The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19

~ sny othef country with 10, ana while
The door i not .~Soiiy cIcsed g any. rs:
gtsn and stnpss Do not 6oaf over S6softeiy
free women but they do wave over tho
freest women In the world In social, OWL,
legal and educational rights. No one
have higher seat than Is accorded to those
OF any other nation And the political
rights will as surely come 40 the other |
rights will surely stay.
An Illinois law makes the family expenses
equally chargeable upon husbapd or wife
and this has been held TO include any sort ,
OF an outfit for himself which a husband
may choose 70 purchase. A Massachusetts, |
Chicago and the husband made q number
o. purchases without the wife's knowledge. |
When they returned home the creditors |
levied on her property for payment. The |
supreme Court Of Massachusetts, has Just |
decided that the Illinois law does not reach |
to the old Bay State. In 1901 New York |
couple took UP their residence In Chicago |
and when they went back to their former
home the husbands Illinois creditors at
tsched the wifes New York property for
Of this State decided that II was q legal
proc eding, as the parties were residents
OF Illinois when the debts were contracted.
All Of this goes TO show that wives who
own property should avoid taking their
A lady In this city asks why this de.
partment did not call DR.. Rainsford to
account for his remarks at the dinner given
TO District Attorney Jerome by the Good
Government Club a week or two ago. the
substance OF which was that -there is no
use to try to close the saloons on Sunday
and that 'the brothels should be left alone
aspe This wss
Good Government Club with applause
His closing sentence, that -reformers are
a dandy crew. but they are Internally poor
hands at team work. called forth great
applause. Our correspondent Gays she
is not a Church woman and she Is glad OF
il, but she doesn't see how DIR. Rainsford
can reconcile such sentiments with the be-
lief In an Almighty God and the final tri-
umph Of good. She expected an avalanche
of protest from women, but. although they
can 60 into Mysteries over such questions
as shutting dogs out OF apartment houses.
they have not had word to say on DIR.
Rainsford's utterances.
de Sta6l-@The more see Of men the better
l like dogs Perhaps the subject OF dogs
Is more suited to their mental calibre than
that of moral reform. Perhaps they
thought that when the Good Government
Club. which has taken the morals Of the
city into it's special keeping, received the
reverend gentleman's sentiments with great
applause II would be impertinent for out
sfders to criticise Perhaps they con-
sidered that as they were in nowise re-
sponsible for putting the present reform
administration into power they would let
1t founder without interruption Per-
haps they recognized that while they might
he able to scare the janitor OF an apart
ment house they could not have the slight
est effect on present or prospective city
officials.
As matter OF fact. most women talk too
much, but that II because they can't do
anything except talk-with some weeping
and praying on the side. A few OF them,
however. do considerable observing and
thinking, and these have formed the judg-
ment that when minister climbs down
from his clerical heights in order to get
nearer to the people he l. apt to go
stratum or so too low and get beneath
the respect Of those whose good opinion Is
worth having.
The old-time clergyman kept an i'm
mense gulf between him and his flock.
His modern successor sometimes drops
into the gulf. 1t is difficult for him to mix
with poiticie ms and keep himself pure end
unspotted from the world. Imperfect hui
ma nifty has depended on the ministers to
fix the idee ls and lead up TO them. II on
the contrary they are going to say. These
evils IN We ga ined firm foothold and there
IA nothing to do but let them alone, where
do they Improve upon the politician. and
Whence Is tine %so n think there so1d
toward improving conditions'
The Newbury Is. CT Her1ld-Neus says:
sAmong the officers elected by the Nationl
Suifrs &c Convention at New Orleans not
one VT from the South. So much the better
for the women Of the South
Miss Laura Chy, OF Lexington. ny,
hes been first auditor since 1895 and Was
reelected. Miss Kate NJ. Gordon. OF New
Orles ms, has been corresponding secretary
two yeer and was reelected. So much
the better for the women OF the South.
One of the New Hampshire legislators
who signed the invitation for Lyman Alb
bott and the other @antis' to come up and
speak against the suffrage amendment was
Winston Churchill. Another was Judge
Remick Both men put the names OF their
wives, without their consent, on the COM
mittee announced to entertain the speakers.
These two ladies' are strong believers in
woman suffrage. they, 50 informed the
fraRe meetings and made their position
clear. This Is a specimen OF the way
great many husbands represent their wives
on this question.
When the French Ministry OF Education
recently decreed that women might conf
pete for the Grand Prix de Rome, which
sculpture, architecture and music four
years in Italy and Greece at Government
expense, 1t was predicted there would be
trouble. Now two Of them give. promise
OF gaining II, and the male students are
making vigorous protest. Alice samee
Mclean man in the universities on this
IDA Hustled HARPER.
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