ities,
which stands highest in scholarship, nevertheless tolerates,
nay, enforces the subjection of woman. The freedom of a
country stands in direct relation to the position of its
women. America, which has proclaimed the freedom of man, has
developed _pari passu_ a finer womanhood, and has done more
for us than any other nation in existence. A new type of
manhood has been reared on American soil--a type which
Tennyson describes in his Princess:

Man shall be more of woman, she of man;
He gain in sweetness and in moral height,
Nor lose the thews that wrestle with the world;
She, mental breadth, nor fail in childward care,
Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind;
Till at the last they set them each to each,
Like perfect music unto noble words.
Then comes the statelier Eden back to man;
Then springs the crowning race of human kind.

At the evening session the time was divided between Lillie
Devereux Blake and Phoebe W. Couzins. Mrs. Blake spoke on the
question, "Is it a Crime to be a Woman?"

She showed in a clear, logical manner that wherever a woman
was apprehended for crime the discrimination against her was
not because of the crime she had committed, but because the
crime was committed by a woman. Every woman in this country
is treated by the law as if she were to blame for being a
woman. In New York an honorable married woman has no right
to her children. A man may beat his wife all he pleases; but
if he beats another man the law immediately interferes,
showing that the woman is not protected simply because she
is so indiscreet as to _be a woman_. If it is not a crime to
be a woman, why are women subjected to unequal payment with
men for the same service? Why are they forced at times to
don men's clothes in order to obtain employment that will
keep them from starvation?

Miss COUZINS said that the American-born woman was "a woman
without a country"; but before she had closed she had proved
that this country belonged exclusively to the women. It was
a woman, Queen Isabella, that enabled a man to discover this