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best thought for its solution. The twentieth century stretches 

 before us, full of opportunities, open to all who have the heart, 

 brain and nerve of youth and health to offer up in unfolding its 

 vast resources. Success is for those who feel most keenly and 

 watch most carefully to see what the needs of the times are, 

 and how best to supply them. I am not wise enough to suggest 

 how the details of this problem may be worked out, for instance, 

 in the lives of agriculturists, but I have a feeling that the secret 

 of much of our happiness and contentment must come from the 

 knowledge that we are in step with others who are working toward 

 the same end, and that we are receiving help and inspiration 

 from those among us who are most conspicuously successful. 



Especially for women is the outlook brighter than ever be- 

 fore. Many and varied are the occupations in which she is to-day 

 striving to do her share of the world's work and realize some- 

 thing of the highest possibilities of life. Not less is demanded 

 of her powers of will and endurance in solving the complex 

 problems of modern life, than of her grandmothers of old, who 

 spun, wove, and accomplished such wonders of industry. 



Now that the wilderness is won and. made to blossom as the 

 rose, there are numberless ways in which the work of women 

 is needed to carry on to finer issues the theories of education, the 

 refinements of home life, and the problems of household econo- 

 mies, suggesting abundant opportunity for the most intelligent 

 exercise of body and mind. She must manage her household 

 in the most enlightened way, and reduce to practical working 

 order the new and scientific ideas of the age. The application of 

 science to the various departments of housekeeping is the most 

 important and pressing question and is only to be solved by 

 study and experiment. That she will be equal to these demands 

 who can doubt ? The many organized efforts -must bear fruits 

 of order and harmony in the next generation, if not in this. It 

 would be interesting if the X-rays could reveal the hidden things 

 of the future, as they do the inner workings of material things, to 

 apply them to the end of this century and see to what goal of 

 undreamed-of achievement the woman movement has carried the 



sex. 



This is such an era of new development and startling enter- 

 prises that it behooves us to be watchful of the movements in 

 the world around us, if we would keep within hailing distance 

 of the procession, and not be left hopelessly behind out of earshot 

 of the leading ideas of the time. It is easy enough to he dull 



