Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-08-16
Written FOR the Sunday Register.
WOMAN AS A PR0VIS0.


In Ohio the Supreme Court has de-
cided that women may vote for school
officers, provided that it shall not be
considered constitutional privilege,
but a legislative boon. Thus tn "'o-
men Of Ohio are school electors, prOvid-
ing only that they shall not be ccnsid-
cred as having a constitutional status,
which leads to the remark that there
is always a Droviso where women are
concerned and always viii be until
they stand the equals Of men under
laws civil as well as divine
When I was in the Glasgow Museum,
examining the old blue laws Of the
Scottish kirk. 7 found ? decree that wo-
men might attend services in the Ca
rhcdral, converted from pap3i masses
to Calvinistic ps2lmOdy, provided they
did not sit in the seats provided for
men; they We're 70 SIT on the floor, or
bring their stools with them. In Edin-
burg in the national collection of tro-
phies. military and civil. I saw one Of
the very stools permitted by the kirk;
the stool that Janet Ge5dss TO whom a
monument has been erected IN the
Scottish capital threw at the Episco-
pal clergyman with the remark, TAX
We that for dawring TO say mass at my
lug
II seemed TO me then.as il seems to me
now in looking over the Ohio decision,
that here was o proviso with moro
spirit in il than The projectors antici-
pa-ed. Like the stool provided by the
kirk for the women cf Scotland, will be
the decision OF The Ohio court, for The
man must look 10 his robes VINO rus
Ties them i'm the ears of women awak-
cned 10 their rights and duties. All
the same, Ohio women are thankful for
The proyiso. and the judges who made
It.
The gravity with which modern men
have usUrDad al iaw and authority,
pass upon the rights and privileges Of
women. would be laUehablo T. It was
not so Prescriptions. The Scottish
kirk was az least honest when II built
its CHEZ seats for men and RELOCATED
is women 10 the floor: but the men now
who asser. they would give 70 women
, all the rights and privileges they enjoy,
provided .hev could be assured il was
not for he physical and moral Tuiaa-
ton of society and the Sax. have no
such honest merit. AS reasonable crea-
lures they know thar .he women who
SIT beside them FL the church peWs and
the entertainment han. who vote at
church elections. teaAs-An the schools.
sell goods in the store and shop. work
( beside them in the factory, and carry
of The honors in the universities and
! prizes IN the salons, are not likely 70
change their morals and manners the
moment they take ballot In their
hands.
Tho worst feature of this sort If ,eg-
( isla.i0n secured by wOmen's work, IS
| that when women get It through they
cannot see II carried ont because they
/ are cut off from looking after il, by the
/ limitations OF the prov.so. For In
stance. the army nurse bill, which the
/ WTman's Relief Corps got passed by
/ Congress two years ago after IN c.gat
I years campaign. IS proving i1acequa-e,
( because the men of The pension Office
rule ou- the ~eg.uCl-2l nurses, nCtwith-
! standing they were paid and found bT
. Fho government. because Of q technical
+ difference IN their induction inro SER
. vice.
As proviso q woman has her limi-
taticns. Give her the swing OF The civ
/ II law in the same degree as she has OF
+ the moral code and she VII be found TO
/ De as much Of q success as o conserve
F tor of good government in the State IS
+ she has proved herself to be n the