As it was, the women formed their groups with the direct object of educating themselves and, being practical women used to work, they readily turned their new knowledge to practical ends.

As quickly as they found out, through education, what their local communities needed they were filled with a generous desire to supply those needs.

In reality they simply learned from books and study how to apply their housekeeping lore to municipal government and the public school system.

Nine-tenths of the work they have undertaken relates to children, the school, and the home.

Some of it seemed radical in the beginning, but none of it has failed, in the long run, to win the warmest approval of the people.
The eight million women who form the International Council of Women, and express the collective opinion of women the world over, are not exceptional types, although they may possess exceptional intelligence.
They are merely good citizens, wives, and mothers.