countries and hear their views about things. It ought to keep you from
being narrow, at any rate. You get fresh ideas and rub your corners off.
What I want you particularly to think about, is this: it's the duty of
all English-speaking people to cling together. If they've ever had any
differences it's time they forgot them. The world seems to be in the
melting-pot at present, and there are many strange prophecies about the
future. Black and yellow races are increasing and growing so rapidly
that they may be ready to brim over their boundaries some day and swamp
the white civilizations. Anglo-Saxons ought to be prepared, and to stand
hand in hand to help one another. I've been reading some queer things
lately. One is that a new continent is slowly rising out of the Pacific
Ocean--Lemuria they call it--and some day, hundreds of years hence,
there may be land there instead of water, and people living on it. They
say too that the center of gravity of both the British Empire and the
United States is moving towards the Pacific. Sydney may grow more
important than London, and San Francisco than New York when the trade
routes make them fresh pivots of energy. Another funny thing I read is
that as the world is changing a new race seems to be emerging. Travelers
say that the modern children in Australia don't look in the least like
English children or French children, or any European nation--they are a
fresh type. America has been populated by people from practically all
the older countries, but I read that children who are being born there
now differ in their head measurements from babies of the older races.
Perhaps some of you may be interested in this and some of you may only
be bored, but what I want to rub in is that if a new, and perhaps
superior, race is evolving it's surely part of our work to help it on.
Here we all are, girls from England, America, and the British Colonies,
of the same race and speaking the same language. Let us make an
Anglo-Saxon League, and pledge ourselves that wherever we go over the
face of the world we will carry with us the best traditions. We're out
for Peace, not War, and Peace comes through sympathy. The women of those
great eastern nations, the Chinese, the Japanese, and the Hindoos, who
are only just awakening to a sense of freedom, will look to us
Westerners for their example. Can't we hold out the hand of sisterhood
to them, and teach them our highest ideals, so that in the centuries to
com