| Show WOMANS emancipation tre THE progress of the dorkof the tho po ol 01 emancipation of women ls 18 ono one of the topics of the times which receives frequent notice from the press rand is now favorably considered by many journals that used to ridicule the movement for comans womans wo mans lights the following is clipped from an article in the san francisco chronicle on the subjection of woman 29 a and n d briefly shows how liow th the work is prospering jn in the london school boards there are arb nearly as many women ix the directory as men in a number of the states of the union they have been elected to high and responsible positions in educational tion and they constitute a very large TM proportion of the teachers tea chers cherp of the united states the number of post mistresses distresses mi stresses in the interior towns promises soon to equal that of the postmasters thoy they hold positions in almost every department at washington they are admitted to many of our universities s colleges law schools and medical seminaries they practice medicine and law toc 40 occupy c the rostrum and the pulpit and are free to ca carry 0 on n any n y branch of business ess in which they ta he y feel inclined to embark liberal divorce laws furnish them with a sure means of escaping g from marital nya nia itai ital tyranny and cruelty when they find the evils of the relation intolerable in short scarcely one of the wrongs against which mill so eloquently protested now survives and the epoch of wo mans subjection ll 11 jn in the sense in which he use used d the terna term is passed pissed at least in all the english speaking countries country es and is rapidly passing in other civilized nations nat lon |
