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practical in the higest sense; from start to finish; from 

 the first item, which calls for the study of art, to the 

 last, which asks after the conditions of working- women ; 

 it suits the conditions of to-day with an exactitude that 

 led me at the outset to use the word prophetic. The ac- 

 tivity among us that is practical because profitable will 

 take care of itself ; but these other interests that are prac- 

 tical because serviceable to humanity for these I would 

 enlist the sympathy of the women's clubs of Minnesota 

 and of all our western States. 



Our problems generally originate in older communi- 

 ties; they originate in the East; and the East shall no 

 doubt help in our investigation. But, as in Abraham 

 Lincoln's day, the final solution, the happy solution, may 

 yet be furnished by our energetic, optimistic, more 

 youthful and sympathetic West. 



"Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a 



rising Sun, 

 But they look to the West, the crimson West, for the things that 



are done, are done! 

 The Eastward sun is a new-made hope, from the dark of the 



night distilled; 

 But the Westward sun is a sunset sun, is the sun of a hope 



fulfilled." 



