_The Morning Post_, after giving the names of the guests present, added that the wide range of feminine activity, shown in the lives and work of those ladies present, proved that into the last four decades women had compressed the work of four centuries. That the interests, work, and present place in the social scheme of women were entirely on a level with that of men, this being the strongest testimony of the enormous advance in civilisation made by all the English-speaking peoples in the past forty years. Hurrah! All honour to women! Admiring my sex as I do, here let me make my boast of them, and give a little list of the leading women contributors that was kindly furnished me by Miss Janet Hogarth[8] (head of the female staff of the _Encyclopædia Britannica_). If some are omitted, I am sorry; for we should make the most of our few chances of letting the blind, deaf outer world see and hear what women are doing and have lately done. _Education._—Mrs. Henry Sidgwick. _Scholarship._—Mrs. Wilde (Miss A. M. Clay), Mrs. Alison Phillips, Miss B. Philpotts. _Science._—Lady Huggins, Miss A. L. Smith, the late Miss Agnes Clarke, and the late Miss Mary Bateson. _Travel._—Lady Lugard, Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Miss Gertrude Bell. _Sociology._—Miss A. Anderson. _Literature._—Mrs. Meynell, Miss Jessie Weston, Miss Margaret Bryant, Miss A. Zimmern. _Church History._—Miss A. Panes, Mrs. O’Neill. _Music._—Miss Schlesinger. _Medicine._—Mrs. Hennessy and the late Miss Fisher. _Philosophy._—Lady Welby. Having myself, as usual, refused to speak, I was kindly reproached by Mr. Chisholm for declining, and told “to be sure to be amusing.” But stop a moment! _Punch_ was so delightful in his next issue, that it is to be hoped Toby will not yap at me for lifting the morsel wholesale. “THE END OF WOMAN “[Miss Fluffy Frou-Frou’s reply to Miss JANET HOGARTH, who, at a recent Encyclopædia-Contributors’ Dinner, said the best answer she had ever heard to the question, ‘What are women put into this world for?’ was, ‘To keep the men’s heads straight.’] “WHEN you would settle woman’s place and aim And duties on this planet, I, and whole _heaps_ of girls who think the same, Bid you shut up, Miss JANET! “Speak for the Few, if speak you must, but _pray_ Don’t speak for _us_, the Many; _We_ simply _scream_ with mirth at what you say; _We_ are not taking any. “Your words, dear JANET, frankly are _si bête_ That all we others spurn them; _We_ (Heavens!) _we_, ‘to keep the men’s heads straight!’ _We_ who just live to _turn them_!!”