The sun., 1903-08-30

| to use exactly al they please, and their
| college degree acquires an added Iustre
| which is itself reflected on their alma mater.
Each OF these different pictures has two
| distinct sides, but both must be taken
| into consideration in discussing whether
| all college women ought to marry, whether
their life is a failure if they do not, why
| they do not take up domestic pursuits, and
| all the different phases OF this perplexinG,
omnipresent, never ending and never set
| tied woman question.
A new and very entertaining class at
Chautauqua this summer has been one OF
business methods, attended entirely by
! women and taught by a woman-Mrs. Louise
| A. Starkweather-hea of the education
| department Of one OF the largest life in
surance companies These lessons are
| offered in connection with the training OF
women agents. who are now becoming a
| prominent factor in all the large companies.
Instructions are given not only in fire and
| life insurance, but in the drawing of legal
papers. the uses OF checks and drafts, letters
OF credit, buying of stocks and bonds,
making OF wills, endowments, quit claim
and warranty deeds. suggestions as to
banking, making investments, buying and
| selling, and various monetary transactions
| II is not a business college course, but
| simply one adapted to the requirements of
| the average woman in matters Of which she
is usually very ignorant. The women have
been intensely eager and interested asking
scores of questions and relating bits of ex-
| perience which showed how sadly they were
lacking in business knowledge Some
thing OF this kind might we'll be taken up
by the women's clubs of the country, who
have pretty we'll exhausted the stereotyped
! topics and for whom even the parliament
tary drill has begun to lose its zest.
| The Dominion of Canada elections COM
mittee will recommend TO the next Par
liameni law providing for compulsory
voting 1t will require that any qualified
elector who fails to cast his ballot shall be
deprived of the right to do so at the next
general election. The bill doubtless will
share the fate of all similar ones which
have been presented in the United States.
Here il never has been possible to secure
any penalty for failure to use the suffrage,
although it is constantly on the increase.
Both Of these countries maintain the utterly
undemocratic and inconsistent attitude
of having enfranchsed all their men and
then vainly entreating them to vote. while
at the same time they refuse this privilege
absolutely TO their women citizens who are
imploring that they may have it.
Canada is in advance of the United States
in having conferred on the women Of all her
provinces the school and in most of them
| The municipal franchise. Ontario was the
first TO grant the school suffrage in 1884.
but its women have not yet the municipal.
New Brunswick gave the latter in 1885
Nova Scotia in 1887. Prince Edward Island
and British Columbia in 1888, Manitoba in
1891, Quebec in 1892 and the Northwest
Territories in 1894. In some Of these il can
be used only by widows and spinsters, in
others by married women also. Some Of the
provinces require the women to be prop
erty owners, others that they need be only
rate payers. In some of them they are
permitted to serve on the school board, in
others required to do 30, and in others for
hidden. In some they may vote merely for
trustees, in others on all school questions
Canada is q close second to the United
States in her hodge-podge laws on woman
suffrage. through her effort to make some
concessions for the sake of decency. and
her determination not to do full justice.
The first attempt to secure the Paria-
mentary franchise for women was made
in 1883 "a and after debate of thlrty-one
consecutive hours il was rejected by 81
yeas, 7s nays. There was very tie or
ganization among the women and 1t was
len years before another bill was intro
duced. This was rejected by a still larger
majority. Up to about 1900 the Domin-
ion Parliament could regulate the suffrage
for it's own members in all the provinces
changed go that the list must correspond
with the list each province prepares for
it's local elections. Therefore, although
the Canadian women are now strongly
organized in a National Council, they must
fight ont the question of their suffrage
province by province, just az those Of
the United States must do State by State.
They have an immense advantage, how
ever, in the fact that the question can be
settled by the Legislature Of each province,
| fln haFn n fp1tEf N IN nd IA iT I n
voters
II il not pleasant 10 contemplate that
in the Humbert affair in Paris. the most
gigantic swinde on record, the woman
alone furnished the brains for the entire
transact ion. but il does prove that n woman
may have brain superior to that Of a
man. which until recently was wholly dis
believed. In the instance last week Of the
most clever forgeries ever perpetra'e ed
in New York, the reports said the police
were convinced that nett her of the mon
arrested was smart enough to have done
the work and it must have been he woman,
which proved to be the case. Examples
Of this kind are growing deploraby fire.
ullent but they do prove that for good
or for i'll the power Of woman Ia not yet
fully recognized She has been placed
| on pedest al for q sort of negative good
ness which man. while respecting, be-
lieved in his heart to be I he result of a char
acter less strong, many-sided and devel-
oped than his own. Under modern con-
dit ions, which have almost entirely re-
moved the convent onalit les and rest raints
Of the past, she Is showing herself TO possess
many Of the same racteristics as men,
The life of the vast majority of women.
however, will always nun in a somewhat
different channel from that Of men, and
they will continue to possess certain dis
tinctively feminine qualities which must
be equally united with the distinctively
masculine attributes Of 'men TO produce
the highest results in society and in the
State Both are entitled in the same degree
TO freedom Of development, TO it's rewards
if rightly used and to it's punishment il
misdirected The world has no more right
to shut all women in converts to keep them
good than it would have 10 shut all men
IN monast cries for the same purpose.
A sister of the Hon. Joseph W. Bailey ia
said to be a candidate for State Librarian
The Senator is bitterly opposed to woman
suffrage, declaring that II will unsex women
take them away from home, &c. Evil
IDENTIFY he considers that office-holding
would have none Of these dire effects--not
if the office we're to be held by one Of his
own family. There are a great many men
lust like that-yes. and women too,
IDA Hustled HAr?ER.
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