Thus has the Matsuyama Working Girls' Home survived many threatening vicissitudes, attained conspicuous successes, and is now embarked on a new line of endeavor. May it exceed in the future its successes of the past and make still more substantial contributions to the uplift of the working women of Japan! * * * * * * Transcriber's note: Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). Text in small capitals was replaced with ALL UPPER CASE. The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next the text they illustrate. Thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations. Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected except for the following: On page 111, the book mentions "among the forty-eight prefectures of the Japanese empire", but there were forty-seven prefectures since 1888.