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SEX IN INDUSTRY.

When a senator of one of the most rugged States of our cold north-east was asked the most valuable product of his section, he replied with unction, “ Men, sir, men! ” Cornelia’s jewels are still the wealth of a woman and a state. The significance of Penelope’s virtue is yet vital. For her right to rise from the ills that assail her sex in industry, her right to retain, through present enforced toil, her titles to future dignity and happiness, I make this plea for the working- girl.

For woman’s best is unbegun, her advent yet to

come.