Bound Volumes, Hometown History

November 30, 2023

135 YEARS AGO

The women of our land are daily gaining a firmer foothold in all the business of the country, and winning more of public recognition of their ability and genius. For some time past, many of the higher grades of social and literary events, in some of our large cities, have been in their hands, and in situations and vocations where a few years ago there was no thought of competition, women are acknowledged to be equally competent as men. All this is as it should be, and may God speed the day when recognition of their equal fitness for these situations may bring a corresponding recognition of their need of equal remuneration. But, mothers and sisters, in the grand struggle into this another field of labor where, I doubt not, you can do a vast amount of good, do not neglect the work that is all around you – that grand, God-given home work. There, sisters, is a field wherein your influence is all-potent, and whether for weal or woe, is measureless.

November 1888