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Show A Woman's Ftart smtj, "The last half century," saya Mm Jennie Lozier, ex-president of Soroeis, "marks b marvelous advance in the education of women. From the struggles strug-gles of Mary Lynn of Mount Holyok& and Emma Willard of Troy to the opening open-ing of Johns Hopkins, Yale and Harvard Har-vard to women stretches a period of unflagging effort and brilliant success. There have been many similar movements move-ments in the past when women seemed about to enter into their rightful inher-i inher-i ltance. They demonstrated the possibilities possi-bilities of women by their achievements, but the conditions of society were unfavorable. unfa-vorable. Because of the leisure, wealth and freedom of thought which now prevail pre-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 uiaka There is au axiom that the status of woman is an infallible index of progress. prog-ress. This test ranks our civilization higher than any that has preceded it Women's clubs have gone into the home and brought the homekeepers into the current of affairs. It haa gathered an army of good women whose misfortune was perhaps to have been born too soon; women whose education, incomplete in. the beginning, had been completely buried by an avalanche of shirts and puddings. These women were in danger dan-ger of mental starvation. They needed some influence to give them an outlook beyond the walls of home and an inloofc Into their own mental condition. Thia influence emanates from the women's club. "A woman's first duty is to make herself strong, intellectual, brave and happy, and then to build her home, train her children, enlighten public MS tinient and maistain social purity. " Tr&lfling Women For BosIneM. A business woman's college ha9 been just opened in London, or, to describe the excellent institution's aims more exactly, a school for the business training train-ing of women has been established. The sohool is mainly designed to train women wo-men for clerkships and secretaryshipa They are taught shorthand, typewriting, typewrit-ing, accounts and banking in a course extending over Bix months. The opportunities oppor-tunities are offered gentlewomen who, suddenly thrown by financial mishap on their own resources, can catch up a profession pro-fession by which to support themselves. Besides this the school accepts as pnpila women who wish to learn how to keep their own books and personally manage their own independent fortunes. Then, too, women apply who have a chance for a government position and must b well up in mathematics and get through special examinations. From its graduating gradu-ating classes the school supplies secretaries secre-taries to busy philanthropical ladies who need help in their work in the form of a capable head for figures and a neat hand at penmanship. London LttAr j |