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Show MAKE PROGRESS IN PHILIPPINES Woman Has Advanced in Professional Profes-sional and Industrial Life, Says One of Them. iS HUSBAND'S REAL PARTNER i Shares With Him the Carei of Du. ' nSB, Especially In Its Financial Aspeots Many Take Up Legal Profeiolon. Now York Mine. Jiihnu Do Vejrn. wlfg f one of the n'pre-MiUM of itr I'll "pHlne IslmuU to the United titite' ' ! rorcully been MUK women's wom-en's cliih In New Yeilt city, telling what he lull nlre.nlj told the women of W""n!;ton. They hnc line systems f eduuitloM, she mis, good schools, aad a hlgfc degree of eeoniiinle useful-Bess. useful-Bess. Mine. He Voyrn wore, In KlUng her tIWs, oae of the beautiful gowns of tho Philippines, n delicate plue-Byple plue-Byple fUrlc, haud-woven nnd hnnd-eubruldeied, hnnd-eubruldeied, hnd like a gutizy-winged gutizy-winged butterfly. "ThlHfs aie wade ery easy for Uih Fllljilue weiaau In lunny n)s," she said. "Tha profcslonal opirtunltlcs nre at (ed far her ns fr tho wca. Tuiea are already members ef the riilllpMlue Bar nyooclallou seuiethlng wlilcli I laipeiwlbte for the uomeu of Orrat Britain they nre In biiiluess for IliemselTM, and they nro success- ful pructlclug phfkiiins. I.nws made (or our wenien combine the bo't of j SpanlKh and Aiucrlcnn precedents. Made Easy for Women. "i:er.thlur has been innde muck more i-lmple fer iih than for cither the Anict Iciiii or SpnnlHh women. Married wniiieii hold their propeiiy In severalty, several-ty, and they aru guardians of their own children. Of the property which tecimi to n married couple, the wife Is half iidiiilnWtrnlrK, nnd these aru rosteil rights which cannot he tnken from her. It Is not unusual for the mother f n family to lme not only a household -leadership, hut economic control. M. IV Vejrn, who Is Interested III hlsloiy, tells me that before Ihe Spiiiibh vn""' tt0 lmtl " nintrlnrch.il ayKteni, and this lms innde the I'lllp-plno I'lllp-plno women self-respecting and Mil-hint. "Ut our :t,lll Islands, only 400 are Inhabited, the principal ones beliiR I.nsm. Mlndiinao and VlRajns; yet even In lural little Barrios you 11U find some sort of a woman leader. One old woman who has had seventeen children, thirteen having lived to grow up, and who hns many Kinndchlldrcn nnd greatgrandchildren, Ftlll oxerelncs full sway oer the family, mid has tho hist word to say hi all l.Manchil afiiilrs. The man led ihlldren as well ns other, oth-er, look U" t her not only as a mother, moth-er, bill lis till iuIvIm'I. "Wume.i, win n in. marry, go Into partnerships with their hushnnrts. While Ihe mu handle tho workers, I ho women nttend to the finances, net ns cashiers, pay the workers, and over-' see much of the buslneau. Thtyr have equality with men in everything ex-ccpt ex-ccpt In voting, which the governor general gen-eral has recommended la his messages to the legislature. When It wns flret recommended the women had not node much of an effort to gain the vote, but this year appeals camo from (he proTlnces and women's elubs and associations. In 1007 there were only thirty women's clubs, but now there are 807. A petition signed by 18,008 women was sent to the law-makers, who granted a Joint legislative hearing hear-ing on woman suffrage. Three Filipino women spoke. Two of them were practicing prac-ticing lawyers, and the ono who was unld to haT.e made the best speeeh was Mra. Concepclon- Onlderon, widow of the man who wrote the constitution of Mallolos. Adept With Needle, "lime. Calderon Is n successful business busi-ness woman, owning n fish farm and an embroidery enterprise. This Industrial Indus-trial problem has not reached the Filipino women to any great extent except through the cigar factories and Is embroidery. There are, I believe, Ave big Amerlcnn embroidery firms la the Philippines, nnd one of Uiem In Manila employs 7,000 women. Bvery-thing Bvery-thing In the underwear business, except ex-cept the weaving of cloth, Ls done by hand: the hemstitching nnd even the scams are sewed by )mnd, "Women who haTe children aud cannot can-not go to the factories take tho work home and are paid by the piece. I have heard of one of these workers, from n woman who hnR an embroidery business, busi-ness, who can make six chemises a day at HO cents n chemise, every stitch by hnnd. She hns saved a great deal of money besides tnktng care of her children. "All of tho pineapple cloth is made by tho women In their homes on hand-niHdo hand-niHdo looms, mndo by an ordinary carpenter. car-penter. Comparatively llttlo of It Is mndo nowadays, for It Is slow work, and thu women cannot afford to do It. Any ono who wishes It muht give a Bpeclal older, nnd It Is expensive. "We nro Interested In tho Philippines Philip-pines In progressive legislation, In public health measures and day nurseries, and the women have Introduced In-troduced a profit-sharing plan In Wit-.bid Wit-.bid and other prisons, Thoy have Introduced police matrons and Industrial Indus-trial teachers for the Insane. "The Woman's Club of Man"" a member of tho Federation of Vr nV Clubs, U. 8. A., and now the wouien re federating their own flubs." |