The morning times., 1896-08-17

She should carry ever on her heart a
burden OF love and anxiety for the pros
perity of the great organization OF which
she is part. Let each one do this, and
our numbers will increase
Under the head OF Where Woman.s
Time Goes, the Chicago Tribune gives
the Following list OF duties performed,
which Will rot strike any woman OF the
same standard OF living as being anything
unusual In the way OF Accomplishment:
PLEASE state TO the court exactly what
you did between 8 and 8 o'clock ON
Wednesday morning. said a lawyer 20 u
delicate-looking woman, on the witness
stand.
We'll" she said, after moments reflec-
ton, II washed my two children and got
them ready for school. and sewcd a button
on Johnny's coat and mended a rent in
Nellie's dress. Then / tidied up my sit
ting room and made two beds and watercd
my house plants and glanced over the morn
ing paper Then / busted my parlor and
SET things to rights in it. ard washed some
lamp chimDeys and coInBed my baby IS hair,
AID sewed q button on one of her little
shoes, and then 1 swept out my front
entry, and brushed and put away the chill
dren's Sunday clothes, and wrote a note
10 Johnny's teacher asking her to excuse
him for not being at school on Friday.
Then fed my canary bird, and gave the
grocery man an order, and swept off tho
hack porch, and then sat down and rested
few minutes before the clock struck nine
That's ALL
But the Tribune adds
All said the dazcd lawyer. Excuse
me, Judge: must get my breath beforc 1
call the next witness"
The Louisiana senate has passed a I'LL
to raise the age of protection for girls.
THIS bill is strongly supported by the New
Orleans Daily Picayune, which says:
Although males are, in the eye = the
law. minors until they shall have aItained
the age of tweEty-one. female children of
twelve years OF age are considered CON-
peien. to decide on such matters. and are
authorized by law TO enter into lives OF ill.,
fanny, so that, if such an infant shall be
overcome by the persuasions and brides of
some beastiy man, and be thereby Induced
to consent to his debaucbments. the man
is fully protected by law. and all the blame
is laid by the statutes upon the wretchei
and helpless infant. This is the law in
Louisiana.
Thi is probably relic OF the state of
affairs in France made Infamous by the
sacrifice OF female infants to the WORKOUT
old voluptuary, Louis XIV. The evil has
existed for a long time in this State hut
il has been corrected in most of tie States
of the Union, and particularly in the North.
In New York the age is eighteen years.
The age is raised in the bill which has
lust passed the senate at Baton Rouge 10
sixteen years. 1t ought to pass the house
without debate.
There is nothing more Infamous than for
the men of a great commonwealth to de-
clare that their daughters and sisters at
the age of twelve years are possessed of the
knowledge and discretion that will enable
them to protect themselves against the Sc
ducions OF the other sex, and are au-
thorized at pleasure TO enter on a life of
shame. 1t shows that either the men have
given no conside RI ton to the subject and are
wholly ignorant of its meaning and bearing.
or they realize the advantage the law
gives them over female infants. and they
desire to hold on to it. Either alternative
is bad enough.