The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-08-19
WOMEN AND PROGRESS.

n appAaar to be any necessary
pection between women and
! ress, yeN 4 slight study of the
is sufficient t to show that the
ltion of the o sne is sure measure
bat of the otEher. The moral and
Y tcal status of any country has
b AVS depeude fl upon the position
! ! by woman there, The nearer
d, is to the 9sonditiou of a slave, the
D genY orally degraded is the
i le natid In; thus the degree of her
dom is 1Nignificant of country's
Nh anEt durability. No people
no SCI Theme of progress ever sue
leGTand became lasting which
not include the advancement OF
woman equally with man
The Oldest and best known nation
Of anriquity was Egypt. In her day
he was the most polished and most
civilized of peoples. Her learning,
her science, her military and polite
/. abilities, her handicrafts and
mechanical appliances, amaze the
student of to. day. He rubs his eyes
and asks, Was this really an ancient
Or a modern country, this land OF
tneteenth century conveniences,
his home of established govern
nent hoary with antiquity and OF
Institutions venerable with age, this
preceptress and mother of art and
(earning throughout the whole OF
Me known worldi The answer is
imple She was the first to recog-
ize the equality Of the sexes. Her
isrriage contracts prove that an
Egyptian wife then was in many re-
slects in a better position than a
VIE Il most European countries
no.. The medical profession was
ehNay practiced by women, and
ne-~e find that the mortality OF
Ushers, of infants, and children,
surprisingly small. In that
Ginning little story "The Doctors
ofoyland," by DR.. Conan Doyle,
Weave case where a gifted and
Skld lady practitioner absolutely
annilated those common preJudle-
eS gainst female doctors, even
|he entertained by a sore male
com,utor, one DR.. Ripley, Il coun-
try s'geon of the old school The
hctlot that amuses and surprises the
novel eading English of this tail
END o he nineteenth century, was
aeon on matter of everyday fac!
in Eg't Il ore than four thousand
yeeI >. Women also occupied
conspl ous positions in the State
ohur J. AS Priestesses they offici.
ated N ! its ceremonies and were
most if9ueutly the vehicles of the
ai7lne 'acies. They contributed
largely the founding of the ma
lional 1T ature, and even in Plato's
DAYS the acred books of Isis were
consldeft to De about ten thousand
years Old A Greek SAGE. when il
Egypt hang boasted of the divine
aescelt OF he mushroom royalty Of
dis country the high prlst rebukeC
Inn b! eShiftlng the statues of 3O(
Oh his predecessors in that Office il
one lo1g broken line, all high
priests enuS sons of men. What
olher states |, the world ever sur
!, passed this n, good government
'hat Is, gOGfdment most suitable
10 It's poopleHor for steady durabil
IVY! But thFe, in that remote day,
Tue wife was lmost rs free as tn,
husband an{ had similar socia
i'Rnts. CONTRARY to all modern US
ages OF the Edit, she could dine il
public with him, and facetiou'
printers occasionally depicted hel
~ various stages of intoxication
"hile monogamy was the rule, poly
sahy, though exceptional, was als(
,a"iul' and the double system tt
nave worked well. The reformation
ol Nahomet excluded women from
nS system, denied them education
and civil rights. shut them out from
.'S churches and Immortal Paradise
and ranked them with the lower ami
taa's' The result WAS rapid ant
. .a.s' degradation OF the race, an(
national Improvement both mental,
aId materially. THE descendants O
learned, wealthy, (and hish-spirit
- people, the most distinguished il
ancient history. BECAME the ignor
Aas and feeble fallah( (een of Egypt