m' ; "'" ; - s-*~ py- P<J C7/VLP&-AZUTO O£3 <$ CSS£>&-S£,C4SOOJ?. A? >T"" ■MBHIT A MOMENT when the A women o£ the west have attained to complete lib erty of action, and to equal ■wmwaa j{y with the male sex in a " mat ters, save that ot t ' le political franchise; when that intellectual and accomplished band, who under the name of suffra &y, gettes are daily mustering under its banners recruits lrom all ranks of society with the rallying cry of "Votes for Women;" and slowly but surely evolv ing a plan ot campaign, which leaving out of account the aggressive militant attitude of certain of their members, cannot but fail to appeal in the long run to that sex in whose political thralldom they claim to be, it may be pertinent to inquire what their sistera in the east, and especially in China are doing. Woman in China has many obstacles to overcome before she can hope to reach the progressive freedom at tained by the woman of the west. While she has more license in her ac tions and meets with more considera tion than the dweller in the Indian zenana, she still, as from time immemorial In the his tory of her country, occupies a very inferior position to her lord and master. Theoretically she has no standing at all. She is but a mere chattel or household append age. Yet in reality, when a mother, she exercises to the day of her death, a powerful and far-reacbing influence over the destinies of her children—even should they reach the state of being grandparents, and in spite of the cast-iron customs of old tradition, which restrain her daily life from birth, she is able to make herself more or less comfortable and contented with her lot. From an educational point, however, woman in the mass has no place in China. Whilt* the son of the house is given every advantage to become a man of letters, though in a manner which adheres to classical traditions, except in rare instances where outside influences are at e.g.—the.g.—the German-Chinese High school which was opened at Tsingtan on October 2f>, woman has had no such opportunities. The Chines father looks upon the education of his daughter in this light: "This girl will be with trie but a short time, till she is married. Why should 1 waste time and money for her husband's sake?" The girl, who is often possessed of a mind which Is sus ceptible to the highest education, sharp and quick-witted, as has been proven by those who have had the advantage TOURIST in Athens wandering about the palace gardens no ticed an elderly gen tleman seated on one of the b»nches quietly smoking. Asking him for a match, and be ing answered in Eng lish, he sat down and entered into conver sation with him. The talk veered round to the subject of the government, and the tourist asked casually "What do they think of the royal family, then?" "Well," eaid the old gentleman, smiling: "The queen iB beloved by all for her good deeds." "And the king?" "Um! I'm afraid he's not much use. He never seems to do anything very bad or very good. So we won't talk about him." The tourist being invited to walk around the garden was surprised to see his guide being saluted, and beat a hasty and apologetic retreat on real izing that it was King George. There are many such stories of the king's hatred of anything approaching formality or ostentation. But this is only fitting in the democratic king of the most democratic nation in Europe. It Is not so many years ago since by constitution all degrees and titles of nobility were abolished, and in the eyes of the law all alike are equal. King George has every desire for a peaceful life, for he has seen much happen since he was elected of the Hellenes in 1863, but everything points at the moment to a political crises which may lead him to share the fate of his predecessor, Otho of Bavaria. The military force then, as the Military league will probably be now, was the moving power In estab lishing a new order. Otho and his consort having gone yachting in the ot a new trend of thought, which is creeping in from tho Occident, but which as she grows up, becomes stunted in growth by her absolute illiteracy and limitation of out look. Her energies seek no wider outlet than the petty cares of the household, her cooking, washing, sewing; and there it ends. Her life of drudgery coupled with the realization of her hopeless inferiority impressed upon her by her surroundings, breed in her a lack of hope and ambition, which transmitted by her to her family, must inevitably have a debasing influence upon the intellect uality of generations following "Educate the mothers of France," was Napoleon's remedy for France; and it stands true for the China of to-day. As an unmarried woman, she is a valueless unit in the four hundred mil lion inhabitants. As a wife, since she lives with her hus band's mother she is no better than a slave, compelled to submit to the whims of her mother-in-law who wreaks upon her vengeance for her own sufferings as a bride. It is only on the birth of a son, whose coming spells re lease, that she shakes oft the yoke and attains to a cer tain degree of honor. Yet to a Chinese woman marriage represents a desirable thing, and there are few unmar ried. and that in spite of the fact that the husband is permitted to administer "wholesome correction," which she may not resent under the severest of penalties. as* —■nT.T'. ''-""if Aegean, the moment was considered an auspicious one for effecting a change of rulers; and on the aston ished king arriving at Salamis he was politely informed that his services were dispensed with, that the throne was now vacant and that he need not trouble to set foot in Greece again. He did not, but returned to Bavaria, and the throne of Greece was finally offered to George, second son of the king of Denmark, and brother to the CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1910. queen of England. His marriage to one of the Russian princesses soon followed. Their eldest son, Gonstantine, who has incurred the hatred of the army, whose head he is, is now 41. He mar ried in 1889 Sophia, sister of the kaiser, and has now three sons, the eldest of whom, Prince Georgios. should by right, ascend the throne in the natural order of succession. It is the v of the boys, however, the pig signifying plenty. "Marriage" is a pig and woman under one roof. "Wife" is a woman under a broom. "Good" is a woman and a male child. A startling exception to the rule was the late dow ager empress, who broke through custom and climbed to the throne, where she wielded a despotic rule which ri valed that of Catherine of Russia in many of its aspects. Though a person of high intellectual capacity and an ar tist of no mean ability, she was opposed to reform of all sorts, and took no advantage of her position to amelior ate the conditions of her own sex. The first official recog nition of the existence of woman took place but a short time ago in the publication of a semi-official book dedi cated to"The Fathers and Mothers of the People." There seems to be a new era in view, and educa tional systems are being revised. The ladies of the up per classes who have in many cases good educations, are awakening to their responsibilities, and one, the Prin cess Halachan, has founded a school for Mogul girls. Thanks to the influence of certain ladies of other na tions who have interested themselves in the matter, girls' schools are springing up her and there, and the impetus given to education and freedom of thought is clearly shown in the happy faces in this photo of some girl scholars. Once released from the idea of inferiority, the Prince Paulos, now eight years old, whom report points to as the people's chosen ruler in the event of the retire ment of the king. Prince Paulos is al ready idolized by the royal guards, and is credited as being fixed upon by the Military league as the king's suc cessor, since they fear that should the crown prince come to the throne he will take steps to repay the humil iations put upon him by their body. Every Greek is a politician, and the Once married, her privacy must not be intruded upon by a male stranger. She must recognize the ex istence of only two men in the world, her husband and her father. Such a thing as mixed so ciety is forbidden. Her name must not be mentioned, and for a friend of her husband to in quire after her is to mark him as a person of no breed ing. As a clew to the correct estimate of her position, the Chinese language affords striking il lustration. "Home" is represented by the symbol of a pig under a roof — girl must as a mother, exert a beneficial and enlightening influence upon the generation which follows her; and China having realized that the strength of a nation lies in the womankind, must surely discard her ancient prej udices. Many centuries must elapse before then, for the east moves slowly, unless the woman of the west comes to the aid of her sister; and there seems to be no more no ble field for the activities of the intellectual woman, as we know her, than that which seems to be presented by the masses of her sisters in China. Woman alone can. appeal to woman, and the Chinese woman but awaits the moral backing to become a potent factor in the regen erency of her country. • $ * * I ! Ancient German Buildings 112 & * The entry into Goslar is reminiscent of Nuremberg; for one comes at once upon a huge, round fortress tower guarding the approach. But instead of lingering here, one hastens to the farther end of town to see the build ing that is the very raison d'etre of Goslar, says a writer in the Century. Goslar came into the world because it lay on the fringe of the Harz forests and at the foot of the silver-yielding Rammelsberg, both of which were owned by the ninth century emperors of the holy Roman empire. There they put up a succession of hunting lodges and small palaces until Emperor Henry 111. built the Kaiserhaus, which is to-day the oldest secular building in Germany. Here Henry IV. began his ill-starred life. His preference for living at Goslar, and the number of castles he built in the neighborhood, roused the fears of the Saxon no bles, who tried to assassinate him one evening at the Kaiserhaus. And this was the opening scene of the dra ma that culminated at Canossa, when, barefooted, the emperor waited three days in the snow before Pope Gregory's portal. The last hols Roman emperor in these spacious halls was Barbarotsa. After him the noble building gradually fell into ruin until the coming of the new empire, when it was restored in a rather hard, Prussian style, and re ceived into its halls the second great German leader, William I. Now, in bronze, the pair sit their war horses one on each side of the main flight of steps—Barbarossa and Barablanca, as the people call them. The main hall is decorated with frescoes of the Sleep ing Beauty and the Barbarossa legends, and with scenes from local &nd imperial history. Its principal attraction is the old Kaiserstuhl, seat of a long line of emperors. cafes are hot beds of political discus sion as to the trend of events. Should Paulos be chosen, then the constitu tional royal authority must be exer cised by the ministerial council until a regent is appointed. Meanwhile King George drives about in his auto, thinking deeply. He is growing old now, and his 64 years, 46 of which he has spent on the throve, make him wish to spend his remaining days as a simple gentleman. In the chapel of St. Ulrich lies buried the heart of Henry 111. It lay formerly in the famous cathedral which Henry built near his palace, and which was torn down in 1819. This piece of vanished glory pos sessed an extraordinary collection of treasures and relics. It made noth ing of the bones of such saints as Nicholas, Lawrence, Cyril and Diony sius, for there were also important remains of the apostles themselves. There was half of the Apostle Phil ip, an arm of Bartholomew, and ona of James; a hand, arm and the head of Matthew, and a great part of the bodies of Peter and Paul. There were also many other wonders. Many of these valuables were stol en in the sack of Goslar in 1206, and more during the Swedish occupation in the Thirty Years' war. Others were sold to keep up the cathedral during the hard times brought on by the reformation, so that the only remnant of the building and its treasures to-day is a part of one tran sept near the Kaiserhaus, with some interesting statues, some of the old est stained glass in existence, and an early Romanesque reliquarium borne by still earlier brazen figures of the four rivers of paradise, as old as the city itself. Prom this one fragment, with its splendid, sculp tured portal, one can reconstruct the whole—ex pede Herculem —and re alize the effect of a religious page ant on one of Goslar's chief holy days, such as the Feast of St. Mat thew, when the bells in the twin towers went mad when Henry 111., in his imperial robes, swept down the broad steps of the Kaiserhaus, heading a brillinnt train of prelates, princes, knights and many a band of pilgrims, who had come from every part of the empire to bow at this « famous shrine. And after the last amen had died awaiy amid the groined vaulting of the cathedral, St. Matthew in his silver sarcophagus was carried with due rites about th# city walls. 3
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