And who is to take The Forerunner? Only those who like it and find it useful.
PERSONAL PROBLEMS
Problem 1st. A woman of thirty, single and intending so to remain, owning a tiny cottage in the woods near a large city; exhausted by ten years' overwork and having spent her savings on doctor's bills, asks two questions:
(a) Why cannot she stay at home and enjoy it?
(b) Can one love a man too much? (There was a man, but he went away.)
To (a) the answer is: one cannot live at home, and earn one's living without practicing some domestic industry. Of these two obvious and common ones are:
Take in washing:—not strong enough.
Take in sewing?—How about that?
A large city ought to furnish sewing and mending enough to keep one woman who owns a cottage. Five dollars a week ought to do it, including carfare.
Then comes the more various tasks; to make some one thing excellently well, and sell it: taking orders: making a little business of one's own.