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WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
One of Them Has Just Been
Recognized by the Illinois
Legislature.
Chicago Journal.
The passage of a law by the general
assembly a,t late session giving moth
ers, equally with fathers, the right of
guardianship over minor children stri
fces off one of the last shackles from
jwomau in which the common xlaw
bound her. ''The parents of a minor
shall have equal powers, rights, and
duties concerning the minor. In case
the father and mother live apart, the
court may, for good reason, awfird the
custody and education of the minor
to either parent, or to some other per
son' ' The progress of the emancipation of
woman from a state of martial slavery
and self-effacement before the law has
been long and painful. It was in 1792
that Mary Wollstonecraft struck the
first blow for her sex in her once cele
brated book, "The Vindication of the
Rights of Woman." This was a plea
for equality of education, a protest
against the assumption that woman
was only the plaything of man, and
asserting that intellectual companion
ship was the chief, as it is the last
ing, happiness of marriage.
So far as this part of her work is
concerned it is unanswerable, and her
arguments have lain at the base of all
the reforms accomplished in behalf of
woman. Unfortunately she mixed up
with her main theme several more
dangerous and more questionable topics
not usually mentioned in books for
general circulation, discussing them
with a plainness of speech and want
of reticence that turned opinion
against her. But she started a great
movement that has gone on from that
day to this, particularly in this coun
try until at last a married woman is on
an equality with her husband before
the law. She can dispose of her pro
perty by will; her individuality is no
longer merged in that of her husband;
she can possess manage and, and con
vey her -own real and personal property
in a large porportion of the states;
she has equal rights under the divorce
laws; she is inale liable for family
expenses, if she has a separate estate,
and she can sue and be sued as if she
were a single woman.
It has taken years of hard and per
sistent labor and agitation to bring
about these just and equitable reforms,
hut in Illinois at least they are at last
accomplished, as they are indeed in a
large proportion of the states. Among
those deserving of commendation for
strenuous labor in behalf of this last
reform is Mrs. Catharine Waugh Mc
Culloch, of Chicago, whose active work
and arguments at Springfield did much
to secure the passage of the bill. Her
pamphlet, entitled "Mr. Lex" is a most
admirable presentation of the wrongs
of woman under the old law, which
gave the father almost despotic control
over his children while his mother was
absolutely powerless.
After July the 1st next this will no
longer be the law.
THE CHARLOTTE NATIONAL BANK
Charlotte, N. C, Feb. 3, 1898.
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