. Get all
the happiness out of life that you possibly can. Do not care for
power, but strive to be useful. First of all, support yourself so
that you may not be a burden to others. If you are successful, if
you gain a surplus, use it for the good of others. Own yourself
and live and die a free man. Make your home a heaven, love your
wife and govern your children by kindness. Be good natured,
cheerful, forgiving and generous. Find out the conditions of
happiness, and then be wise enough to live in accordance with them.
Cultivate intellectual hospitality, express your honest thoughts,
love your friends, and be just to your enemies."

--_New York Herald_, September 16, 1894.

WOMAN AND HER DOMAIN.

_Question_. What is your opinion of the effect of the multiplicity
of women's clubs as regards the intellectual, moral and domestic
status of their members?

_Answer_. I think that women should have clubs and societies, that
they should get together and exchange ideas. Women, as a rule,
are provincial and conservative. They keep alive all the sentimental
mistakes and superstitions. Now, if they can only get away from
these, and get abreast with the tide of the times, and think as
well as feel, it will be better for them and their children. You
know St. Paul tells women that if they want to know anything they
must ask their husbands. For many centuries they have followed
this orthodox advice, and of course they have not learned a great
deal, because their husbands could not answer their questions.
Husbands, as a rule, do not know a great deal, and it will not do
for every wife to depend on the ignorance of her worst half. The
women of to-day are the great readers, and no book is a great
success unless it pleases the women.

As a result of this, all the literature of the world has changed,
so that now in all departments the thoughts of women are taken into
consideration, and women have thoughts, because they are the
intellectual equals of men.

There are no statesmen in this country the equals of Harriet
Martineau; probably no novelists the equals of George Eliot or
George Sand, and I think Ouida the greatest living novelist. I
think her "Ariadne" is one of the greatest novels in the English
language. There are few novels better than "Consuelo," few poems
better than "Mother and Poet."

So in all departments women are advancing; some of them have taken
the highest honors at medical colleges; others a