The Women of Tomorrow

By William Hard
New York THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY 1911
Copyright, 1910, by THE RIDGWAY COMPANY
Copyright, 1911, by THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY
THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK

JOHN SIMMONS, FOUNDER OF SIMMONS COLLEGE—THE FIRST SCHOOL OF COLLEGE RANK IN THE UNITED STATES DEVOTED WHOLLY TO GIVING WOMEN A DEFINITE TRAINING FOR SELF-SUPPORT. Photograph by Chester A. Lawrence, Boston.

I inscribe this book to Mrs. Peter Christian Lutkin. She said I might, a long time since. I was a boy then. Now I come to keep her to her promise and I lay this, my first book, on her knees, knowing that it is full of the sounds of controversy but hoping that her gentleness, somehow, may harmonize all harshnesses to the love I meant.

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The chapters of this book were originally articles in Everybody’s Magazine . I have not embellished them with footnotes nor given them any other part of the panoply of critical apparatus. It could be done. I have preferred to leave them in the dress I first gave them,—a fighting dress. They owe much of their structure, it is true, to facts and ideas out of the dust of libraries. But they owe much more to facts and ideas exhumed out of the much more neglected dust of daily circumstance. Either dust, by itself, is lifeless. When the two cohere they establish the current of existence. At their meeting-place this book has tried to stand. And so, while it hopes to have added to knowledge, it will have failed unless it has merged into conduct.