Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1920-02-19
MAKE PROGRESS
IN PHILIPPINES
Woman Has Advanced in Profess
sional and Industrial Life,
Says One of Them.
IS HUSBANDS REAL PARTNER
Shares With Him the Cares of BUS
ness, Especially in It's Financial
Aspeets--Many Take Up
Legal Profession.

New York-Mme Jaime De Ncyra
wife Of one Of the representatives q
the Philippine islands 10 the nlte'
States. has recently been visiting WON
ems clubs in New York city, telllli-
what she has already told he Woln@
Of Washington. They have fine syStene
of educaton. she says, good schools
and a high degree Of economic useful
ness. Nine. De Ncyra wore, IN giving
her talks. one Of the beautiful gowns
Of the Philippines, Il delleate pune
ar,le fabric, handWoNen and hand
embroidered. shaped like IA gauzF'
WINGED butterfly.
"rhings are made very easy for the
Filipino woman in many ways. she
said. "Thc professional opportunities
arc a~ GOOD for her as for the men.
Women are already members oJ the
Philippine Bar nsS1ciatiolt~-~ohe]i'iH@
which il impossible for the women Of
Great Hritan-~ihcy are in business
for themselves. and they are success
full practicng physicians. Laws mao"
for our women combine the nest or
Spanish and American prrccdenlS.
Made Easy for Women.
"Eyerything has been made much
more simple for W. than for either The
American or Spanish women Married
women hold their properly in several
~, and they are guardians ot tteF
nWn children. OF the property winch
uccrleS to a married couple, the wife
Is half administrators, and these ar"
vested rights which cannot he taken
trom her. 1t Is not unusual for the
mother Of family to have not only
household leadership but economic
control. NJ De Neyra, who is interested
IN history. tells me that before the
spanish came we had natrarFhal
system, and this has made The Pip
pino women sclf-reSpecting and val
ant.
"Of our 31i1 islands. only 400 are
inhabited. the principal oncS beiI.s
l.lzon. Mlntlanao and Nisayas; vet
eyen in rural ltt'e EarrioS yns will
ind some sort VI q woman leader. One
I'D woman who has had seventeen
children. thirteen having lived 10 grow
Ip, and who ha% many grandchildren
and REORGANIZATION SIN exercises
-ull sway over the family, and has the
asst word "a say 10 all financial affairs.
The married children rs we'll as 9th
Frs look up 10 her, not only as a moth
If. bur Us an adviser.
'Women, when they marry % into
partnerships With their husbands.
While the men handle tho workers,
he women attend to the finances. act
IS cashiers. pay The workers. aud over,
see much If the biS,ncsS, 1hcr have
equality with men IN everything eX-
cept in voting, which the governor gen
aral has recommended In his messages
10 the legislature. When it was first
recommended the women had not
made much Of IN effort to gain the
vote, but This year appeals came from
he provinces and Womerl's clubs and
associations. In 1907 there we're only
thirty Nomen's clubs but now There
are 3hI 4 petition signed by $4,000
women was sent 10 the laW-n@ke"S
who granted a Joint Legislative hear
ing on woman suffrage. Tire" Filipino
women spoke, Two Of them Wer" rrae-
ticing lawyers and the one who was
said to have made the best speech wa,
Nine. Conception Calderon. widow ~
the man who wrote the constitution
Of Mn1l,lna