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Dauntless as the courage of their mothers and grandmothers who crossed the plains in covered wagons, is the courage and faith of the present day women of Oregon, the women who are doing things, whether it be homemaking, office managing, law enforcing or achieving success in the arts, sciences, or in literature. In each center of population in every district of the great state, culture is a keynote. The women of Oregon have done much to establish this fact. Women's clubs, organized in small towns and villages, in logging camps and mountain and seashore communities, have been the means of starting libraries, social and recreational advantages which are of inspiring influence in the state.

Not many of the women of Oregon have struck out for individual honors, but thousands of them have stood firm for political and civic righteousness. Long years ago, Abigail Scott Duniway was known as a pioneer striving for the ballot for womankind. The service she rendered, with the help of those who worked with her in the cause, can not be overestimated. She was the type of pioneer Oregon woman, determined, intelligent, capable, untiring in her efforts. Certain similar traits are to be found in many of the women living now who have contributed to woman's work in Oregon.

Sarah A. Evans, past president of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs, a market inspector of Portland for many years, is another great character. Mrs. Frederick Eggert, who so ably piloted the destinies of the scholarship loan fund, is another.

The City Federation of Women's Clubs of Portland, recently had as its president, a young woman who is known as a "judge," an attorney of rare ability.

The landscape architectural work of Portland, the international rose test garden and many of the loveliest gardens of lovely Portland, are the work of a young professional woman, Florence Holmes Gerke.

The Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland, is a large and prosperous institution, managed by Emily Loveridge, capable, clever and good, an executive with a heart, as well as a wealth of professional ability.