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Rh woman suffrage, as a clipping from one of her articles will show:

It was her intention, had life been spared her, to establish a female seminary that a more thorough education might be given the girls of head, heart and hands. She had also begun a book on "Women and Their Achievements," which her friend, Miss M. V. Cook, would gladly finish and publish if the manuscript could be gotten. Miss Smith was a warm enthusiast on temperance, and was always ready to talk or write on that subject.

She felt that the mortality of women is due to their timidity in expressing themselves freely to male physicians, and with this fact in mind, she determined to alleviate their suffering by making herself proficient in medicine, especially to that part which pertained to female ills and their remedies. Like all else she did she threw her whole soul into it, having a private teacher from among the best and most skilled physicians of lyouisville. What woman, who reads this sketch, will take up the work she so nobly began and make the most of it for the good of the race and humanity at large?

As a writer the following is said of her: