principal of that college does not forget that among the boys there may be more than one who will never have a business life, but who will go out into other interests and pursuits.  Yet he turns the thoughts of all boys in his school specially toward business problems.  In schools and colleges for women, not all the girls will marry, not all will be mothers, but most of them will be.  Is not, then, the normal education of a woman that which, while it does not cramp her life in one direction, nor mould her in a set way, yet keeps always in mind the fact that the normal woman is being educated for a normal woman’s life?

This would not necessarily change the curriculum of our colleges in any way; it would change the spirit and atmosphere of some of them at once.  Instead of the spirit being:  “My mind is just as good as a man’s.  What a man can study, I can learn!  What a man can do, I can do!”—­the spirit would be this:  “I am going out into a woman’s life, and it is my business now to take to myself all the wisdom, counsel, experience, and inspiration of past ages, that I may be the very grandest woman that history has yet seen!  I will be a land-mark in time:  I will be a pivot in history around which the earth shall turn.  Because of my life, women to the end of time shall be able to live a truer, freer, better life!”

With this thought in mind, all the academic subjects would still pass into her mind and life, but they would be much more naturally set and their value would be greatly enhanced.  Then we would not have the too-ambitious woman stepping out of college, or the restless and discontented one.  We would have the large-minded, earnest, noble, public-spirited one, who would go out into the world as a fine type of woman, to live a woman’s life and do a woman’s work.  Married or unmarried, she would still have a woman’s interests, a woman’s influence, a woman’s charm.

This higher education may or may not include practical studies in domestic science, nursing, and household emergencies, but she should learn somewhere the elements of these studies, so that when she goes into a home of her own her duties and responsibilities will not be met in a half-hearted and untrained way.

2.  Mothers should have rest-hours and rest-days.  Is it not something extraordinary, from a purely economic point of view, that while it is widely recognized that every one should have one day in seven for rest, that while business men are expected to close up their offices on the Sabbath, and all working men and women are given this day in the stores, the factories, and mines—­the cook and maids have their Sundays out, and their week-day afternoons—­that nowhere on earth, so far as I know, has there ever been a systematic arrangement by which mothers, as a class, have any specially arranged hours or days for rest!  A baby’s care does not stop on the Sabbath, and the average mother is practically on duty, at least over-seeing, day and night, twenty-four hours out of the twenty-four, from one end of the year to the other, no matter how many maids and nurses she may have in her employ!