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Show ' two hour a day to the Instruction t of that tender and interring branen I of the community, the young Indies. J But a late as the first quarter of tho ninetieth century one-quart r of I tho women who owned property could j cot sign tholr nam. "Protection has a limited moral field. It can properly b applied to children and to animal. If a roan wishes to enjoy the pleas-jres of su-pcrlortty su-pcrlortty to a subordinate, if he wants a wife who la compliant and good ai a pet, be had better not marry; he had better consider hU desires In a frank Usht and adopt a do. Th only echoed for true sentiment 1 society so-ciety between equals. New York Evening Eve-ning Sun. THE WOMAN OF A CENTURY AGO "Women," says Dr. Thomas of Chicago Chi-cago university, "are not fully natural, natur-al, functionally nor morally; their true character and nature Is not fully expressed. ex-pressed. While men have been acquiring ac-quiring the means of living women have been working within tho homo and their protecter or equestered situation sit-uation has become an historical Ideal. In a 'Guide to Matrimonii! Happiness' publlsncd In 1S21, a woman Is advised to dispense with a weight of thought 1 that would be painful and not profitable profit-able to her. 'I would not have her silent continues this mentor; 'when , trifles aro In question let her talk. but let her dlKtinsuleh carefully when the conversation turns on serious subjects.' sub-jects.' This kind of ideal has been j held up to women on all sides from . the books of etlnuette to the 'Councils 'Coun-cils of Perfection,' of tho church. ' Women have been regarded as aurac- live to the degree In which they appeared ap-peared weak and dependent It li this sentiment done Into verse that I we find over and over again in Tennyson's Ten-nyson's poetry. "Our Puritan fathers thought very little of wo;"" ilris In the early eighteen- century girls were excluded exclud-ed from Hopkins seminary a improper improp-er an.d unsuitable objects of educa- . , lion. In 1. it was voted to allow |