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Rh party service? Let no woman object that, in favoring the radical press, which advocates her rights, she might come into collision with her stronger half. She who dreads such a collision is not fit to take part in our struggle; but she for whom such a collision would assume a serious character, is sufficiently matured in her ideas to withdraw herself entirely from every collision with her stronger half. If we want to be free women, let us show it first of all by being no longer afraid of the unfree men, whom we cannot convert.

The motion was accepted with enthusiastic approval.

Sixth Motion — Women in general never cast greater doubt upon their intellectual ability, and never furnish their opponents with a better weapon than by their thoughtless acquiescenseacquiescence [sic] in the tyranny of even the most senseless fashions, and by the unscrupulous vanity with which they spend sums for the most trivial finery that could furnish them the means for reforming society. It is therefore both an urgent and a worthy task for sensible women, not only personally to emancipate themselves from fashion, and to set the example of wearing simple and tasteful garments, but also to encourage general co-operation in such reforms.

K. HEISTERBACH — The subject, to which this motion calls our attention, is so important that I am almost afraid to express myself upon it, since a brief elucidation is not sufficient to place it in its