El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-28

I The word sorcery in its origina
meaning is I'll thinking on matters O,
| III thinking meant in those dav,
] lonly 500 years ago, and still more re.
Gently IN salem) thinking differently
from the majority. 4IicheIst says in his
In the 18th century woman see,
opening before her a long and terrible
career OF punishments and torments
subsequently to 1900 her medicines. are
aQJudged TO be mischievous her RENE
dies condemned as poisons. The harm
less spells whereby the lepers tried To
alleFlate their sufferings led to the
massacre OF those unhappy beings. Pope
John AAll- was flayed alive on sus-
plclOn Of sOrcery."
Worship OF satan.
II Is no wonder that, with such a
religion prevailing, a worship Of satan
was organized and satanic orgies in
dulged IN by the half-mad people per
secuted by the clergy. "Satanisrn. %
too. was the church's crime
BY a monstrous perversion Of ideas, :"
says M1chelet, the middle age regard
ed the flesh On its representative Wom-
an aeceursed OF Eve) as radically i'm
Woman herself came TO share the
odium and prejudice Of the theoIogians
and believed herself unclean.
So she lurked in hiding at the hour
Of childbirth, blushing at the thought
OF maternity, lain to ask pardon for
existing at all and for fulfilling the
conditions Of life.
submissive martyr to false mod
esty. she was forever torturing herself
and endeavOring to conceal the adora-
bic signs of Womanhood
Medieval medicine concerned itself
with men, sometimes with animals,
never with woman.
The soeeress, the first woman ply
eHsa -Tr-Tr1
the fairy. The art of healing Is vvon-
ans true priesthood, hers by divine
right She viii pursue the silences
and bring into their domain gentleness
and humility The feeling is taking
root that all question go back to the
great fundamental questions-educa-
ton, organization, the woman. the
child"
Surely, looking back across the CEN
turtles? woman in our present day civ
ilization. with all its imperfections,
need not sigh for the good old days
gone by"
Statistics Of the, United States com
mission Of education in 1903 tell US that
20 state universities are now open to
women. Out Of $50 educational col
leges, 336 have admitted women
The proportion Of women students
10 the total number Of college students
is nearly IS percent
strong in Body and Mind.
The unoiform experience Of coedu-
cational colleges shows the average
standing Of women students as slightly
higher than that Of men, and shows
that while undergoing the same tests
there is no larger percentage Of with
drawal on account OF sickness.
DR.. Emmett Densmore tells US in his
Sex Equality" some interesting things
about the privileges women enjoy to-
day in various countries
In Canada and Australia all the uni
versities admit women coequal with
men.
London university. Victoria univer-
sity and Cambridge admit women TO
nearly all the courses.
Four Scottish universities admit
them.
In France women are admitted to lee
lures on equal terms
IN Germany special permission from
various authorities must be obtained,
and much opposition to woman's high
er education exists
In Austria women are allowed as
hearers, and 40 women students were
REGISTERED in Vienna in one year
In Russia woman has had small hope
Of educational advantages. because
Of political troubles. But that viii