Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-10

only support themselves. but are the main
stay of others who are dependent upon
them. The popular notion that man is In
variably the bread winner does not seem to
be borne out by the facts. The statement
of one expert is that in the quarters in
ha bited by the very poor it is the women
who are the bread winners as rule. and
that there more men who live on the
LABOR of women and children than women
and children who subs!st alone on the labor
of men,
Our space will permit only a momentary
glance at the facts concerning women who
have been forced into fields of labor out
side the home But these facts will suf-
flee to show that the changed Industrial
conditions means progress for the coun-
try and progr IS tor The ni,vdual woman.
Education of Women.
Marked as the century has been for the
training of the hand, it stands supreme
among all centuries for the higher training
of the brain. The longing for better educa-
ton on the part of women began, nobody
knows when. but long before the opening
of this century. 1t made itself actively felt
near the close of its first fifty years. AS
an illustration of her statement that nifty
years ago women We're without a recognized
individuality in any department of life,
Miss Anthony says. mo provision was
made in public private schools for their
education, eNcent in rudimentary branch
es." She adds. Harriet Hosmer travelled
from end to end of the country, begging the
opportunity to study anatomy. Not one
standard medical school would admit Eliza
beth Blackwell. and society ostraciZed her.
AntOinctte Brown graduated from Oberlin,
but even that institution placed every OBJ
stacle in her way to the theological school.
One of the faculty said to her. IF there
was any bylaw that would shut you out,
you would not be admitted 3"
From lS4S to 1S65 was a period for many
efforts on the part of women 10 secure be-
ter intellectual training. In this period
how
same Intellectual constitution as in man
and opened Nassar College in September,
1Sti5, with 400 students. That was g.oli-
Gus beginning. Since that date eight
tenths of the colleges for men. of all grades,
have admitted and graduated women on
equal terms with men, and the profess
slonal and technical schools also number
their graduates by thousands
High schools tor Women.
From the United States educational re-
port of 1896 and 1897 We learn that fourteen
colleges for women, ranking with mems
colleges, conferred 100 degrees on women.
one hundred and forty-eight other womens
seminaries, colleges etc, conferred 1,211 de-
grees. Coeducational institutions conferred
over 2oOU degrees, from which one gathers
that the general tendency is toward enter
ing the co-educatiOnal institutions, and the
corresponding diminution in women's col
iegeS.
Eight-tenths of the colleges, the univer-
sites and the professional schools in the
United States are open to women. 7 thirty
thousand girls have already grauuited from
college. and 10000 more are preparing to do
so. says Mrs. Palmer, former president of
Wellesley. While eisht-ten,hs of the col
legeS, universities, etc, are open to women,
it is to be noted also that elght-tenths of
the teachers of the country are already wo-
men.
Women as Physicians.
Many of US can well remember when we
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precious invalids to the care of a woman
physician. We have not all recovered from
the fright as yet, though the census of 1890
showed over 300 women physicians, who
supported three large schools and several
small ones and conducted seven hospitals
of their own. In 1891 there We're about
1,60O women pursuing medical studies.
In the Legal Profession.
The year 1894 found 100 women practicing
law. When they have been admitted to
practice at the bar of their own state, they
may be admitted to practice in the United
States Supreme Court. In some parts of
the country they have served as police
judges, justices of the peace, grand and
petit jurors, federal and safe court CLERKS,
examiners ir chanceTy and examiners of
applicants for admission to the bar
There are law courses connected with the
New York University, and founded by the
courses are intended to meet the wants of
business women and women in private life
who desire familiarity with the existing
laws.
Among regularly ordained clergymen there
were, in 1850, 1OJ women, preaching in thir-
ty-fOur different states. AT the parliament
of religions in 1888 it was stated that sew
enteen religious denominations then admit
ted women to their theological schools. or
dained and gave them pasLOrates.
pnlificnI Chop~as
Marked as have been the changes in in
dustrial and educa tional conditions of wo-
men, they are after all less significant than
the change IN her political status. The CEN
fury was nearly fifty years old before the
tide of sentiment in favor Of improved po-
ltiCal standing for women resulted in their
first convention The tide of interest in this
topic had been slowly rising for twenty
years. 1t found its expression through the
same people who We're interested in The
movement for the abolition of slavery.
Among its leaders We're Lucretia Mott Ma
ria Weston Chapman, Lydia Maria Chllds
and the Grimke sisters.
In statement concerning the then new
movement Mrs. LiVermore says: Its lead
ers demanded equal rights in colleges and
universities, trades and professions conf
plete equality in marriage, equal rights in
property and guardianship of minor chill
dren, equal wages for equal work right to
make contracts personal freedom, to sue
and to be sued to serve on juries especial
ly when women Were to be tried and final
ly the right to vote and to share in polit-
zeal offices. honor and emoluments."
AS yet only seven states give the father
and mother equal legal control and guard
ianship of minor children; in many states