
YleNt

she is working for. The milk sup
ply of England, never abundant, has
become since the war inadequate,
expensive and in many cities insan-
itary. Lady Astor is an earnest
worker for measures that would
tend to make milk plentiful, cheap
and, above all, clean.
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Her Legislative Program

At present, by her personal eff
forts and through the Women's
Political and Industrial League,
Lady Rhondda is working for six
specific legislative reforms in Par
lament. They include the bill that
Lady Astor also supports, to give
re mother an equal share with the
father in the responsibility of the
child; g bill to protect an unmarried
mother and her child; one to provide
government assistance to widowed
mothers with small children: an
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dustry for the unemployed women,
and is now working with members
If Parliament and employers Of Ia
Dor to try to effect a basis of UNDER
standing upon which equal oppor-
tunities fos men and women can be
hrourht ah0uf
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Mrs. Snowden is now one of the
busiest public speakers in England.
In the Labor party Mrs. Snowden
IS member of the executive com
mittee, and she serves on a number
of government committees as well.
Like Lady Rhondda, though from a
different point of view, she is whole
heartedly engaged in endeavoring to
find a say out of the difficulties of
the unemployment of women since
the War.
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J ADY ASTOR has settled
N doaOn to hard aOorh as a
member OF the House

hospitals. The present effort in Lon
don to increase hospital endowments
has brought clearly into public APP
probation that the women's hospi-
tails are as worthy as mems.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
for Mothers Pensions

The matter of mothers pensions
also engages her sympathies, and
she is trying to bring about sys-
TEN similar to that now in operation
in some parts Of the United States
that will give government assistance
to widowed mothers with small chill
dfen. She is the acknowledged ad-
vocate, too, of "a bill that proposes
to extend the franchise by admitting
women at the age Of twenty-one III
stead Of thirty, as at the. present
time.
Equal pay for men and women
teachers is measure that has won
her support, pay, moreover, that, in
her words, "will attract the very
best material in brains and charac-
ter into the nrOfession -
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Wants Scat in Lords

Viscountess Rhondda, who is best
known to the public in these days be
cause, as peeress in her own right,
she claims seat in the House Of
Lords and has called upon the King
to issue writ Of summons, has long
been active in the feminist move
nent. A devoted worker for suf-
1rage before suffrage was granted,
~ho is now the president Of the
Women's Political and Industrial
League.
The purpose Of this league is to
obtain by parliamentary means
equal opportunities for women in all
occupe tions. equal payment in all oc-
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O. confirmed theory that it was al
ways better policy to throw some
thing. Tdiot poodle." he said.
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