The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-09

succeeded in not only supporting her
children, but building up a paying
business.
These are exceptional cases. But
the successful milliner and the dress
maker are not exceptional.
May we notice women in the profess
sions? Every profession is open to
woman to-day. Why is it? That the
professions are plying women in their
narrow sphere and allowing them to
come in? No; but women have CLAIM
ed the right to enter. and proven them
selves capable of holding the place they
have claimed.
In the University of Michigan three
years ago, there were SO women study
ing medicine. The reasons are many
why we should have women physicians.
They are apparent to every one. Many
OF our brightest Journalists are Wo-
men. / remember when l read the
New York Independent few years ago
the most spicy and readable articles
were by Grace Greenwood and Kate
Foote.
/ have in my mind now young lady,
refined. modest. a beautiful lady, who
took the prize as an orator in one of
our institutions of learning, and is now
the secretary of the International
Young Women's Christian associa ton.
One CT the most important of the works
and in the evangelization of the world.
Here she seems to WELD the scepter
of her power. Here she has proven
herself to be not only match for
man, but to excel in many particu-
lars.
Our schools are taught mainly by
women. Our children in the Sunday
school are taught mainly by women.
Are we declining in any particular in
our schools? / think not The wo-
mans foreign missionary society of
the Methodist Episcopal church is a
monument to Woman's business capac-
ity. as well as an attestation to her
zeal. Organized 80 years ago. there
has never been a ripple Of discord nor
single backward step taken, while
millions of dollars have been raised
and wisely appropriated. and young
women by the hundred have been sent
to foreign fields and done and are
doing effectual work for the Master.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union is another organization showing
the capacity of woman for organizing
and carrying on great and good inter-
prises. ! do not believe there are any
men in this country who could have
done any better work than that peer
less. sainted woman, Frances E. Will
lard. ! look to woman's work in this
union as the means of bringing about
the prohibition of the liquor traffic.
All matter in its normal state Is circu-
lar in form. Heaven is a mighty
dome. The horizon an unbroken cir
Gle. The whole physical universe is
a wheel within wheel. This same
principle is true elsewhere. We speak
of life as a circle whose circumfer-
ence is eternity. Within this large cir
Gle there are smaller ones, as the po-
litical, the social, the religious and
ha far 70 oir
all the others, and the family circle is
woman's throne In it she shapes the
destiny of the world. To shape it
Alright she must be a child of God, and
train her household in the fear of the
Lord. AS long as our country can
justly boast of Christian mothers our
country is safe. When the mothers
other thing under heaven we are in
danger. The work of ruling in the
home cannot be done by proxy, by
hired help, but by mother. mother, the
queen of women. the hope Of the
world, the one next to Jesus.
More than half century ago, one
morning in June, the Lord Chamber
lain of England and the Archbishop
Of Canterbury made their way from
Windsor to Kensington palace. They
rang the bell and knocked on the doors
and demanded admittance. When ad-
mitted they requested to see the prin-
cess Victoria The answer came back
that the princess was in such a sweet
sleep she could not be awakened.
They replied: We are on business of
state to the queen, and even her sleep
must give way to our call. There are
many women in the sweet sleep of
quiscence. but the business of the
church of God, of the family calls.
Sisters, awake. In this glad age of
Christian civilization there is a grand
and noble sphere for every woman who
is willing to enter the arena where
duty calls.