Studying Politics

Up to the present timo we seem to have gone upon the principie that politicians, like poets, are born, not mado: any man has a vote and any woman an intorost in aft'airs pertaining not only to present Interest, but to the world's future history. That a man should voto has been deenred i matter wort hv of being secured at the cost of the uprooting of States aml the overturning of civilizations; how lic shall vote has been deemed to be matter of concern only to the candidates for eleetion. Yct the Stndy of politics is a study not only important, but very interesting. To judge by the amouiit of talk bestowed upon every political quastion, een the most trivial, there nn; few Dunda that woulil not linda keen pleaaurr in the intelligent inveatigation oi political with their allied sooTal questions; and although a radical difliculty in the formation of a proper school ol practical politics would SeerB to lic in the rad tliat most people Imagine thev know all aboni the subject already, yêt thcro i.s a rising generation unawar, perchanoe, of ihe extent oí their endowments in this particular, and from tlieir nmnliiTs it niav be hoped that some pupila tor the propoaed school may be secured. There are two kinds of women in the world: those whohate the very mention of politics and those who are deeply intere8ted in the subject. With a few notable exceptions, both are about ci]iiallv ignorant; both have a strong infliicnce oa the prosent roting population; both at Bome possible. future time may thcmselves beooroa voters. To both the study of politica would be useful and not merel) as a means oí oorreoting an innuenee oftcn liijriily pernioious, or of stimulating to the exerciss of a beneficent influenoe, It would, above all, be useful as opening to thea new avenues of thonght, as establishing for thoiu new pointe of contact with the outcr world and as creating new channels through whieh Intelligence and culture may flow into their homes. The narrow range oi vromen's interest has dwarfed many a mind endowed with large powers or growth; the pettiness, the untruthfulness, the little meannesses to whick woman is thought to be more prone than man are gMiasally the rosult of the narrowness of her visión. Sho does not see. truth in a broad liglit and thereforc she can not see it tnilv. Let her intelligence be exercised in matter practical beyond the aphera of hei home dnties and she will gain morally. even more than intelleetuallv. It is especial] y important that women who are already interested in large questions, charitable workers, religious teachers, temperance reformers, ghould be thoronghly well founded in the science of politics. The adjustment af political action to the .social problema of modern life is to be the gcqai duty of the future. ' i t li these great problems women have mucli to do. on their practical side, and the truc adjustment oí social and political comlitions is a work which demanda the lcst powers of our brightest women as well as our most promising young men. Problemi of sanitarv science, of public health, of providing work for the idle and industrial education for the incapable; problema relative to the housiiiü; of the poor, the employment of prisoners, the relation of Ignoranoe to crime, of amusement to pnblio moráis, oí religión to oharitable work -all these problema have to lo with politica emite as aurely as does woman guffrage, and all of "theni demand that women, whether votcra or not, should como to an intelligent acquaintance with the fundamental principies on which political science and practical politics are