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fio.ooo. It requires capital and is probably more costly, 

 to run than the recbaud. lUit both the restaurant and 

 the ihhaud pay their way when they are well managed. 

 Four, restaurants for women now exist, and in them 

 2.500 to 2.800 meals u day tan be served. In choosing 

 a locality it is necessary to select one where a large 

 number of customers is likely to be found — young 

 girls whose homes are at some distance away ; to 

 avoid starting a restaurant near another of the same 

 type ; and to see that the (ilace is light and easy to 

 clean, and that the installation is simple, and such as 

 will make perfect cleanliness easily possible. Cleanli- 

 ness should be the onl\' luxury permitted. Adjoining 

 the dining-room there must always be a waiting-room, 

 provided with good papers and interesting periodicals, 

 hooks, and convenience lor writing. 



AN ORTHODOX MOTHER SPEAKS 

 OUT AT LAST. 



MfcH significance attaches to the paper contributed 

 by Mrs. Huth Jackson to the Nalional RevicK' on 

 " Modern Science and Eternal Truths." She speaks 

 -from the standpoint of the Incarnation, and of one 

 who venerates the Mother of Our Lord. She scorns the 

 " extremely ugly and rather futile development " 

 known as feminism, but she says : "The time has now 

 come when jA'omen, and the best of them, must say 

 what they have come to think on marriage, child-birth, 

 and the regularisation of the family." She savs that 

 on the whole the position of women till the Christian 

 era was a fairly comfortable one, but the Apostle Paul 

 inaugurated an entirely dilTerent status for the female 

 sex. The Catholic Church did, however, take Our 

 Lady as the model of all h'mian perfection. Protest- 

 antism made matters worse. A lower ideal of women 

 than that possessed by men like [ohn Knox and Martin 

 Luther can scarcely be imagined. Mrs. Jackson admits 

 that the feminist movement has the excuse that the 

 better class of women have been cowardly. The best 

 women in Europe, she says, think that women are the 

 links between man and God, physically to be more 

 sheltered , more tended than they ever have been , and not 

 merely kept under lock and key. In the course of her 

 wide experience, Mrs. Jackson says she has not met 

 more than two dozen women who, when happily 

 married, did not want to have children. The rare 

 exceptions were all neurotic, useless types, and for the 

 sake of the race one was tlvuikful they did not have 

 children, 'i'he writer does not hesitate to go on to say : — 



Cliastily is not merely a matter of m.irriaf;c. 1 1 iiman lieinijs cm 

 live just as (lcj;r.iilcfl and revohing lives with their legitimate 

 males as were ( ver liveil in any house of ill-faiue. 



But to rcliirn to my <iuesliiin : What flo the best womrii 

 think about bearing children ? They think that it is a matter to 

 be settled between each couple of parents fur themselves ; that 

 iheymust delilierately think out wliellier they want few cliiklren 

 or several, and at what periods ; and that they nnist so live as 

 to give tho^e children the lust chance of coming into the world 

 under the most satisfactory conditions. Whenever I am in 

 G-rinany it alw.iys strikes me as the happiest country in Kuropc 



— and I believe one of the reasons is because this point of vii\> 

 is more or less universally arce]Hi-d in all classes, anil chiUlrrii 

 are so Inverl and -vanlfiL 



MARRIED COJ>LABORATORS. 



In the August number of the Book Monthly there 

 is an article on .Married Collaborators by Mr. C. E. 

 Lawrence. 



Among the wedded in life and letters are included 



Muclm.] (Vv'avsaw. 



A Polish View of the British Suffragettes. 



Coralie Stanton and Heath Hosken, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Askew, Mr. and Mrs. Williamson, and Mr. and Mrs. 

 Egerton Castle, all writers of fiction. A man's world 

 and a woman's are quite distinct and difterent, and 

 nothing can alter it, according to Mr. Lawrence. Some 

 of the finest heroines, he maintains, have been created 

 by meii; but he is not so sure that women have, 

 generally speaking, been so successful with their 

 masculine characters. Taking the rank and file of 

 novelists to-day, he thinks it is safe to say that a 

 man's woman and a woman's man are not so living 

 and real as a man's man and a woman's woman. What 

 man — in a book — could dress a woman properly ? Is 

 not this one instance of the limitations of unassisted 

 man in his novel-writing ? Woman, however, is, as a 

 general rule, less adequate than man in depicting her 

 heroes. 



The fact is that in the multitude of cases a man's 

 or a woman's view of the world is only partial — • 

 which suggests that whit is lacking can be sup- 

 plied by the complementary opposite. This, it is 

 shown, is a cotnplete justification of the collaboration 

 of literary married people. Together they caiv build 

 the plot, settle the characters, plan the situations, etc., 

 but when they come to the paiticular it is she who 

 must look after the woir^en and lir who must look after 

 the men. Since e\cryone cannot join in such a partner 

 ship, the writer thinks it would be well if more revision 

 and criticism of a man's work liy a woman, and vice 

 versa, were practised. Nevertheless, literary union is 

 not necessarily everything. Many novels written iindei 

 these conditions have considerable defects. 



