The record-union., 1895-05-28
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action with the other, or with any other
person respecting property, which either
might If unmarried.
section 162. All property of the wife
owned by her before marriage and that
acquired afterwards by gift, bequest, de-
wise or descent, with the rents, issues and
profits thereof, is her separate property"
Then | asked him about a married
woman who earns money for herself, and
he took down the Civil Code Of California
and read:
Section les. The earnings of the wife
are not liable for the debts of the hus-
band. (But her earnings. like her hus-
bands may be charged with their com
mon support.
Section 100. The earnings and accu-
mutations of the wife and OF her minor
children living with her and in her GUS
tody, while she is living separate from
her husband, are the separate property OF
the wife.
Section III. The separate property OF
the wife is not liable Tor the debts OF her
husband"
More than that, the lawyer said that a
woman may earn a salary, say or Sl50 a
week. Her husband may be stricken
with paralysis and she may let him starve
to death, and the law cannot touch her
money. If Il woman is i'll, however, and
ent, either, she can make her husband
support her, and if he does not do it the
law will step in and put him into prison.
In every possible way the laws in this
! State shield and defend a woman and q
Woman'S property. Some unjust laws
there may be. | do not know of them:
but 1t would be strange If men were the
only ones 10 suffer from the mistakes
which Legislatures make.
fIo hall 1. ~ fI,<~y
that men are conspring together 10 rob
women of their rights. / do not believe
that the majority OF American women
believe this, or that they will ever believe
1t. Some there were at the Congress who
spoke we'll or men, very we'll indeed, with
wee little air of patronage, which set
we'll upon them. Some spoke Of them as
enemies, and some said kindly but sor-
roWfully that men "meant Wellt'
On the first day of the Congress seven
spinsters read essays on the proper train
ing OF children, and on the second day q
woman who is famed for her eXcruciating
taste IN dress and IN all that pertains TO
adornment-a woman, too, who has no
home-told the congress how to make
home beautiful. But for all that, the con-
gresS has been good thing. The women
who went to it heard some good ideas
about art and music and education. If
these things tended rather to tanciful
theory than to practical ggestions-that
is. perhaps, no bad thing in this material
istic time.
It's a good thing to stop thinking OF
afternoon teas and what you're going to
give the bride. and how much you can
afford to spend for it once in while, and
think about something really pretty and
something really Interesting. IT'S good
thing for womon TO meet and talk about
a
out what the woman next door thinks
about between calling hours. It's good
thing to sit next to q woman who's not in
the same set and to listen to her ideas
with respect and to answer her without
insOlence.
It's good thing, too, to learn that there
really is new woman. and that she's
come to town. It's a good thing 10 real
ize that the artists have been telling a bit
of truth under all their caricature and
that the woman who scOrns men as in
ferior creatures really does exist outsid o
the funny papers, and that she is not at
all funny when you really soc her.
After all is said, and there is a whole lot
to say, the new woman cannot do much
real harm. She only deals with ballot
boxes and conventions and grievances
She can't touch the real things of life, and
we shall go on loving and suffering and
being happy quite as if she didn't exist,
and some day, who knows. we may wax 9
up and find her gone.-Annie Laurie in
the Examiner.