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judgement only when it convinces yours.
3. Trying, always--that is, doing your best work, life long--is what allows those happy accidents. Keep on trying.
In this department in August, ”E. M. K.” asked:
”Would you please outline a plan of organization among married women who wish to continue practicing their profession, through which they may arouse other women; and also reach the authorities who have control over their work?”
I then recommended political organization as the best possible; but have been called upon since to mention The Married Women Teachers'
a.s.sociation, of New York, as an instance of what may be done. The Secretary is Mrs. Anna G. Walsh, 22 Harvard Avenue, Jamaica, N. Y.
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