Woman's Rights

It is not quite easy to explain the vitality at the present hour of cartein old questions affecting what are called the rights of women. Men have been patiently and, on the whole, conscientiously trying to give due recognition of these rights for tho last quarter of a century. Women, married or single, can do in these days with their property very much what they please. The husband has ceased to have any iegal control over his wife's earnings, and in estarnentary disposition a .woman is rather more free than a man to do what he likes with her own. The learned )rofessions are opened to women, and he universities have at least furnished hem with "annexes" and admitted hem to competition for degrees. They an give their minds to the study of Greek or the rnaking of puddings; they an become journalists'or take to fencing with the small sword ; they can sit on school boards or bet on the horse races, and nobody has either protest or comment to offer on the emancipation of the sex. But it seems that all this is not enough, or rather, that it has merely created an appotite for more. Peminine familiarity with occupations hitherto pursued by men appears to have developed a certain contempt for the male intélligenee. Man, it seems, is a sad bungler whora women "have allowed to an-ange the whole social system and manage or mismanagfe it all these ages without ever seriously examining his work with a view to considering whether his abilities and his methods weve sufflciently good to qualify him for the task. " But now that she has begun the long-deferred process of examination and iudgment, man is found wanting and must take a back seat.