The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-05

turns from these loans would commence
 to come in.
 'The women of Mississippi under such work have established the Industrial in- l stitute and college From donations re- ceived from the citizens of Copiah county | they began this institution which is now self-supporting and is doing grand work for the women of that state. In Georgia the loan work for education has made rapid strides, and this work is placing that state on a higher intellectual basis. 1t was to this work that Mir George Foster Peabody last year subscribed S5O0O. 1 mention the work in these two south ern states to show our women that we are behind
 Now as to the good that must come to those receiving one of these scholar ships, it can not be estimated. We all know how full of briars is the life of the average girl in the rural precincts of our state. Her one ambition is the main tenance of her physical being. She fol- lows In the footsteps of her mother in having no higher ambition than to feed and be fed, to clothe and be clothed. She is a simple child of nature, oftentimes fair of face and graceful of form, bear ing within her heart a confidence which under the influence of an education would make her the best of women which when neglected often makes her a victim of cruel circumstances.
 Under such conditions she becomes the mother of a large family, and she does | well if she can feed and clothe her chil- l dren, no thought of educating them crosses her mind. No light from the out side world enters her narrow life, she | goes to make up a part of the commun- ity in which she lives. Nothing has she | to give, nothing has she received. She came into this world empty, empty goes she out. The boys of her family grow up and largely assist in the support of our constables, policemen and wardens.
 "The girls possibly marry and settle around her mother to lead her life and share her fortunes. And so does our state become populated and increased by such , as these, and so must our prisons be- come enlarged, our reformatories in- creased
 The home is the unit of civilization and it is homes that We want to make. We can do nothing with the ignorance which surrounds us, when the head of the home, the mother, is uneducated. This work of educating our girls breeds love and love Is the fulffllment of things hoped for.
 We have now the opportunity to begin a work which will send our girls into the world commissioned right Will we as women who hold love and patriotism sacred, quench this opportunity by a | Wedk TtSppISt lo llflS tduSt pl fuhNdtloi. | Can we as mothers of a nation of such men as Yancey, Morgan, Curry Wheeler, Hannis Taylor, Clark, ct al, lightly con slider a subject which is so vital to the | forces which make up our common- 1 wealth? And can we as club women fail to meet the demands of this gift which We so strenuously sought? If we fail then must we furl our banners of education and philanthropy which we have so proud waved at all of our meetings.
 Now, a word as to the institution which has been the the recipient of this | gift. The school is largely fulfilling the mission for which it was founded. It has not reached it's full growth, lack of | equipment and funds preventing. It is yearly sending out earnest purposeful | young women. In our cities numbers of | these young women may be found as stenographers, bookkeepers, and tele- graphers In our smaller communities we | find them as teachers. Many of them have become homer makers, and so is the