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The following pages contain advertisements of Macmillan books of related interest.
ByMissJANE ADDAMS, Hull-House, Chicago
The Newer Ideals of Peace
12mo, cloth, leather back, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35
“A clean and consistent setting forth of the utility of labor as against the waste of war, and an exposition of the alteration of standards that must ensue when labor and the spirit of militarism are relegated to their right places in the minds of men.”—Chicago Tribune.
“It is given to but few people to have the rare combination of power of insight and of interpretation possessed by Miss Addams. The present book shows the same fresh virile thought, and the happy expression which has characterized her work ... There is nothing of namby-pamby sentimentalism in Miss Addams’s idea of the peace movement. The volume is most inspiring and deserves wide recognition.”—Annals of the American Academy.
“No brief summary can do justice to Miss Addams’s grasp of the facts, her insight into their meaning, her incisive estimate of the strength and weakness alike of practical politicians and spasmodic reformers, her sensible suggestions as to woman’s place in our municipal housekeeping, her buoyant yet practical optimism.”—Examiner.
Democracy and Social Ethics
12mo, cloth, leather back, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35
“Its pages are remarkably—we were about to say refreshingly—free from the customary academic limitations...; in fact, are the result of actual experience in hand-to-hand contact with social problems.
“The result of actual experience in hand-to-hand contact with social problems ... No more truthful description, for example, of the ‘boss’ as he thrives to-day in our great cities has ever been written than is contained in Miss Addams’s chapter on ‘Political Reform.’... The same thing may be said of the book in regard to the presentation of social and economic facts.”—Review of Reviews.
“The book is startling, stimulating, and intelligent”—Philadelphia Ledger.
An Unusually Interesting Book
The Book of Woman’s Power
With an Introduction by IDA M. TARBELL
Decorated cloth, 16mo, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35Also in limp leather, $1.75 net; by mail, $1.85
“Whether the reader favors votes for women or not, ‘The Book of Woman’s Power’ will make a particular appeal to all interested in that subject.”—Ohio State Journal.
“It is a well-made book; the purpose of it is uplifting, and the contents are certainly of the highest class. It is a book good to read, and full of instruction for every one who wishes to pursue this theme.”—Salt Lake Tribune.
MissMOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL’S
The Ladies’ Battle
Cloth, 12mo, $1.00 net; by mail $1.10
“Her reasoning is clear and the arguments she presents are forcibly put ... a racy little book, logical and convincing.”—Boston Globe.
“The book is one which every woman, whatever her views, ought to read. It has no dull pages.”—Record-Herald, Chicago.
“Miss Seawell treats a subject of universal interest soberly and intelligently. She deserves to be widely read.”—Boston Daily Advertiser.
“The clearest and the most thorough little treatise on the theme of woman suffrage.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Wage-Earning Women
By ANNIE MARIONMacLEANProfessor of Sociology in Adelphi College.
Cloth, leather back, 12mo, $1.25 net; by mail $1.35
“The chapters give glimpses of women wage-earners as they toil in different parts of the country. The author visited the shoeshops, and the paper, cotton, and woollen mills of New England, the department stores of Chicago, the garment-makers’ homes in New York, the silk mills and potteries of New Jersey, the fruit farms of California, the coal fields of Pennsylvania, and the hop industries of Oregon. The author calls for legislation regardless of constitutional quibble, for a shorter work-day, a higher wage, the establishment of residential clubs, the closer coöperation between existing organizations for industrial betterment.”—Boston Advertiser.
Making Both Ends Meet: The Income and Outlay of New York Working Girls
By SUE AINSLIE CLARK AND EDITH WYATT
Illustrated, cloth, gilt top, 12mo, 270 pp., $1.50 net; by mail, $1.60
“Gives a vivid picture of the way the ‘other half’ lives, the half that is ground down by overwork, lack of home comfort and of recreation. So powerful are the facts presented that the very simplicity of their narration rouses the reader to the desperate need of safeguarding the girl workers in our cities against exhausting mental and physical demands.”—Continent.
“The point of view of the book is constructive throughout, and it is safe to say that it will be for a long time, both for the practical worker and for the scientific student, the authoritative work in this field.”—Detroit News.
“It is a recital of facts that makes one’s heart and soul shrink up and grow small for pity and helplessness to help.”—Lexington Herald.
Some Ethical Gains through Legislation
By FLORENCE KELLEYSecretary of the National Consumers’ League.
Cloth, leather back, 12mo, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35
This interesting volume has grown out of the author’s experience in philanthropic work in Chicago and New York, and her service for the State of Illinois and for the Federal Government in investigating the circumstances of the poorer classes, and conditions in various trades.
The value of the work lies in information gathered at close range in a long association with, and effort to improve the condition of, the very poor.
The author is not only a lawyer of large experience in Chicago, but has served that city, the State of Illinois, and the Federal Government in many investigations of conditions among various trades, and in reference to the circumstances of the poorer classes.
Among the topics here treated are:
The Right to Childhood.Interpretations of the Right to Leisure.The Right of Women to the Ballot.The Rights of Purchasers and the Courts.
The Women of America
By ELIZABETH McCRACKEN
Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net; by mail, $1.61
“A work the immediate need of which is felt everywhere. It treats of the American woman’s economic condition and of women workers in various fields. It can be recommended to every one who is interested in the grave problems involved by the new and untoward conditions of women’s work.”—N. Y. Evening Sun.
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Footnotes:
[1]I have discussed the theoretical side in a pamphlet of “The German Public Utility Association” (Deutscher Gemeinnütziger Verein), Prague, 1918 Palackykai.
[2]The presiding officers of the International Council to the present time were: Mrs. Wright Sewall and Lady Aberdeen. This year, June, 1909, Lady Aberdeen was reëlected.
[3]The report of the International Woman’s Suffrage Congress, London, May, 1909, had not yet appeared, and the reader is therefore referred to it.
[4]Their inferiority in numbers (in Australia and in the western states of the United States) has, however, often served their cause in just the same way.
[5]“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
[6]Composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
[7]In many states by two consecutive legislatures.
[8]On November 8, 1910, an amendment providing for woman’s suffrage was adopted by the voters of Washington. [Tr.]
[9]On November 8, 1910, both South Dakota and Oregon rejected amendments providing for woman’s suffrage. [Tr.]
[10]In October, 1911, California adopted woman’s suffrage by popular vote. [Tr.]
[11]This “Conference on the Care of Dependent Children” was called by President Roosevelt, and met, January 25 and 26, 1909, in the White House. Two hundred and twenty men and women,—experts in the care of children, from every state in the Union,—met, and proposed, among other things, the establishment of a Federal Child’s Bureau. Thus far Congress has done nothing to carry out the proposal. (Charities and the Commons, Vol. XXI, 643, 644; 766-768; 968-990.) [Tr.]
[12]The “mothers” hold special congresses in the United States to discuss educational and public questions. (Mothers’ Congresses.)
[13]Here universal male suffrage is meant. [Tr.]
[14]In November, 1910, an amendment in favor of woman’s suffrage was defeated by a referendum vote in Oklahoma. [Tr.]
[15]The amendment passed the Senate and was adopted in November, 1910, by popular vote. [Tr.]
[16]In November, 1910, a woman’s suffrage amendment was again defeated, as was the amendment prohibiting the sale of liquor. [Tr.]
[17]In November, 1910, four women were elected to the House of Representatives of the Colorado legislature. [Tr.]
[18]Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, in collaboration with Susan B. Anthony, has written aHistory of W Suffragewhich deals with the subject so far as the United States are concerned. [Tr.]
[19]Equal pay has been established by law in the states having woman’s suffrage.
[20]It is worth mentioning that in the Spanish-American War Miss McGee filled the position of assistant surgeon in the medical department, doing so with distinction.
[21]A. v. Máday,Le droit des femmes au travail, Paris, Giardet et Briere.
[22]In her book,L’ouvrière aux États-Unis, Paris, Juven, 1904.
[23]Those who cannot pay an annual tax of two dollars.
[24]InL’ouvrière aux États-Unis.
[25]The organ of the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association isProgressand is published in Warren, Ohio. There, one can also securePerhapsandDo you Know, two valuable propaganda pamphlets written by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. Other literature on woman’s suffrage can be obtained from the same source.
[26]Although New Zealand is not politically a part of the Australian Federation, it will for convenience be treated here as such.
[27]The theological degrees are granted only in England.
[28]Report of the International Woman’s Suffrage Conference, Washington, 1902.
[29]Report of the National Council of Women, 1908.
[30]Woman Suffrage in Australia, by Vida Goldstein.
[31]Both published in Rotterdam, 92 Kruiskade, International Woman’s Suffrage Alliance.
[32]Consult Helen Blackburn,History of Woman’s Suffrage in England.
[33]See the excellent little work of Mrs. C. C. Stopes, “The Sphere of ‘Man’ in the British Constitution,”Votes for Women, London, 4 Clement’s Inn.
[34]In the Irish Sea, between Ireland and Scotland, having a population of 29,272 women and 25,486 men.
[35]4 Clement’s Inn, Strand, London, W.C.
[36]See E. Robin’s novel,The Convert.
[37]By Lawrence Housman, Feb. 11, 18, and 26, 1909.
[38]See E. C. Wolstenholme Elmy,Women’s Franchise, the Need of the Hour.
[39]Wolstenholme Elmy,ibid.
[40]This right is possessed by women in Scotland and Ireland also.
[41]This is in direct conflict with the statute (13 Vict., c. 21, sec. 4) providing that women enjoy all those rights from which they are not expressly excluded.
[42]London, like other capital cities, is regulated by a separate set of laws.
[43]Applying to England and Wales.
[44]The right to vote is a condition necessary for the holding of office.
[45]See the Married Women’s Property Acts of 1870 and 1883.
[46]See the article by Mr. Pethick Lawrence inVotes for Women, March 3, 1909.
[47]London, S.W., 92 Victoria Street.
[48]Valuable information concerning women in the industries is given in the programme of April 4, 1909, of the London Congress of the International Woman’s Suffrage Alliance.
[49]Ansiaux,La réglementation du travail des femmes.
[50]See Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, “Women and Administration,”Votes for Women, March 12, 1909.
[51]See the article of Alice Salmon,Zentralblatt.
[52]For a survey of English conditions affecting women we recommendThe Women’s Charter of Rights and Liberties, by Lady McLaren, 1909, London.
[53]In Canada there are municipal elections, provincial parliamentary elections, and elections for the Dominion Parliament.
[54]See the Report of the Woman’s Suffrage Alliance Congress, Amsterdam, 1908.
[55]See the Report of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance, Amsterdam, 1908.
[56]The last two arguments are easily refuted.
[57]Woman never reaches her majority; she must always have a male representative.
[58]The husband still remains the guardian of the wife. To-day the wife controls her personal earnings, but merely as long as they are in cash; whatever shebuyswith them falls into the control of the husband.
[59]See the Report of the International Woman’s Suffrage Alliance Congress, Amsterdam, 1908.
[60]See the supplement, “Opposed to Alcoholism,” inOne People, One School, for April, 1909.
[61]ARealschuleteaches no classics, but is a scientific school emphasizing manual training. AGymnasiumprepares for the university, making the classics an essential part of the curriculum. [Tr.]
[62]By Vera Hillt,Statistics of Labor, VI, Helsingfors, 1908.
[63]See the complete list of measures inJus Suffragi, September 15, 1908. This is the organ of the International Woman’s Suffrage Alliance.
[64]In 1904 women were declared eligible by an official ordinance to hold university offices.
[65]It might be well to mentionDansk Kvindesamfund, Politisk Kvindeforening, Landsforbund, Valgretsforeningen of 1908(a Christian association of men and women).
[66]Compare similar proceedings in the United States and England.
[67]Since Switzerland contains a preponderance of the Germanic element, it will be considered with the Germanic countries.
[68]In Geneva and Lausanne the men exerted every effort to exclude women from the typographical trade. The prohibition of night work made this easy. The same result will follow in the railroad and postal service. Therefore in the Swiss woman’s rights movement there are some that are opposed to laws for the protection of women laborers.
[69]Industrial training was promoted chiefly by the “Lette-House,” founded in Berlin in 1865 by President Lette and his wife.
[70]In Germany there are one million domestic servants.
[71]For information concerning the German woman’s rights movement we recommendThe Memorandum-book of the Woman’s Rights Movement(Das Merkbuch der Frauenbewegung), B. G. Teubner, Leipzig.
[72]A body having advisory powers in matters relating to the medical profession and to sanitary measures. [Tr.]
[73]The question was decided by the administrative court inonespecial case. Compare the case of Jacobs, Amsterdam.
[74]SeeDokumente der Frauen(Documents concerning Women); November 15, 1899.
[75]The German system of stenography. [Tr.]
[76]See the resolutions of the party sessions in Graz, 1900; in Vienna, 1903; and of the first, second, and third conferences of the International Woman’s Suffrage Alliance, in 1904, 1906, and 1908.
[77]Except in Illyria, Carinthia, and Lower Austria.
[78]For political and practical reasons Hungary will be discussed at this point.
[79]Dokumente der Frauen, June 1, 1901.
[80]The proposed law grants the suffrage even to male illiterates.
[81]Later the Code Napoleon infected other countries, but such horrors originated spontaneously nowhere else.
[82]In the years 1848, 1851, 1871, 1874, 1882, 1885.
[83]See the resolutions of the two women’s congresses, Paris, 1900.
[84]Le mouvement féministe, Countess Marie de Villermont.
[85]Le féminisme, Emile Ollivier.
[86]Miss Chauvin made a similar request of the French Chamber of Deputies; as we have seen, her request was granted. Dr. Popelin did not make her request of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, which had not a Republican majority. Dr. Popelin may have considered such a step hopeless.
[87]Since 1899 special socialistic workingwomen’s congresses have been held.
[88]See the action of the Socialists in Sweden and in Hungary.
[89]Else Hasse,Neue Bahnen.
[90]The recognized gallant of a married woman. [Tr.]
[91]Marianne Weber,Zentralblatt.
[92]But only the enlightened clergy—those living in Rome—consent to the higher education of girls.
[93]Dokumente der Frauen, June 1, 1901.
[94]See Stanton,The Woman’s Rights Movement in Europe.
[95]El Feminismo, 1899.
[96]See the Report of the International Suffrage Congress, Washington, 1902.
[97]See the Report of the International Suffrage Congress, Washington, 1902.
[98]This has just been organized.
[99]The following statistics are significant: Between January 1 and July 1, 1908, Russia showed an increase in the consumption of alcoholic liquors. The total amount of spirits consumed was 40,887,509vedros(1vedrois 3.25 gallons), which is an increase of 600,185vedrosover the amount consumed during the same months of the preceding year. These figures correspond also to the government’s income from its monopoly on spirits; this was 327,795,312 rubles (a ruble is worth 51.5 cents), an increase of 3,745,836 rubles over the same months of the preceding year.
[100]See the very interesting articleFrauenbewegung(The Woman’s Rights Movement), by Berta Kes, Moscow.
[101]See Berta Kes,Frauenbewegung.
[102]SeeDocuments Concerning Women(Dokumente der Frauen), April 15, 1900.
[103]I am indebted to Mrs. Eudokimoff, of St. Petersburg, for an English translation of the resolutions, the address of the Lord Mayor, and the proceedings against the deputy of the Duma; also for a biography of Mrs. v. Philosophow.
[104]Springtime.
[105]A doctor employed by a workingmen’s association. [Tr.]
[106]Dr. Schirmacher treats Russian Poland here with Galicia, which is Austrian Poland. [Tr.]
[107]Dokumente der Frauen, November, 15, 1901.
[108]Greek conditions are analogous to conditions prevailing in Slavic countries; hence Greece will be treated here. Greece was liberated from Turkish control in 1827.
[109]There are elementary schools for boys and girls. The secondary schools for girls are private. The first of these was founded by Dr. Hill and his wife, who were Americans. Preparation for entrance to the university is optional and is carried on privately. Athens University has admitted women since 1891.
[110]The English have abolished slavery in Egypt.
[111]SeeConseil des Femmes, October, 1902, for the romantic “Désenchantées” of P. Loti, and Hussein Rachimi’s “Verliebter Bey.”
[112]CompareLa crise de l’orient, by Ahmed Riza.
[113]See the analogous action of the English in India.
[114]Report of the International Suffrage Congress, Washington, 1902.
[115]
Mag der Baum wohl wachsen in dem Walde,Aber keine Tochter mir geboren werden.
[116]India still retains the official regulation of prostitution (which was abolished in England in 1886). Here again, militarism is playing a decisive part in blocking this reform.
[117]In Bangkok, in Farther India (Siam), there is a woman’s club with the Siamese Princess as President.
[118]Report of the International Suffrage Conference, Washington, 1902.
[119]“Le Chinois admet la supériorité, avec toutes ses conséquences, dès qu’il la constate, qu’elle se révèle chez un homme ou chez une femme.”
[120]Report of the International Suffrage Conference, Washington, 1902.
[121]The University of Tokio is still closed to women. Women attend the Woman’s University, founded in 1901 by N. Naruse.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Punctuation has been corrected without note.
Other than the corrections noted by hover information, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.