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antagonistic to woman's rights movement, x. World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, formation of, x. facts concerning, 38. advocates woman's suffrage, 38. Worm, Pauline, 122. Writers' League, 68. Wu, Fang Lan, 258. Wyoming, woman's suffrage in, 16. elections in, 20. legal status of women in, 39, 40. Yale University, 24. Young Turkish Woman's League, 249, 250. Young Turk movement, women and, 248, 249. Zenana, 250, 253. Zetkin, Clara, 152. The following pages contain advertisements of Macmillan books of related interest. By MISS JANE ADDAMS, Hull-House, Chicago The Newer Ideals of Peace _12mo, cloth, leather back, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35_ "A clean and consistent setting forth of the utility of labor as against the waste of war, and an exposition of the alteration of standards that must ensue when labor and the spirit of militarism are relegated to their right places in the minds of men."--_Chicago Tribune._ "It is given to but few people to have the rare combination of power of insight and of interpretation possessed by Miss Addams. The present book shows the same fresh virile thought, and the happy expression which has characterized her work ... There is nothing of namby-pamby sentimentalism in Miss Addams's idea of the peace movement. The volume is most inspiring and deserves wide recognition."--_Annals of the American Academy._ "No brief summary can do justice to Miss Addams's grasp of the facts, her insight into their meaning, her incisive estimate of the strength and weakness alike of practical politicians and spasmodic reformers, her sensible suggestions as to woman's place in our municipal housekeeping, her buoyant yet practical optimism."--_Examiner._ Democracy and Social Ethics _12mo, cloth, leather back, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35_ "Its pages are remarkably--we were about to say refreshingly--free from the customary academic limitations...; in fact, are the result of actual experience in hand-to-hand contact with social problems. "The result of actual experience in hand-to-hand contact with social problems ... No more truthful description, for example, of the 'boss' as he thrives to-day in our great cities has ever been written than is contained in Miss Addams's chapter on 'Political Reform.'... The same thing may be said of the book in regard to the presentation of social and economic facts."--_Rev
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