Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1909-07-22
}sa'1hIc, Z. (1.ht JOURNALISTS.

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Newspaper to Ae!vocate Their Rights
. Hundred Years Ago.
One hundred years ago women first
started 4 newspaper to advocate their
rights, IN iSes il was known that Ma
poleon WAS determined TO divorce 10
sephinc, Lis partner OF fourteen years,
because Sho aaG ~igcn hiia no heir. a
reason C state liise this carried no
weight III the female world, and out
side the crlle e courtiers all sympa-
thy was with the Wife, especially when
Eugene dc Reallharnais, Icsephine's
son lay her irst marriage, declared
himself in tho senate on the side of his
stepfMher and asail>s, his own mother
on the question OF divorce
From the feeling thus stirred up
there arose 4 Great teni,nae move
nly=iit. Seeing t'itt popular opinion fa
vored the helnlcss wife ~ against The
all powerful husband, group OF young
women philosophers thought tho time
had come 1or au effort for the social
progress Of their sex
Their first step was 70 create an or
gan for feminist defense, aud SO the
Athenee des pames was born In Paris
and at first f0ulShed vigorously. The
programme Of these suafragists of a
hundred wears ago was given In 8
manifesto before the first number ap-
peared
Must II be" it Was asked, '@as 1t has
been so long, that women should be
called notNing lat the flowers CT the
human vace, the charm OF terrestrial
cyesl Must tsey be hatte7ed solely for
their physical charms 30 es to limit
their empire 10 their fair youth. which,
alas. passes so soon? And vet. true
companions 70 man, they aid him to
cross the stormy sea OF life Can 1t be
said that women are chased among
the domestic animal pets, whose pret-
ty little acts, the fr,iis OF happy ami
mai instinct, are go canttyating%'
Tie Athenee des Danes put In it's
protest a@aill.st the common opinion
that man is superior to woman IF
brough. ua IN profound ignorance and
had not Daan persuaded By force OF
hearing. men say that they were Gre
ated to obey they would have long
ago TeSuted this paradox" it declared.
THE task Of oar journal will he TO
make l;nown al those virtues md all
those tslerts which the modcstv q
women makes them shut up in thciF
own bosonas and whtch have no wit
nesses outside their families and the
little circle Of f,iel,ds Of each enc.
I'VE shall make known to the pub
lic the writings OF many OF US who
rot altogether occupied with house
hold servitude, can rival IN genius the
| male poets. The celebrated woman OF
the day will have Dor portrait and her
| biography inserted IN the weeks mum.
Der In which she is described"
This movement, which might have
cleared the wey for the votes for wo
man agitation OF today, had Its days
shortened by an accident. 1t happen
cd that shortly after the Athenee had
begun to spread the light woman, q
wigmaker by profession, named Bou
hourt, aged twenty two, was convicted
OF having murdered three people In
order TO rob them.
Th,ckset and YTe,l built this youne
woman was noted for her habit Of
wearing mans clothes, and 1t was II
mans clothes t1at she mounted the
scaffold. The saN1sts and caricatur
lists seized Oh this circumstance and
made the woman-nlan Kind OF scare
crow 10 iptmidate women from fol
lowing In the ways Of the Athenae
and the writer's Tor this journal OF
emancipation. getting tired of being
nicknamed Rouhourt, gave up con
trlbutins. and no one was found bold
or perse@ertng enough to take theIl
ly,-g