Show WOMEN OF ENGLAND Q O SPECULATION S PECULATION upon the economic position of or English w women after the war nar Is a 0 pastime more popular elsewhere than in Great Grent Britain While it 1 Is probably a 0 canard that the average Englishman sees aces a Joke later and with less enjoyment than anybody else yet et the knowledge that thai his women have demonstrated their equality lih Stith him him In tho the Industrial arts seems o him anything but a Jest It is not unreasonable to assume assume as as- sume that English women will occupy occupy oc oc- occupy oc- oc cupy a place at the he wars war's close superior to that they enjoy anywhere else in the tho world and much more more satisfactory than the they hey could havo have supposed d the next One ne hundred years would furnish them Women aro are said to outnumber men in England to the amazing extent of That startling condition c has las naturally been accentuated since I Ithe the war began b by the dl dispatch patch of or hundreds of or thousands of ot young oung men mento mento mento to the battle front thousands upon thousands of or whom will never return Their places in Industry have been taken or will be taken b by the women left behind When hen the war Is over if it lasts anything lIk like as long as s i Is predicted these women workers will willbe he be e equally proficient as were the themen themen men nen and tho the probabilities are they will be content with a lower wage Once women become the workers I of or the thc empire it Is difficult to comprehend comprehend comprehend com com- how John Bull can longer long deny them equal rights with men Certain classes of English women have participated in politics to a n greater extent and with more influence influence ence though denied the ballot banot than have lave women in tn the tho suffrage states of or America That truth however hO li is confined to women of or wealth and position When John Bull comes to his s senses after aCtor the war tho the adJustment adjustment adjustment adjust adJust- ment of ot tho the national attitude towards woman will become his first dut duty The rho women of or England nd are finding themselves and tho the men are likely to hear about It when the tho empire has ha been saved II |