e of mind and satisfaction, she should try to improve herself in
every possible way. Think of what it means to be able to surround one's
home with an atmosphere of refinement, culture and superior intelligence!
The quality of one's own ideals has a great deal to do with the quality
of the ideals of one's family.

Even considered alone from the standpoint of self-protection, as a
safeguard, a woman ought to get a liberal education; a college education,
if possible. The conditions of home life in this country are such that
it is very difficult for the wife to keep up with her husband's growth,
to keep pace with him, because he is constantly in an ambition-arousing,
stimulating environment. Unless she is unusually ambitious and has great
power of application and concentration and plenty of leisure, she is
likely to drop behind her husband.

As a rule, the husband has infinitely more to encourage and stimulate him
than has the wife. Success itself is a tremendous tonic. The
consciousness of perpetual triumph, of conquering things, is a great
stimulus.

It is true that women have developed more admirable and loving qualities
in their home life than have men; but during all these centuries, while
women have been shut up in the home, men have been touching hands with
the great, busy world, absorbing knowledge of human nature and broadening
their minds by coming into contact with men and things. They have
developed independence, stamina, strength, by being compelled to solve
the larger, more practical problems of life.

The business man and the professional man are really in a perpetual
school, a great practical university. The strenuous life, however
dangerous, is essentially educative. The man has the incalculable
advantage of a great variety of experiences and of freshness of view. He
is continually coming in contact with new people, new things, being
molded by a vast number of forces in the busy world which never touch the
wife.

If women, equally with men, do not continue to grow and expand after
marriage, how can we expect race improvement? Woman must ascend to
higher, wider planes, or both man and woman must descend. "Male and
female created He them." There is no separating them; they must rise or
fall together.

"The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink
Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free."

Many a man has tired of his wife because she has not kept pace with him;
because, instead o