The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-16
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| object Of the club. Mrs. Amidon gave
some good suggestions for a baby
health contest to be held May "a. A
committee was appointed to perfect the
plans. Mrs. r. M. Pollock extended an
invitation to the ladies of the Fort
| nightly to hear Rev. Mr.. Sunday, who
will speak on Henry Van Dyke and the
Lost Word on Thursday morning, at
10 o'clock, at her home on Eighth street
south.
The principal paper of the afternoon
was given by Mrs. Davis, who talks
on Suggestions for Civic Improvement
in Fargo. She spoke Of he need in
Fargo of a police matron, Of the i'm
portance of having a woman to meet
the incoming trains and to care for the
women at the police station. She
brought up the necessity for some
measure regarding smoking and in re-
gard to the proper sanitary conditions
about livery stables and other places
of like nature where flies are plentiful
during the summer. Mrs. Davis paper
was broad and showed much investi-
cation and study on matters which
should vitality interest the people OF
Fargo. Following her paper a general
| discussion was held, which brought out
many more defects in civic condi-
tons.
The washington Neighborhood club
will meet this week and the subject
will be on the history of the Hudson
Bay Co. There will be the usual social
time with refreshments.
The Bay View Study club met yes
terday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Emerson H. Smith on Ninth avenue
south for the study of parks. Mrs.
H. f. Emery gave a very interesting
paper on Historic Trees and Mrs. A.
F. Schwarz talked on Grandmother's
Garden. Mrs. w. H. Allen gave a fine
report of the district meeting held last
week at Hope.
A very large and interested gath
ering of ladies and gentlemen at
tended the regular meeting Of the
Votes For Women league last eve
ming in the basement OF the public
library. Mrs. e. NJ. Darrow was
present for the first time and pre-
| sided over the meeting. The subject
Of the meeting, Woman and Her
Franchise was introduced by Mrs. r.
M. Pollock and she emphasized the
fact that the women should use their
influence and power of franchise in
the election today. Mrs. Wilder read
the minutes which were very en-
~couraging and the speaker Of the
evening, Harry Lashkowitz Of the
University of New York was hen in
troduced.
He said in part: Roman law in
the period of the republic gave woman
a precise status. Before marriage
she was under parental tutelage; aft
err marriage she was under uxorial
tutelage. Her hold no property and
her personal privileges were r~evocable
at will by her male guardian; she
! could not act as surety; she could not
have her testimony accepted in a law
case; she could not sue in her own
name nor could she be sued. The
husband could divorce the wife with
a word; the wife could not divorce
the husband with the whole diction-
airy.
Notwithstanding the mitigations
to this status that arrived with the
liberalism of the empire. most Of the
harsher and more glaringly unjust
provisions of the Roman law bearing
upon women passed over into and
were incorporated with the common
law. 1t is only with the educational
awakening Of the nineteenth century
that the legal handicaps begin to be
palpably lifted"
He dealt with the present position
of women in rapard 70 law and If the
differences existing IN the various
states and OF the influence of women
upon the great reforms Of the cen
! fury. His talk was q very cornpre-
hensive one and thoroughly appre-
ciated.
The evening was concluded with a
reading, Aux Italiens by Miss Claire
Luger with musical accompaniment