A third is learning skirt-dancing.

Are these the "higher things" for which women are claiming freedom from all duty?
And, if so, is there not danger that the closing of our homes may lead to the crowding up of the world with too much higher things?
May there not, by the time all bothers have been removed from woman's path, be too many amateur violinists in the world, too many skirt-dancers, too much poker work?
If not, what are they?
these "higher things," for which so many women are demanding twenty-four hours a day leisure.

I want to know.
One lady of my acquaintance is a Poor Law Guardian and secretary to a labour bureau.

But then she runs a house with two servants, four children, and a husband, and appears to be so used to bothers that she would feel herself lost without them.

You can do this kind of work apparently even when you are bothered with a home.