he clerk, the teacher, are in a
higher class than the cook, the waitress, the maid, but that we are
all laborers alike, sisters by virtue of the service we are rendering
society. That is, labor should be the last to recognize the canker of
caste.[4]

FOOTNOTES:

[2] Report on Condition of Woman and Child Wage Earners in the
United States, Vol. XV. Relation between Occupation and
Criminality of Women. 1911.

[3] The number of people in 1910 in what is called "gainful
occupations" has not as yet been compiled by the Census Bureau.
This figure of 7,000,000 is arrived at by the following method,
suggested to the writer by Director Durand. It is known that there
are about 44,500,000 females in the present population. Now in
1900 there were about 141/2 per cent of all the girls and women in
the country over ten years of age at work a part or all of the
time. Apply to the new figure this proportion, and you have
between six and seven millions, which is called 7,000,000 here, on
the supposition that the proportion may have increased. The
percentage of women in each of the various occupations in 1900 is
assumed still to exist.

[4] The National Women's Trades Union League has domestic workers
among its members, though not as yet, I believe, in any large
numbers. Its officials are strong believers in a Domestic Workers'
Union. There are several such unions in New Zealand, and they have
done much to regulate hours, conditions, and wages.

CHAPTER VII

THE HOMELESS DAUGHTER

One of the severest strains society makes on human life is that of
adapting itself to ever changing conditions: yesterday it dragged us
in a stagecoach; to-day it hurls us across country in limited
expresses; to-morrow we shall fly! Once twilight and darkness were
without, shadows and dim recesses within; now, wherever men gather
there is one continuous blazing day. He who would keep his task
abreast with the day must accept speed and light; for the law is,
think, feel, do in the terms of your day, if you would keep your hold
on your day.

It is a law often resented as if it were an immorality, but those who
refuse the new way on principle, confuse form with principle. It is
the form which changes, not the essence. The few great underlying
elements from which character and happiness are evolved are
permanent--their mutations are endless. Dull-minded, we take the
mutations to mean shifting of princip