OCR Text |
Show Women's Sights In Germany. Only in so far as the legal position of the married woman must exercise a moral influence on the life of the unmarried un-married ia it necessary to say a word of the legal foundation of marriage in Germany. It rests entirely on the view , of the superiority of man, of the subordination subor-dination of woman. Even the notion that she is bought by her husband survives, sur-vives, in however slight a form, in the ceremony of betrothal. Her husband is her master, her guardian, her natural supporter. Above all he ia her educator. She shares his rank, his name, his dig nitles, his fortune, but without him she cannot administer her own. "In the domain of all she remains a subject," Sohm argues, "and if 6he reigns at all it must be by the free will of man. " In the couEiry like Germany, where, in all matters connected with moral and intellectual life, the links of tradition tradi-tion have never been severed, the present pres-ent is explained by the past Disdainful silence is the mildest form of criticism opponents will offer whenever on the platform or from the professional chair the attempt is made to plead in favor of women's political rights. On this point all the female advocates of the emancipation of their sex are unanimous unani-mous in their lamentations. Boston Post. |