Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-30
WHAT The CENTURY
HAS DONE FOR WOMEN.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

natlveof matrimony. There were no oc-
equations open for women, and II she
happened 10 be a single woman her
support was supposed To devolye upon
her nearest married male relative. In his
house she was a mere unpaid drudge
for his Wife often III treated and a.
ways despsed.
In the United States alone the census
Of 1900 is expected TO show 100000 wo-
men engaged in various occupations.
in 1910 81 a week and boarding round
was considered good pay FOR the school,
teacher. Now women teachers are PAID
from $3.50 10 5000 a year.
Elizabeth Blackwell the first woman
who studied medicine had TO bear the
brunt OF numerous insults, While she
was attending college at Geneva, N.
Y, the inmates Of the boarding house
where she staid declined to have any
thing at all to do with her.
At the beginning Of 1900 women ply
sicians are not only numerous, but pros
porous Their position in the COM
munity is an enviable one. In proportion
to ability and personal qualities, for
many OF them have large practices,
which bring them fine incomes.
The ministry is a field into which
comparatively few women have enter
cd. women OF the religious type usually
devoting themselves TO the advance
ment Of some great reform, as In the
cases Of Mrs. Mary Livermore and
Frances willard,
In journalism. the most exactlng Of all
professions, women have signally
proved their success. Mary Clemmer
Ames. Jane Grey swisshelm. Margaret
Fuller, Fanny Fern Cthe gifted sister
Of n. p. Willis, and more recently
Kate Field, Mrs. Jennie June Croly
Mrs. Booth Mrs. Margaret Sangster
Eliza Archard Conner Mary krout,
Isabel Mallon (Bab) and Mrs. Frank
Leslie are women whose success
has been equal to anything men
have done in the same lines. Mrs.
Croly was the inventor Of the process
Of manifolding, which made possible
the syndicate system, Mrs Booth and
Mrs. Sangster were successful editors,
and Mrs. Conner is an editorial writer
whose literary style Mr.. Charles A.
Dana, himself a master Of editorial
writing, repeatedly compllmented by
quoting in the editorial columns Of the
New York Sun.
Miss Mary Krout Is a traveller and
correspondent Of distinction, and Mrs.
Frank Leslie has twice built flourish
Ing property out OF seemingly wreck
ed magazine.
Women lawyers are many. In the
west they are more ilourishing than in
the east, because, II Is said. OF the
greater liberality Of thought in the
west.
In political liberty advancement also
has been great. in two states women
have the constitutional right TO vote on
all questions; in some others they vote
only on certain subjects. There are
only two states IN which married wo-
men have not control Of their wages
and property. They have now an equal !
legal interest in their children instead !
Of, as formerly, the husband having sole |
ownership and control Of the offspring |
and being able to will them away from |
his wife II he wished In almost every 1
way, in fact, women are accorded [
equal privileges before the law, and il |
Is only IN the cases OF bisotod and lg- /
norant men that any effort is made to /
deprive them Of these rights.
MADGE PORTER.