TIME IN WHICH MONEY WILL DOUBLE AT SEVERAL RATES OF INTEREST.
| Rate of Int. | Simple Interest. | Compound Interest. | Rate of Int. | Simple Interest. | Compound Interest. |
| 1% | 100 years. | 69 years and 245 days. | 5% | 20 years. | 14 years and 75 days. |
| 2% | 50 years. | 35 years. | 6% | 16 years and 243 days. | 11 years and 327 days. |
| 2½% | 40 years. | 28 years and 26 days. | 7% | 14 years and 104 days. | 10 years and 89 days. |
| 3% | 33 years and 4 months. | 23 years and 164 days. | 8% | 12 years and 183 days. | 9 years and 2 days. |
| 3½% | 28 years and 208 days. | 20 years and 54 days. | 9% | 11 years and 40 days. | 8 years and 16 days. |
| 4% | 25 years. | 17 years and 246 days. | 10% | 10 years. | 7 years and 100 days. |
| 4½% | 22 years and 81 days. | 15 years and 273 days. |
THE PROGRESS OF WOMEN.
BY LYDIA KINGSMILL COMMANDER.
An original article written for The Scrap Book.
Nothing is more wonderful, in this age of wonders, than the progress of women in all the civilized countries of the world. Never before were the doors of opportunity so widely opened; never before were the barriers of sex so low.
The modern young woman does not face the one choice of her grandmother—marriage or the fate of the "old maid." Before her so many paths open that her only trouble is to choose.
Her grandmother's girlhood was spent at home. She was told that "the happy woman is the woman with no history"; and "a woman's name should be in the newspapers just three times—when she is born, when she marries, and when she dies."