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Show A Woman's Tint xratj. "The last half century," saya Mr Jennie Lozier, ex-president of Soroais, "marks a marvelous advance in thd education of women. From the struggles strug-gles of Mary Lynn of Mount Holyoka 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 Bimilar movements move-ments in the 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 the conditions of society were unfavorable. unfa-vorable. Because of the leisure, wealth and freedom of thought which now prevail pre-vail as tha results of civilization indispensable indis-pensable to culture we have now an environment which gives permanency uid vigor to any attainments we may make. There is an 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 has 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 6hirts 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 inlook into their own mental condition. Thia influence emanates from tha women's club. "A woman" a first duty is to make herself strong, intellectual, brave and happy, and then to build her home, train her children, enlighten public Ben timent and maistain social purity. " |