The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-21


by women!
There is very strong sense Of chivalry
toward women in some OF those Western
States. In Nebraska. for instance. II d.
vorce is granted to the husband for the
wife's adultery "he may hold such OF her
personal estate az the Court may term just
and reasonable" II divorce is granted
| on account of the husbands adultery "the
| Court may restore to the wife the whole.
! or such part as may seem just. Of her own
, thi. is insufficient for the support of herself
and her children the Court may decree
| alimony from the husbands estate"
As has been frequently remarked. IAN
| has been gained for women"
| Miss Floy Gilmore. graduate of the
| University of Michigan law department,
who was secretary for the Attorney-Gen-
eral in the Philippines, has been appointed
Assistant Attorney-General a position of
much responsibility
| The State Insurance Commissioner Of
Kansas has appointed woman examiner,
who has been sent to San Francisco and other
coast cities to examine the assets Of various
| companies doing business In Kansas.
; DR.. Jennie Nicholson Browne has just
| passed all examination in medicine by the
Maryland State Board with an average Of
92,+ per cent. She is medical examiner
, for the Baltimore Board Of Charities. also
for the Wonan's Catholic Benevolent Legion
of the State and professor Of psychology
at the Woman's Medical College of Baltimore.
Here are, three women in widely differen,,
! fields. each receiving a large salary and
| making a reputation in the business world.
! Each Of them, however is usurping a place
| which belongs TO man, hut how are they
to he convinced that it Is their sacred duty
! to occupy an obscure position at few
dollars per week because by an accident
Of birth they happen to be Of the feminine
gender?
Mayor Hayes of baltimore has lately
appointed twelve truant officers, with
salary Of $3.50 each. and eight Of them are
women. He did this on the authority Of
City Solicitor Whyte, who said that "in
all legislation masculine term was held
to include the feminine except where it.
would be absurd or unreasonable Aud
yet it was only year ago that the Supreme
Court of Maryland denied the application
Of woman to practise law because the
statutes providing for attorneys use the
masculine pronouns. Oh. what mix-up
all these years in tn determination to seq
regate the sexes
The papers are having good deal to
say about "a new woman suffrage move
ment,' which has "the approval of Miss
Anthony and her confreres," and which.
supported by the National Suffrage Asso-
citation. is organizing the States for the
purpose of forming a non-partisan ticket
in political campaigns. to be composed Of
candidates of both parties who favor equal
suffrage, and to be electioneered for by
women, irrespective of party.
All there is Of this movement" is found
in the action of few women in Wisconsin,
earnest and capable. but impractical it is
strongly disapproved by Miss Anthony,
while the National Association has not the
slightest connection with it, This idea Of
balancing ticket" is thoroughly utoplan.
Scarcely man in Wisconsin could be per-
suaded to vote for a candidate whose poll
tics differed from his own simply because
he believed in woman suffrage. For many
reasons very few women could be depended
on To work for such ticket, and those who
Even when working for the regular party
nominees, under the auspices OF the politi-
cal committees, women outside OF the state
where they have the franchise can render
and sensible thing for women without q
ballot il to keep out OF polit les. They might
AZ we'll 60 into hattie without gun or sword.
They cannot help their cause. and they run
The chances Of stenographers, type
writer's and private secretaries for de-
sirable marriages are the envy Of their less
fortunate sisters. Even housekeepers often
marry employers who have been a prize
coveted by many women in their own
social set Now the students Of these mat
tiers come forward with the statistics to
prove that in the capture Of husband the
trained nurse leads all the rest. Many
reaso ns are given for this fact. but that
one is sufficient which was expressed by
the poet century ago: when pain and
anguish wiring the brow, ministering
angel thou Men always have wanted
to marry angels-or have thought they did
In the case OF the nurse, the white garb
patient heighten the illusion. She cannot
flirt with another fellow and torment him
and get angry and be selfish and exacting
and show the unlovely side Of her character,
as professional ethics will not permit it.
And then the. patient is at leisure; he can
holds in reserve for the idle; there is no
other woman near at hand; his illness has
taken the conceit and general bumptious-
ness out Of him; his innate desire to be
and so it is the most natural thing imagi- |
nable for him to fall in love with his nurse.
The greatest aid to marriage is propin-
guilty. II the students OF sociology who |
are mourning over the decline OF wedlock
could only devise some means Of bringing |
men and women together in a rational
and intimate acquaintance the sea lie would
soon tip the other way This does not
apply alone to the young, but to bachelors
and spinsters. widowers and widows, |
Their natural inclination is to marry, but |
This il in great measure thwarted by the |
artificial conditions of modern life.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has formally trans !
ferred the great university which bears |
her name, with it's $4,000 900 endowme mt. |
to the board of trustees. This is a self
perpetnating body and will have entire
control. II is earnestly to he hoped that |
i, will not be necessary to wait for Mr.,
Stanfords death to revoke the reprehensible |
students to 500 This limit already has heen |
reached, and new ones In any considerable |
numbers will henceforth be barred out I'M
less the rule is changed.
IDA Hustled HARPER.
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