Changed days have come, however, with changed ways. The development of science and invention, which has led to industrial progress and specialization, has radically changed the woman's world of the home. The industries once carried on there are now more efficiently handled in large factories and packing-houses. The care of the house itself is undertaken by specialists in cleaning and repairing.

Many women, whose energies would have been, under former conditions, inevitably monopolized by home-keeping duties, are to-day giving their strength and special gifts to social service. They are the true mothers—not only of their own little brood—but of the community and the world.

The service of the true woman is always "womanly." She gives something of the fostering care of the mother, whether it be as nurse, like Clara Barton; as teacher, like Mary Lyon and Alice Freeman Palmer; or as social helper, like Jane Addams. So it is that the service of these "heroines" is that which only women could have given to the world.

Many women who have never held children of their own in their arms have been mothers to many in their work. It was surely the mother heart of Frances E. Willard that made our "maiden crusader" a helper and healer, as well as a standard bearer. It was the mother heart of Alice C. Fletcher, that made that student of the past a champion of the Indians in their present-day problems and a true "campfire interpreter." It was the woman's tenderness that made Mary Slessor, that torch-bearer to Darkest Africa, the "white mother" of all the black people she taught and served.

The Russian peasants have a proverb: "Labor is the house that Love lives in." The women, who, as mothers of their own families, or of other children whose needs cry out for their understanding care, are always homemakers. And the work of each of these—her labor of love—is truly "a house that love lives in."

[CONTENTS]

CHAPTERPAGE
IMary Lyon[3]
IIAlice Freeman Palmer[31]
IIIClara Barton[61]
IVFrances E. Willard[89]
VJulia Ward Howe[119]
VIAnna Howard Shaw[151]
VIIMary Antin[185]
VIIIAlice C. Fletcher[211]
IXMary Slessor[235]
XMarie Sklodowska Curie[267]
XIJane Addams[297]

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

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Mary Lyon[Frontispiece]
Mary Lyon Chapel and Administration Hall[17]
Alice Freeman Palmer[36]
College Hall, Destroyed by Fire in 1914[53]
Tower Court, which Stands on the Site of College Hall[53]
Clara Barton[79]
Frances E. Willard[94]
The Statue of Miss Willard in the Capitol at Washington[103]
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe[133]
Anna Howard Shaw[167]
Mary Antin[201]
Alice C. Fletcher[227]
Mary Slessor[253]
Marie Sklodowska Curie[280]
Madame and Dr. Curie and Their Little Daughter Irene[289]
Jane Addams[299]
Polk Street Façade of Hull-House Buildings[309]
A Corner of the Boys' Library at Hull House[309]