The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-18


Americans who have ss1Glsd at the Ber-
In university viii remember this remark
able MAJ Re was one OF the lecturers
IN logic and ethics x1d mas easily marked
by the fact that ne lad 70 De wheeled
from als home 10 the university. Al his
life he was = hopeless cripple. and his
body was so eefcrrred that i was q
wonder 20 everybody how he rasnaSed TO
do his work Besides his lectures be also
did considerable writing. ard Il vas ne
who FRS. Introduced Res.amy's Looking
Backward TO the German public His
book On ethics. which Is one 81 the best
IN Germany. has been adapted into
English.
Frau won Clxycki. or FTauiein ven
krssschmarn. as she vas called before
her marriage often helped the professor
IN editing The Ethical Soeiety'S journal.
and on account OF his eo7dltion was COM
PEELED 20 work With him in his study.
This frieriiv acquaintance developed into
a strong attachment on beth sides. and
one das society learned that they were
70 marry. They lived together most hap
ply for two years. and then the pro-
fessor was carried away By an attack Of
influenza. which his weak constitution
could not Withstand His wife conducted
his editorial work for several months, but
finally gave K up that she might devote
her time more exclusively 10 her Interests
in the woman question. The professor
had also been greatly interested In this
direction. and Il vas doubtless through
his Influence that his wife took the de-
Ierminea staad for which she Is now noted.
She demands for women full political
rights and the same opportunities and
possibilities fer she exercise of talent fkas
men enjoy.
For some time she edited in coliabora-
ton with Frau Couer fhe Frauenbewe-
sung. the organ of the advanced woEaans
movement IN Germany. and left 1t only
lately TO join the Social Democrats They
require that their leaders shall devote
their entire time 10 the cause. and no ex-
ceptioa could be made of Frau Won Gi-
xycki The change. however, was entirely
a matter Of conscience with her, and she
now expects 70 achieve her ambition for
woman through the Social Democracy.
Her friends think she has made a mistake
in joining the Socialists, and say that she
had q better career before her as liter
AIRY woman. but her influence has never
been SO pronounced as now in the ranks
of the Socialists. She Is ia demand as a
lecturer throughout Germany. Austria
and Switzerland. and at every congress
her name always has a prominent place
on the programme. AS she speaks Eng
iish. she i also sought after by the So
c.alists in England. and she expects 10
take part IN the congress 10 be held in
London in July. Last summer sac was III
London. at the International congress OF
women. and no delegate from Germany
made TIE impression that she did.
Here in Berlin she is also popular as a
lecturer on literary topics. and there has
been no public address in the city for q
number OF years that aroused the inter-
est her Woman in Modern Poetry" did a
Jews days ago ut the Press Club meeting.
4 Tor Aas- he III Of ESla
te." Fer woman little over 50 years OF
age. and brought up, as she has been. in
a society where women are supposed 10 be
mere SALON. Damen or Haus- FraUen. this
is an achievement We'll worth remarking.
and particularly in Germany, where all
the learning is thought 10 be IN the heads
OF the men.
Frau Won Gizycki says that one of the
main reasons why women in Germany
have been so backward In agitatins their
cause is that they have lacked . liked
object TO which they could devote their
energies. They have been too willing TO
take what the men would give them, such
as minor places in the civil service and a
few privileges in the university, and then
let the matter rest until another hit of gen.
crosby came over their lords. For her
all these things are mere side issues. and
she is convinced that nothing satisfactory
can be accomplished until a comprehen-
siye plan or reform, Including tAe pdtsoi.
has been resolved upon.
THE women of Germany, she said fur
Their, have made a mistake ia thinking
that the movement concerns merely what
we call the surplus milton IL Is said
that there are always i.od0. 600 more women
in Germany than men. and they, Of course.
remain unmarried The time has come,
however, when " is no longer a question
OF whether a women can marry or not,
but of liberty and development. At pres
ent there Is no country in the world where
women develop less and are more de-
graded than in Germany. and the only
hope for them Il that they rise in a mass
and declare their Independence.
The Social Democrats. she thinks, con-
stitute the only political party likely to
work for the emancipation desired, and
she is now helping them In the hope that
they will reciprccate If they ever get into
power