Arizona republican., 1914-02-15

are women, it is because they have right to be there. By all their drudgery and patience, by all their suffering and kindness, they have earned their right to be there.
 Social progress, attained wholly by the male. gives the unprogressive woman unrest, discontent The more society advances the less she can bear her restrictions. In what way does a woman best benefit her fam fly? By staying at home and doing what she can with her two hands or by enlarging her motherhood and giving to her family the same i'm mense advantages that the father of the home has given it. The omni- present domestic ideal is a deadly hindrance to the social ideal. The specializing of this hitherto sub-social wholly domestic class is marked and marvellous event, now taking place with astonishing rapidity.
 The cause of advanced feminity has been getting it hard of late, and especially from potentates and the mightiest in the land Cleveland scored the club woman; Roosevelt, tie pseudo intellectual woman, and William. the Unsilent, has gone so far as to say that the proper sub jects for womankind are the three Cs-Church, children and cooking. remarked that they might all think differently if they knew more of the
 A thoughtful grand-da once woman who preceded the psuedo- intellectual club race suicidist. You cant pickle womans mind like onions" added this worthy elder and so she might just as well copy out addresses at the Carnegie library to read at the Archaeological society.
 Add to her instinct and training. the dissatisfaction with the existing order of things, which is the moving tional work in the establishment of kindergartens and schools for man. ual training, the founding and main taining of libraries Qocal and trav- eling) her civic work, her hospital and college associations, are the logical and natural growth which has followed the development of educa- tional advantages.
 Thackeray said of American Wom- en: That they were handsome, dis contented creatures There is no discontent like that which comes of unused talents. and American women have clever, active minds-minds that require definite, vigorous and important pursuit
 The most striking and significant movement which challenges attention at the present time is that toward organization, and the three great combinations which stand out most prominently in interest and import ance are the organization of capital the organization of labor and the organization of women.
 The first organizations among women are almost exactly coincident with their admission to the universi- ties, although there does not seem to be any connection between the two occurrences, as the latter affected only young women, while the former were almost wholly concerned with those of riper years. The University of Michigan opened its doors tc women in 1869, the first large insti- tuition to do so.
 1 The first womens clubs were or sanized in 1S6S-Sorosis in New York and the New England in Bos- ton. This (Sorosis) was organized because the men refused to invite women to the dinner given fol Charles Dickens in New York. Al
 womens clubs are offshoots Twenty years later the idea tool the shape of gathering these many diverse organizations into one grea' whole and making them world | power. Two years later the Fedora tion of Clubs was formed This body is strong and of recognized in | fluence in many states.
 The modern recognition of woman as a factor in the worlds work out side of the domestic circle is to b, q test not only of character in tht widest sense of the word, but of he ability to hold the place she ha: gained and to use judiciously tn, strength that the future promises. Everywhere the Woman's hand i! visible in that which ennobles ant refines. When the spirit of greed was destroying and defacing tn, palisades of the Hudson and n, mans hand was raised in their de 1 fense, the club women of New Jer ] sey formed a league for their protec tion. and under constant discourage
 ment, hammered at legislative door
 until the prevention of further van | dalism was assured by the legisla | lures of New York and New Jerse,
 combined with the generosity of pub lie spirited citizens.
 In Colorado women have organizer
 to protect the cliff dwellings,; and il
 California forestry is systematicall