Provinces, which has recently made its appearance, is a credit to
that society, as well as to its editor and publisher, Mrs. Cowil, a
woman self-taught in the art of printing, and full of faith and
courage in their new enterprise. All over our land there are women
ready with their pen, whose message has been long delayed, and whose
thoughts we need. While, as yet, we have no paper of our own, the
best papers of our Provinces will open their columns for the
contributions of thoughtful writers on this temperance question, and
we should take advantage of this in order to bring our W.C.T.U. work
more prominently before the public, and to help on the cause of truth
and right. In each county there might be found, at least, one woman
who would write for the papers of that county, or send selections
concerning the work, better if one such be found in each union. Very
often incidents occur in the reformatory phase of the work the
publication of which may have a greater effect on the public mind
than the closest reasoning. If our women will only use their pens in
these cases it will tell for good. Then, too, privately, we may do
much. A little note to this one, a friendly letter to another, a few
lines of encouragement to a weak one, a warning of love to another,
these stay by one when the sound of words has passed away, and who
may estimate the result? The most quiet and retiring may do, those
who for many reasons feel themselves shut out from anything more
public.

7. _On the Platform._--This is what our Canadian women shrink
from. One of our most distinguished clergymen recently said, "It is
not because our ladies have less talent than those of other lands,
that they do not come to the platform, but because they have so
little confidence in themselves." While this may be so there is still
another reason. We know that in this country there exists a prejudice