| Show STUDYING POLITICS H ln should with it up to alic present giroo wo teem to have gone apon the principle that poll ti ciana like poets nrc born not made any raw has a vot anil any woman an interest in affairs pertaining not only to present interests but to the worlds future a man should vote has been deemed a matter worthy of being secured at the cost of the states and the overturning of civilizations liow he shall vot has to ho a matter of concern the bandl cl lutes for election gaba yet the study of politics is s atud not only important touchy interact ing 10 judge by ot talk bestowed upon capri political question even the most trivial herc aro few minds that would not find A keen pleasure in tho intelligent investigation of political with their allied social question and although in tho formation of school of practical politics would seem to lio in tho fad that most people imagine they know all rubout alio already yot there is a rising generation unaware perchance of diio extent of their endowments dow ments in particular and from their numbers it may bu that sonio pupil for tha proposed may be secured lf there arc of women in the world choso who into the acry mention of politics and aro doorly in in the subject with a few notable boalt aro about equally ignorant leavo a strong influence on the present voting population both at somo future limo may become vot ara to bolli the study of uy would bo useful and not merely as of correcting an leighly parnic iou or of to tho of a beneficent it would above all be useful s opening to now of t m establishing for them mow points of contact with the 0 ncr world and ai creating new chann li through which intelligence and cu wo inay how into their homes tho barrow of interest hu il dwarfed many n mind endowed wit clargo powers or growth the tho untruthful the little me to which woman is thought 0 bo moro prone than man aro gene illy the result of tho narrowness of ihor vision she docs not cruthi abroad liht and therefore she canji ica hinr all lu 1 jasa T im ii practical beyond home duties and sho will gain morally even more than intellectually it is especially important that women who arc already interested iu largo questions charitable work cra religious teachers should be thoroughly well founded in tho of politics tho adjustment of political action to tho social of modern lifo is to be alic great duty of tho future with great problems women have much to do on their practical side and alio truo adjustment of social and political conditions is work which demands the best powers of our brightest women as well as our most promising young men problems of sanitary sani tarr science of public health of providing work for tho idle and industrial education for tho incapable problems relative to the housing of tho poor the employment of prisoners the relation of ignorance to crime of amusement to public morals of religion to charitable work all problems havo to do with politics quite is surely as does woman suffrage and all of them demand that women whether voters or not should como to an intelligent acquaintance with tho fundamental principles on which political science and practical politics aro based linw |
