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studied. And there are many people now a days who write - or think - against the women's rights, without knowing what this question means. They have never studied it, but where ever they see signs of licentious liberty or forgetfulness of duties among women, they believe she's to be the fault of the women's question. Still if they only would ask them, they should find that these same women who neglect their homes and live for their own pleasure, these women are usually our bitterest enemies.
As to organization, we have the associations to promote the welfare of women. The Finnish Women's Association ^ in Helsingfors founded in 1884, with 12 branch unions in the country and about 600 members, and The "Unionen", located in Helsingfors with about 200 members. There are also a W.P.T.U. in Abo,
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and several Y.W.C.A. Besides these we have of course many philantropical and charity associations.
One of the most encouraging signs for the future is that the woman's movement with us is an essentially democratic movement. In The Finnish Women's Association and its branches there are many peasant and working women. These use also to contribute to the Finnish Woman's journal.
We do not yet have any National Council. All organizations with [crossed out] a[?] women is a new idea with [?] and people do not always see [?] of it. We are also a very poor [?] few workers and small funds, [?] afraid for every new undertaking, which needs money. But I do not [?] that there shall come a time, when these difficulties are done away with, and you shall receive a greeting from the Natio-
