ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the special qualities of women, their sympathy, their quickness of perception, and their ready resource. When a woman of active mind finds that her home duties do not fill up her time, she naturally turns to philanthropic work. Now, however, philanthropy in some form or other seems to appeal to most women, and there is an army of voluntary workers in the field. There are, no doubt, many reasons to explain why in England there is less talk and fear of anarchism than in other nations, but among them people may well reckon the fact that members of one class constantly come across members of another, and that thus sympathy and understanding are created. The chapter talks by a woman of wide experience a short time ago that philanthropic work was still in the condition in which nursing was before the days of Florence Nightingale.
