The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

their hard won privileges than are
the women in America, where oppor-
tunity comes comparatively easy.
When by special permit a woman
here and there was allowed to take GER
tain courses without degree in Ger
man universities it was not thought
that women would ever apply as stu
dents in any considerable number
But they did. The girls just foclzed
and knocked for admission to the grand
old German seats of learning. Some
professors were for letting them in,
while others almost howled, solemnly
affirming that it got on their nerves so
to lecture in the presence of even one
woman that they would not do it for
the world.
A makeshift excuse was resorted to
to save the nerves of unwilling pro-
fessors and, as was hoped, to settle
the question. The examinatio for en-
trance 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 an
tediluvians. And they rubbed their
palms in glee. But no, The women
mastered easily even the stiffest pre-
| liminary 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 it;
that may be taken as certain. Woman
| has already proved her scholarship
There is no way to keep the feminine
sex out of the highest institutions of
learning except by coming down fat
/ footed and saying that women shall
not come in. And that men of gener-
Gus. chivalrous nature hesitate to do.
1t looks as though the women are
getting the better of the opposition
here.
Educated Russian women are among
the ablest of their sex Like French
women. they are frequently at the head
! of extensive commercial firms. A num-
Der of these applied not long ago to
the Russian minister of finance for
permission to appear on the Stock Elk
change and do business on their own
account instead of having to operate
through brokers. The matter was so
momentous that the minister begged
time to consider. and he apparently
needed a long time. for his answer has
not yet been reported.
The lovable little brown women OF
Japan will be the first of their sex to
walk out of oriental darkness into the
radiant light that has dawned for west
ern women in these latter days Hun
dreds of them are being educated in
America and in western Europe. In
| TOKYO tnefe Is now a university for
women 1t is to be noted in favor OF
the Japanese man that he is usually
quite in sympathy with all movements
for the emancipation of woman in his
country. Even in India, the saddest
darkest, most nearly hopeless land OF
the earth for the female sex, the new
woman movement is vibrating. A Hin
doc woman lawyer. Miss Cornelia So
rabbi, has been studying legal lore ir
London for some time in order that she
may go back to her own country to heir
the women and children in their legal
and property rights. In India women
are absolutely helpless. If they need q
lawyer he is not allowed to see them;
they are not allowed to see him. AL
conversation between widow and law
yer must be with a screen between
Think how it would be never to see
your pastor, doctor or lawyer face tc
face! There appears to be great open
ing for professional women of all varie.
ties in the benighted orient.
Even in Turkey there is a growing
woman movement. with the peculiar