The world we live in is an extraordinary place nowadays, with most of the old dynasties falling to pieces, new republics arising on their ruins, boundaries fluctuating prices high, money both plentiful and scarce, the whole of our little bit of the universe upside down so to speak. Yet, shining through the murk and misery is the light of a new earnestness and sense of public duty and service, which certainly was not very conspicuous before the eventful year of 1914.
To us women, of course, the event of paramount importance brought about by the war is the world-wide emancipation of our sex. It is not complete and will not be for many years yet, but "Rome was not built in a day" neither was any other Eternal City. The great thing 1s that women themselves have at long last come to realize their power, not only as units but as a united whole; and if they only have the courage to carry this knowledge to its logical conclusion, what a power for good they will wield!
The great danger lies in the reconstruction period through which we are now passing. We are all so war-weary and long for just simple domesticity, tea and gossip, "frocks and frills' and all those apparently trivial concerns which are so dear to the heart of woman; that it will require great strength of mind and intention to keep that which We have so hardly won.
The women of the East are awaking to the fact too, that they are the sisters indeed of the women of the West; and the foreign women in the East should help them in every possible way to realize this fact.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.