Unhappily enough, they are used with little or none of the old world's ease.
Being imitations and not natural growths, they, of course, cannot be.
More serious still is the relation which has been shown to exist between criminality and household occupations.

Nothing, indeed, which recent investigation has established ought to startle the American woman more.

Contrary to public opinion, it is not the factory and shop which are making the greatest number of women offenders of all kinds; it is the household.

In a recent careful study of over 3000 women criminals, the Bureau of Labor found that 80 per cent came directly from their own homes or from the traditional pursuits of women![2] The anomaly is the more painful because women are so active in trying to better the conditions in trades which men control.

Feminine circles everywhere have been convulsed with sympathy for shop and factory girls.