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 so common, and the Women's League of Service, founded by Dr Willey, are seeking to prevent the awful infantile mortality so prevalent in crowded cities, by feeding half-starved prospective mothers and teaching them how to feed, clothe, wash, and dress their babies.

These are only a few of the social activities in which large numbers of women are engaged; but they are typical, and a knowledge of their existence will help people to understand one, at least, of the motives behind the conscious feminist: the imperative demand that all those weapons may be placed in her hand, and all those opportunities given to her, by which she may the better and the sooner save and succour the unfortunate.

Women's Local Government Society exists to promote the election of women to all those public bodies for which they are at present eligible, and to secure their appointment as officials wherever their work would be of value to the public. It thus seeks to enlarge the class of women social workers