nd the superintendence
of dairy farms and manufactures. All of these offer avenues
to wealth and independence for women as properly as men, and
schools for imparting to women the science and practice of
these employments should be provided and as liberally
endowed as are the agricultural schools for men.

_Resolved_, That the American Woman's Educational
Association is an organization which aims to secure to women
these advantages, that its managers have our confidence, and
that we will cooeperate in its plans as far as we have
opportunity.

_Resolved_, That the Protestant clergy would greatly aid in
these efforts by preaching on the honor and duties of the
family state. In order to this, we request their attention
to a work just published by Miss Beecher and Mrs. Stowe,
entitled "The American Woman's Home," which largely
discusses many important topics of this general subject,
while the authors have devoted most of their profits from
this work to promote the plans of the American Woman's
Educational Association.

_Resolved_, That editors of the religious and secular press
will contribute important aid to an effort they must all
approve by inserting these resolutions in their columns.

Among the influences that brought new thought to the question of
woman suffrage was the establishment of _The Revolution_ in 1868.
Radical and defiant in tone, it awoke friends and foes alike to
action. Some denounced it, some ridiculed it, but all read it. It
needed just such clarion notes sounded forth long and loud each
week to rouse the friends of the movement from the apathy into
which they had fallen after the war. One cannot read its glowing
pages to-day without appreciating the power it was just at that
crisis.[210]

Miss Lucy B. Hobbs of New York was the first woman that ever
graduated in the profession of dentistry. She matriculated in the
Cincinnati Dental College in the fall of 1864--passing through a
full course of study, missing but two lectures, and those at the
request of the professor of anatomy. She graduated from that
institution in February, 1866. A letter from the dean of the
college testifies to her worth as follows:

She was a woman of great energy and perseverance. Studious in her