The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-11
WOMAN Qno
 SOCIETY.
Mrs. !. V. dsCottes.

elared that course the offspring should take the mothers name as the mother was more kin than the father"
 Poor restless, shreeking, longing. modeftl woman 1t seems that nothing short of mans anihiiauon will be d satisfactory solution of her troubles. Perhaps If she could have her hearts desire she would find herself not so con- tent after all, for once upon time some naughty boys did tie tin pan to dogs tail and the dog for a time did worry. and run like mad, but when the boys tired of the sport did unite the tin pan the dog missed 1t and backed up to the tin pan to be tied again. See!
 Women are only acknowledging in- feriority which perhaps they do not feel when they work to establish perma- nent exhibition of woman's work as they are in Washington. How positively pittiful and what a declaration of want of self-satisfaction it Is when the wo- men at the head of this movement propose to ask of the present Congress an appro- priation of s10O,OO0 for this purpose, pledg- ing to raise by private subscription a similar amount Good work should stand upon its own merits and not plead for recognition or appreciation because of the sex or inferiority of the doer. If l could paint a picture, cut a figure from marble. write a book, or invent a machine. 1t should not go in the show room of womans work. but take it's chances among the works of art of hu- manity be the place assigned it ever so low. We have at our expositions display rooms of The Negro's Work" "The Chinese Work" The Work of the Blind" "The Work of the Lunatic." "The Work of the Children" but until there is an apartment set aside for Mans Work" there should be none for women, We are not freaks and this plan of the "Womens Industrial and Patriotic League" makes freaks of the whole sex. This proposed exhibit of woman's work is to be located in Washington and is to be interna tional in character.
 There are men who still oppose the advancing woman and among them seems to be the new rector of the Berlin University, Professor Cekule von Strado- witE, who objects to the attendance of women and refuses to permit a woman to address the students society, some- thing all his predecessors have allowed It is interesting U note the fact that in spite of this feeling on the part of the new rector there are five hundred women attending the lectures at the Der lin University.
 The first day of the approach ing. meeting of the National Wo- mans Suffrage Association which takes place on February 18th, cannot fail to be interesting when the"American Pioneers" will be the speakers. All who recognize and respect earnestness of purpose must feel that when such women as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Julia Ward Howe. Susan D Ant tN+nr lC~a Isabella Beecher Hooker and Caroline Hallowel Miller talk on the subject to which their lives have been devoted. About four-fifths of all that these octo- genarians have asked of rights" for their sex has been granted and the sex or those of it who are not workers in that line do not seem to know 1t. The second day of this convention which will be devoted to the New Woman" will be filled with the record of the doings of the women of today who are reaping the harvest of privilege and opportunity won for them by the pioneers" and the third meeting will be given up to the New Man" No clue to the program for this meeting has been given and 1t is enough 10 excite curiosity for the New Woman Is liable to wipe him off the face of the earth.
 The modern womans spirit of "meum and ''teum," as r' gards a separatsness from Man, is shown by the women of Kansas who are asking the privilege of erecting a woman's building on the Kan sas site along ide the regular Kansas building at the St. Louis Fair; and along with that request goes one from the Kaheas Federation of Womens Clubs, that the Art Club, of Kansas City>be per mitted to furnish the art decorations for the Kansas building
 The women of Virginia must have set tied all important questions that pertain to wom n, as the members of the Rich mond Ch7pter Of tn Daughters of the Confoderacy are frettlng over mans rights" to the titles of "colon.T' and general" They are wi when they adopt resolutions against the appoint ment of so many sponsors and maids of honor to the Confederate reunions and protest in the name of history against the titles of "coloHel' and general" be- ing recklessly conferred by the local camps of United Confederate Vete-