Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-19
WOMAN'S
Advancement from SIaTe'Like Subordl-
nation to independence and Condi-
lions Of Dignified Self-Help.
The Progress That Has Been Made
Thoughtful and Logical Papers on
Timely Subjects.

The Society for the Advancement Of Wo-
Non recently held its tenth annual SESSION
A. Portland, Me. It was one OF the most
interesting and instructive OF a Oody thSl
taxes its place with the Social Science Con-
s,rees and the American Public Health As
Ssoc;ation for usefulness. Mrs. Julia Ward
Hove woman of whom all Americans
NAV be proud to call her countryWoman,
presided. and in opening the proceedings
delivered an address full OF thonghtlui sus-
gestions and good advice TO women. among
other good things she said:
ytSpIcATIoN OF WOMEN.
with regard to the social world around US, our
nosition as independent workers changes with inc
Slow amelioration of public opinion. we mao
first TO assume position OF our own, MS ~ ~
peared TO many men ana women al ~ Who had
achieved ennineEce for themselves regs5oed WIZ VIZ
no favorable eye the advance OF ~ cen
eraI Little was expected OF us ten years aSO,' ua
overstrained sentiment united WIN d f NJ th
SUI ,I,s, 40 or best to meet the demands likely
10 be made upon us. The cry at nrst wa; VI! w
you try to do anything LIS now diyipe in The
days OF my youth. used to eXelaln TOM rom a.
old women meddling in the aiialrs OF me
Today Is: From the church in when women nav ia
no part good Lord deliver u.s. We have 70 reloie'
in the enlargement of our sex, througho9t Wy
world Every day brings tidings of new ana sep
srate depa ftments OF usefulness which hay'
opened up TO women, or rather Nhlc,
fhev Themselves have sought ana lOuhu
In Industrial enterprise, in The learned probes
eions in literature aud in tuition, they are earn
ING renutatfon esteem and independence, gu
regret r. that our knowledge Keeps pace 50 inper
Zee Iy with This widespread arising ana arouslnl
of women. Our joy is that II spreads 700 rapl9l
even for print ana telegraph to follow we oughi
perhaps to be still more glad that IN all tiils KIM
ling OF intellectual life, the cares and duties Q
stieact'on are NOT less but more considered thar
they were in the days in which most women wer
content to measure their sphere by the Dictator
Of man. Now and then some hysterlcal Wrllei
like Mr. Elliott in the North American Rcptei1 enc
ont tina society is going TO Destruction, ana INA
I'M. Womenis women and the senators VINO IN
orse them are at the bottom of all the EVIL that
done aud fel; such warnings awaken little sym
pathy in the general public. No one VINO know
ANYTHING about the woman's movement to-da
suDDOses IL to be "A upon society or aSalns
nature In a tine in which even the sacrs'
book of our religion has received new trans
Itiou in order that religious instruction may ben
eft by the fuller scholarship and nicer criticism
later ta 8 we surely ne9d NOS fear to ask for re
vision of the whole doctrine OF duty as regard
women nor to insist that The improved lnterprt
tatjon shall recommend itself to our best iudgmen
and highest conscience. 1t is weary for us to Win
dicate our sex and we should blush to find oul
selves insisting upon its merits were " not for Nv
considerations. The first of them is the tact tina
fIom Adam down 1.-The woman whom Thou gave
me- has had to bear the reprOach OF mans sins be
sides that of her own. The second is this othe
truth that in unfolding the moral grade OF on
half of humanity we assert and maintain hlghe
level OF obligation and capacity for the whole