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chance !) and say, " Now whither is this lead- 

 ing me, and am I to get anything out of it ? " 

 in other words, " Will it pay ? v All honour 

 to these useful people ; they become the 

 backbone of the whole scheme, and help 

 to lay the dust raised by the clatter and 

 hurry of the advanced guard. 



Now, one cloud of dust raised by the 

 " Pioneer Women of the Eighties " was a 

 huge one, and is even now still circulating. 

 It was the question of openings for women. 

 If women were to be independent beings 

 as so many then strongly advocated as an 

 advantage, and as so many since have 

 advocated as a necessity - - it was quite 

 clear that they must work for their living, 

 and obtain what is now so well known as 

 a " living wage." Only so could they 

 become really independent, because in this 

 twentieth century in which we find ourselves 

 "money" is said "to rule the world," and 

 there were evidences of it doing so in the 

 last decade of the nineteenth if not before. 





