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The policeman raised tlie sash, caught it as it fell, repeated the operation, then turned and took a leisurely ik ; sur\*ey of the unfurnished apartment s. j “That’s a first-rate burglar trap, and 'e ! no mistake, he said thoughtfully, but ■c me if I see any bait. And tothink it caught Slippery Dick, of all men In the world.—Chicago Tribune.THE ITALIAN WOMAN.Genii** Sex of That Nntloualltj Bu hut l.itel©.The rather low standard of her culture tends to keep the Italian woman, behindhand in the march of emancipation, though one comes across ro-markable exceptions among those occupied with education of literature.and and even iu society, says The Contemporary. The Italian has a very acut» intelligence, which takes in with extraordinary promptitude anything presented to her mind, but she does not cultivate it; once her studies ended sho closes her books; adieu pauiers, vendanges sont faites! That most useful help to feminine intellectual development, reading, has not yet become a habit with her. There are j countries where books are more used by women than by men; rich, they buy them; poor, they have the lending library; in their yearly expenditure, no matter how small It be, literature has its place. There Is nothing like this in Italy. With the exception oi a small minority, the women do not read, and have no wish to read. Their celebrated ancestresses of the sixteenth century must look at them with reproachful eyes. If the ahade of the President des Bicsscb recrossed tht J I A1PS he would find no Maria Giiotana s Agnesi, called the oracle of seven languages and the servant of the poor, and declared by him to be more marvelous than Milan Cathedral. Benedict XIV. granted remission to this learned Milanese lady to take her father’s place as professor of mathematics t'f at the University of Bologna during an Illness of the father. The tradition of feminine learning is lost iu Italy; indeed, it was lost long before the iv j time of Marla Gaetana Agnesi. The k Italian of to-day may yet provo hor-a self capable of emulating her great forerunners, but In the meantime it is d certain that modern ideas have made I. i so much less wny with her than with g ! the women of other European countries that she offers a more formidable resistance ithun even the men of her own land to any effort at reform in favor of her sex. This inferiority of culture has the double effect of greatly limiting the number of women capable of taking any part whatever in public affairs, and of creating an utter want of sympathy with the emancipation movement in general.'Womcn’H dome In Japan.Obviously the Japanese do not agree with Tennyson that “the woman’s £ J cause Is man's,” for the Tokyo corre-;e , spondent vof ihe Nagasaki Press an-lR | nounces that there will appear shortly k r a weekly paper entitled the Fujo lt j Shimbun (woman's paper), under the auspices of well-known men and women. The prospectus Just issued says that the paper will be devoted to the promotion of interests affecting the fair sex in Japan, and will also conduct warfare against social abuses, to which no quarter will be given. Editor, reporters and other members or the stair will consist of women.
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Philipsburg, Montana, US
Fri, Sep 28, 1900
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