The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
Recent Industrial
 Progress Among Women

I got on their nerves so to lecture in the l presence of even noe woman that they f would not do 1t for the world. ,.ts s,,,a A makeshift excuse was resofted to to | save the nerves of unwilling professors l and. as was hoped. to settle the question. The examination for entrance to the courses in some of the universities was made more severe as stringent as it we'll
 could be. Now we'll keep the women
 out" said the antediluvians. And they rubbed their palms in glee. But no! The women mastered easily even the stifest preliminary courses and then fiocked and knocked still. No matter how much the
 standard of admission is raised in any
 school, the women will rise to 1t; that may be taken as certain. Woman has al- ready proved her scholarship. There Is no way to keep the feminine sex out of the highest institutions of learning ex- cept by coming down hat-footed and say ing that women shall not come in. And that men of generous, chivalrous nature hesitate to do.
 It looks as though the women are get ting the better of the opposition here.
 Educated Russian women are among the ablest of their sex. Like French wo- men, they are frequently at the head of extensive commercial firms. A number of these applied not long ago to the Russian
 
 pear on the stock exchange and do busi- ness on their own account instead of hay ing to operate through brokers The matter was so momentous that the min ister begged time to consider, and he ap- parently needed long time, for his an- swer has not yet been reported.
 The lovable little brown women of Ja- pan will be the first of their sex to walk out of oriental darkness into the radiant Ao-. fAR in these latter days. Hundreds of them are being educated in America and in western Europe In Tokyo there is now university for women. It is to be
 noted in favor of the Japanese man that he is usually quite, in sympathy with all movements for the emancipation Of wo- man in his country. Even in India, the
 saddest darkest, most nearly hapeless land of the earth for the female sex, the new woman movement is vibrating. A Hindoo woman lawyer. Miss Cornelia So- rabji. has been studying legal lore in London for some time in order that she may go back to her own country to help the women and children in their legal and property rights. In India women are ab- solutely helpless. If they need lawyer he is not allowed to see them. All con versation between widow and lawyer must be with a screen between. Think now lI WOuiu D6 never to oCc yOuL PaclOAp doctor or lawyer face to facet There ap- pears to be great opening for profes- slonal women of all varieties in the be- nighted orient. f
 Even in Turkey there Is a growing wo- | man movement, with the peculiar feature that 1t is men, not women, who have in- itiated It. The more intelligent and pro- gressive Turkish men realize that if their nation is not to be wiped off the slate as so many oriental nations before it have been the women of the nation must be elevated and enlightened. Few women in | the Ottoman empire have as yet intelli- gence enough to take part in the move- ment, but there is already Turkish l princess, Hairie Ben Aid, who has un- yelled herself and learned to speak in public in western countries in order to do what she can to ameliorate the miserable i condition of Turkish women. |
 In our own land each decennial census , shows a steady increasing percentage 1 of wage earning women. In Massaehu- setts 27.2S per cent of all those engaged