The aegis & intelligencer., 1902-06-13

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many laurels to their credit as En-
pire makers and has only brought |
distrust both at home and abroad.
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
Some of our newspaper brethren
are becoming very much alarmed,
lest in this march ofmodern progress
the weaker sex may outstrip the
man in every contest wherein they
come together. Two recent cases
have excited considerable attention.
One is where a Judge has decided that
a wife may beat her husband over
the head with a lid litter without
giving cause for divorce. "In "cul-
tured" Massachusetts, a Justice fined
a man $50 and costs for opening a
letter addressed to his wife, although
wives have opened letters addressed
to their husbands and have been al
lowed to use the contents for evidence
in suits for divorce. Succeeding Leg
islatures of the different States are
giving women more and more privi-
leges and there is little reason to hope
for a restoration of the condition
which was sanctioned by the patri-
archs and was so long Upheld by the
church. The legal changes for the
past half century have been almost
revolutionary. 1t has got so far
that the man who narries for money
must be dependant upon his wife's
generosity for car fare and the means
of sundries and incidentals. THERE'S
little profit in the son-in-law business
in this age. 1t shows what cruel
stages that men may reach that
women with money have no trouble
in getting themselves married. 1t
used to be that they were one eperson
in the eyes of the law, and that one
was the husband. When the marriage
VOW was pronounced the weaker
vessel lost her Identification and her
goods, both her money and her prop
erty passed into the hands of her
husband, In that day the man got
something if he married for money.
provided his wife had any. Awoman
could work and earn, but not for her
self. Her husband could collect her
wages. Now all has changed and the
wife's legal condition is really better
than the husband, as he is bound to
support her, sin manner beftting
her station and position in society,""
and even this is not left for the hus-
band to determine. If she is not
satisfied with what he can give her
she can apply to the court, which will
decree what she ought to have.
Should the man refuse to obey this
decree he is jailed for contempt. In
many of the States, a woman can
dispose OF her own property without
her husbands consent, but no deed
is valid unless the wife's signature is
also affixed. The widower's share
Fof she Diseased seifesss preperty-is i.
nothing iiks u sest 81 III d saisIisfscfory
asthe wife.s shat soltis shandss 3
estate. 10 .. = sr'sS5fsss y y :,
'Plafhly as tiAnS passes On the msn
is rapidly being relegated to the rear,
if the recent revelations are any indi-
cation. Doubtless many of the fe-
male sex look forward to the time
when they will be completely emanci-
pated and be allowed to exercise their
own free will. In the majority of
cases, however, those of this character
as rapidly as they are being found
out, have that opportunity at pres
cnt, for there is nothing that the
average man despiscs worse than to
have those Of the weaker sex attempt
to ape his manners.
THERE'S yet left among womankind,
many who prefer to occupy the sppere
which was allotted to them W hen the
world was first created and these will
continue to preside over the homes
and fresides while the bolder sisters
can march along by themselves in
their progress of evolution.
THE SOUTHERN HEATHEN.
The Virginia Constitutional Con-
vention is now charged not only with
violating solemn political pledges,
but also with hypocrisy and sancti-
moniousness" in invoking the Al
mighty to bless its work. Ofcourse,
this indictment comes from Massa-
chusetts. That is the one State in
the Union whose people attempt not
only to regulate the politics of other
States, but to lead them in more sa-
cred matters as we'll. The Virginians