Evening journal., 1904-12-16
JUST FOR and
ABOUT WOMEN
Concerning Women

The richest and most expensive dress in
the world was exhibited at the great
worlds fair at st. Louis. The gown cost
10000 pounds and has been considered the
most wonderful creation of the Partisan
dressmaker's art. 1t was made for the
famous Empress Josephine, who, in the
height Of her popularity, was perhaps the
most beautiful woman in the world. The
gown weighs seventy-five pounds and has
a train fifteen feet long. 1t is made of the
heaviest and richest velvet Of the choicest
manufacture and is bordered with ermine
that cost a small fortune. The skirt,
bodice and train are studded with hand
worked golden bees, symbolic of the Ma
poleonic dynasty. Tastefully worked into
the gown are many costly jewels.
In shakespeare's time woman's exist
ence. in the eye of the law, was merged
in that Of her husband. A man could say
Of his wife: "She is my goods, my chat
tells; she is my house. my household stuff,
my field. my barn, my horse, my OK, my
anything" The very presents which he
gave her were still his property. He could
beat her. He could deprive her of the
guardianship of her children. 1t was not
until the end of the seventeenth century
separate use Of her property and not un-
til the middle of the nineteenth century
that the legislation of Great Britain and
America began to recognize and protect
her as a person, entitled to work and re-
ceive wages, to dispose Of her own earn
ings, to have an equal share with hei
husband in the guardianship of their chill.
dren. Surely it is an immense gain in jus.
ar... -
human being This gain is most evident
Of course, in those nations which are lead
ing the march of civilization. But we car
see traces Of it elsewhere. The abolition
OF child marriage and the practical ex
tinction Of the suttee in India, the decline
of the cruelty significant fashion Of foo
binding in China, the beginning OF th'
education of girls in Egypt, are hints tha
even the heather world is learning to be
lieve that woman may have a claim Il
justice.
One of the noteworthy characters at tn
national capital during the sessions o
congress is Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis o
Newark, n. J., now in Washington L
work for reform legislation now pendin
in thu senate and house. Mrs. Ellis is tn
national superintendent of legislation 70
the National w. c. T. u, and is well an
favorabiy known in Washington as 9Th
w. Q. T. L. lobbyist" She watches closel
every move in congress touching the vari
Gus reform measures which the W. c. Z
U. mas at heart and is quick to send ou
notice to the W. c. T. u. constituenc
throughout the nation when their help
needed by petition or pleas to their ma
tional congressman and senators fror
each state She is the power which fc
cuses the tremendous influence of the v
/ C. r. L. solidarity for moral reform.
In his exceedingly interesting 'Repol
4 IN Commercial instruction in Germany,
Just published by the foreign office, d
Frederic Rose. British consult at Slut
4 gart. gives some information concernin
iertain commercial schools for girls tn;
have been set up in the fatherland. Or
Z Of the most interesting of these is Il
municipal commercial school for girls
4 Nuremberg At this institution-intend'
for the instruction of girls who ha'
passed through the elementary school
and who wish to enter business-pupi
nre taken through a three years cour
IN religion, arithmetic, bookkeeping, con
Y uercial knowledge Including principl
4 Of economies, foreign exchanges and ell
ments Of German commercial law, &c
man, French, English, commercial geo
y raphy, handwriting shorthand and typ
writing. The fees are $3.50 per annur
payable qusFteriy. The number of pupi
increases steadily year by year and reac
81 ed 2S0 in 1903.
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