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Women's Wasted Force

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Day
24
Month
January
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mrs. A. D. T. Wbitney, in "A TViendly Letter to öirl FrieDds" in The Ladies' Home Journal, discnsses society of today and saya of the mission of American womea and of women's clubs: "I wish the girls now growing vp conld ee what a mission they might take up as American woinen. Our own American women - thoa of higbest training and possibilitiea - are responsible. There ia a great waste of the force which they shonld be in the naiion, either in foolish snrface living, cf elegant form and pretensa, or in sfcrnggle to asaert an ontside power. Either way homes ars dropping throngh, vhile colleges and ciaba flonrish. The best element is bsing drafted away. Families, such as should maka the noble increase or leayen and mnrally coufrol it, are dwindling to a minority in the comrannity. "One passing -word - good natnred, not cantankerons - abont clubs. It is borne in apon me, anxionsly, that women nowadayg, at least in and about the great centers, are clubbing themselrea to death. And I think I have fonnd out the heroio reason -why. Snddeniy, a little while ago, they diECOvered that they were too many in the world, ever so many to one man, and with a grand aagacity and a yet grandor altruism they set out to thindown, as rapidly and effectively as possible, their own ranks. "Katuraliststell ns of a wonderful little race of Alaskan rodents which once in a certain so long reaches an enormous increase, so tbat its numbers are beyond computation. Then, all at once, of their oven accord, they set forth in s.teady columna, deliberately, comfortably, gayly picking up their snfacieiit substance as they go, and even multiplyiug on the way, until their persistent march bring them to the Pacific sea, into which they calmly walk, and are diowned. Toward some snch brave, pathotic bnrial and end is the great woman conconise, of iti own ublixne will and purpose, marching today!"

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