The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1898, Page 21

20 HERE is a new fad coming to NEW FAD OF USING THE LIFE OF ANIMALS TO CURE the front in “sick circles,” or rather it is an old fad in new dress, and that is the laying on or use of animals to cure hu- man ailments. To such proportions has it grown in France that the ingenious French have invented a name for it— Zootherapie—and have started zoother- apie sanitariums. Now there are pro- fessors in zoo erapie, irstructors in zootherapie and any number of kindly disposed men and women who will give vou advice in zootherapie or tell you the experiences of themselves or their families in trying zootherapie. The fad has spread through Europe, has rippled across America and has reached this city, though here. it is not practiced as yet in all its full blooded varietyasit is across thewater. As yet the laying on of freshly killed doves and the smaller animals is as far as the local follower of zootherapie goes, but in Europe the sick encase themselves in the bodies of fresh killed beeves. Fresh killed doves lajd on lh«‘_head for the cure of nervous diseases is the most popular form of zootheraple as vet that has reached here. Mrs. Eugene Le Fere, wife of the well-known tan- ner, has tried it. She said: “It is true the French have faith in the healing power of a eshly killed dove. We tried on my own little baby who died a few months ago. We had the very best doctors in the city and when they said they could do nothing more 105‘ the child 1 was frantic with grief. Some one suggested the dove. I immediatelv tried it. You know at a time like that you snatch at the slightest hope. It did not help my baby. but then she was st help befor- we tried it. 7 l"D“[l !‘r'lnr;mbex‘ when I was a little girl I had a fever and they put th'do\‘c cap, as. I called it, on me. T don’t re- member whether I was sick long after the application. wpove person to good health, but often a num- ber must be taken. These baths are most expensive luxuries, for a beef can be used but once, as artificial heating of the blood and entrails does not suf- fice for the natural life-giving warmth of the freshly killed animal. Only the rich can afford to indulge in these baths and the doctor numbers among his pa- tients some of the wealthiest and most distinguished persons in France. A live stock farm and aviary are two other essential features for the sani- tarium. Some patients are ordered to sleep alongside of a healthy lamb, oth- are required to hold a live puppy poor and ignorant. Handed down from generation to generation, when all else fails, even the intelligent turn to this ‘“grandmother’s remedy.” In certain districts it is believed that a robin ap- plied in the same manner as the dove is the best remedy for inflammations. In Austria people troubled with rheu- matism do not flock to the springs, but place the afflicted member in the warm SICK.NESS find himself with the blood of 922 families coursing through his arterial system; yet people boast of their descent from a man whose proportion # in their make-up is &s 1 to 822, when they will not even clim their second cousins, uniess they have coin. But people who are pining for an- cestry to boast about do not stop at 200 years. They go ba¢k down the dim aisles of history looking for men who made their mark with a signet ring, because they could nor write their names, and who were distinguished principally because of their numerous rogeny. 3 pIn 300 years, it is estimated, one man’s blood would become diffused through the veins of 1,01§.302 people. ‘What would be the n‘r()r\urth)n it they were to go back to 1086 A. D.? Let those who make pretensions to blue blood cast their eyes over this table: Parents Grandparents . Great grandpar: Great (twice) grandparents.. Great (3) grandparents Great (1) grandparents. Great (5) grandparents. Great () grandparents. Great (7) grandparents. Great (8) grandparents. Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great (12) grandparents (13) grandparents. (17) grandparents (18) grandparents. (19) grandparents. (20) grandparents (21) grandparen (22) grandparents. (28) grandparents. Total ancestors since A. D. 1066.....62.049,93 If a man have that many ancestors, remember, for pity’s sake, where does he figure in the line of posterity? The number of descendants of 62,049~ 932 human beings would be more than ever peopled the earth at one time. And that is only one family. A contemplation of such a proportlnn is like trying to calculate the distance to a given star or to imagine the im- “I know of a great many French families here who put on the freshly Kkilled dove when their children have a s it draws it fever and almost alwa out. You can safely say that the cus- tom of using a is general among the French people.” or bird dies, foreheads at stated intervals, many are obliged to lie for da couch, hugging close to them cats or of some variety. claimed that in every instance when the patient recovers the animal this on a act being used as INCASING THE PATIENT IN A FRESHLY SLAUGHTERED BEEF. claimed that the most treatment. mals. ‘When the Emperor Leopold I was blood of a freshly killed animal. serious yield in a short time to this sort of The Austrians have long believed in the healing power of ani- It is cases mensity of the universe. It is enough to unhinge the mind and put the whole race in asy!ums. 3 A man never knows what he is until he gets to digging up the records of his forefathers. Miss Farnsworth probably did not take these facts into consideration. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, it is said, is to be chosen national president of the new organization. She traces her de- scent to Hugh Capet, the founder of a French dynasty; to the Plantagenets of England and to the royal Saxon line, which had its origin in Augustus the Strong. Mrs. Vanderbilt has also been re- quested to join. She is descended from In ‘Parlisthe most. popular 200therart 1, w5¢ positive that ithe strengthiof ithe snracticed in! France laince {time! fmrie-~ children: |Cirious’ Inyeatigatons: Have for tha whita ddve b the caflem)op bord the physicians feared he would D itians of people with ais. animal is transferable to the patient morial. Bspecially is this true in the come to the conclusion that the bellef death. Nor must the dove be caught DOt live. Instead of putting him in an oS And o o heomaids’ knee~ Dy means of contact, and vice Versa, provinces. When medical treatment is Is’ probably due to the fact.that the by other than innocent hands, and so i";l‘,“g“;f" heT:“ Nfllcel;i JaERaes g o The doctor does not that a disease can be transferred to a of no avail a dove is used as the last dove is emblematic of purity and inno- the obtaining of the dove generally falls ErtRter bt R e the claim to be able to set a broken leg by lower animal from a human being by hcpe. The head is cut off, then the bird cence, and therefore it is meet that it o tLe lot of the youngest child in the Each morning a different hog was placing a patient in contact with an contact. % : is slit open from ' neck to tail, and be used only for children. hou;':e: used, in order to get the full benefit of animal who has four sound ones, nor While a sanitarium of this sort Is an feathers, blood and all is spread on the Care and discretion are used in the While this practice is more common the naturel wonmin oy tr coeneflt of does he admit any one to his sanit: entirely new idea, the custom of apply- patient’s head, forming a sort of cap. selection of the dove, in whom the in the provinces of France, it Is not un- week the infant prince came out ap- jum who is in need of a surgical opera- ing certain birds as a last resort in = The people believe that the dove has heart-broken family repose so much usual in Paris and the large cities. Nor parently as strong and healthy a child tion. But for all nervous diseases, hu- extreme cases of sickness has been healing powers only when applied to trust. A white one must never be taken, is the custom found only among the as could be found in ol austiia: mors of the blood, fevers and the like, £ he asserts that his live remedies ar ent than those prescribed ar old-time practitioners. Weak and nervous patients are - given blood baths, the beneficial results of aid to eclipse electric, Turk- far more eff by the regu ub is not the usual porcelain one, but the patient is put into a fres killed calf, and the hide is quickl ewed up, S0 as not to allow the h of the blood and trails to escape. Just enough air is man. It is particularly injurious for The reason why such serious diseases permitted to enter the interior of the Women to sit with one ieg swung over follow the mere crossing of the legs is animal to allow the patient to breathe the knee of the other. a purely physiological one. If you with ease. After remaining a variable _Many have often wondered how in cross your right leg over your left knee Jength of time in this unique bath, ac- the world they have contracted a split- you will notice that the whole weight cording to the state of health of each ting headache, or why their feet get so of the suspended right leg is sustained individual, the patient is taken out and cold at times. According to the Jour- by the left knee, which places all of a hot water bath. nal of 0d Health these two troubles the pressure against that under part but one such bath is con- and a ary to restore the weak ON'T cross y is it bad form, nown Jour: has just now made the announce- ment that it is one of the wors things in the world for a man or v ore of others are due solely in many cases to the common habit of DONT CROSS YOUR LEGS. your legs! Not only but the well- of Good Health seeking comfort by crossing “Cold feet, varicose ve cers and countle the improper cir in the lower limbs t pernicious habit of cr this medical journal goe the knee-cap. the headache, ul- s other troubles from ulation of the are caused ing the legs,"” on to_say. toget , their walls are clogged up blood and the circulation of the life-giving by the fluid is materially interfered with. Of of your right leg between the calf and Now, any school text- book on physiology will show that just in the very spot where all the pressure is placed there is a large number of large veins, nerves and arteries. The mere fact of putting undue pres- sure against this spot in either leg has the effect of crowding all these tissues legs. course the absence of a plentiful sup- ply of blood to the legs and feet caus them to become so B cold air that the Ie aught causes the feet to become annoyingly cold. As a relief it is suggested that one's feet may be put on the rungs of an opposite chair when one is not in com- pany, and to facilitate the comfort of visitors and callers numbers of has- socks should be placed in every waiting room and drawing room. HE Order of the Crown,” estab- lished by Miss Henrietta Lynde Farnsworth of Detroit, Mich., has been the subject of much ridicule by persons who dote on the idea that each American citizen is a sov- ereign by right of birth. Anybody may be a descendant of royalty. garbage or mends your umbrella may have in blood a trace of blue. matter of heredity; In Detroit there are 1000 women who claim to trace their ancestry back to TRACE BACK YOUR ANCESTORS. some European to try. In the first father and place, mother; The man who hauls your third, four It is a not of choice. thirty-two sovereign. Louis there are five times that num- ber who could easily do so, were they ted to the car of an ordinary balloon, For that matter, as a. little computation will show. descendants of royalty. a man has a grandfathers and two grandmothers; great-grandfathers four great-grandmothers; fourth, six- teen great-great-grandparents; great-great-great-grand- parents, and all this in the compara- tively short space of 100 years. In the course of 200 years a man will King Edward I of England. Only one man has been admitted to this cerulean-blooded society, and that only on account of his ability as a genealogist. —_—ea— An aerial bicycle for driving a bal- loon was recently tried at the Cr Palace, England. The machine is fit- In St over the front of which a big fan, something like the screw of a steamer, projects. It is worked from the inside exactly as a bicycle is, while between the balloon and the car are two more such fans, which are to drive the bal- loon up or down. These fans are worked by the driver turning a handle just on a level with his face. —_———— Careful measurements prove that the average curvature of the earth is 6.99 inches to the statute mile. we are all second, two and fifth, & & By IS AMERICAN DOMESTICITY DECREASING ? & FRANCES C. TREADWELL, D.D.S; MRS. LOVELL WHITE; MME. L. @ SORBIER, Pres. W. E. 1. U; DCRCAS J. SPENCER, Cor. Sec. W. C. T. U; ADDIE L.BALLOU, Notary Public; ALICE MOORE McCOM@S, Insurance Representative; LAURA De FORCE GORDON, LL.D. S American domesticity decreasing? This question is engaging the serious attention of our present day sociologists, and with good rea- son, since if the ansyer be in the affirmative the matter is of the gravest import to our country. That such a question should be asked at all is one manifestation of the changed conditions which have come to us since the time of the almost univer- sal home use of the cards and the spinning wheel, the brick oven and the candle molds. Statistics show that in many of the States over 50 per cent of the working men are assisted in the sup- port of their families by the labor of their wives and children, and that in the United States 4,000,000 women (or 18 per cent of the entire female population) are wage workers, the number having doubled in the past twenty years. We also see in our large towns and cities that men and women seem more and more in- clined to make separate homes and that the “boy and Birl marriages” characteristic of our forefathers and foremothers rarely take place now among out Ameri- can young people. Does all this tend to show that love of home is dying out among us, and that the advance of women along educational and industrial lines is practically a desertion of the duties which were formerly set aside as her only heritage and the performance of which was considered her only fitting career? Some of San Francisco’s wise and broad minded women prominent in professional, business and phil- anthropic circles have given the following answers to the very important question: PR God created man and woman equal, and it was the selfishness of man which drew the dividing line be- tween him and woman in [ Frances c. the first place. In the past TREADWELL, | that line was overstepped only infrequently, and gen- ! erally at the social peril of the woman who was brave enough to ignore traditions and join the workers of the world. But all this has changed. Women of all classes and conditions work at the present time—many who are wealthy for the very love of being occupied and accomplishing some- thing in the world. and others because necessity in some form or other urges them on. To be a wife, a mother, and a good housekeeper is no longer considered the only proper sphere of woman, but it is a matter for regret that so many of the poorer ones &ire expected to work both outside and inside their homes. It is not easy to combine the offices of bread winner and home keeper, and when a woman has to fill both places the home generally suffers. Do- mestic life alone demands the best mental and physi- cal energies of woman, and when the wife and mother overtaxes her strength in any way the result is fatal to the welfare of her posterity. The main trouble with women who work is that they are usually not content with doing a man’s work as nearly as they can, but try to do a woman’s work also in tLe nours during which the man takes his needed rest. The woman who to “keep house” evenings after working hard all v is a martyr indeed, but there are many such among our working people. Business and professional women are solving this problem for themselves, and the result s the “girl bachelor” and ‘‘women bachelor” homes, which are comfortable and convenient, but seem to be a mistake from one point of view. Club life for either men or women can never take the place of home life, the true home life which God meant us to institute and enjoy. It is a selfish form of existence at best, and its ten. dency is to make the ease of the individual paramount to the good of the world. It is the educated, the re- fined and the gifted who can make real homes, full of the atmosphere of true domesticity—beautiful exam- ples to those who live on lower planes; but if they will not, what then? . . . I do not think that domesticity, taken as mean- Ing the love of home and home life, is decreasing R R T as far as women are con- MME. L. A. SORBIER, cerned. Love of home is so natural in woman (! Fasdent . £.2.00 when she is forced by :ll:f l cumstances into the outer world she appreciates and enjoys it, no matter how humble it may be, only the more. As far as working to help support the family is concerned women have always been doing that. Of course 1 am speaking now of the middle and poorer classes, not of the wealthy cnes, whose lives are or- dered on different lines. In times past it was the rule of housewives to do their own washing, make the clothes for the family, and often the cloth from which the garments were made, and all the preserves, soap and candles used in the house, besid many other things. Thus the wife earned at home as much often the husband’s wages amounted to, and sometimes more, since if he had been obliged to hire the work done the money paid out would have amounted to his entire income. Machinery has changed all this. Now it is cheaper to buy the things formerly made at home, and women not being able to save this outlay must mnake up the deficit by going outside the home to earn what they can in other ways. But whether woman works in a store, factory or in her own house it makes no dif- ference with the fact that she works, and has always worked to help support her family, and is not work- ing any harder now than before; nor is she any less a good wife, mother or home maker. On the contrary, being more experienced, better educated, and conse- quently having broader views of life, she is better fitted for these sacred duties. That there are fewer marriages is due in part, it seems to me, to the fact that girls no tonger feel com- pelled to marry for homes, and are therefore more particular as to their-choice of husbands than many were in former times, when to be unmarried was con- sidered rather discreditable than otherwise. But even now I think that there are very few who are ‘“girl bachelors” from choice. It is an exceptional woman who would not like to be a mother, but many sensible and good women who would make good wives prefer to live single rather than to have men not of the high- est type for the fathers of their children. This, I think, is one cause of the decrease in mar- riages among our better educated young women, but the greatest cause is that men who could support fam- ilies are many of them keeping “bachelors’ homes,” preferring the freedom of such establishments to do- mestic happiness. It is a regrettable fact that many of our men lead lives as bachelors which are by no means up to the high standard of morals which they would require of any woman whom they would think of making a wife; and it is also regrettable—greatly so—that when they become tired of dissipation and self-indulgence families of good standing and respec- tability will receive them as husbands for their daugh- ters. Under these circumstances it is not to be won- dered at that such men marry, if they marry at all, :}?rxy ]}?wdmAhre' ’nnd that as far as 1us vate rests in eir hands American dom sl e esticity is very little helped In conclusion, let me say that two id me very strongly. One is that there sh:fll’d’z‘emte:; same standard of morality for both SeXes; the other, that all Government positions should B 5 e 1V persons having families to support rathergth:: :3 single persons. - . . I believe America to be assuredly the 1 land of do- mesticity and of the ideal home, both now and in t}?e future. I do not define do- mesticity to mean, how- ever, a chimney corner ex- istence, which necessitates el the servility or domestic labor and the unrestricted rearing of children beyond the limit of parental ability' to comfortably clothe, healthfully feed and consistently educate them with- out becoming beasts of burden, so to speak, in the ac- complishment. ¥ I believe woman should become as proficient in as many and varied arts and professions that are wage producing as men, and that she should be a sharer and helpmeet in his responsibilities and wage earning and proprietorship of the same, other. conditions being equal, excepting always the periods when through her highest domain, that of motherhood, all “sr vital and moral energies should be directed toward the most perfect production and care of her child.- I believe it to be incompatible with the spirit of American woman- hood to be dependent upon another for the require- ments of an existence. In the home should be mutual experiences and in- terests, a comraderie of confidences which can only come through equal opportunities, educational and otherwise, and an equal standard of morals, and re- trenchment of vices. It is the violation of this order for centuries that has caused our womanhood to as- ADDIE L. BALLOU, Notary Public. ‘cessity of the new sert itself. It is growth, and not aggression. It is the broadening out of woman’'s latent =ad loftiest powers, the pluming of her wing to the higher nest, that in her freedom an advancing posterity may never wear a yoke. The higher the lization, the endowment and ed- ucation, the greater the capacity for enjoyment and the power of conferring enjoyment. ‘[herefore each is struggling to excel herself and others, and in the tumult of trying to overtake lost opportunities every one and every trade is treading upon the heels of the foremcst, and a danger signal flies at the entrance to a new century. But that order will evolve from chaos in due time I have no doubt. “Marry and multiply,” for numbers may be a ne- colony; but the helter-skelter is ruinous to advanced civilization, and I take it as a promise of a better future domesticity that our girls prefer celibacy with independence, self-ownership and possession and disposal of their own earnings rather than marital absorption and a life of servitude, to galn an epitaph and name as ‘“relict” on a tomb- stone. I know of no better remedy for the growing ten- dency to become “girl bachelors” than to lure them from their bohemia by the surety of good, true and faithful husbands—a better, cleaner, purer and upright manhood. For so long as time shall last woman will love a lover, crave a home, long for the kiss of baby lips at her breast and lift her adoring eyes to an ideal. And as she rises in her o n self-respect the more ab. horrent will seem that violation of her holiest endow- ment, the mcckery of mateless marriage and the be- getting of posterity whose virtues cannot hope to sur- vive the cradle and whose ancestry has lost its honors with the decadence of passing generations. . . . I do not think the woman creasing domesticity. Women are in business is de- in business to IRADE bétter home conditicns. The ALICE MOORE desire for a comfortable McCOMAS, home and educational ad- vantages for their children is g SRR A the actuating motive of the majority of business women. If 50 per cent of, the working men in Illinols are assisted by their wives in supporting their families, then 50 per cent of these men are paid wages too low to provide for families. This is a matter that our Government, composed of men, should investigate. While acknoivledging that the number of wage- earning women has doubled in twenty years, we must reccgnize the fact that our present financial and in- dustrial systems have made it impossible for the poor to maintain homes without the united effort of father and mother—and often children. I consider the em- ployment of children in any business a crime against humanity. This, however, is a proof of the love of home and does not presage the decline of domesticity, but an effort to maintain it against fearful odds. I wish I had a whole column in which to speak for the bachelor maid. A visit to her den will show you her love of domesticity. When the right man comes she will make him a lovely wife. But she will never marry for a home. She has discovered her economic value, and will never make a home for a man who will not show equal ability to maintain it. American domesticity, as I understand it, is not in danger. It is in a transition stage, but will come out improved when the new man has found himself. The wives and mothers of long ago were no mors content than the women of to-day. They wrote and talked of duty and self-sacrifice. They laid great stress upon what one ought to do and feel, not what they did angd felt. The proof of what they felt comes with the history of the factory movement in New England, when they rushed to the mills to work fourteen hours a day. Lucy Larcum tells the story in “A New England Girl~ hood,” showing the factory life to be one of ease com- pared to life in the homes they left behind. A lady of 78, being questioned on this point, expressed herself with great vigor. “Yes,” she Insurance Representativa. said, “there were contented women, but I prefer the word resignation as closer to fact. No, my dear, thank God you live now and not a hundred or even fifty years ago. The ‘good old times’ is a dreary humbug. Give me the new times of to-day and the new man who is coming along with what they call the new woman—God bless her. He does not know lit, this thick-headed male whom the woman of the old timg taught to lay burdens upon us. But he is being made over with the rest of us, and all at once this old world will be reconstructed, and then there will be good times for the whole race.” The process of reconstruction generally brings with it doubt, fear and confusion. Our domesticity is in the throes of this process. The business woman, who is the greatest factor in this reconstruction movement, is standing firm—still womanly, still home- loving. She will not be overcome by the shock she is giving society by her rapid strides toward higher civi- lization, which means broader and therefore more ele- vating womanhcod; larger and therefore more stable and substantial home life. . . . American domesticity, like all things by nature imperishable, is simply undergoing a change from an {7 i anesetar anterior condition, when women did no wage-earning work, to one vastly superior, when women receive wages for their work. Fifty years ago men complained that ideal domes- ticity could not be attained because there were too many idle women to be supported by them. The pen- dulum has swung to the other side. Women now have the liberty to exercise their genius and skill in any chosen direction, and they are awakening to the fact that idleness shelters and protection dwarfs the pow- ers alike ¢f men and women. The result is that to-day women are stronger men- tally and physically than they were a generation since. As mothers they are wiser, more intelligent; as wives they are more companionable; as members of the community more valuable, thus increasing ap- preciably the degree of domesticity. A nation is great in proportion as its women are educated and individualized. In countries where women take an active share in business life civiliza- tion reaches a high degree of development,and domes- ticity, including in its broader sense both home and country, is relatively benefited. The fact that four millions of women in the United States are wage- workers seems to point to the probability that the golden age is fast approaching, when every human being shall support himself or herself. The girl bach- elors are to be congratulated upon their enviable po- sition. In former times the women who did not marry were called old maids. Having no definite status, they became objects of derisicn and spent their lives in rearing other women'’s children. Independence is an admirable quality wherever found, and when the girl bachelors select a better name, better descriptive of their state of evolution, no critic need carp. As to club life for men—man has always made ‘woman’s opinions for her. He tells her to remain in- doors and limit her knowledge to the concerns per- taining to the feminine domain. He declares that centact with the larger life of the world will take from her personal charm. She believes him. The re- sult Is that he finds companionship at his club, and when compelled to be at home he generally drops mentally that he may be in touch with the family in- telligence. So long as mortals lack the power tou transcend the limits ofisex so long will they make separate habitations for themselves. . . - I believe the decrease of American domesticity to be more apparent than real. The increasingly hard conditions of wage-earners, created by the prevalent competitive systam of capi- tal and labor, must of neces- sity discourage men and women from assuming the marriage relation and its attendant responsibilities. But this by no means proves a lack of appreciation of its advantages. A great natural law cannot be subverted by any’ artificial conditions. Men may evade the burdens of domestic life, live in “stag camps,” clubs, lodging- houses and restaurants or what not, and women make to themselves homes without husbands, for both sexes have demonstrated their adaptability to these make- shifts. They are, moreover, all conscious that such things are but poor substitutes for something better, and it is beyond question that the unconquerable jn- stinct of domesticity, the irresistible innate desire of the human heart for, the satisfactions of domestic life, threatening in time to be beyond the reach of the masses, will be the powerful lever by which soclal and industrial revolution must come. ' In the meantime it must be admitted that young MRS. LOVELL WHITE. DORCAS J. SPENCER, Corresponding Secratary W.C.T. U men are less disposed to settle in life, and young women have learned that self-support is better than marrying for a home. The tendency is certainly 4 less early and more deliberate marriage. The hearthV stone may not be laid so soon, but it will not be less sacred; and the children to gather about it will be tenderly and intelligently cherished. The attention now given to child study refutes in itself the idea that American domesticity is decreas- ing. The literature of the subject grows daily more rich and profese. From the mcthers’ meetings of the cottage and schoolhouse to the lectures of the uni- versities, and the national council of mothers, child- h;u};if is recognized as the supremely important period of life. The child claims the best thought of the age. Be- hind ail this is the great principle of love of home, of which the child is the central thought. The heartnh- stcne is the altar of the republic, and American citt- zenship can be trusted to keep its altars bright. . s . There has never been a time when either laws or customs of society prevented women from working. In fact, the earlier civiliza- tions made of woman a drudge, with all the condi- tions the word implies. It is - - ot ! only since woman herself, impelled by that inherent force which so mysteriously connects us with the great law of evolution, has sought to gain knowledge, as well as to broaden her sphere of labor, that society, church and state have united in holding her in check. The past half-century has brought wonderful and rapid changes in the condition of women the world over, and among them all, perhaps, the. most marked change is in the opening up of so many lines of industry hithérto monopclized by men. To understand even a little how this condition came about it is necessary to study the marvelous changes that have been wrought in the whole werld of work and industry by the wonderful discoveries in the domain of science and of art. The discovery of steam and electricity as servants to do the bidding of the human mind, together with the brilliant array of mechanical inventions which seem a natural se- quence thereto, have been to this age what the dis- covery of gunpowder and the art of printing were to man from the sixteenth century onward to the nine- teenth. But this century has brought greater changes in the industrial conditions of women than of men. With all the advancement made for thousands of years past, the condition of woman as a household drudge, a servant in the home of her master, whether father or husband mattered not, was unchanged. The dis- taff and spindle, the loom and embroidery frame, varied by chen work, held women for ages untold in the seclusion of the home, whether cot or castle, but the divine power of scientific discovery has brought the spinning jenny, the power loom, the sew- ing machine, steam laundry, etc., etc., to change the whole dumain of domesticity. Those labor-saving inventions have not emanci- pated woman from the domain of labor, but they have broadened and enlarged her sphere of industrial activity. 4 That wives have always assisted: their husbands in the support of their families needs no argument, but the spinning and weaving and fashioning of rai- ment by hand did not count in domestic statistics ‘when wives were servants in everything except name and wages. The employment ‘of women to do the work that men might do, while those men are left idle, is largely owing to the greed and avarice of the gmployer class, Wwho readily seize upon the political inferiority women to offer less pay for the same work. Pla women upon an equality with men politically, a the employer class will not dare discriminate against them in the matter of wages. We cannot go back to the domestic life of a h:lf century ago if we could. We should strive to adapt ourselves to the new order of things which is sweep us resistlessly onward to, I believe, a higher and no- ] bler life, both domesticgand social, for men and ‘women alike. If there is a tendency of the sexes to make separ- ate homes it proves, at least, the enjoyment of a greater degree of persoral and individual liberty than when “old maid” was a term of contempt, and & “lorn bachelor” called for legislative curatives in tho shape of fines. i LAURA DE FORCE GORDON, Attorney-at-Law,