l so
far behind him whom she originally led in the race, industrial
and intellectual. If they are ever to march side by side as true
comrades and free partners, it must be by a voluntary resumption
of independence in feminine mind and will. In this man can assist
by stimulating her spirit of independence, or he can discourage
it by a contrary course, but the final result lies with woman
herself. She alone can free herself from the habits of thought
and action engendered by thousands of years of slavery.

The steps toward the emancipation of women are first
intellectual, then industrial, lastly legal and political. Great
strides in the first two of these stages already have been made
by millions of women who do not yet perceive that it is surely
carrying them towards the last.

In the address of Mrs. Ruth C. D. Havens (D. C.) on The Girl of the
Future, which was greatly enjoyed, she said:

The training and education of the girl of the present have seldom
been discussed except from one standpoint--her suitable
preparation for becoming an economical housekeeper, an
inexpensive wife, a willing and self-forgetful mother, a cheap,
unexacting, patient, unquestioning, unexpectant, ministering
machine. The girl's usefulness to herself, to her sex and race,
her preferences, tastes, happiness, social, intellectual or
financial prosperity, hardly have entered into the thought upon
this question....

If woman would be a student, a scientist, a lecturer, a
physician; if she would be a pioneer in a wilderness of scoffers
to make fair roads up which her sex might easily travel to equal
educational and legal rights, equal privileges and pay in fields
of labor, equal suffrage--she must divide her eager energies and
give the larger half to superior homekeeping, wifehood and
motherhood, in order that her new gospel shall be received with
any respect or acceptance. And probably no class of women have
been such sticklers for the cultivation of all woman's modest,
unassuming home duties as have been the great, ambitious teachers
on this suffrage platform....

But this will not be the training of the girl of the future. It
is not the sort of preparation to which the boy of the present is
urged. "Jack of all trades, good at none" is the old epithet
bestowe