Eureka Reporter | 1902-12-19 | Page 5 | "New" Women of Old

new women of old it if the translation of the babylonian tablets are to be bel eved the new woman la is about as old as the human race five thousand years ago she asserted her equal ty with man car ned ried on business on her own account inherited property and made her will like man there is a possibility that she anticipated the bankruptcy laws by having her husband husbands s property deeded over if her husband married a second wife in her lifetime as he was en titled to do wilhoit fear of tion for bigamy he had to rt return turn the first kofes fortune and she was free to go where she chose and do what she liked without troubling the dl di vorce e court she went into the church and she practiced medicine and law