The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-05

various gainful Occupations
those classified as 'doua,,,a VsssaSe 4
service. That means 80 s..a a''a ieFsenL
gagged in various gains,l e Women "a.
men work" {Notice ira ,saoeas N
uon that men have a naturar , 90 sssaaas-
monopoly Of all kinds q, VI. 1sas e Z
nlesuc service.l Judge Cor ,s,Np' Co
most henaflCent results w,,,s sas tat
hibitlns married women frru, 80. 49, pro
business without their hvshansss
But the 4.2a0.Q1o women whose asasecs
iaoor mas brought down mem. rspsss
most OF them unmarried. N,ra~' AZ
me married women who are ~ars,s'
sue Their homes. the great ma,o... ess
dong so with their husbands s,S Az
sent, and their families nroa. - Sa
earnings. To subtract from ,ns,s.. aes
very lie" married women whn ar ea
business directly contrary IA thai.
oand wishes could not apprec,ahlv 80
the labor market. saN
Judge Coxs euiogist ought to 60. 80.
Tor ne eniarges upon the good na,,.~
American husbands:
As Yet great majority az r.,
not ceased To he amused by ths ah.,.s
Ties OF wonans pretension 10 ,nas,.-a
ence Secure in his particular ns,.s..,
empire. the average man aud FOOD hr.
band hunors his Wife whether aha w..
a new bonnet or n new place In ,hs srs,.s.
or economic order. She's a sil,v a,,'-
thing anyhow-poor dear IL a bonns. /.
haliot or doctors sign and som. =.
TENTS. or a lawyers sign and snr.
clients. or Journalists lob and a..
pieces in the paper, please her vanity =.
her have EN-. as long as he can nav N.
price and make her happy. Tharssa,.
whether it's the Washington Bar Assa.s'
alton, or what body of men having an.
thority. when question OF vomas,.
rights comes up before them they r,x,
the lady reformer what she wsnts 4.
any OF them would draw check fer Nj.
wife's pleasure; It's the easiest way "a
end her argument. and the generous az.
ercise of his power over her gives hin
JOY in himself
Then what good could It do to give him
the right to forbid her to work, when \.
does not wish to forbid here And hov
does this view OF his cheerful happiness
and nonchalant amusement square wiz
the narrowing description which the SAN.
writer gives Of the confusion and misery
OF the business woman's home, and Il.
appalling state TO which she has brouss,
the labor market?
Naturally, the women OF the District q
Columbia are not going to be deprived i.
their present legal rights without pe
test. Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey. a lawyer II
Washington, appeared before the Bar A.
ISOLATION while II was framing the bs,
from Judge Cox's code, and. as chai..
man of the committee on Legislation 0.
the District Federation OF Women's Clubs
tried to prevent the establishment q
these giaring inequalities. Her Ideas ns,
with much sympathy especially from The
younger members of the BAR and Jadss
Cox's provisions for an unequal divorce
law and for restricting a married WON
ans right to engage In business wen
stricken out. But the proposition which
was In some respects the worst OF fhs
three-that which empowers every hns'
band to Will away his" infant from 10
mother-is retained In the new code IL
spite Of Mrs. Mussey's efforts. Tia
proves anew that, so long as women hass
not the ballot, they hold all their riEau
subject TO tho caprice OF Legislature
whose composition Is constantly chang
ing, and even when a just law has hesa
with much difficulty obtained. there b %
certainty that IL will stay put" II sook
nearly fifty years OF indirect influence
10 secure the law of equal guardianshipa
the District Of Columbia. and now. thrs
years later II IS stricken out OF the Ms
code.