Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union: For the Year Ending May 1, 1885 Where can you find one Who will be willing to admit that she has no needs? If she is rich in worldly goods, she needs to learn how to most wisely use her wealth to make it serve the noblest ends. If poor, she should know how to make her talents most available for bread-winning. If she is sick, there is need to study the laws of health. If in sorrow, to feel that the surest way to lighten grief is to endeavor to give to another the degree of happiness lost to one's self. If she is weak, she needs the sympathy of the strong, who, living under happier circumstances, have been enabled to resist the world's temptations. There is no end to the necessities of a true woman's life; we cannot number them or measure the power of her influence; she should have every good inspiration that the world can give to help her to fulfill her destiny - that of making the world better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.