WHAT MEN ARE DOING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 46, 18 November 1907, Page 3

WHAT MEN ARE DOING.

Lady Hope has established large residential clubs m the vicinity :of ,her West End house, the one for men and the other for.women servants, with and without situations, and a.n even larger one for business girls. These are three most excellent and very popular institutions. Every person'; who uses the house subscribes a'small sum' towards the bill of costs. The club members, who are men servants, pay a membership fee of- 10s. a year, the woman servants 7s. fid. Tho rooms are let at sums which vary from 4s. weekly to 7s 6d. Another house has just', been opened for young men in business, for which no membership'fee is "necessary. Tho nouses themselves : arc said to be veritable little palaces of comfort, containing billiard, writing, reading, drawing, and work rooms, and rooms for concerts. Over 1000 members are enrolled. .Lady Hope is the only latfy interested in these institution's, all of which she .started, and'has established. Shb uses every means in her power to find suitable employment for the members who are out of work. ■-■'[■• " .•Rev. James LY Barton, secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, who re-cently''-returned''to Boston after: spending sis months in China," says that one of the most astonishing, evidences of progress in the Chinese. Empire is the'women's daily paper published in Pekin. It has been edited and carried on for two years by Chinese or Manchu women,; and it' deals' exclusively with matters or interest to women. In this women's paper, he asserts, there has been no foreign influence or aid whatsoever: r It contains news of woman's progress all over the wprld, urges the abolition of' footbiriding, and calls for the establishment ;of schools and colleges for girls. Concerning the Empress Dowager, Mr. Bartoe says, that sho has used her influence to advance the status.' of >omen in China. "Women often appear as lecturers, and have ttken active part in the anti-opium war." The Empress of China' is meeting with support as well as opposition irf her efforts to suppress opium smoking. In several places the closing of the.bpium dens has been hailed with' enthusiastic' demonstrations. Crowds of . students paraded, the streets with lantern's and^flags,-and hundred's of shops were decorated. , An'observer- says the demonstrations were accompanied with talk of such a patrio-tic-character that one might have supposed the town whs celebrating a 'military victory. The strongest opponents of closing the opium dons in China are the foroign moneyed interests, who want to know where the loss of revenue is to be made up. • '^¥, 1 Worn , D ! n °f' Burma have more freedom in, both private lifo than the wbm£n i America and England, according to Charles Edward' Russell, who gives some interesting details concerning them in "Harp r e '*v n^ azm& ' for oct °ber. He says that it the Burmese women had the franchise, as oddly enough .'they., havo.'not, they would run the entire.country, since,/as it is how «iey almost .do so. "In public," writes Mr! KusscU, they apnear on equal terms with tneu..-husbands; they are not property, but partners; they manage their households, finance the family, and do most of the business that is done,m Burma by Burmese." The| Countess of Minto, who did so much to extend the Victorian Order of Nurses in W. at !*> ,s . , now undertaking a similar work J? A™' 3 ' where Lord Mihto succeeded Lord Wirzort-ns viceroy.