mselves and others, and such objectors have no ground
left.... The fear is sometimes expressed that the club movement
is drawing women away from home interests; but the general
attention now given to household economics by all the women's
clubs proves that women are realizing that knowledge of history,
art and science is needed to give the broad culture necessary for
the proper conduct of the home life. Although as yet few women's
colleges offer adequate courses in home economics, nevertheless
after marriage the college women begin to study household
problems with all the energy brought out by the college
training.

A very general comment on woman's desire for a share in municipal
and national government is that the servant question is yet
unsolved; that, since she has not succeeded in governing her own
domain, she has no rights outside of it. By going outside of her
home as an employee herself she is learning to deal with this
problem. It has been necessary for women to have thorough
business training in other directions before they could discover
how unbusinesslike were the methods pursued in the average
household. The more women have gone out of their homes into new
occupations, the more they have realized that the home is
dependent upon the same principles as the business world. The
business woman understands human nature, and therefore can deal
successfully with the butcher, the baker and other tradespeople.
She has a power of adapting herself to new conditions which is
impossible to her sister accustomed only to the narrow treadmill
of housework.

Specialization is the tendency of the age, and by wise attention
to this in the household, as elsewhere, enough time should be
saved to each community for the world's work to be done in fewer
hours, and for men and women to have time besides to be
homemakers and good citizens. Little by little one art and craft
after another has been evolved into the dignity of a profession,
while housework as a whole has been left to untrained workers.
Needle work, cookery and cleaning are dependent on the
fundamental principles of all the natural sciences.... There is
need also of trained women to lead public sentiment to recognize
the dignity of manual labor.

The statesmanlike paper of Mrs. Isabell