WOMAN'S EXPONENT The Rights of the Women of Zion, and the Rights of the Women of all Nation*. VOL. 22.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL I, 1894.
CONTENTS: Woman Suffrage Column—Shall Utah Become A State Without Woman Suffrage—L. L. Dalton. A Woman's Assembly. To The Pioneers—Mary Ellen Kimball. . Woman's National Press Excursion. Why Women Want The Municipal Ballot-F. M. A. U. W. P. C.-Gladys Woodmansee. R. S. Reports. Ladies' Semi-monthly Meeting—Lydia D. Alder. Miscellaneous. Notes And News. In Memoriam. Obituaries., Funeral Reforms.
But there'll be something missing; When the summer comes again, Some golden links most precious, Have been torn from out life's chain; Tho' summer comes with beauty, Wealth, and plenty in her train, Her power can ne'er restore, These lost links from out life's chain, She will bring buds and flowers, But we'll listen all in vain,
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toiled, hoped, prayed but wept not, c never be persuaded, that you and yc daughters are not equally concerned in that pertains to this hard-won home, eqi heirs to the grand estate. 'All men know it is not in us to boa but we do not deny that our record of t past gives us room to boast of eve requisite to honest, useful citizenship; a we kv»V w : * v - " ' « " » to our husbar MT claims be 1 iLJored. wb
Editorial Notes.
The Woman's Exponent: Forty-two Years of Speaking for Women BY SHERILYN COX BENNION
. HE WOMAN'S EXPONENT, founded in Salt Lake City in 1872 by and for women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was one of the earliest periodicals for women in the United States. In the West two papers in San Francisco and one in Oregon preceded it, but only the New Northwest of Portland survived for any length of time. Never owned or officially sponsored by the church, the Exponent grew out of the same sort of impulse that fostered most of the other early church publications:
