own risk a bi-monthly, the _Woman's Journal_ (_Journal des
femmes_). But this was a violation of that good Latin motto,
_festina lente_, and, at the end of a few months the paper
suspended publication. Swiss public opinion was not yet ready to
support such a venture.

It may be pointed out here that, except in England, all the
women's societies created in Europe had, up to the time of the
organization of the International Association refrained from
touching the question of the political rights of women. The Swiss
association, on the contrary, always included this subject in its
programme. But, unfortunately, at the moment when our efforts
were meeting with success, and the future was full of promise for
the cause which we advocated, the terrible Franco-German war
broke out, and, for various reasons unnecessary to go into here,
I felt constrained to resign the presidency, and the association
came to an end.

Two years later the International Association was revived in the
form of the Solidarity (_Solidarite_), whose name signified the
spirit which ought to unite all women. In 1875 Mrs. Goegg became
president of the new organization as well as founder and editor of
its organ, the _Solidarity Bulletin_ (_Bulletin de la Solidarite_).
But on September 20, 1880, both society and journal ceased to
exist. The president in her farewell address said:

The dissolution of the Solidarity ought not to discourage us, but
ought rather to cause us to rejoice, for the recent creation of
so many women's national societies in different countries proves
that the Solidarity has accomplished its aim, so that we have
only to retire.

The striking success of university coeducation in Switzerland calls
for a few words of notice. Mrs. Goegg writes:

In October, 1872, I sent a petition to the grand-council of
Geneva, asking that women be admitted to the university of Geneva
on the same footing as men. The state of public opinion on this
subject in Switzerland, and especially in Geneva, may be judged
from the fact that, fearing to compromise the demand if I acted
in my own name or that of the Solidarity, the petition was
presented as coming from "the mothers of Geneva." Our prayer was
granted.

The number of women who have pursued studies at Geneva has steadily
increased every year. In 1878 the univers