ation and offspring of the state. Wise legislation, practical, large-hearted philanthropy, should everywhere provide asylums and retreats where the morally sick may become restored - may be quarantined, so to speak, for a time, and through loving sympathy, watchful care, and suitable occupation be gradually brought to a sense of self-respect and a desire to lead a new life.

The numerous moral reform and female guardian societies, midnight missions, and homes for the friendless, of our large cities, have done a noble work in rescuing myriads of women from the very mouth of the flaming pit. They have snatched them literally as brands from the burning, and enabled them to lead decent, respectable, and repentant lives. In the horrible dens from which many of these poor creatures have escaped, they have been kept, often for years, helpless, hopeless prisoners, robbed of their clothing and money, and obliged to drink with every loathsome patron of the place, thus sinking from vile depths to lower depths of infamy and shame, with no eye to pity, no hand to save. It takes time and useful occupation to recover from these lazar-house scenes and experiences, to restore the shattered nerves and moral tone.

Industrial farm-homes, where small-fruit and bee culture, or the raising of poultry or flowers, can be profitably followed by the beneficiaries, offer by far the best solution to this problem. Several States have already established such homes for fallen women, and blazed the way of reform for other communities to follow.

This great social ulcer - this cancer, eating into the vitals of every great city, and contaminating small towns and villages alike with its gangrenous touch- may thus be brought under the surgeon's knife and healthy sanitation.

The state cares for the destitute and the indigent sick; why should it not also care for its morally sick - the victims of a false social, civic, and industrial system - who, unless rescued and cared for by the state, will continue to drag down multitudes into a common ruin with themselves?

Philanthropy, religion, social science, and the state should unite in a supreme effort to rescue the perishing, provide for the weak, abolish vice, and elevate the moral tone of the entire community. To this task has the Society for the Promotion of Social Purity set its hands. Toward this goal - the elevation of the state and of humanity, through the rescue and elevation of woman and the purification of the home — are all the moral forces of the age pressing rapidly forward.

THE HIGHEST EDUCATION-ADDRESS BY MRS. CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS OF WISCONSIN.

During the past twenty years perhaps no one thing has more assuredly marked the onward progress of our time than the interest, assumed and real, in the higher education of women. All over our country schools and colleges have multiplied, where careful training and much wise teaching are accomplished. Universities have opened their doors many of them only half way, it is true, but a few certainly swing the gates wide and in all directions the path, once very thorny, has been made smooth and pleasant.

More than at any other period in the world's history woman stands side by side with brother, father, friend -quite man's peer in power to acquire, and if her acquirements be of the right sort, his peer in power to use them. Askance he looks at her, perhaps, oftentimes strangely misunderstanding her. However he may regard her, let us not forget that whenever she proves herself a power, he, let him be stranger or friend, is ever first to admit it, ever first to welcome and approve. Let us not cease to remember that much of the advance has been made with his aid, and in many cases on his shoulders.

The onward march of women in what we term the higher education is a fact of very deep and absorbing

interest, marking, we must believe, an epoch in the world's history, assuring for all of us the step onward, creating a gift for the future not to be measured in its worth, measureless in its possibilities. We can not regard it with too much gratitude, too high reverence, too deep an appreciation ; we can not aid it, even in a small way, without securing blessing to ourselves, and the surer consciousness of inestimable blessing not only to those about us, but to the generations to follow us.

But it is not of this higher education, profitable as is the theme, that I desire to speak at this time and on this occasion. There is given to each of us, and especially is it given to women, to attain not only a higher, but the highest education. And here let me call attention to a possibility already made too evident, that in attempting to attain the former there is danger of losing sight of the latter. It is, in a word, too often made plain that in educating the head we have made too little account of the heart. This need not be the case, yet it happens too often, and it is needless to say that where this is the case it were better the woman had never entered the school-room. Add to the higher education the highest, and you do well; but get the highest at any cost. That, and that alone, is the only education that can be of real and permanent worth to women.

Dear friends, you and I know from whom alone this highest education can proceed; we know there is but one Teacher, one school-room, one text-book; and you will say just here, perhaps: "Why repeat this? It is but platitude. We hear it constantly. What can it serve here and now?" Let us follow a step farther and find the something that it does serve; and that is worthy our consideration in a very peculiar sense at the present time, a time when the education of woman has a deeper import than ever before.

And, first, let us ask ourselves the real value of any edu cation to its possessor. Is it not in the development that it brings to its owners and to those about them? But is it not also in truer sense the fitness it gives for the work they are to do?

As the athlete trains for the victory he hopes to win, as the professional student spends his energy in daily toil for the place he aims to fill, so is there in the training of a woman a profounder reason, a more eloquent plea, for that which will give to her the implement that is to make her of worth in the place where God's own voice calls her, for so long as the world lasts and time endures the large majority of women must find their place in the home. It is here as daughter, wife, mother that she must confront the widest horizon of usefulness and endeavor. In the varied phases here awaiting her with their perplexities and anxieties, their satisfactions and joys, she is called to meet daily experiences that must test her ability to the utmost, and which only the highest education can at all satisfy. You will surely admit that here certainly her value to herself, to those nearest her, and through them to society at large depends far more upon the qualities of heart she brings to her work than upon any mere intellectual acquirement. She must inspire, charm, elevate in proportion as she is suffused with Christian grace and Christian spirit, far more than by "the knowledge which puffeth up and edifieth not.” Recall the long list of women who have blest the world and left to it a deathless legacy, who knew nothing of a college training. The greatest minds among women, intellectually considered, in this great century, knew nothing of it. Names might be multiplied, they will come to you by the score, that were never recorded on college registers. And while, if these women were living to-day, they would be the very ones who would at any sacrifice attain such training, yet women like these know very well that at its best it can not give to any woman all that life needs. And in this phase is danger to the young woman entering upon it; if she believes that it will give her all of life, she is shutting out the greatest light, without which any college training is idle.

I would not seem, even by the smallest hint, to disparage the education of the college - on the contrary, I would

make it possible for every woman to secure it — but I must also repeat, with emphatic utterance, that so long as human nature is what it is, so long as human society exists, in the right development of the woman the education of the heart must ever be of superlative consequence, of far greater consequence than the education of the head. Let a woman's intellect be inspired and controlled by her heart, and not only is her own soul fed, but she becomes the fountain of nourishment to the souls of others - yes, even to souls unborn. Let her intellect be stimulated at the expense of the heart, and she is like a tree bearing unfruitful bloom at the top and dead at its center.

THE CATHOLIC WOMAN AS AN EDUCATOR― ADDRESS BY MARY A. B. MAHER.

The illustrious Bishop Spaulding says: "The great educational problem has been and now is how to give to the soul purity of intention, to the conscience steadfastness, to the mind force, pliability, and openness to light.” In other words, how to bring philosophy and religion to the aid of the will, so that the better self shall prevail, and each generation introduce its successor to a higher plane of life. The value of culture is great, and the ideal it presents points in the right direction in bidding us build up the being which we are.

No finer, truer, better equipped agent could be found to send upon this mission than woman. Her inherent tender conscience makes religion a necessity, her philosophy of love her strongest argument, while her warm, large sympathy, her marvelous ingenuity, her ready tact make her quick to learn, speedy to devise, prompt to execute new plans or utilize the old in newer fields for the accomplishment of the greatest good. Her resources are hydra-headed; her courage dauntless. In whatever walk of life it bereligion, poetry, sculpture, painting, literature, science, or