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Show "New" Women of Old. If tho translation of the Babylonian tablets aro to be believed, the "new woman" Is about as old as tho human race. Five thousand years ago sho asserted her equullty with man. carried car-ried on business on her own account. Inherited property and made her will like man. There la a possibility that she anticipated the bankruptcy laws by having her husband's property "deeded over. ' If her husband married a second wlfo In ber lifetime as be was ou-titled ou-titled to do without fear of prosecution prosecu-tion for bigamy ho had to rulum thu first wife's fortune, and she was free to go whero Kite choso and do what sho liked, without tumbling tho divorce di-vorce court. Hho went Into tho church and sho practiced medicine aud law. |