The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22

rear of the procession, and being as
signed an unobtrusive seat below the
salt.
There are few opportunities for Ger
man women to engage in business in
dependently; the law of the land, as in
France and elsewhere, giving the hus-
band entire control of the wife's earn
ings. Women carry on small shops, and
in the country, not only work in dali
ries, but in the actual labor of filling
the soil, sowing the grain and gather
ing the harvests. In the vine-g growing
districts they also form an important
industrial factor in the cultivation of
the vines, and through every stage of
the vintage. In the cities they sell their
garden produce in the markets, and are
frequently employed as hod-carriers
and messengers-labor necessitated by
the absence of men, a large proportion
of whom are serving in the army.
Midwives and trained nurses are en-
ployed-the former in every town and
city in the empire-and are carefully
trained for their calling. Women ply
sicians have made their way for some
time. two of eminence, DR.. Siebel and
Fraulein Dorothea Christiana Erexle-
ben, having distinguished themselves
so long ago as the reign of Frederick
the Great. Fraulein Erexleben OBJ
tanned permission to practice, after
having received the decorate degree
from the University of Halle.
Two others of note-pioneers in these
latter days-were Fraulein Francisco
Tibertius, the daughter of a farmer on
the Island Rigus, and DR.. Emily Leh-
mus the daughter of a clergyman in
Furth. Both settled in Berlin, where
they found DR.. Henrietta Hirshfield,
a dentist, already established. She
had studied her profession in Phila-
delphia, received her degree and re-
turned to practice in Germany.
The objection to German women en-
tering professions seems to be largely
theoretical; a prejudice against a class,
not the individual, since these women
and others who succeeded them, mar
ried Germans of high professional po-
sition.
Notwithstanding the general policy
of repression that has discouraged wo-
men from engaging in professional
work or seeking broader intellectual
culture. Germany has produced women
of notable force and intelligence. The
Empress Augusta, grandmother of the
present Emperor, professed an inter-
est, as became her rank, in literature,
art and science. The present Empress,
who was the Princess Augusta Victo-
ria Of Schleswig. while by no means
brilliant, possesses those sterling vir-
tues which are the German ideal OF the
wife and mother. II has been said
that she lacL. amiability. but this Is
the verdict Of enemies-for even an
Empress has her detractors. AT the
same time. her simplicity and nodes
~ and devotion to her husband are
fully acknowledged.
JSyt n Is 10 the Empress Frederick,
the eldest daughter Of Queen Victoria,
that Germany is indebted for innova-
lions that no German woman would
have had the harihood 20 suggest.
p,,rIns, the lifetime OF William H.. as
Inc wife Of the Grown Prince, the
nroenective Empress, she welded an
immense influence: an Influence ap.
proved by her husband, VINO adorea
her. and which had for its paramount
aim the advancement Of German wo-
men She herself n woman OF natur-
ally strone mind had been thoroughly
Wen educated. she has been called "A