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322 idealism, the fatherland of Schiller and Goethe, woman was actually more deeply degraded and less respected than in any civilized country in the world. Among the uneducated classes she was almost everywhere looked upon as a servant, and a beast of burden, and if it is reported that some men harness their wives to the plow, together with the cow, the report may here and there be founded on actual truth; but the exclusive mission of "housewife," emphasized by the educated classes, was founded on ideas not much higher than the above, while every more extended career led into the horrible realm of prostitution. But this realm owed its population chiefly to monarchy and its servants, especially to the standing armies of idlers, whose entire object and occupation it was to oppress men and degrade women.

Accepted, with instructions to the Secretary to draw up an appropriate address to be circulated in Germany.

This ended the list of motions and propositions by the respective committees. Upon the President's question, whether any one else had any suggestion to offer, Miss Schwartenbach arose and proposed the following:

Resolved, The vice of smoking implies a disgraceful slavery of the man and is an inconsiderate insult to the woman who is to keep him company. Be it, therefore, further

Resolved, that we will not only shun all society in