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Show Woman'! Progress In Korea. Among ths many interesting facts to be gathered from Mr. Savage Lan-dor's Lan-dor's book on Korea, lately published, by no means the least striking is the author's statement that the native queen "is much in favor of the emancipation of the Korean women." But unfortunately the sympathy of her Korean majesty does not seem at present to have done much toward improving im-proving the lot of her feminine subjects, ior we are toia mac worK 01 every kind is done by the women alone, who are practically the slaves of their husbands. It would seem, after all, that the Korean Ko-rean queen's leaning toward general feminine "emancipation" is nothing more than what theologians call a "pious "pi-ous opinion," for Mr. Savage Landor says "there are tongues in Seoul that say that the queea actually rules the king, and therefore through him the country, and that he is more afraid of her gracious majesty, his wife, than of the very devil himself." If this bo so, the queen seems rather selfishly inclined to confine the practical practi-cal realization of her "new woman" theories to her own palace. Lady's Pictorial. |
