CHAPTER VI.

MRS. POTTER PALMER'S BRILLIANT ADDRESS.
The liberation of women — They now have time to think, to be educated, to plan and pu«sue careers of their own choosing — The application of machinery to the performance of many heretofore laborious occupations of women relieves them of much oppression — Public sentiment will yet favor woman's industrial equality and just compensation for services rendered — She now drinks deeply of the long-denied fountain of knowl- edge— Is the world ready to give her industrial aud intellectual independence, and to open all doors before her in