The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-15
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


A Woman's Liberal League-Ths les"
Make Your Dreams Realities.
The conditions Of our civilized life
seem to grow harder. More and more
girls and women are forced out into the
world to earn their living every year.
But this is no hardship really. Work
means development, new knowledge.
added power, year by year. To work
for his living is the best fate that can
overtake one, unless the labor degener-
ates into drudgery and grinding toll.
Work that one loves is glorious. 1t fills
the soul with enthusiasm. A hundred
thousand girls in different parts of the
Union are now asking themselves and
all their friends what they shall do for
a living. The answer is easy. Do that
which you like best and can do best.
In every sensible intelligent girls soul
there is an intuition that one certain
kind Of work is what she can do best,
and will call out all the enthusiasm of
her soul. The occupation may be
humble one in the worlds eyes. No
matter. 1t is your work. 1t is wrong
and wicked for parents to force either
girls or boys into occupations that are
dstasteful to them. Many Starving
sixteenth rate musician would have
made first class cook. So choose your
own occupation, and then work up to
the highest in it, Do not stop till you
reach the highest A genius is one who
never gives up Every boy and girl has
high and dazzling dreams of the future.
The strong and the persevering realize
those dreams in one shape or another,
perhaps not always as they first expect
ed, but in nobler, better way, often.
So, girls, find your ideal work for your
selves, and then do it joyfully and in
the ideal way. Make your dreams real
tiles.
Women-the members of the w. G. T.
U.-have done more good temperance
work than anybody else ever did. The
union now has me mbership of 200. 900,
and is preparing to build a magnificent
temperance temple in Chicago, to cost
81 600, 900.
Emily Faithful, the brave English wo-
man who has done so much for her own
sex, has been placed on the pension list
of Great Britain to receive $3.50 year
Rather beggarly amount that.
Miss "L.ottie" Granger was president
of the Iowa State Teachers association
last year, and Rev. Carrie Bartlett is
pastor of Unitarian church at Kalama
200. Perhaps Miss Mamie Rosebud will
be Judge of the court of common pleas
somewhere next.
A call has been issued by Matilda JOS
Ign Gage and others for a convention to
organize Woman's Liberal league. The
convention will be held at Wizards hall,
in Washington, Feb. 81 and p. The
league is founded to work against the
domination of the clerical or church
party in politics, and to prevent the en-
croachments of that party on the consti-
tutional rights of American citizens
The organization will labor to uphold
that freedom Of thought and expression,
that perfect liberty of conscience which
they believe the founders of this govern
ment meant should be perpetual. Clara
l'ditoli' t'iS lI'iidiil''ioDIob, ptcoidcue VI
the Red Cross society for America, is
warmly interested in the movement. A
number of distinguished gentlemen are
aiding the ladies' of the league, among
them Professor Elliott Coues, of the
Smithsonian institution.
Gen. Boulanger neglected his wife,
and finally deserted her altogether. But
she says: He will need my love again
do not wish to be divorced from him,
because want to retain the right to
care for him when all the rest of the
world forSaics him Nine Boulanger
is quite too good for any use.
Miss Ella J. Knowles, of Helena, Mon.
has been admitted to tho practice of law,
the first woman attorney in that state.
Miss Knowles passed an excellent ex-
animation.
ELIZA ARCHAED CONNER