ABSTRACT
As leaders in the woman’s movement of today, they have need of clearness of vision as well as firmness of soul in adjusting recalcitrant forces, and wheeling into line the thousand and one none-such, never-to-be-modified, won’t-be-dictated-to banners of their somewhat mottled array. The American woman then is responsible for American manners. The American woman of to-day not only gives tone directly to her immediate world, but her tiniest pulsation ripples out and out, down and down, till the outermost circles and the deepest layers of society feel the vibrations. If the Indian has been wronged and cheated by the puissance of the American government, it is woman’s mission to plead with her country to cease to do evil and to pay its honest debts. With all her vaunted independence, the American woman of to-day is as fearful of losing caste as a Brahmin in India.
