Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . e of England and Walesnumber of whom, in roundfigures, 17,000,000 are women and 16,000,000men. Curiously enough, women emigrate inlarger numbers than men from the countryplaces, perhaps because of the demand fordomestic servants. In the record of The NewGeneration. As the John Bull of caricature has givenplace to a John Bull not yet delineated—the hard-headed, keen, cityman of wide-world interests ;so the extremely beautiful, butrather characterless, type of English beautypubli
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . e of England and Walesnumber of whom, in roundfigures, 17,000,000 are women and 16,000,000men. Curiously enough, women emigrate inlarger numbers than men from the countryplaces, perhaps because of the demand fordomestic servants. In the record of The NewGeneration. As the John Bull of caricature has givenplace to a John Bull not yet delineated—the hard-headed, keen, cityman of wide-world interests ;so the extremely beautiful, butrather characterless, type of English beautypublished some months ago by an illus-trated daily is giving place to a youngwomanhood of distinctive personality, liberaleducation, many interests, wide men to-day are not very differentfrom what we would wish them to be. Thoseof our women who have the interests atheart of nation and of sex try to bringour girls into line. This is conspicuously s< 1among the upper middle classes, whose in-fluence is specially dominant amongst usand is tilling in the ranks below and above.•56. AN ENGLISH by Norman H Hardy. THE BRITISH ISLES 757 Taunts that had the sting of truth some years ago, that women could not initiate, could not organise, could The not hold together, now fall im- Initiative , XT . , Power potent to the ground. .Not to mention the womens colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, the High Schools for Girls have revealed a wealth of private enterprise on the part of women that is the constant theme of praise. Proof also of this can be found in the ladies clubs that have been inaugurated ; in the professions of which, despite opposition and sometimes obloquy, they have pushed open the door ; and in the many occupations which thev have entered or have actually created. Turning to the realm of sport, they nowtake an increasing part in otter-hunting,in bloodhound trials, hare-hunt-\\ oman in m^ whippet-racing, spaniel andpointer field trials, yachting,angling
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