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376 It seems to be quite true that our noble women possess more of this quality than our men, and I am not certain if our women in the home are not the most powerful, amd progressive and substantial agencies of the race.

In their quiet and often unseen work of building up, preserving, maintaining and purifing the home they are certainly "the power behind the throne" in many instances; and although often kept back, discouraged and haltered, so to speak, by the jealousy and tyranny of the would-be and so-called lords of creation, still they push forward.

The author has taken special pains to inquire of a great many successful business and professional men of both races as to the causes of either their success or failure, and the reply has come as expected from both.

Whenever one of our race has freely and willingly stated the cause of his success it has been attributed to the influence of a mother or sister or wife, while on the other hand, they have almost invariably attributed the causes of their failures to their refusal to be advised by mother or sister or wife.

X'ow while we do not intend to underrate the importance of man's work in the betterment of his own condition, and while we do not desire to be understood as advocating what is often called an apron-string government nor the subjugation of man by woman, yet we do desire to emphatically teach (and to urge) that a hearty co-operation of man and woman in all worthy undertakings whenever possible is the most hopeful means of success.

We believe that man and woman are created equal.