The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-29
W0MAN'SR0AD TO RICHES
THE NEW FIELDS OPENED TO HER
SINCE THE WAR

Competitor.
WASHINGTON. March 2S.-The morning
session of the International Council of
Women was devoted to the general subject
of industries, Laura NJ. Jones, President
of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association,
presided
The first paper Of the session was read by
Mrs. A. Livermore, on "Woman's Indus
trial Gains During the Last Half Century"
Mrs. Livermore said:
Our serial structure has been based ON the
theory that "all men support all women"-a
theory which has never been true, and which is
further from being true TO day than ever before.
The practical working of this theory has
weighted women with heavy disabilities for
many men make neither good nor competent
husbands, and a host Of wives have been and
are compelled in part or entirely to earn the
livelihood OF their whole families.
AN NIQuIrous ENACTMENT.
Out of this absurd theory has come the ini-
quitous legal enactment that the earnings of
married women, as we'll as the legal ownership
OF their persons and minor children, should be-
long to their husbands. In a majority of the
States Of the Union this infamous condition of
things remains unchanged to-day.
Not college was opened TO women until the
close of the war, save grand old Oberlin. Now
those which admit women are more in number
than those which reject them Missionary
philanthropic educational and temperance or
ganizations of great magnitude have been
formed AMI conducted by women with phenom-
enal success, and all of them date from the
close of the war Since the war hundreds of
women physicians aud surgeons have graduated
from medical schools, and scores of clergy
women and lawyers from theological and law
schools.
WOMEN IN THE INDUSTRIES.
The amazing dev elopment in the industrial
world that succeeded the war has given women
almost limitless industrial opportunities, and in
Massachusetts alone between $50, 900 and 300 900.
women are earning living in industrial occu-
pations.
The spirit of justice now fairly awake will ere
long establish schools for women, which will
dignity their labor and make it attractive and
more remunerative, by putting into IL skill and
taste. This technical training will
create new employments for women,
so that in theic struggle for existence they will
not as now, invade the work of men and under
bid them. 1t will develop in them aptitudes not
now dreamed of, and shaping their lives more
har1oniousy, make it richer, happier. ana in
all large meanings, more prosperous.
WOMEN IN THE GRANGE.
Mrs. A. NJ Warden, Worthy Master of
Vineland Grange No. II, read a paper on
She spoke of tho Grange, its objects and
woman's connection with it; the farm, its
isolation and social needs, its mo-
notonous round of toll and its
effects upon mentality, often leading
to insanity, and its possible effects upon
hereditary habits and life. The grange,
she said, was temperance society
enjoining temperance in all things; peace
society abrogating war; debating club,
tolerating all shades of opinion, and whose
obligations do not interfere with the moral,
civil or religious duties or opinions. Only
women, she said, can educate men up to
the suffrage question by proving not alone
her right, but her ability to judge politi-
caly.
WOMEN AS KNIGHTS.
Hulda B. Loud read n paper on women
in the Knights of Labor" She said that
woman's great influence in the Knights of
Labor is being felt wherever women of
character have joined the order. Her work
in the order is manifest in the banishment
Of tobacco and rum from the assembly
rooms and in the greater effect upon herself
in the development of a stronger and more
self-relant character. She is begin
ming to question il it is right
to vote, speak and hold
office in these assemblies, why is it wrong
for her to do SO in the Statel Her official
recognition is slow because Of mans selfish
ness and her own timidity and disinclination
to push her claims; and then, office has not
and never will have the attraction for
The next speaker was Ida Barney Sales,
Corresponding Secretary of the Sociological
Society of America. Her paper described
the work of the society and discussed the
question of cooperation.
MRS BARRY ON THE KNIGHTS.
The President next introduced Mrs Leo
nora M. Barry, an organizer of the Knights
of Labor The subject of her paper was
What the Knights of Labor are Doing
for Women" Mrs. Barry spoke with per
feet ease and great earnestness and effect.
Her address created something akin to a
sensation, and, af er taking her seat, she
was twice compelled to come forward and
bow her acknowledgements for the ovation
rendered her. She said
We are building around orr working girls
wall to defend and protect them from the indig
mites and humiliations which heretofore they
have been subjected to. Any condition Of society
that prevents a woman or child from cultivat-
ing and developing those three elements
of which humanity is formed, moral
mental and physical elements, making them
NJ subjects to do the work for which those
beings we're intended by an Almighty God that
state Of society is false. There are no better
law-supporters, no more loyal citizens
true TO the law OF their
country and their country's flag than
day They do noe demand revolution, but they
do demand reform. They do not ask il by the
power of physical or brute force or strength,
they do not ask It by the destruction OF life or
property, they simply ask it at the hands Of the
law making bodies Of their nation.
The session closed with well-received
address on "Women as Farmers" by Esther
L. Warner.
WOMEN AS EDUCATORS.
At the evening session Prof. Rena A.
Michaels spoke Of "Women as Educators
and contrasted tho modes of training edu-
Gators fifty years ago with those pursued
to-day. She said that the Michigan Uni
versity by opening its doors had given
a new history TO women as educators, open
ing to them the door Of every profession
Tie highest step III womans education can
not BIO reached, she said, until the Johns
Hopkins University shall be opened TO
young women who have prepared them
selves as educators.
WOMEN IN JOURNALISM.
Laura G. Holloway spoke on Women In
Journalism Twenty five years ago only
fifteen women were employed in the whole
country as editors, while at present there
are 300 employed in active journalistic
work in New York city alone. In conclu-
sion she paid a tribute TO news
paper editors and proprietors Of
the United States, and said that the news
paper that attempted 10 get along without
a woman ON its staff would be bankrupt in
five years The best school for journalism
is the newspaper Office, and the best news
paper work that woman does is that which