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Show THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN. Miss Susan B. Anthony Talks of Re- H suits Achieved. BJ Miss Susan B. Anthony, In nn article In Collier's Weekly on tho achieve- flj ments of women, says: "Tho progress flj in education is so marked nnd so well flj understood as to need but llttlo com- ment. When, In 1851, Mrs. Stanton, Lucy Stone and I mado a demand that flj girls In tho state of New York should fl bo permitted an opportunity for a col- Hj lego education, there wns not even a. flj high school open to them In tho wholo- flj United States. Oberlln, Ohio, was tho- H only collego they could enter, and U thero wero no preparntory schools to- flj fit them for that Institution. At tho H present tlmo they aro admitted to all flj tho stato universities except those or H Virginia, Georgia and Louisiana, and ffl to all tho largo universities of tho flj Middle and Western states. Tho re- flj cent most unwarranted nnd retrogros- flj slvo action of Chlcngo university in Hj 'segregating' tho women students jfl shows that tho battle Is not entirely Hj over, but tho end Is In sight. Miss. flj Anthony says that thero are now H 3,500,000 women wage earners In this- H country, and that tho occupations la H which they engage nro with a few B exceptions tho occupations of men. H Miss Anthony says: "Tho laws, taken ' flj as a wholo, are by no means exactly IB just to women, but thero Is a steady H tendency toward Justice and practl- HJ cally no retrogression." HJ |