The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-24

| land the proportion of women who are
 married during the year is one in every
 seventeen of the population, or. taking
 the census existing, there are more than | 100000 unmarried. We see. therefore, | that these 100000 are cut off from the great end of their existence. Their lot
 Is indeed very various. but the greater
 portion must necessarily have to labor
 for their very bread in one way or the
 other.
 Here is great problem to solve. The | order of nature seems to be that as ma | ternal cares and household duties should | occupy the woman exclusively, so the | sustenance and protection of her chil-
 dren should also devolve upon the man. | The order of society. deprives millions of
 women of mate, a protector and a l bread-winner. We must naturally ask ourselves under these circumstances How does she fare?
 The inquirer need not look far ahead for response to this question, espe- cially if he be a dweller fin a populous city. Everywhere she is seen eagerly
 and successfully competing with man for means of living, but until lately,
 with an inStinctive selfshness, man has
 sadly limited the sphere of her labor
 Many women who are content with
 celibacy often perform a great work in religious duties. This takes the place of maternal cares and motherly instinct. In these cases an admirable character is produced. Self-denial and humility, an expansive, ever active charity. candor and amiabiilty, an unobtrusive goodness of heart, a love of social and domestic pleasures are a few of the qualities of these women who have failed to fulfil the great physical end of their existence but have sufficient head and heart to see that they have other moral duties to perform.
 The most beautiful and perfect woman, physically, should be the most excellent and perfect mentally, and when the two excellences fail to combine in the same person the failure arises from some nor bid reaction of the organs of the body on the nervous system. or from some bias in the formative ehort of the individual.
 1t Is In this respect, indeed-the psycho- logical imperfections in their relations to bodily disorder and defeet-that woman presents the most interesting problems for inquiry and solution. and it is only by wide and comprehensive inquiry In the two directions indicated that anything
 like satisfactory understanding Of the problems can be acquired or the prop- lems themselves adequately solved. Tn experiments made with 1,600 brains 1t has been illustrated that taking the average in weight. the female brain weighs nVe ounces less than that of the male. but this is not to be wondered at taking Into consideration the difference in stature be- tween a man and a woman, which in the number of cases have mentioned may pc taken as an average of five inches.
 The quality of brains has nothing to do with it's quality, the smallest praln o1H1 possessing the greatest amount or lhte-H- gence Some authorities have stated that some parts of the brain are more devel- open in males than in females, and that the blood circulating through their brain Is less pure than that going through the male. The female brain contains 4,5OO.OOO corpuscles to the cubic millimetre, where as the male has 5,0OOOOO
 Woman at the present moment Is be- coming a formidable rival to man, her progress though in certain directions im- peded. as. for instance, by the last deci- sion of the Judges Is only delayed mo- mentsrily. One of the arguments which have been raised as to the untitness of women for the various professions as op- nosed to man Is their peculiar organiza- tion Woman was originally created and formed to take her own part in the world, that being the intention of her Maker cannot believe that they should have been so made as to be qualified or handicapped in their struggle for existence. I think. when the history of the present century comes to be written. We shall find that the education of women. combined with their wonted ability in learning, has bcen as proving that they are ca pa ble of entering into any work not of a manual nature and of competing with those of the opposite sex.