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and amid all the discouragements of pioneer life. 

 These facts cannot be too strongly empliasized . We 

 pioneers used to wonder if even the minorit\- of women 

 appreciate the amount of influence they ma}- exert 

 for good in the home sphere for which Heaven special- 

 ly designed us as well as them. Woinan and home ! 

 How naturally the two words are blended ! It is the 

 true woman who makes the home, who gives it all its 

 brightness and charm. How the presence of a gentle, 

 refined woman changes all the rough aspects of daily 

 life. Her love, her tendencies, her care, transform 

 everything. Let the mother die and the home dies 

 with her. It is the mother who molds the men of 

 the future, and through them shapes the destiny of 

 the nation. It is better to be the mother of noble men 

 and women than to be Senator, President, or enjoy 

 any political ofifice than woman suffrage could bestow. 

 In a remote mining camp, towards the head waters 

 of the Feather River, in 185 1. a man and his wife, 

 from Kane county, Illinois, appeared one day and 

 erected a small tent for a temporary home. The news 

 quickly spread that a woman was in camp, and early 

 on the following morning, as soon as their toilets 

 could be made, a score of anxious and hardy miners 

 assembled outside that tent and respectfully asked the 

 husband the privilege of seeing his wife as thev had 

 not seen a white woman for manv months. The re- 

 quest was cheerfullv complied with. Sh.e pleasantly 

 came out and stood upon a convenient boulder so that 

 all could plainly see her. The delightful miners doffed 

 their sombraroes and gave her three hearty cheers. 

 One of them then called for cheers for "home, mother, 

 and "the girl T left behind me." Thev were given 



