It is, too, one of the most economical growths the world knows.

Nothing is lost in it.

She spreads literally like the banyan tree.
Yet in spite of this perfectly obvious fact, there are people to-day asking, with all appearance of sincerity, what a woman of fifty or more can _do_! Their confining work in the home, say these observers, is done.

A common suggestion is that they be utilized in politics.
This suggestion has its comical side.

A person who has nothing to do after fifty years of life in a business as many-sided and demanding as that of a woman, can hardly be expected to be worth much in a business as complicated and uncertain as politics, and for which she has had no training.