The morning call., 1890-07-18
ode WORLD DO MOVE"
The Progress That Ras Been Noticed IL
tho Womnn's Movement.

The Progress That Ras Been Noticed in
tho womnp's Movement.
Editor Womdn'S Column, Morning Call:
Brother Jasper is right: 60 The sun do
move" Many of us can remember when
woman physician was almost unthinkabIe.
1t was just the thing for men to doctor wo-
men, but most indecent for women to doc
tor men. A woman might take care of
man twenty-four hours per day for nothing.
but for woman TO come occasionally, look
at his tongue, feel of his pulse and tell the
other women what to do, all for fair price,
was as dreadful as for a woman to vote.
Alb by Kelly, lovely Quakeress, felt call
to 60 up and down New England telling the
truth about slavery, temperance and wo-
men, and when she went 10 church the
clergyman preached from the text:
" Has this Jezebel come among usr'
Lucy Stone went forth on similar mis-
sion, and one Of her notices was
thus read: "At P. NJ. a hen will try to
crow like a rooster" Belva Lockwood
suffered martyrdom trying to obtain per
nit to practice law. The girl who thought
of college was hooted and she who read
sensible books must not talk much about
them, while "blue stocking" who
could write a readable article-waS dis
grace 10 the family. Women helped by
sensible neu udNt lOupuI utdNJ
within our memory. jeered and eanEonaded
often by those they tried to help. Tney
scaled bristling walls, securing vantage
ground for us who work in peace where
they were hardly permitted to stand idle.
Now the medical
WOMAN Is PETTED.
The woman preacher has ceased to arouse
old Adam, and we can all see how much
women are needed in law. Women would not
be the forgotten woman" in our codes, would
not be always at legal disadvantage, were
women at the bar; on the bench TO give
women the benefit of what justice there Is;
ON the jury to call for right; In the court to
enhearten the innocent, and uphold the
Judge and jury that do care for right. Our
jury heeleTs and court haDgerS-on are dis
grace, and every decent person should feel
it a patriotic duty 10 take his turn on the
jury, and also duty to combine with other
decent people to secure such moral
atmosphere about the courts that good Will
be protected and evil punished. III
decent people withdraw from politics,
leave the making and executing of laws and
also the judiciary 10 those who now man
age our affairs, leave the molding OF
their children, the protection of all they
have TO those whom they would not trust
with the custody OF their purse. there
will be no support to Judge or jury dis
posed 10 do right, and soon we shall have
nothing to protect. Women and decent
men are sadly needed in law, and lawyers
have been more generous to women than
any other profession, for they have opened
their doors with very little urging. and tile
best of them have dealt valiant blows for
their sisters. Women will never forget the
brotherly words and deeds of Sumner,
Chase, Lincoln, Hoar, Sewell, Bowdtch,
Sal gent and many other
ABLE LAWYERS
Who have defended the women who made
the first venture, and urged that every bar
rier to perfect equality between men and
women be removed. Petifoggers, so-called
cergymen, who cannot preach, and quackS
fear women as competitors, but large men
never. They know that the world needs
all the ability in it's suffering for lack OF
it; and they welcome it wherever found. a
country is not free when one hall decides
what the other half shall do, and only as
barriers are removed can the talent in wo-
men be developed.
Over 200 years ago Bridget Grafton gave
the land for the first public school in New
England, but girls were not permitted to
attend the school for two reasons
which because of their logic have done duty
for two hundred years and are still gravely
presented: First, girls have not the ability
to take an education and do not want 1t; sec
Ond, if women have chance TO 20 TO school
they will neglect their homes, decline ma
ternal duties and spend all their time in alb
struse speculation. First they can't, the
Lord prohibits by not giving the ability,
and next, if women have the desired ad-
vantage they will neglect every duty to de-
vote themselves to what they cannot do.
Women to-day do as matter OF course
what our fathers demonstrated that she
could not do at all. To-day girls are often
our best scholars. As a rule women are
better educated than men.
MORE GIRLS GRADUATE THAN BOYS,
At higher per cent. OF all the scholars in
the San Francisco public schools girl won
no ,,Pva m rho Eranph pYnOsi-
ton. a few years ago there was an inter-
collegiate contest worthy of the name,
test OF scholarship, and Edith Thomas of
Cornell took the Greek prize. The girls,
though few in number, averaged higher
than the boys, and ever since intercollegiate
prizes have been given for rowing or pitch
ing balls, something in no way representing
that for which colleges are organized. Two
or three years ago Agnatha Ramsey took
the tripos at Cambridge, England, and
won the senior classic, the hlgh honor,
becoming senior wrangler, and despite her
superior intellect and her formidable honor,
she detied the propheSies by marrying DR..
Butler of Trinity College, her teacher, who
was not afraid of a woman with head for
classics, and recently the London papers
announced that Miss Fawcett had carried
off the highest honors in Cambridge Uni
versity. She.is "bracketed as the superior
OF the male senior wrangler In the mathe-
NAUTICAL tripos." Two other young women
Miss Field and Miss Lea-are among the
wranglers, whereat the London paper re-
joices. Over such feminine success, es-
pecially in mathematics, how would our
grandparents have felt? One generation
declares the sphere of woman, bat she soon
grows beyond it, and the next generation
comedies the larger limits. All is granted
to her now but political rights, but they are
the defense of all other rights. The next
generation Will see these granted and will
smile over the doubte1s who are afraid
to allow women liberty. S. S.
GfLroy, July, 1890
A SERMON ON MARRIAGE.