"As woman stands now in the estimate of man, her chances for happiness are almost wholly on the side of old-maidism.

Still, freedom is the price of struggle and combat; and woman will first have to show, in actual strife, that she is the equal of her present lord." "Then you would turn every home into a battlefield ?" said Mrs.
Emerson.
"Every home in which there is a tyrant and an oppressor," was the prompt answer.

"Many fair lands, in all ages, have been trampled down ruthlessly by the iron feet of war; and that were better, as the price of freedom, than slavery." Irene sighed again, and was again silent.
"What," she asked, "if the oppressor is so much stronger than the oppressed that successful resistance is impossible?
that with every struggle the links of the chain that binds her sink deeper into her quivering flesh ?" "Every age and every land have seen noble martyrs in the cause of freedom.

It is better to die for liberty than live an ignoble slave," answered the tempter.
"And I will die a free woman." This Irene said in her heart..