Garland Globe | 1906-08-11 | Page 7 | Women Gaining in Power

WOMEN GAINING IN POWER Have Recently Been Granted Mhny Privileges in Norway Advance Claimed in Canada. Students of female emancipation may bo Intorostod to lenrn from tho report of tho National Council of Women In Norway that that country has recognized tho right of women to sit on a Jury; that tho storthing recently re-cently nominated a woman as tho winner of tho Nobel prize, nnd thjt n school hus been started to Instruct young girls In tho responsibilities ol citizenship ns well as In tho cure oi children. It Is also learned that the number of women who voted for tho separation of Norway from Sweden was greater than that of tho men. Those and other facts of similar character wero brought out at a recent re-cent meeting of tho Women's Institute Insti-tute In Ixnidon, whero one of tho speukers, a Mrs. Fltzglbbou, who clalmod to belong to the race "of vikings of Urltlsh North America, assorted that Canadian wonwn wero In a position to rule Canada owing to tholr advanced views and porfoct organization or-ganization tho moment an entering wedgo could bo mado by which thoy might gain tho power of suffrage