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 of the laws of health can do to women and children in our Indian homes?

What are we going to do about this?

We are on the threshold of the greatest experiment ever recorded. Can thinking persons really believe that it has any chance of success in existing conditions? I refer specially now to our ignorance about the rules of life and health, and of things pertaining to the body, civic and social.

Some Indian women have lately been urging their right to the franchise. We know that in England, in imitation of of [sic] which country this desire originated, women were moved to demand a vote because, while working for their kind, they came upon disabilities which they believed the possession of a vote would help them to cure. They sought the right of citizens in order to serve: they came upon the desire and the need in the course of service.