One may hope for some practical results from the great International Congress. of Women which has been sitting in London for some ten days sometimes holding five or six simultaneous sectional meetings, Whether the "e: of woman" will he greatly advance {gether of women from all nati world from China to Peru a g many people are inclined to doubt bat in regard to such comparatively minor subjects as the regulation of female labour, jthe treatment of women and girls in prison, the education of children, and the management of the home so reasonably be expected to discussions. One very practical question raised by Mr. Gilbert Parker already seems likely to be taken up in " practical spirit. This is the provision of residential clubs in the large towns of England for single virls of education and refinement who have to support themselves and dress Jike ladies on very small ear In London especially such homes are sorely needed, and x committee on which Lord Rowton and others who have interested themselves in questions of this kind have been asked to serve is in course of forma-ition to carry out Mr. Parker's scheme. The International women, like all Con-grosses, have of course mixed up a fair Amount of junketting and social entertainment with their business meetings, and they have separated with the happy feeling that j their Congress has been " brilliant success.
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