The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST
 CONCERNING WOMEN.

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 The Sultan of Turkey has issued an order intended to limit the education or Turkish women, and has taken measures to keep them ignorant of the frivolities or European and American women through whose influence they are fearing to love the things that are dear to the enlighten- cd feminine heart. An editorial on this subject in an exchange says:
 For the Turk It was simply a question of giving up the harem or throttling the suddenly awakened desire for tnery, and he seems to have adopted the latter alter. that Christian teachers are not to enter harems; Turkish children must not at tend foreign schools; no Turkish woman companied e nT nj % by Christian woman; no Turkish woman may appear at pleasure resort after one hour preceding sunset; Immoral practice of rowing" and Turk gear other than 'hotos," which are made of Rusn n asa sae domm sess sh s and regulations the Sultan. we may be sure is resting easier. He seems to have taken every precaution that Is necessary for the the same time he has given the world to un- derstand that there ie to be no progress in his particular corner of the world If he knows it. We must admit, though, that I he can hardly be blamed. in view of the other uses he has for his money, for not wanting to let his ladies run bills at the | dry goods stores.
 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt president of I the National woman's Suffrage Associa- | ton writes an instructive article in The l womans Journal of Boston on '"rhe | Suffrage Dilemma in Belgium" A sys- Il tenn of plural voting was adopted there in 1893 which allows under certain con l ditions a man three votes. The socialists Il are now demanding the aboiishing or that | plural voting. The Catholic party now In l power through the plural vote system threaten to enfranchise the women If the Socialist succeed, so agitation of some l moment is resulting.
 l In the meantime the Sociological Socie- ! ty of Belgium has sent it's secretary a university professor, Fernand Deschamps to the United States to examine woman's suffrage in operation He will" says | Mrs Catt:
 "visit the four States where women | vote and also some of the States where ' limited suffrage exists. It Is his irten- viii be printed by the Sociological socie-
 :.The United States has taught the les ons Sf s te Wora 1t Would % be " M oHs development of the Ideal popu,IaI s | government. if conservative Foreign nations through expedienay snonia ,s,N s' nov | try that Democracy. to be logical mus | Include women.
 When Max o'Reli was in this country he was engaged to lecture on Women before tho students of girls college ir South Carolina. and he tells the follow ing story of his visit to the place:
 "A couple cf hours before the lecture three young ladies from the college called on me at the hotel where was staying met them In the parlor. Three charm, ing bright most intelli gent-looking girls they were. After looking at each othei l for some time, so as to suggest that ths | other should speak, one at last mnde ul her mind to be the spokesman Of the ht
 We have called on Nou,' she said, t ssnse Ss if ySS ySs sSSset %SSe Ss of yOSr ecsre | night. Our lecture course is instituted for the instruction and tho general i'm provement Of the ,,, st1oeh.S' i hsr Snu ana tas, to us on subject which you know some 'Ie II must say that felt fea-fulIy small
 The managers of eighty.eisht mills Il | Georgia have voluntarily signed an agree ment not on any condition to emRlo! children under 10 years ot age after Sep tember l, and not to employ children un der i2 at night These mill men defeate in the Legislature a bill enacting these among other provisions. but have yoiun tarily surrendered to an aroused pupn , sentiment.-A Boston Exchange
 The ever-present dread of the Japanes wife, formerly, was the fear of divorce No woman could divorce her husband but there were innumerable tritinl
 grounds upon which husband copl send the wife back to her family; n might discover that she was indolent ugly, too fond of gossip or amusement or she might fail to bear childrenm,ll
 which event she could be put away. Tn
 new laws now permit the wife to sue To divorce upon certain grounds, and IL ha limited the indulgence shown her lor' and master in the exercise or what wa
 his exclusive prerogauve. This has bee accomplishe ed partially; no doubt by tn Increasing Influence of the educated Wo men of Jai nn, who have learned to form ulate thei ioplnions--one of the results c education the world over.
 PERSONAL ITEMS.
 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Norwood ant l family have returned from their summe outing in Virginia.
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