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 be made," a Frenchman told me in his enthusiasm, "a little Paradise for woman." And that seems to be the way they're feeling everywhere. Government solicitude in England for the new woman in industry resulted in 1916 in a new act for the statute books under which the Home Office is given wide powers to arrange for her comfort. The scientists of a kingdom have been engaged to study "Woman." Their observations and deductions are every little while embodied in a "white paper." There have been some fourteen of these "white papers" through which the discoveries are disseminated to the factories.

There is a staff of great chemists in government laboratories who arrange the menus just mentioned, which are really formulas for efficiency. Fat, protein and carbohydrates have been carefully proportioned to produce the requisite calories of energy for a maximum output. They emphasise the importance of the canteen with this announcement: "For a large class of workers, home meals are hurried and, especially for women, too often consist of white bread and boiled tea. Probably much broken time and illness result from this cause."

There is a staff of competent architects who were first called in that there might be provided a place in which to eat the carefully prepared meals. "Environment," it is announced, "has a distinct effect on digestion." So a White Paper submitted diagrams for the canteen building. "The site," it said, "should have a pleasant, open outlook and a