Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1909-02-18
WOMEN JOURNALISTS.
Newspaper to Advocate Their Rights
a Hundred Years Age.

a Hundred Years Ago.
One hundred years ago women first
started newspaper to advocate their
rights In 1893 it WAS known that Ma
poleon was determined to divorce Jo
sephinc his partner of fourteen years.
because she had Given him no heir. \
reason of state like this carried no
weight in the female world, and out
side the circle OF courtiers all sympa-
thy was With the VIE. especially WHEN
Eugene de lseaullarnais. Joscphine's
son by her first marriage, declared
himself in the senate on the side Of his
sterfather and against his own mother
on ,he question CT divorce
From the feeling thus stirred up
there arose a great feminine move
ment Seeing that popular opinion IA
vored the helpless Vie rs against tile
all powerful husbaNl IL group Of young
women philosophers thought the time
had come for an effort for the social
progress of their Sex.
Their first step WAS to create an or
gan for feminist defense, and so the
.Mhenec dos Danes was born in Paris
and at first hourishad vigorously. The
programme Of these su1'ragists e Il
hundred years ago was Given in a
manifesto before the first number APP
peared
"Must it be" it was asked. MS it has
been so long. that women should be
caled nothing but the flowers Of the
human race. the charm of terrestrial
eyes? Must they be hattered solely for
their physi II charms SO as to limit
their empire e their fair youth. whi b.
alas, passes so soon? And vet. true
companions to man, they aid him to
cross the stormy sea Of life. Can II be
said That women are elasseG among
the domestic animal pets. whose pret-
ty litile acts the fruit Of q happy ami
NAL instinct, ale SO cautiyatins*"
The -lthcuoe dies Danes put in its
protest against the common opinion
that man is superior to woman. "If
women had not been for centuries
brought up in profound ignorance and
= had not been persuadcd by force Of
: hearing nlen say that they were ere
otod to o5eT they would have long
'tt,4 icAtlN 81 liz k}tt5 tilGAt II ttC4IiCAI.
! "-rhe task CT our Journal Will be to
: make known ell those virtues and all
those talents which the mcdesty of
women makes them shut up in theiI
own bosolns and which have no wit
iesses outside their families and the
little circle Of friends of each one.
I'VE shall make known to the pub
d lie the writings of many Of us who
not alto@etAer occupied with house
a male pocts The celebrated woman OF
4 tho day will have her portrait and hel
d biography Inserted in the weeks mum
l. ber in which She is described
+ This movement, which might have
G cleared the way for the votes for wo
l. man agitation of today had its day
t shortened by an accident. 1t happen
II cd that shortly after the Athenee hat
e begun TO spread the light woman. ;
$ wigmaker by profession, named Bou
b hourt. aged twenty-five. was convicted
II Of having murdered three people il
l. order to rob them.
Ihickset and we'll built, this youn
a woman was noted for her habit o
1t wearing mans clothes, and it was i
IN mans clothes that she mounted th
Y, scaffold The satirists and caricatur
ID lists seized Gu this circumstance an,
t. made the woman-man q kind of scare
in crow to intimidate women from fo
n lowing in the ways of the Athenee
O! and the writers for this journal O
n emancipation. getting tired of bein
rt nicllnamed Bouhourt, gave up cor
I'd tributing, and no one was found Dol
@ or persevering enough to take thei
ne place