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Girls, some of these letters worry me. I don't want to preach--you will lead your own lives. But I cannot help reminding you of the things we talked about--the splendid things, exciting things that are stirring in this land today. Oh, what a chance for women--what openings with narrow doors--what fights to make the doorways wide for the girls who will come after you! Keep yourselves strong and awake and alive--keep growing--remember that life is a school and for you it has only just begun. Don't sit at your desks--in your homes, I mean--blinking with a man at your side. Keep yourselves free--don't marry for money--don't let yourselves get under the thumb of any husband, rich or poor, or of social position or money or clothes or any such silly trumpery. Get the real things! Oh, I'm preaching, I know, as I did in spite of myself at home. But girls--dear friends and comrades--be strong--and don't give up the ship!