| Show tt t l 9 aH 1 t l gt ih V 1 y y 1 r b I WHAT THE Th CENTURY f fit it 1 HAS hb DONE fOR WOMEN h 1 t 4 jn 44 t ti ct t 1 t t t p t O 4 t t t 4 i G b H lIE nineteenth nth century Is now In its TIlE I last year ear This century hue hal with or without just cause cOuse been called the womans century Why Because In I no other othor equal period ot of time hl has Womanhood risen tram from 1 a position eo O to ono one ot of comparative treo Cree dom and dignity It Is not by lie tho d de degree gree ot of respect that Is accorded the exceptional woman that tue tho position ot of the sex Inn may ho bo determIned but b by that consideration accorded to 10 the thc majority of them One can judge ot of the tue Lion In which womanhood was held In lie tho earlier part Qt the century by not notIng big Ing for tor instance certain advertise merits ments In old newspapers In England Englund and continental countries woman of at the tho classes were held heh in a position that was as little It if an any short ot of slaver A mans wife was sas absolutely his chattel he could beat or 11 hI treat her to an any point short ot of that which would result In Immediate death Jt It she died ns as lie tho result ot of the tho ill III treatment a tow few dos days or a week after the husband was upheld b by the tho law ho had a right to chastise his wife his children and his cattle at any time he thought It If he wished ln in ocr thin lands ho could sell his wife and the wife ot of the average poor man was V luid nt about the same price 11 as a cbs atm If Ie the wIfe had any man money before she sho married on her we wedding day It bo be boc became c came me her husbands the marriage for tor for or her hor nil legal lecal right to It She c could ud not recover her fortuno even een It if she sho separated from the man Divorces were almost unknown In and It if a became heir heireSS eSS Cu to an any property after her Ion from her husband It if ho he desired to todo todo do fio so ho could appropriate the mane money to hi his own uses Moreover he had a aright right to all her and could eel col lect them unchallenged no matter how howlee I lee mn may have sinned against his wife This The ca case e ot of Mrs Caroline Norton the English POetess who had n a husband train from Thom hom she was compelled to separate yet ot who w nt to the publishers and collected the royalty on her works had a 0 good effect In rousIng pUblic opInion against this un unJust unjust Just law Mrs Norton was the grand granddaughter daughter of at Richard Sheridan and a sister of at Lady nd DufferIn and the Duchess ot of lIer h husband the lion Gcorge Norton a brother ot of Lord was an unprincipled spendthrift yet ot b by birth and education hll he was what W was considered a gentle gentie gentleman man It If such condition In ranks little need be expected of at the common people tn SOS nn an paper commented on the sale ot of n a wife for sixpence and a Quid ot of tobacco as an occurrence i growing to be much too common W was II the only career then I II I I opell to a woman and It if she did not I It WAIl vas to be because nobody had tier hEir Jean Jenn Jacques the sentiment ot the theany any when whon he raid eald The Tho education ot of women should always be relative to that of at manto please to be useful to Us to mike make VB Tie love loe and esteem theta to educate Vs Us when young oung to take care of Us when whon grown up to od ad odI I to console Us to render Our Rg agreeable These aro the dU dUties duties ties ot of women TOmen at nil all time which they be taught from infancy At the beginning ot of tM tb centUry It a I woman nn an education for or tier her girls she found It n to employ 1 it teacher for tor few or of the tue states litotes In n Am h hind d public schools In the these e schools a girl could not retain her place paco placeit It It was required for tor 1 it boy Rome times were allowed to attend school luring durin the summer Bummer months but butIn butin In mos pia places res It was wal thought best beet to keep t from becoming too erudite I The daughters ot of well to io ho p people were taught the common branches and sent to R a female seminary perhaps where they received n a smattering ot of trivial Today ol at the tho dose close ot of the tho century almost toll all the tho important colleges ot of the world l have ao been opened to women and andIn In the public schools their education Is conducted along the tho same samo lines as that ot of the male pupils Women have shown that thy they are oro just JuRt M as apt as men In taking up tip any branch ot of learning they hare hao pursued In the bt beginning ot of the century n a wo woman man left lef alone and without on an was ns to bO Ott or I is unless she ho cho chone the doubtful alter altor matrimony There Thoro wore were no oc OCcupations open for tor Women and It If she he happened to be a 0 single woman her support was supposed to devolve upon her nearest male relative In his house she was n a mere mero unpaid drudge for his hll wife often otten ill 11 treated d and III aI IS despised In the tho United States alone the tho census ot of noo 1900 Is expected to show Ivo 0 mon men engaged lii In various occupations In 1810 11 1 n a week and boarding round was considered good PO pay for the school schoolteacher teacher Now women teachers arc oro paid tram from to a year ear Elizabeth the first woman who studied medicine had to bear blar the brunt ot of numerous Insults While she sho was wall attending collego at N NY NY Y the inmates ot of the boarding house where she staid declined to have hao any anything thin thing at nil all to do with her herAt herAt At lie tho beginning ot of 1900 1100 women phy orE are not numerous but pros NOs Perou Their position In the oem oom is an envIable one In proportion to ability bind Ind personal qualities or orman man many ot of them hove have large practices which bring them fine Incomes The ministry Is a field Into which comparatively few tew women have havo enter entered ed women ot of the religious type usually devoting themselves to the he ment ot of some groat reform as In the tho cases of at Mrs Mary Livermore and Francos Willard WillardIn In Iii Journalism the most exacting ot of all RII professions women have hao signally their success dary Clemmer Ames Jane Ure Irey Margaret 1 Fuller FannY Fann Fern the Rifted gifted sister of at N P 1 Willis more recentlY Kate Kale J Field Mrs Jennie June Croly Mrs Booth rs Eliza Conner Mar Mary Isabel Mallon and Mrs Frank franl Leslie arc women whose S has hils been equal to anything mon men have done In the same samo lines 1 drs Crol Croly was the tho Inventor ot of the process of at which made possIble th lie syndicate estem Mrs and Mrs Irs Sangster were vere successful editors and Mrs Irs Cornier Is an editorial writer whose literary style Mr Charles A ADana ADana Dana himself a master ot of editorial writing repeatedly complimented by quoting In the e editorial columns of at the tho New York Sun Miss Mar Mary rout Crout Is n a traveler and correspondent of distinction and Mrs Irs FrAnk Leslie has twice bum buIlt a nourish flourish nourishIng flourishing Ing property out ot of a seemIngly wreck wrecked ed lawyers are many In the west vest they are more nourishing than In Inthe inthe the because It Is said or of the tho greater liberality ot of thought In the tho sest In political liberty advancement also aba has boon bon great In two states women have the tho rl right ht to vote ote on nil questions In some others otherl they vote oto only on certaIn subJects There are aro only two states In which morrl married wo we women men have not control ot of their wages and property They have now an equal I legal Interest In their children 0 of as the husband having sole Ullo and control ot of the offspring And able to will them awa avay rota i his hll wife It If he wished In almost every W way In fact women are a accorded equal before the law find and It ItIs Itis Is only In the cases call ot of bigoted and Ir ig then men that any effort Is made mado tt to thom ot of these rights MADGE POUTER PORTER |
