Show WIAN AND HER Sl1tl I HERALD readers know V that the recont annual meeting of the Womans Suffrage association at Washington developed a re vival of interest in womans work both of a political and economical character A special committee of the Sdnato is about to report a female suffrage amendment to the I constitution though it is doubtful i it can i pass either House and almost certain that it cannot become a law Yet it shows a yearning that will not bo repressed nor is it desirable that it should be The increasing participation of women in the active work and business of life is one of the most interesting features of this wonderful age I is difficult to say whether It is due to the womans rights movement begun some forty years ago or has been brought about by the sheer pressure pres-sure of the necessities of civilization Women are cheaper producers than mon they will do tho same work for less money and do it quite as well In manuf cturing machines do the chief work and tho demand de-mand i not so much for muscular strength as for skillful manipulation and patient automatic movement In this field of effort women and girls are quite as efficient as men When the manufactures of Lowell in Massachusetts began to attract attention atten-tion forty years ago it was remarked as a curiosity that farmers daughters of New England wore employed in the mills and factories but i what was considered a curiosity then has now become a fixed feature in our industrial indus-trial life and in many manufactories women are tho only operatives Ten years ago there wore not quite 100000 females employed in such vocations In Massachusetts Massachu-setts Now the number is more than tbreo times as many or onefourth of the total female population of the state The entrance of women into fields of work which were monopolized by men and for whose duties men alone wero supposed to be fisted has certainly been advantageous advanta-geous to tho sex I has lifted women from the position of dependence on their fathers brothers husbands and friends and givcn them an opportunity which thaI diligently improve of eurningtheir own living liv-ing aud thanks to nobody But it must be confessed it has been attended with some disadvantages Households have suffered Even the immigrant girls who en their arrival this country are not fitted for anything but domestic service soon prow impatient of it and seek opportunities to exchange it for shop work or factory duties and from ono end of the land to tho dutesund other there is a complaint of a scarcity of domestic help I has been suggested that a remedy for i tho trouble may be found in a sort of retaliation re-taliation As women have invaded the domain do-main of men and pushed them from their places men it is declared will have to invade in-vade tho domain of women and without pushing them from their places take tho places they have abdicated I would li ok like a derangement of the proper order of things for Americans like the Chinese to bccomo family cooks house servants washers and ironers but necessity neces-sity sets all proprieties at defiance and it may become necessary to submit to this Tho household is the beginning of society the starting point of civilization and to allow it to suffer would be like inviting disaster to the whole social structure The world generally finds a remedy for its industrial in-dustrial wants and it will probably discover dis-cover one for tho inadequate supply of domestic do-mestic help Let tho ELIZADZTU CAnT 8U TOSS and SUSAN B ANTHONYS solve this question and the gift of suffrage to womankind will not bo too great a compensation compen-sation for the service |