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That this is the woman 's age the illustration unerringly shows.

The early illustration did not represent women outside of the fashion magazine or ballroom and society scenes. To-day it shows her engaged in every form of professional, business, and industrial activity ; in all enterprises sek for the promotion of public

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o a ho part ar inin deout-door sports and welfare; taking ina fprominent recreations; putting her housekeeping on a scientific basis; gaining her training for every occupation through colleges, uni versities, technical, and professional schools.

The illustration shows the changes in fashions not only in

clothing and in architecture, but in the accessories of life. The large dog once illustrated as guarding the lonely farm house, or drawing a cart for village children, has been supplanted on the

farm by the telephone and in the village by the bicycle; in the restricted space of the city apartment he has become a toy and

plaything, — the illustration shows the fashionable breed of dog of each generation, a fashion changing not simply with whim

and caprice but necessitated by changes in manner of living." And it is the illustration again that reconstructs the services

rendered by the dog in time of war where he is trained to act as scout and rescuer.

The tendency towards specialization is clearly seen in the illustration, -- specialization not only in all industrial and educa

tional lines, but even in the smaller matters of every day life. The jeweller in the advertising columns illustrates a dozen

varieties of forks, of knives, of spoons; the department store illustrates a score of different articles of china and silver; the

housekeepers' column illustrates their use and shows the develop ment of an elaborate table service with special dishes for each

particular article of food .8 The illustration also shows the changes that have come in the temper of the public mind, the effect of the interest in psychology , ? Suggested by E. Coatsworth. - An incidental confirmation is seen in the names given dogs, - Rover, Fido, and Sport are no longer appropriate

and such names disappear in favor of fancy names or those taken from popular personages.

8 The advertisements of beef extracts illustrate the bouillon cup ; of teas,

coffees, and of chocolate preparations the different varieties of cups used with each. Thus through the illustration every person may enter every social circle