The organizing ability and the common sense way in which our women in voluntary organization, quite rapidly, themselves decided what organizations were unnecessary and merely duplicating others, and refused to help them, so that they died out quite quickly, roused admiration, and the war has educated vast numbers of women in organization and executive ability.  Women who never in their lives organized anything, and never kept an account properly, are doing all kinds of useful work.  One nice middle-aged lady whose War Savings Association accounts were being kept wrongly, or rather were not really being kept at all, when told they must be done fully and correctly by one of our National Committee representatives, said, “Oh, but you see, I never did anything but crochet before the war”; but we have succeeded in making even the crochet ladies keep accounts and do wonderful things.

In the great world of mechanics and engineering, women are doing a wonderful amount of work and, there is no doubt, will remain in certain departments after the war.  One danger there is in the women’s attitude—­so many of our women have learned one branch of work very quickly, that there probably will be a tendency to believe that anything can be learned as easily.  There are only certain departments of mechanics that can be learned in a few months’ time, and women will probably go on doing these.  Such work as theirs in optical munitions, has shown their very special aptitude for it and in law-making, etc., they will be used more and more.  Women have successfully done tool-setting and can go on with that.  The training for civil and mechanical engineering is long, but there will be, if women are keen and will train, plenty of opportunity for them in peace-time occupations in civil, mechanical or electrical branches in connection with municipal, sanitary and household questions and in laundries, farms, etc.  The women architects and these women could very well co-operate closely.

Women clerks and secretaries will remain largely after the war.  Fewer men will want these posts as we are convinced there will be big movements among our men to more active work, to the land and to the Dominions overseas.

Women on the land will in numbers stay there, and there is a distinct movement among women with capital to go in for farming, market gardening, bee-keeping, poultry-keeping, etc., still more.

The war has made more of our fathers and mothers realize the right of their daughters to education and training, and there are very few parents in our country now, who think a girl needs to know nothing very practical, and has no need to go in for a profession.  Our women’s colleges have more students than ever and the war has done great things in breaking down these old conventional ideas.  The war, in fact, has shaken the very foundations of the old Victorian beliefs in the limited sphere of women to atoms.  Our sphere is now very much more what every human