Woman's Sphere in War Time

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If it is true that war has a deadening effect on some of the arts, it undoubtedly has a vivifying influence on others that in time of peace are apt to fall more or less into disuse. The art of plain sewing, for instance, is now busily practised by women whose boast it used to be that they never took a needle into their hands; but it is "the gentlest art," as Mr. E. V. Lucas has happily called it, that has, perhaps, gained the most unexpected devotees.