ABSTRACT
Elsewhere he points out ·that it would be "an ~ tounding piece of cruelty to deprive suddenly those 4,458 workers of the means of earning their livelihood" unless annuities are granted to them. One of the objecting writers argues that the deprivation of their wages would be a much less evil to the women themselves than such unfeminine work. Has he ever tried what depriv~ tion of the means of subsistence involves' And if the "annuity" scheme could be curried out by Government (whieh means by our over-burdened ratepayers), how would the qualities of dignity, independence, and selfrespect be better fostered in women by becoming State paupers than by honest, if rough work!
