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Show A Woman's First imty. "The last half century, " says Mrs. Jennie Lozier, ex-president of Sorosia, "marks k marvelous advance in the-education the-education uf women. From the struggles strug-gles of Mary Lynn of Mount Holyok& and Emma Willard of Troy to the 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 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 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 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 f o 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 pjvo -Miem an outlook beyond the walls of homo and an inlook into their own mental condition. This 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 sea-timent sea-timent and maintain social purity. " |