ence Kelley, W.C.T.U. Publishing
Association, Chicago.

[46] Married Women in Factories. By W. Stanley Jevons, Contemporary
Review, vol. xli. pp. 37-53.

[47] Miss Alice Woodbridge, Secretary of the Working-Woman's Society, 27
Clinton Place, New York.

[48] The association then formed, and from which much is hoped, made the
following summary of its objects:--

"The objects of this Association shall be: 1. To awaken the public mind
to the importance of establishing a Bureau of Information where there
can be an exchange of wants and needs between employer and employed in
every department of home and social life. 2. To promote among members of
the Association a more scientific knowledge of the economic value of
various foods and fuels; a more intelligent understanding of correct
plumbing and drainage in our homes, as well as need for pure water and
good light in a sanitarily built house. 3. To secure skilled labor in
every department of women's work in our homes,--not only to demand
better trained cooks and waitresses, but to consider the importance of
meeting the increasing demand for those competent to do plain sewing and
mending."

XII.

REMEDIES AND SUGGESTIONS.

The student of social problems who faces the misery of the lowest order
of worker, and the sharp privation endured by many even of the better
class, is apt, in the first fever of amazement and indignation, to feel
that some instant force must be brought to bear, and justice secured,
though the heavens fall. It is this sense of the struggle of humanity
out of which have been born Utopias of every order, from the "Republic"
of Plato to the dream in "Looking Backward." Not one of these can be
spared; and that they exist and find a following larger and larger, is
the surest evidence of the soul at the bottom of each. But for those who
take the question as a whole, who see how slow has been the process of
evolution, and how impossible it is to hasten one step of the unfolding
that humankind is still to know, it is the ethical side that comes
uppermost, and that first demands consideration.

Taking the mass of the lowest order of workers at all points, the first
aim of any effort intended for their benefit is to disentangle the
individual from the mass. It is not charity that is to do this. "Homes"
of every variety open their doors; but in all of them still lurks the
suspicion of charity; and even when this has no active formulation in
the worker'