Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-16

II she had, she would probably not be
so ready 10 let her daughter marry a
Frenchman with a title and go and live
IN his country. Frenchwomen who have
been awakened look 10 the United
States as a shining light and a beacon
Of hope reckoning them on In their ef-
forts TO secure for their sex In their
own land the rights and especially the
opportunities we have I'm America.
But the congress OF feminine works
and institutions does not take the pollt-
zeal bull by the horns boldly and d.
rectly. In a talk recently a prominent
official Of the organization told me that
in fact she was rather doubtful wheth-
er II would be wise at present to confer
suffrage on Frenchwomen.
The organization OF feminine works
and institutions is striving for the ad-
vancement Of women lndustrially, edu-
catlonally and morally; for giving mar
ried women control OF their own earn
ings and inhertances, obtaining FOR
the woman child in France such edu-
cation as every high school girl In the
States gets free OF cost and sometimes
values all too lightly The ladies, too.
are agitatlng for raising French work.
ing women's wages. which are so
shamefully low that Il Is almost impoa-
sibie FOR a young woman in the lower
social walks Of life to earn an honest
living
The convention was divided into Sec
tions, each presided over by a chairwo-
man arranged for by a committee OF Ia
dies who worked zealously and with the
enthusiasm OF women for their partic-
ular branch.
A programme Of their operations Is
before me. printed In dainty and eN-
pressive French In our ruder English
the five sections may be designated as
follows First philanthropy and social
economy, second legislation and mo-
rallty third, education; fourth, labor;
fifth. arts letters and sciences. Under
the department OF legislation ana NOR
ais one Is glad 10 notice topics like
these for discussion: Management Of
a Woman's Property After Marriage"
Equal Rights OF the Father and Moth-
er In the Children" and especially this:
"Abrogation Of All Distinction Between
Men and Women In Regard 10 the
Standard OF Morality"
The section OF education the nice
French sense Of classification divides
thus: Education--indivdu social and
pedagogic Under the heading OF edu-
cation pedagogic we find a modest hint
that place should be made for women
In instruction ana IN the inspection and
administration Of an scholastic estab-
llshments Of every grade, a suggestion
Of itself calculated 20 take away the
breath OF a FrenChman Under the la
Dor section among other subjects dis
cussed was that Of cooperative pro-
ductlon, a branch OF cooperation that
has hitherto Jagged greatly. In France
much Of the labor in the fields is done
by women, the farms being very small
For this reason any meeting consider
ing woman industrlally in France
would deal az some length with the
work Of woman on the farm. We find
accordingly, that these excellent ladies'
here. as elsewhere going 20 the bottom
Of things, encourage the spreading OF
agricultural information among their
sex upon farms. They would have ev.
erywhere schools OF agriculture and
horticulture. likewise farm schools,
with half time labor, open 70 girls as
well ms boys. Such schools work for
the advancement OF agriculture IN any
country. although comparatively few
farm people in the United states have
found Il out yet.
Some Of the ablest and most dlstin-