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“pow gives in our public schools ; the multi-
aplying of seminaries and colleges especially,

and the gradual opening up to theat of the
elder justitutions of leamming, formerly de-

ginning to bear legitimate fruit.

©. Add to these the organized “Ch tauqua”
“with its well selected course, now introduced
-into nearly every city anid village ofany note ;
“the weekly and monthly magazine, contain-
ing the well digested thought of the best
thinkers and writers, male and female, of the
day ; with the great metropolitan journals,
whose editors ard writers have their fingers
on the pnise of sixty millions of people,
ready for delivery at the homes in nearly
every remote town, by tea o'clock in the
morning, and you have irfiuences at work —
that ought to, and have quickened into life

the reasoning forces of the mass of American

women. . :
“With the light of literature, the develop-
-qnent of thought, and the growth of her own
personality, there has come to woman a de-
sire to be recognized in the fields of literature,
of journalism, and of authorship, not only as

_an inherent right, but as means to an end,

‘namely, money ‘to relieve necessities, to fur-
nish luxuries,-and to supply means for a
higher culture. a
_ To the moral, sensitive, thinking woman,
‘dependence has always been galling. Her
study has been to find a way out of this con-
- dition without losing caste,—the respect of
‘society, and that nameless deference vouch-
safed to woman since the days of the ern-
sades, that sought to make of her an angel
ora goddess,—a mythical thing, ‘still pat-
ronizved in some of the so-called, higher
walke of life, OS

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‘onee Tears to create something for himset,
‘to combine colors and shapes, (0, reason, to
think. Here we have the whole

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“something, of making something thet shall
be her own handiwork, is as much of a de-

light to the little girl as to the girl grown
tall, and perhaps aiere, as she hhas cot yet

Jearned, as the older girl has dose, to com-
pare her industry with that of more skilled

artisans.

.. Already has the kindergarten, the thought
of Froebel, left its impress upon the woman-

hood of this generation ; and the free kinder-
garten now being introduced by generous
hacds into our large cities for the education
of the little boys atid girls of the poor, will
save to good citizenship, to self-help and
culture, many a poor girl. . :’

Twin sister to this,so far as women are

‘concerned, are ‘Women’s Industrial and

Educational Unions," the conception’ of
Abby Morton Diaz of Boston. This takes —
the woman adrift as it were, gives to her
shelter, culture and bread; finds her work
adapted to her education, and competent
pay ; inculcates self-respect, and gives to _
her companionship and surroundings worthy .
of respectable womanhood. When these
Unions become established in every city,
and in every considerable town, the objec-
tion made by the editor of a New York
journal, that ‘women are of little walue as
reporters because they cannot go into the
shums,’? will be overcome, because there will
be no sluus. These Unions, while they pro-
pose toenlist the sympathies, the roney and
the time of the highest, will reach down to

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