Show DUTCH WOMEN ARE ABOUT TO SMASH 1 KITCHEN IDEAL New Rights Right Are Arousing Them to Amb Ambitions fort for t Authority hority I ITHE THE TIlE HAGUE Dec The he 26 The ideals j jand and Ideas Ideas of Dutch women for cantunes centuries cen can tunes confined to children n. n kitchen litchen and I church have undergone a change and j I daughters of the land lanel of windmills and canals canala are art making a strong fight tight for j I their rights i been Sev Se Several Seral ral great organizations i have j I been formed formed for Improvement of the i conditions of women With Vilh the re reI revision revision re- re I vision of ot the Dutch constitution last I year ear women obtained full tull suffrage and I IthE the lie result IS that now there are women in nearly every ery town tow council Realizing however however that the possession possession possession posses posses- sion of the vote alone does not decide the lot of women women the promoters of the movement mo are now seeking to bring bring- about changes in the laws and regulations regulations regulations regula- regula i which discriminate against the sex economically and socially I FATHER AUTHORITY According to the Dutch law said said Mrs Francken one of the leaders of the women's movement the father Cather has practically all the say about the education of the children He I decides as to their future consents to their marriage and ma may send them I wherever he likes Of course this is is of no importance whatever in a good j marriage where father and mother together together to- to to 1 gether debate about such things but hut this power of the father may easily be abused I f know of several cases inn in which the father deliberately took a a achild l child away and hid it from its mother I without the latter being able to do anything anything anything any- any thing against this course as the law i iwas was on the side of the father I Another thorn thoin in the flesh of the 1 woman is that she must promIse promIse prom prom- prom prom-e Ise obedience to her husband in the vow of marriage Now ow please don dont don't t think that these women arc are averse to rule and order They rhey only want to be bethe the equals of their husbands not their I housekeepers I DESPOTISM STICKS As s things are now a Dutch woman woman I Is has to suffer almost anything from a l t tyrannical husband and nothing short II of ot adultery or bodily ill usage can rid her of his despotism One of the greatest obstacles these I women leaders have to overcome is the conservatism of the old fashioned I women who especially in the rural I districts form a great part of ot the I population But Dut the women who are I fighting for the betterment of their sex hope in the thc end to succeed in conquering conquering conquering conquer conquer- I ing this prejudice dice I |