ABSTRACT
Our progress during the parallel course of thirty years has been made with slow ann very cautious steps. First came the desire-for it did not amount in intensIty to a demand-for a better and more solid education for women, and good schools were here and there established which offered a far more satisfactory curriculum of study than the private boarding schools which hitherto had been all that girls could obtain access to. Then, but at a long distance of time, the continually increasing number of self:'dependent women made the need of. a wider field of employment for them more manifest. To meet this want, a society to promote new employments among women was formed; printing and law-copying were soon added to their trades, and as they became more aware of their deficiency in technical skill, indusinal and training schools were commenced.
