The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-09-01
THE EMANCIPATED WOMAN,
France and Italy Are Beginning to
Grant the Fair Sex Some
COncessiOns.

although continental Europe Knows
no such freedom of the female sex as
is TO be found in this country, and even
in England, still the emancipated
woman is beginning to be a fact in
some countries. This is notably true
of France and Italy. In the former
country short time ago women were
permitted to act as witnesses in legal
sense and to sign wills and other legal
documents. They are now to be al
lowed to take part in the administra.
ton of the charities and hospitals in
Paris, being made eligible for the high
er council of the assistance publique.
This concession has been extended to
the sex who have contributed most
largely to the charitable funds, and
have taken part in house-to-house WIS.,
itations, after report by DR.. Napias,
who eulogized the work of women in
connection with the administration of
charity in England and the United
States. He held up good model to
France, Miss Florence Nightingale,
and the governors of the Paris chart.
ties considered that France also could
produce Florence Nigh:ingales if they
gave their women a chance in the work
of organization.
Women are beginning to show their
political influence in Italy. The influ-
ence, though great, is not, however, al
ways apparent, for it is chiefly exer.
cised indirectly and privately by the
women of the weather. classes. In.
stead of forming themselves into as
sociatiors and leagues, and interna-
tional unions, and organizing public
meetings and competing with political
orators, the Italian women interested
in politics work quietly, and certainly
not less cfficaciously than their more
"emancipated' sisters. AS rule,
Italian women work by means of the
old French expedient, the salon. In
Rome alone there are no fewer than
a dozen salons devoted almost entire
ly to the discussion of political topics.
Each salon has its own special political
"color,' which is generally that of the
husband or father, or friends of the
mistress of the house, but, while the
thread and web of the politics carried
on in salon is spun and woven by the
men who frequent it, the personal in
tiuence of the mistress of the house
acts on each one of her guests, modi-
tying views, and softening, or it may
be accentuating, the roughness of am
bition. The Italian government seems
to think that so long as women confine
their political activity to the salon
they are not likely to become danger
ous.-Chicago Chronicle.
An Old Question Comes Up Again.
The S'teenth regiment had taken a
glorious part in it's first battle of the
war for Cuban freedom and was rest.
ing on it's arms and it's laurels.
'Well," remarked the soldier with
the red bandana handkerchief around
his head, Twelve had our baptism OF
fire." -''. So.
II reckon we have" replied the SOL
der who was examining wound on
the butt of his rifle. ''By the way
you're Baptist, amt you?''
chats what I am" 49,.
Ibid you notice that our baptism OF
fire came in the form of sprinkling?"
''Not particularly. q I noticed we
were pretty thoroughly Immersed
in it, ....,. ....x. 49,. .......,...
When taps sounded an hour later
they were still wrangling over it.
Chicago Tribune. $e 81