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Show Woman as a Peacemaker. At a recent meeting of a woman's club the discussion of social customs in Germany, Ger-many, following a delightful paper read by Mrs. Bayard Taylor, brought out from several speakers the opinion that in a country where the soldier is so marked a figure in affairs the status of the woman wom-an is not apt to be prominent. She naturally nat-urally suffers by a continual, if involuntary involun-tary and scarcely recognized, comparison with the sturdy and stalwart warrior. This leads on to the reflection that the time is going to come in the history of the world when the standing armies will be swept from the faco of the earth, and that, too, perhaps, by the banding together of women. The peace associations associa-tions of the world are by no means idle even now. At the last annual meeting of the Women's Peace association in Mancheter a letter was read from a prominent English clergyman, in which he said: "Women have had a great deal to do with the admiration of military heroes. They can do much in changing popular sentiment about soldiers and soldiering." And he ends his letter with, "1 hope that your Association's efforts may be vigorous and effectual against that wicked and c( nsequently stupid way of settling differences by murder which has so long afflicted the world." Those who believe tint the world is not yet ready for universal peace none the less admit that it wilf come as the centuries cen-turies roll on, not "through the fitness of one nation, but the iitness of many." Her Point of View ir. New York Times. |
