Duchesne Record | 1914-08-28 | Page 3 | Simply Demanding Her Own

SIMPLY DEMANDING HER OWN I Recent Discoveries Show That Woman Worn Wom an Has Retrogressed Since the Days of the Pharaohs In the days of the Pharaohs no Pharaohs no less than In the days of ot the Roman noman empire woman was on a pIano plane of equality with man There is thus tItus perhaps S nothing exorbitant now in her demand demand de do mand for the vote She is only askIng asking ask ask- ing for a little o of her own back Sir Gaston Maspero l has unearthed some papyri which throw an Interesting light on the consideration consideration con con- of ot woman and marriage In those days mankind evidently favored favored fa fa- fa a kind of trial marriage and this marriage woman entered on terms of ot perfect equality or even perhaps on terms of superiority This was the usual marriage marriage mar mar- contract as deciphered by Sir Gaston M pero Thou me to be thy wife and thou unto me rae a dowry It If It so hap that I tire of ot thee or that I cast my say eyes on another than thee I will return unto thee a part of ot thy dowry and will go where good unto me