The Woman's Council

Mrs. Hary Lowe Dickinson, in her admirable paper on "The Nationai Council of Women of the United States, ' ' in The Arena, aptly says: From their first eff orts to help men in their beneficent projects, women were like those who, finding a slow old boat making its way through a canal, were ready to supply the means to push or pull it forward. Wheu their eyes were opened, they began to see new needs and to make new projects of their own, and in their eagerness they uot ouly built uew boats, buthere and there attempted to dig new canals running parallel with the old, passing through the same región, yet separate and distinct. Now, after more or less lonely years of pushing and puiling, both men and women have discovered that united crafts can be propelled by unitedforces, and that one channel is better than two for boats that go one way freighted with the same supply for the self same hunger and need. For a time we shall go on inducing women to help in the organized work o1 men and men to aid in the organizec work of women, because each needs the other ior the completion of much that is begtm. But they read not aright the signs of the times, nor keep abreast o) the age's progress, who are not looking for a day when organizations of men auc organizations of women will be working together, not for the benefit of one or the other separately, but in full recognition that separation is impossible, anc working in full accord in thought anc hope and toil for the ultimate good 01 all.