Therefore to men and women everywhere who love a fair deal, and are willing to give it to everyone, even women, this book is respectfully dedicated by the author.

NELLIE L. McCLUNG.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. [THE WAR THAT NEVER ENDS]
II. [THE WAR THAT ENDS IN EXHAUSTION SOMETIMES MISTAKEN FOR PEACE]
III. [WHAT DO WOMEN THINK OF WAR? (NOT THAT IT MATTERS)]
IV. [SHOULD WOMEN THINK?]
V. [THE NEW CHIVALRY]
VI. [HARDY PERENNIALS!]
VII. [GENTLE LADY]
VIII. [WOMEN AND THE CHURCH]
IX. [THE SORE THOUGHT]
X. [THE LAND OF THE FAIR DEAL]
XI. [AS A MAN THINKETH]
XII. [THE WAR AGAINST GLOOM]

IN TIMES LIKE THESE

CHAPTER I

THE WAR THAT NEVER ENDS

If, at last the sword is sheathed,
And men, exhausted, call it peace,
Old Nature wears no olive wreath,
The weapons change—war does not cease.

The little struggling blades of grass
That lift their heads and will not die,
The vines that climb where sunbeams pass,
And fight their way toward the sky!