Show 1 OP A decision has hal recently beer by the States circuit court of 0 appeals Itt Ya Va Which bleh is III ot of general Interest IS b upon the question under eu car carthin thin circumstance a 1 l woman Is IA riot Mt the hall or of t ft family as aswell well ell a as The vie view hns hIther hItherto i to been quite general genral that the he husband be his hll In the household ever ter so humble Is II from the point ot of view ot of the law th the head hend The Tue decision d referred to regards u a Gus Th The olle wa was that of one Mr trl nIah who conducted n a store In aVirginia a Virginia vIllage anti and also acted as 8 Postmistress She employed her lius hus husband band at 1 a reasonable salary but bill she ahe CondUcted the tim At t length she sho failed Called made malle nn an a assIgnment antI and asked to be declared bankrupt The baW ot of Virginia allo allow the head ot of a house household household hold II a homestead exemption ot of 1000 and Mrs Mr claimed thIs bane beM nt fit Her petition was contested on the ground that thai her hUsband huband the head hend ot of the family and JUdge Waddell sustained the objection The case cae was vas then taken to the th circuit court ot of ape ap appeals peals and the decree ot of the thu lower lowr court coutt wag as reversed reused Judge Judg Purnell In hIs opinion said In III hen all an Intelligent active Indus frugal woman she lh MI n a man who Instead ot of coming coining UI t to the standard of oC II a husband l is a tap IlIp dependent who iio acknowledges ta t hels only ani n a helpmate to hit wHet wIe obi obeys her hOr pours his little earnings Into her lap her bier to 10 be always to have been the head hd of at the he family and lev to her its support It would be contradictory ot of fact and an absurd on ot of law lal to say he and not she Is the hood head or of the tho famIly and deny to liar her the ban bene elIte Intended for Cor the family and ot of the separate estate she ha has accumulated the tithe Is In her and she he him Possibly the case caeI may be appealed to the Supreme court and If the decision ot of the circuit court Is upheld the prin principle i ciple will III be established that the QUes ot of the family head I is riot not BI as tarn aH the law takes cognizance ot of the matter dependent on SU sex The one that conducts the and earns thu bread brend and the household Is the head The old notions are tra traced hick erk to I a time when physical strength was all In the head When th the head had to bottle often for tor lila hll own exIst race and that ot of those thole depending on him against the forces toreo ot of nature wild hea beasts ts and nd savage men the direction ot f affairs naturally fell Cell upon Aim Im as 08 to 10 the choice ot of localIty In which to live lire antI other matters relating to 10 th the safety Anti mu Ih the comfort ot of the household The duet luty 0 of the others was 1 submission to hi arrangements When lire life wu was one battle to one hll ead wan Willi ItS as much a n lary virtue u a It Is II today In III armies on the field The Th ideas thus were Tero carrIed along Into the tribal nd no nn Lionel lIonal relations Into which society tie de dell ll It was R a moat mORt natural division 0 r labor suggested b by the physical anti and mental Constitution of oC the two Time however has ha now noi brought about wonderful chR changes e In the modes ot of liv Is no longer dependent on ph physIcal strength In tact manual labor I iv as 88 a rule rul the most poorlY With the possibility ot of earning n a lIvelihood through Intellectual labor laborthe the positions ot of breadwInners have gradually all ally been dIvided up jP between the sexes Whither right or wrong whether for tor forthe the beet interests ot of society or not the fact Is that woman In the modern modem so eo structurE is 18 occupying n a l which to 10 her bier was r a and moral at th previous eta ta ot of civilization It Is III not strange that the lie law should r recognize 1 a fact already established The next step In hits development will w be the assumption b by woman of oC the full Cull ot of the nw new position From the tho nI mystic tlc post there hat has come comae down to the present age the sense of 0 chivalry which Is perhaps nowhere so much In evIdence ns as In this country countr It Is the cerise Hille of oC duly dul on the part of 11 man to protect woman even against her bier own possible weaknesses and tol fol tollie follIes lIes lie A notable change Is In III this regard The head ot of the I ly who Is given glon recognition WI as such when there Is n a chance ot at saving from rom a financial wreck reek will us liS I a not nat natural ural al also o be asked tu lu ear cr crry TI ry th the full rH responsIbility O before the thela thelast la last w In lI most forbidding a aspect Times change and we with |