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Thou type Of noblest womanhood!
Thou who in manhood's evil day.,
AS by the couch Of infancy,
Still faithful stood; =.
Unfaltering, and with: purpose strong,
Rebuking all the hosts ct wrong,
With "love il more than gifts Of song"
And virtue is the highest good"
Oh would these wildwood flowers
for thee
Were robed in beauty's charm and
bloom
Made rich with every rare perfume
OF Posey;
With every grace Of heart and mind,
With Woman in all reverence shrined;
In part repaying SO in kind
A debt as boundless as the sea.
Benjamin Hathaway.
The wonderful success which in the
course of the past fifty yeras has been
achieved by those who have been seek
ing to improve the status Of women in
the community is Miss Susan B. An
thony in an article entitled "Woman's
Half Century Of Evolution written to
commemorate the services of the late
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the piO-
neer Of the movement. and published
in the December number of the North
American Review. Miss Anthony re-
calls the hostility and redicule with
which the pulpit, press and public
treated the first woman's right conven-
tion-an occasion such as would be
veritable commonplace to-day. She re-
cites some Of the provisions of the Eng
lish common law which determined the
legal possessions and relations Of
women when that convention was held,
and, by contrast with the principles
recognized at the present
moment, they read like the provisions
of barbaric and prehistoric age. The
story told by Miss Anthony is the story
of a revolution which has affected it
self In almost every detail except the
universal realization Of woman suff-
rage. She thus summarizes the gener-
al result of the movement and the
ground Of her belief that woman will
enjoy the privileges of the:
franchise:
''The effect upon women themselves
of these enlarged opportunities in every
direction has been a, development
which ia almost a regeneration. The
they have shown in the
realm Of higher education, their achiev-
ments in the business world, their ca
pacity for organization, their executive
blower, have been al revelation. To
set women back into the limited sphere
Of fifty years ago would be to arrest
the progress of the whole race. Their
evolution has been accomplished by a
development in the
moral nature of man, his ideas Of tenn
perance and chastity, his sense of JUS
tice, his relations to society. In no de-
partment of the worlds activities are
the higher qualities SO painfully: lack
ing as ia politics, and this lis the only.
one from which women are wholly ex-
cluded. Is it not perfectly logical to
assume that their influence would be
as beneficial here as it has been every
where else? Does not logic also justify
the opinion that, as they have been
admitted into every other channel, the
political gateway must inevitably be
opened?"
The study of law is to women a
means of culture, linking all the special
training of her education and exper-
fence, and teaching her to see unsus-
pected and beautiful relation and har~
mony in the most alien phases of men,
tai, spiritual and material life.
This understanding only comes after
her course in law is completed, and is
seldom a conscious reason for under
taking her work. However, I believe
that a. blind intuition of all this is at
the back of the impulse to know juris-
prudence. 1t is difficult, therefore, to
make this great value comprehen-
sible to a layman, and to inspire him,
priori, with an understanding which
by its very nature, comes only from ex-
perience in the actual field. Still,
woman who has, as a personal poss-
ession, skill in any art or science, will
see what this value is of which I write.
For the woman who plays a musical
instrument, or paints or writes knows
that the end and aim Of her work and
it's truest value to her are not playing
or painting or writing; she knows that
the meaning of her art is that it opens
the door to great truth and beauty and
enables her to better understand how
to live. This is quite the same in law,
excepting that it is broader and deep
er in it's significance than in any OF the
three examples I have chosen, for law
in its. broadcast sense is the basis of
all three, and indeed of every art and
science and of life itself,-Mrs. Theo-
dore Sutro, in Success.
The labor bureau of the state of Wis
consin has been investigating the SUBJ
ject of feminine labor and collecting
reasons why girls prefer work in fac
tories and stores to household service.
Inquiries were sent to 769 persons.
Among the answers were these:
If ladies would only give girls bet
ter rooms, kinder treatment and warm
er beds and let them live independ-
entity, more girls would do house.
work." ~
Il love housework, but, like host
OF other girls, I refuse to do it under
present conditions
t1rrho a reason T uy1r't do ho,, couyo,l- ic