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Show THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND. Their Lot Not Similar to That of Tholr American Sisters. Special Correspondence. LON'DOS, Aug. 3. In some of the manufacturing manu-facturing and mining districts of England the degradation of the women is revolting. Much has becu done of late years to lessen it, but many of them are still treated far worse than beasts; there is a society for tho protection of animals, none for that of women. Everywhere, in all classes, the j women are subordinated to the men, not I tho men to the women. "Place mix ! damos" finds no equivalent ou Enylish j tongues. When in a family of the mid-j mid-j die or upper classes there is not money enough to allow all tie members equal advantages the girls are always sacri-llccd sacri-llccd to tho boy. Maud nnd Ethel stay at home, tura aud re-turn their old dresses, nnd live on tea and toast and cold mutton, that Alfred aud Algernon may make a creditable figure at Eton and Oxford. It is the sisters who wait on the brothers-running brothers-running upstairs and down on their errands, er-rands, giving them the best of everything, and getting too oftun small thanks in return. re-turn. The Englishman is taught from tho first to regard himself as the lord of creation, crea-tion, aud the American creed that men must take the rough places of life iu order that women may walk at ease is a dead letter to him. Although custom insists upon a chaperon chap-eron upou all occasions for the young girl in good society, and no lady travels without with-out her maid, any woman may journey safely from one end of Great Britain to the other; not, as with us, because every man is her protector, but because every man is afraid of her. No Englishman willingly travels alone with any woman whom he does not know in one of their queer railway rail-way compartments. Such a journey might cost him dear. Cases of blackmail under Buch circumstances are mora than occasional. occa-sional. The woman has only to disarrange her clothing, dishevel her htur, crush her bonnet, and when tho train reaches a station sta-tion accuso her fellow passenger of attempted at-tempted assault in order to claim heavy damages. The man cannot prove his innocence inno-cence aud tho verdict of tho jury is almost certain to be for the woman. Indeed the man is usually glad to compromise aud hush the matter up for a good round sum. In one such iustanco on one of the cars of the Southeastern railway, where there are electric bells to stop the train in cases of great emergency, a woman traveling alone in a first class carriage witli a man of means raug the bell, and when ti e guard entered the compartment, she was found in violent hysterics. The indignant protestations of her companion, his amazement amaze-ment nt the whole proceeding, and his in-siiitence in-siiitence that the woman was mad, were alike unavailing, and it cost him 2,M) to settle the claim, although his reputation wtis excellent and all of his acquaintances acquaint-ances were sure of his innocence. |