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��By Mrs, M. J. Davis.

��One of the most important questions now occupying the minds of the world's deepest and best thinkers, is the intel- lectual, physical, moral, and political position of woman.

Men are beginning to realize a fact that has been evident enough for ages : that the current of civilization can never rise higher than the springs of mother- hood. Given the ignorant, debased mothers of the Turkish harem, and the inevitable result is a nation destitute of truth, honor or political position. All

��the power of the Roman legions, all the wealth of the imperial empire, could not save the throne of the Caesars when the Roman matron was shorn of her honor, and womanhood became only the slave or the toy of its citizens. Men have been slow to grasp the fact that women are a " true constituent of the bone and sinew of society," and as such should be trained to bear the part of " bone and sinew." It has been finely said, " that as times have altered and conditions varied, the respect has varied

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