affect their lives" and concluded:

The student, remembering the laws that strove to make women
nonentities, the tremendous force of adverse public opinion, the
lack of training and preparation, must repudiate forever the
usual query of the scoffer. "Why have there not been more eminent
women?" and in amazement ask himself, "How does it happen that
there have been any?" To those women who would do great things,
who sigh for the old days, when the political queen ruled from
the salon or the throne, we may say that today woman stands on
the threshold of a broader and more real political life than she
has ever known. In the future there may be no Sarah Jennings or
Mme. de Maintenons, but when to the million-and-a-quarter of the
women of our time, who in the United States, in Australia and in
New Zealand are exercising the mighty power of the ballot as
fully and freely as their brothers, we shall be able to add other
enfranchised women of the world, we will have a mighty political
sisterhood, free to realize their patriotic dreams and powerful
to bring about better conditions for humanity.

Miss Campbell described in an able and interesting manner Women
Scholars of the Middle Ages. Miss Brehm pictured Heroes and Heroines.
Mrs. Maud Nathan, who had as a subject Women Warriors, according to
the reporter, "remarked as she took off her long white kids that she
could not handle it with gloves." Declaring that she did not approve
of war, she said that nevertheless whenever there was a fight for
municipal reform in New York she was in the thick of it. After showing
how women had led wars and fallen in battles she concluded:

In the middle ages, when the electors were called upon to defend
their cities at the point of the bayonet, we can understand why
men considered that women should be debarred from the privilege
of citizenship; but today our cities are not walled, our foes
are not without the gates trying to scale the walls. The enemies
are within, often found sitting in high places. Today citizens
are called upon to fight, not warriors, but vice and corruption
and low standards. Are not our mothers quite as capable as our
fathers to wage warfare against these, the enemies in our midst?

When I was in The Hague last summer I visited the only kind of
battleground which any intelligent, pro