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furnace of necessity. We are find ing new values, making new adjust ments. "We are indeed,' Miss Wald re plied. "We are learning more and more that every advance-4n democ racy brings people nearer together and that good will between man and man depend upon respect and rever ence." When women share equally with men the responsibility for right eousness in government and when their counsels on matters- of public welfare are given the dignity the bal lot bestows, there will follow a new sense of comradeship, a new sense of fellowship between men and women; woman will not be the unacknowl edged power behind the- throne she will share the throne!" "I have never been able to see that wnmfvn have pyertpfl p.ven an imar.- If knowledeed nower behind the throne in this country," I interjected. "That's what makes our history dull reading compared with that of France or of England. And even in those countries were 'indirect influ ence' was exerted by women, it was almost invariably by the wrong wo men!" "That is triie, too," Miss Wald agreed. "Years ago Mrs Sydney Webster said that American men are not really good husbands, that they pet and spoil their women, but that they do not permit them to influence them or to participate in their se rious affairs. Recently a foreign critic, in writing his impressions of the United States, said that he could hot see that our women received se rious consideration except that here and there a woman like Jane Addams is respected and her opinion carries weight. He thought the mass of American women without influence." "Yet the judges in New York courts have often told me that the most serious domestic difficulties which they have to solve result from the foreign wife's sudden realization of her improved status," I objected. Miss Wald laughed at this first fruit of the suffrage campaigns. I asked her If she had found the new ideals of women had produced any effects on their desire to marry and make -a home. "No,"" she said. "It has not change ed their wish to. marry, but it has changed their choice of husbands. It is very interesting to observe this change in our settlement girls. As Miss Lillian D. Wald.. a result of the influences they have absorbed here, some of them have asked the men who were courting them certain questions about their past lives and their fitness for mar riage. A man perhaps would not like it and a girl would refuse him. Later she would meet some man who un derstood and respected her questions and liked her the better for lem. In the course of my conversation I