The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-11-28

wood in W ashington, are each admitted
TO the bar as regular practitioners.
Four women in Michigan University
are in the law department. Dental col
leges in Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Cincinnati admit women.
Women physicians are more numer-
Gus every year, and are as successful as
men. Indeed, wOman's place in the
medical profession is so well established
that efforts are being made to give
her access to greater advantages for
study, as matter of necessity.
Training schools for nurses have been
established in Boston and New York.
In New Jersey women have been
made eligible to the Office of school
trustees, and several have been elected,
while in Massachusetts a large number
have been elected members of the
school committees. The Legislature OF
New Hampshire voted that the women
of that State were not cOmpeteutt OvOte
on school committees. One is not sur
prised at this, when We know that the
same Legislature passed the law giving
any married man, whose wife has been
insane twelve months, a right TO sell her
real estate. The insane married woman,
in New Hampshire, whose reason is re-
stored after thirteen months, returns to
find her property cOnfiscated and with
no power to get it back. Is il strange
that body of men who could pass such
a law should think that women were
not competent to serve on school COM
mittees?
Quite a number of women have been
elected County Superintendents of pub
lie instruction in Illinois and Kansas.
The law making women eligible to this
and other offices connected with public
instruction in Illinnis, was enacted at
the instance of Hon. J. B. Bradwell.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
cided that a wife may contract, sue and
be sued, may earn, own and enjoy prop
erty on an equality with her husband.
The Common Council of st. Louis re-
jected the petition of one thousand
women of that city, asking for the re-
peal of an OdiOus city ordinance by
which houses of prostitution are licensed,
and women legally subjected to the
grossest indignity. But the Rev. Geo.
Eliot brought suit in the courts, and OBJ
tanned decision declaring the Ordi-
nance unconstitutional. 1t is under
stood that those who desire to continue
the license of this sin will appeal to the
supreme court.
The circuit court of the State of New
| York decided, in the case Of Miss An
| thOny and other women, who claimed
| their right to vote under the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments, that their
votes were illegal, and a fine was i'm
posed on Miss Anthony. Thus the law
holds that to be a crime, when done by
a woman, which is praisewOrthy and
right when done by man.
4Scribnel'S Monthly, the ChIHchmdl,
and other conservative publications
have lately attempted to revive the fad
ing idea of the ownership Of wives by
their husbands. But the great NJ ethO-
dist Church has stricken out the word
''obey1 from its marriage service, and
all the Protestant sects, except the
/ Episcopal, are fast following the exam
pie. And in many of our States, the
past year has witnessed important mod
ifications of the property laws for wives,
all in the direction of equality in the
marriage relation. Nowhere has there
been any reverse legislation. The High
| Courts of HindoOstan have affirmed the
right of widow to the Independent use
of property inherited from her deceased
husband. Everywhere, spite Of DR..
Holland and the GiUrchnda, the ten
dency is to equality of rights between
husband and wife, and between men and
women in all the relations of life.
Lucy STONE,
Chairman Executive Committee.