become obscured by the mists going up from the damp
valleys, and the soul loses its way.

FOOTNOTES:

[23:1] The statistics show the situation up to April, 1918.

[24:1] The words I have italicized are not mine, but are quoted from the
Report.

[27:1] It is worth noting that, as far as I know, no word of protest has
been made by women against these statements. The Report, since I wrote
this chapter, has been widely commented on in the daily papers, in some
of the weeklies, and in all the suffrage papers, but these passages have
been passed over. Surely this is very significant.

[28:1] Since published by the Fabian Society as a small book.

[31:1] An excellent article on the Report, entitled "Demobilization of
Juvenile Workers," by Miss L. B. Hutchins, appeared in the _Contemporary
Review_, February, 1919.

[38:1] Since writing this, the Government, backed by the Labor Party,
has passed its Pre-war Practices (Restoration) Bill, which will exclude
women from many of the trades which they have entered during the war;
trades in which they have done skilled work and received high wages. On
August 15, The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Bill, after a promising
early career, went by default.

_Second Essay_

THE COVENANT OF GOD

WAR MARRIAGES AND ROMANTIC LOVE, WHICH CONTRASTS THE ENGLISH IDEAL OF
PERSONAL HAPPINESS IN MARRIAGE WITH THAT HELD BY THE JEWS OF MARRIAGE AS
A RACIAL DUTY.

"Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the
covenant of her God."--Prov. ii. 17.

I

A few weeks ago I read a book about a war-marriage, entitled the "Wife
of a Hero"; it was not a good novel, but the situation it presented was
of great interest. We witness the manifold conflicts resulting from a
marriage entered into in haste and under superficial emotions, between a
war-hero and the more complicated type of modern woman--the woman of
brains and nerves, fastidious, intellectually passionate and at the same
time swayed by a sensuality, which is neither acknowledged nor
understood. Hence this woman's marriage with a man, who, sufficiently a
hero to die magnificently (as a matter of truth he does not die and
returns in the end to receive the Victoria Cross, but it was believed he
was dead) was quite unfitted to live decently. You see, his ideals did
not get any further than his vanity. In his view a woman--whether wife
or mistress, it did not signify which she was--was only a chattel, an
object