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Show A Woman's First raty. "The Inst half century," says Mra Jennie Lozier, ex-president of Sorosie, "marks a marvelous advance in tho education of women. From tho struggles strug-gles of Mary Lynn of Mount Holyoke and Emma Willard of Troy to the open ing of Johns Hopkins, Yale and Harvard Har-vard tc women stretches a period of unflagging effort and brilliant success, There have been many similar movements move-ments in tbo past when women seemed about to enter into their rightful inheritance. inher-itance. They demonstrated the possibilities possi-bilities of women by their achievements, but tho conditions of society were unfavorable. unfa-vorable. Because of the leisure, wealth nd freedom of thought which now pro-vail pro-vail as the results of civilization indispensable indis-pensable to culture we have now an environment which gives permanency and vigor to any attainments we may make. Thero is an axiom that the status of woman is an nifalliblo index of progress. prog-ress. This test ranks our civilization aigher than any that has preceded it Women's clubs have gone into tho homa and brought tho honiekeepera into tho current of affairs. It has gathered an army of good women whose misfortune was perhaps to have been born too snon, women whose education, incomplete in thd beginning, had been completelj buried by an avalanche of shirts and puddings. These women were in danger dan-ger of meutal starvation. They needed gome influence to give them an outlook beyond the walls of home and an iulooi Into their own mental condition. 'Thia Influence emanates from tho women'a elub. "A woman a first duty is to make aersolf strong, intellectual, brave and happy, and then to bnild her home, train her children, enlighten publio sos tirnent and maintain social purity. " ETnmnn Irloh tutors., Li tho northern part of Sanada thes are still several Indian tribes who ata hnman flesh. In Guiana and in tha Orinoco wo still find Caribbeans who have tho honor of having furnished tho oaine for that terrible custom of eat-!ng eat-!ng human flesh. Cannibal comes frois Caribs or Caribales, corruptions of Gali-bis Gali-bis or Canibis, the name of the inhabit' ants of tho Antilles when Columbus arrived ar-rived thero. On the upper Amazon, b-'tween b-'tween tho rivers and the borders of the Bolivia, livo tho Tupis Guaraniens, vho manifest a Hieing for human flesh. Cannibals are common in Australasia, be Papuans, Karnkiens and Battakione being tho most distinguished. Cannibalism Canni-balism is, however, considered the main trait of the New Hebrides. There are more human flesh eaters in Africa thar tnywhoro else. Cannibalism is not a sign of a lov state of civilization, for many cannibal races stand higher in culture than those who abhor tho custom. Many cannibals live in regions full of ordinary food, but they prefer human flesh as a delicacy tho men forbidding their wives and slaves to eat It. In northern Australasia it seems that the dead are eaten. Herodotus Herod-otus tells us that it was the custom in India for tho young to kill the old and eat them to insure their future salvation, salva-tion, and wo aro told that the old folks rtesire to be killed before they grow too old and less appetizing. St Louis Poaf-Olspatoh. Poaf-Olspatoh. 'Wnj bo glum?" asked his friend "Aren't you doing a roaring business?'' "Yes, I am, admitted the basso, "bnt it is all on notes." Cincinnati Iribnna |