(From the Introduction to “The Upholstered Cage.”)
There can be no problem of women anywhere without aspects of universality.
Mankind Our Neighbor
By Mrs. R. R. Cotton
(In “Social Service Review.”)
The day is past when we deluded ourselves with the thought that our responsibilities ceased with the performance of our individual duties. We are jointly responsible for the existing conditions, and only by a joint effort can they be improved. Our neighbor’s welfare is our business, and our neighbor is mankind.
Clearing Up the Muss
By Gertrude Breslau Fuller
(American contemporary. Prominent as a Lyceum speaker on social questions.)
You say politics are too corrupt for women to mix up in? Well, they are pretty bad, there is no doubt about that. You have laid almost everything under heaven onto the women, but this one thing that has been under your own exclusive, masculine domain.