Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-07-06


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Notable.
1t Is pleasant % trace the progress Of
the woman movement in Sweden There
the world at rres1nt, but in Sweden II
Was characterized By quietness on the
part Of the women, and ready soquiss-
eenoe on the part of the men that are
parallelei nowhere else. First. on the
petition OF the women the universities
and educational institutions were opened
10 them without dissent. Then they
asked % be permitted 10 practice the
learned professions for which they had
studied This, too, was granted. Finally
the strong, gentle blonde women petit
toned that they might follow all civil
and commercial pursuits a. fast as they
showed themselves capable OF doing 50.
This, too, the big blonde men granted,
and now peace and happiness reign IN
Sweden
There are now forty nine medical col
leges that admit women In the United
States and Canada OF these nine are
for women alone.
MEN are aggravatinc; it's no use talk
ing. They never look ut anything the
way q woman does" exclaimed bright
little wife tho other day.
II you go through Fifth avenue in the
middle of the afternoon you will ses
hundreds of exquisitely CARRIED girls.
representing the nearest advance to per-
lection that money can make in the
youthful feminine sex, the flower Of
miIlionairedom. 1t Is fine sight. no
mistake. You say to yourself, here is
beauty. Then later. about o'clock. if
you walk along Fourteenth street or sit
upon one of the benches of Brooklyn
bridge, You Will SEE hundreds of girls
again. They are the clerks, stenoyraphers
and other working girls Of New York
hurrying hons after their days task.
You will observe that they are quite as
handsome, and many of them are every
whit as graceful and tastefully dressed,
as the Fifth avenue girls, though their
garments have not cost half 80 much.
You look admiringly at this long stream
of girls, and you say, then, to yourself,
Here are use and beauty too"
It is one of the requirements not only
of civilization but of common decency
that in cities there should be police ma
irons to search, dress and undress and
otherwise look after women who are ar
rested. Yet in most cities of the Union
the outrage of men taking charge of
women is still permitted at the police
stations.
Mrs. l.. NJ. johnson has been reflect
ed president of the board Of education
Of Loveland, Colo.
Lucy Stone calls attention in Ths
Woman's Journal to the absurdity of the
old marriage custom Of giving q woman
away at her wedding. She says that at
recent wedding lady of mature years.
strong character and the manager of her
own business affairs permitted to be re-
peated at her marriage the absurd Ques-
ton, "Who gives this woman away"
Well, well, Lucy, it may not be so far
wrong after all. Many and many a
woman finds in after years that her mar
riage was absolutely the deadest give
away of her whole life.
There is something that comes home
to tho soul of every woman who has
struggled against the iron prejudice of
the ages in this remark of Annie Besant,
IL have always been on the unpopular
side OF things" There is infinite pathos
in it. Think what it means-a lifetime
of isolation, of tsrnts and jeers even,
for what? Heaven knows. Those who
tread unbroken, thorny paths cannot
themselves tell why they do it.
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