if
they should try to follow these self-appointed divine revealers would
not only have to be hydra-headed to see these devious paths but
hydra-footed to walk in them." Referring to Cardinal Gibbons, she
said:

The Oracle of Baltimore tells us that the education and culture
of women are good up to a certain point, no further, but he
sagely fails to define the point, simply declaring that "too much
education of the head is apt to cool the heart; the cultivation
of the soul is too much neglected in the higher education; the
head and the heart and the body should all be educated together;
then they develop equally." There certainly can be no
disagreement among us as to the latter statement but why is it
more applicable to women than to men? The Oracle does not leave
us in doubt as to his view, for in response to the question,
"What do you think of the societies and club organizations which
attract women so largely just now?" he replies: "A society like
the Daughters of the American Revolution I heartily approve of,
for it tends to foster patriotism and keep it alive, but other
clubs of all kinds for women I strictly disapprove of."

The Oracle of Princeton, ex-President Cleveland, who has gained
the most notoriety for his heavy diatribes against women's clubs,
also admits that there are a few societies which it might be well
for women to encourage and keep alive--religious organizations
and those which administer to the needs of the heathen in a
foreign land. The Oracle of Brooklyn, Dr. Lyman Abbott, adds a
few more to the list and includes philanthropic, reform and
social clubs. Would it be unwomanly to ask why there should have
been such wide divergence in the Divine Illumination which each
Oracle received?

Dr. Shaw quoted from Mr. Roosevelt: "The President of the United
States does not absent himself from the country during the term of his
presidency, it is his domain. So should it be with woman; she is queen
of her empire and that empire is the home," and after reminding him
that the President's term lasts but four or eight years she asked:
"What do men mean by saying that women should remain contentedly in
their homes? They do not intend us to understand that we are never to
leave them, for they are frequently calling us forth when conditions
become so intolerable that even men can no longe