Walter Besant On Women

"It v.ïll not, perhaps, be considered an attack upon women if I say that it is extremely difficult to keep ihem to the point." says Walter Besant in the Queen. "I have been addressing audiences af women on four occasions during the last year. I was advocaUng a central bureau for women's work, witli branches everywhere, to embrace all kinds of work. One lac'y rose in a kind of rage: 'He has actually said nothing of the T-ypewrlters' Holiday Fun!' And another: 'He has forgotten- if he did forget' - with a fine curl i I of the upper lip- 'the Curates' Grand - daughters' Allowanee in Sickness Fund, which everybody knows as the I C. Q. D. A. S. F.!' And once, when I j had most carefully and repóatedly dunned and hamtnered into their ears that the bureau must begin at least with the class called gentlewomen, a lady sprang to her feet and, with tears in her eyes - real tears, mind, of real smpathy - wanted 1o know what we were to do with the slums and the gutter!" Sir Walter is optlmistic, nevertheless. He believes in women and thinks that if they would manier parliamentary law aa their American sisters study to do they would be very useful and I cient public workers.