ano as a mocking-bird in its own native
orange grove. His sister is a mathematician; she solves a problem in
mathematics as easily as her brother plays a piece of music. Because
one is a boy and the other a girl, don't make the girl teach music and
the boy mathematics. What God has joined together in fitness, let not
false education put asunder.

Recently I read of a man whose father left him a large business.
Though an exemplary man he could not make ends meet in a business out
of which his father had made a fortune. The man worried himself into
nervous prostration. While he remained at home for rest, his wife took
charge of the business and made of it a great success. I say let that
woman run the business and the man take care of his nerves.

I know a minister who is a good man, but his strength is in his limbs.
He's an athlete, but turn him loose in a field as full of ideas as a
clover field of blossoms, and he can't preach a good sermon. Let Dr.
Anna Shaw enter the same field and she will gather blossoms of thought
faster than you can store them away in your mind. Some one in my
presence may believe the man should keep on preaching and Anna Shaw go
to the sewing-room and run a sewing machine; but I say if the man's
strength is in his limbs, and Doctor Shaw's in her head, let the
preacher run the sewing machine and Doctor Shaw preach the gospel of
righteousness, temperance and judgment to come. If God fitted Anna
Shaw's brain and tongue for the platform, it would be unwomanly in her
to make herself the pedal power of a sewing machine. We want
successful, useful men and women; and in fields for which God has
fitted woman, don't be afraid to give her the freest, broadest
liberty, or be uneasy about her unsexing herself. She has entered two
hundred fields in the last one hundred years. Yes, I guess one more
field must be added, for I saw a woman a few years ago in an
occupation I had never seen one engaged in before. In a city where I
lectured a beautiful, intelligent young lady was running the elevator
of a hotel, and I was completely "taken up" by her.

Of all the new fields entered by woman you cannot point to one where
she has degraded her womanhood, or one that has not been blessed by
the touch of her influence.

It is true there are fanatics among women as there are among men, but
if the extreme woman goes too far, the average woman will call a halt
every time. Fifteen years ago I could stand on Michigan Avenu