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Esmeralda. There is no field of knowledge 

 into which the American woman has attempted 

 to enter, in which she has not demonstrated 

 her ability to compete, when she chooses to put 

 forth all her energy, with her sisters of other 

 nations, but she must work, and must work 

 steadily. There are American teachers of 

 grammar who cannot parse ; American female 

 journalists who cannot write ; American women 

 calling themselves doctors, but unable to make 

 a diagnosis between the cholera and the 

 measles ; and American women practising law 

 and dependent for a living on blatant self-adver- 

 tising, but with the faculties of Vassar and 

 Wellesley in existence ; with the editor of Har- 

 per's Bazar receiving the same salary as Mr. 

 Curtis ; with American women acknowledged 

 as a credit to the medical and to the legal pro- 

 fession — what of it ? The American woman 

 can learn anything, can do anything. Do you 

 learn to ride, and, having done it, " keep 

 riding." At present you have received just 

 sufficient instruction to qualify you to ride 

 properly escorted, on good roads, but — 



"Keep Riding ! " 



