WHERE WOMEN HAVE THE VOTE. 



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" Now, rightly or wrongly, they who 

 talk in this strain hold that the change 

 which has undoubtedly come over many 

 Fmnish women since they have had 

 votes is due chiefly, although, of course 

 not solely, to their having votes. They 

 hold, too, that the change is a change 

 for the worse all round, one fraught 

 with danger to the whole community. 

 And they point to recent Finnish statis- 

 tics as proof that, in sjieaking thus, they 

 are speaking advisedly." 



THE SERVANT PROBLEM. 



The change has been most apparent 

 in the attitude taken by domestic ser- 

 vants. I have heard from mistresses, 

 indeed, such heart-rending stories of all 

 that they have to suffer at the hands of 



their maids that the wonder to me is 

 that they have maids — I would send for 

 Chinamen. It is not even a case of all- 

 round equality now, according to them, 

 but rather of the suj^eriority of the 

 servers to the served. A mistress may 

 be left " to do " for herself all the day 

 together, if any debate of special inter- 

 est to those who are supposed " to do " 

 for her is being held in Parliament. Be- 

 fore hxing a day for a friend to pay 

 her a visit she must ahvays take counsel 

 with her cook, lest this visit should clash 

 wath some visit the cook intends pay- 

 ing, or some entertainment to which she 

 has arranged to go. Woe betide the 

 lady who, through a mistaken sense of 

 duty, should venture to remonstrate, 

 were her maid, out for the day, to re- 

 main out also for the night." 



FIXL\XD&' IXDEPENDENCE DAY: THE ItEPORM GATHERING AT HET.SINOFORS. 



ON NOVEMBBW 1. 1905. 



(This gathering iti front of the Senate led to tlie change of policy on the part of the Tsar.) 



