Gloucester County Democrat., 1902-07-31

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~ HE goes on her way rejoicing
- gain and victory all along the
line! Men, poor dears, do not
a yet know what Is just best
for themselves, but they are
giving legal and civil rights to wo-
man as fast as they learn that these
are as good for her as for themselves.
And must say they are on the whole
doing well. The Woman's Journal late
" brought out its good old dove with
the olive branch to celebrate the en-
actment of the law giving Massachu-
setts mothers equal guardianship with
fathers over their children. This is
victory that strikes at the very heart
OF the sex tyranny, and men passed
the law. We thank them; women ev-
erywhere do. But Massachusetts moth
ers, mothers everywhere, do you know
through whose persistent work for
nearly generation this just and hui
name law was passed? Well, 1t was
the woman suffragists. 1t was not the
antisuffrage women. The antisuffrage
women never yet had law passed
that benefited then. sex, and they
never will do SO. The Woman's Jour-
nal remarks also that 1t ought to have
whole flock of doves to commemo-
rate the splendid triumph of women in
Australia. That triumph is the great
est that the feminine sex has ever
achieved. The women of all Australia.
throughout its six provinces Of New
South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and
East, South and West Australia, now
have full and complete suffrage, pre-
cisely the same as men, and are equal
ly eligible to Office. Thus Australia
has advanced several degrees Of civil
lization beyond the United States, with
all its vaunted liberty and equality.
Australia, too, is under a hereditary
monarchical government, but it is this
day freer than the greatest republic
upon earth. and it's people in general
are better off financially. / really feel
tempted to break away and go to Aus
tralia to live.
Miss Ida Murphy, who started in life
as trained nurse. has invented
churn that will bring first class butter
in forty-five seconds. An attachment
also of Miss Murphy's invention can
be applied to it, converting it into an
egg beater or an ice cream freezer at
pleasure. Miss Murphy is an emanci-
pator of woman in the country.
Several American women are really
skilled animal painters. One, Miss Ma
tilda Lott, living in Paris, makes pic
lures of lions, horses, camels and cat
tie She is called the American Rosa
Bonheur. Mrs. Georgia Timken Fry,
who has recently returned to America
after being in Europe eight years and
who will probably settle in New York
city, has made a speciality of sheep,
with distinguished success. Miss Eliz-
abeth Strong, who obtained her first
art instruction in San Francisco. is
also promising young animal paint
er. She tried to establish herself in
her native land, but failed to get en-
couragement. Then she went back to
Paris, where her student life was
passed after leaving San Francisco,
and there she resides. Her speciality
is dogs and children. She tried dogs
alone at first, but could not make a
"go" of them. Then she added chill
dren and is now very successful.
The highest examination rating ever
given to an applicant for license to
practice pharmacy in New York state
was received by woman, Mrs. Ma
rietta Harmon of Syracuse. She has
drugstore of her own. How about
that gray matter?
According to British census returns,
nearly a third of all the women in Eng
land must remain husbandless. Miss
Collett cqRgratulates the empire on
the possession of this compact band
of well instructed, healthy minded, Wig
orous, permanent spinsters." But un-
fortunately the spinsters by no means
unanimously look at it in that con-
gratulatory light.
A white male voter in Michigan who
undertook to write his own will was so
ignorant that he put down the word
Indignant" when he meant INDECENT
and thus left his property to establish
home for Indignant old women"
The indignation came in when it was
found that because of the intelligent
white male voters misspelling the will
would not stand.
Minnesota has a woman, Dr. Adele
s. Richardson, on its state board of
medical examiners. Another woman
physician, Lillian G. Bullock, is presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Eclectic
Medical society. The world has moved
since the men medical students of for
ty years ago mobbed, hissed and in
suited the noble young women who
were trying to become physicians.
The men public school superintend-
ents in New York city have recon-
mended that the board of education
make the ruling that women teachers
shall not be eligible to promotion, ad-
vancement of any sort or even to take
the examination for high school teach
ers after they are forty years old, but
that men-"we men"-shall be eligible
till the age Of fifty. A lively editor has
recently written an article trying to
prove that the hog is not yet the ma
tional emblem of the United States,
but this looks as if he were, doesn't it?
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.