h we have helped to build and endow them. And at what a
fearful cost of life and health are we thus wronged. Does it cost
too much to educate the future mothers of this nation in the
science of life? Who can estimate how much greater are the
expenses incurred by our ignorant violation of the laws of
health?

FRANCES DANA GAGE, of Ohio, spoke of the high scholarship and
very successful examinations of those women who had been admitted
into the medical colleges, far surpassing the young men in their
recitations and general intelligence. So long as the lives of
children are conceded to be in the hands of their mothers, it is
of vital consequence to the race that women be thoroughly
educated for the medical profession.

Mrs. ROSE said: These are mighty questions. When our little ones
are removed by death from our care and affection, we feel most
keenly our ignorance, and long to know something of those
immutable laws of life and health we have so long violated. Woman
should at least know enough to be physician to herself and
children, but she is denied the advantages granted to man for
obtaining knowledge of these things more necessary if possible to
her than to him.

The idea of a female doctor is ridiculed. But what is she worth
as a nurse of the sick without a knowledge of the art of healing?
Why am I in the prime of life in such feeble health? In my
country, the laws of life are, comparatively speaking, kept in a
nutshell. The girl must not exercise; it is not fashionable. She
must not be seen in active life; it is not feminine. The boy may
run, the girl must creep. It is to discuss all these grave
inequalities that we have assembled here, and I trust the
influence of this Convention may be felt in opening to woman all
honest and honorable means of self-support and self-development,
and in removing all the legal shackles that block her pathway
through life.

EVA PUGH said: The degradation of one sex is the degradation of
the other. This question is universal, affecting all alike. No
fact is better established than that the character of the parent
is inherited by the child. Can noble men be born of infirm women?
Who are the mothers of great men? Women of mind, of thought, of
independence; not women degraded by man's tyranny, labo