HELPING EDUCATED WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1155, 16 June 1911, Page 9

HELPING EDUCATED WOMEN.

Young Englishwomen of the "educated class' are as doubtfully regarded by the official emigration agents i:n London as the "lady help" is by the average employer of domestic labour. There is a legend that the agents are . hidebound, unsympathetic persons, willing to deal only with those- who give thorn the least amount of trouble. So it has been left to the colonial intelligence committee, of which Princess Christian and the Hon. Mrs. Grosvenor arp the lenders, to organise a special scheme of assistance for educated women who desire to settle in tho oversea Dominions. A preliminary survey .of its task seems to have convinced the league (which has recently been strengthened by tho addition of half a dozen members of the Incorporated Association of Head Mistresses of Public Secondary Schools) that , it is not an easy one. -Tho collection of information | through ordinary. channels will not', it. ■is uiKlrrstooil, suffice. The league has de- < cided that it must establish agencies of its own in tho several Dominions, and f-ecuro regular advice from expert salaried r.gonts. A beginning is to bo made with this new system in ,Western Canada, partly perhaps (though this is not. confessed) because it is from that region more frequently than from any other that the wail of the wifeless farmer comes. The young Canadian farmer is said to be ton busy getting rich to find time for a matrimonial search on his own account. The statement suggests the need of =onie investigation. There must be a verv considerable surplus of marriageable women in tho eastern cities of Canada nn-' in the north-western agricultural districts of the United States, If these cannot bo attracted to Western Canada, the 'reason may be that they are too. we 1 informed as to .the risours and social tjopnvations of pioneering life there. There is probably an opportunity for some useful candour on the part of the ngents of the Colonial Intelligence- League.