The Press., 1896-06-11
w. C. T. U.
Woman's Progress in 1895.


 That new world, the woman's world, has kept pace in the infinite rhythm. In twelvemonth it has achieved so much | that even those who make special study of it's development arc at 8 loss to tell the story of it's undertakings and accom- and of the great sum total which repre- sents it's progress.
 In education there are now nearly four hundred colleges and other institutions, bestowing degrees upon their graduates, which are dedicated to women alone or to the sexes studying together in the same class room. There are more schools than there were 8 year ago, and nearly every school shows an increase of at least ten per cent. upon it's record. Normal schools and high schools have been start ed in communities where such a thing was impossible ten years ago and are thronged with students. In New York city alone the Teachers College and the Normal School have become institutions so influential and magnificent as to com mand the admiration of the Empire State. There has been a similar development in the professional schools for women throughout the country. The New York Woman's Medical College graduated one of the largest classes in its history, and the University WOman's Law School grad uated the largest class in its history in the domain jurisprudence. The medi- cal and dental schools of Philadelphia were equally successful, while in the west the advance rose up in many cases to nearly 100 per cent. In 1875, even in 1880, it was the rarest thing in the world to find any woman with collegiate de- gree mentioned in the daily press. To- day it is almost impossible to pick up any issue of a newspaper without finding ref erences to women M. D.s, L.L. B.s, Rev erends, D. D. S.s, and similar titles of au- thority and respect.
 In invention and discovery the sex have made more progress in the past year than ever before. They have several hundred patents to their credit in this country and a very respectable number in England and the Continent. They have grown SC numerous that they have formed an In. ternational Association of Women Invent ors, and promise to be an important fac tor in the mechanical evolution of modern society.
 In the world of morals and reform wo l What with the Kings Daughters, the Woman's Christian Temperance Uuion the Universal Peace Union, the Ameri can Purity Alliance, the League for the Promotion of Social Purity, the White Cross Society, the British Woman's As sociation, the American Sabbath Alliance and over hundred smaller organizations they have built up an organized power fol right doing and right living which will bt an invaluable weapon against the armies of vice and sin. In missionary work, botf home and foreign, they have toiled witt praiseworthy patience and enthusiasm Despite the hard times, which have crip pied their resources; despite war in tho Far East, and massacres in Moslem lands they have increased the missionary regi ments and brigades, have augmented thei pecuniary sinews of war, and are carrying on sublime conflict, which even If it doe not carry Christianity as might be de sired, does carry knowledge, higher ideals and better civilization.
 If the year 1895 has been marked by wonderful degree of general progress,