Show Stairway Portrays Struggle Upward The Stairway by Alice A. A Chown Is la written in the form torm of a womans woman's diary Perhaps Its only excuse for tor publication is that It strives to mirror the restless rind mind of reaching modern Ie out trono o-trono women for some soma who o ov vague v are e continually con con- c continually un undefined undefined un- un g defined thing which for lack of ot a better name they call freedom If the scenes and action were of the United States readers here would find the book more interesting and convincing but Canada and England are the stages and conditions discussed are unlike those In the United States The writer apparently comes to clear- clear cut conclusions on any of her problems despite the fact that she calls her book The Stairway meaning progress up up- up ward She touches on the experiments conducted by some of her friends In living living liv liv- In ing together without the marriage ceremony ceremony cere cere- mony being el performed and certain rt Idealistic colonies colos or settlements settlements i tn and l conditions for the laboring In Canada The writer says sas To me life is a gr it hodge hedge podge of ot all kinds of experiences of which one does not perceive the significance nor the relations except In perspective I wanted freedom my own Individual freedom to discover what I was I had to find my freedom in my relations to labor to self to education to the state The state The Cornhill Cornhill Cornhill Corn- Corn I hill Co Boston |