Woman That Have Come to the Front.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 274, 20 June 1888, Page 6

Woman That Have Come to the Front.

An American coutempoiai^ ju-4 to h.uui ha- the following upon (tic woman- conteionce which recent h met ,i\ W .i-hingtou. Though the delegate- almo-i \wrhont e^ccpTion, belonged to the claimants ot women's vufh.ttro!, the-\ woe anything but (ho stein \i-aged and doudilx, dies-ed eieatuto* ti-ualh hokl up a- "-Irougnnnded female- Tlu\\ won- swtet ot face and gentle of mannei, almost alwa>< ta-tetuily" often \et\ fu-hion.ibh — -al tiied. Theie w'cic -e\eial iemale nnni-lei- — -hall udcall them elugy women "' There vcic doe'oi-, lawyer, editor.-, and women of business. And, to the amazement of the masculine critic, tlie> weie m no ui-edu>-tmQui-h.ihle tioni any othei ln">dy of intellioeut women Tlie\ eelebiaUnl the toiticth anni\oi.-ai\ ot the wonun <iUit<iHon ; but, while miv h ot then tlehbointioii was oecujiicd by t.lii- Mibjeet, i\\c\, di-cu--ed mam otbei nialtei^ oi inirio^i to women. Tin- wa- the fir-l lmeinaiional conned of women in tlui history ut the woild. Kn«xl.iud, Ireland ,md Scotland, tieinuuij, Noiw,iYi fmlaiui, France and Canada -each was lepie-entcd b) its best. Kc\. AuloinctLe Hrown Blackwell, fclie lii.-t k " dci<4>woman" cvov ordained, oileiod an opening ptayer and ble^sinj;. while Eli/abetli C^-idy Stauton made an opening addict, ljaionoss i (Mpenber/j told of the freedom accorded women in Finland, whevo higher education "i^ an acknowledged fact."' PundiUi Hamabai prc^otitcd its antithesis, in telling ot the condition of women in Hindo-tan Apio]ios of higher education, Koaa Dean of tlie )Vomon\s Collcfrc, NortJi western Umveisily, declares that education ne\ci desti'oy-5 love or lomanoe in a gul. She s.iys a girl may caress a conic section, but let her see the man to whom ■ hei heart goes out, and she will diop the conic section and caress bhc man. Education may better the mind, but it has nothing to do with the heart. Uit had you would j not lind educated women .stooping some- j timob to many the men they do, noi would j you find educated men marrying mere j jnettiness when there Avas still borne cdv- ; catccl womanhood left. j CUra Barton told about the piaml AvorK j of the Red Cross with an enthusiasm which ; wut> communicated to her audience, and Fiances E. Willard discvissod iho greatest I temperance movement in the world. Stir- | ring addresses were made on behalf of social j purity, and against lax marriacre and divorce. The earnestness and beliet in individual • effort shown by all the members of this \ conference are most striking. They don't i sit down quietly and say they ate too feeble fco oftect anything. Each one acts as it the welfare of the whole universe depended on her individual ellbvts, and, after all, this is the true idea. Wo can never have unity without unitfe. And if we can't all lead a groat charity or moral reform, each ono can do something to mako the world better and happiev, it it is only to teach our neighbours how to make digostiblo pie-cruat.