WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN AMERICA.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 772, 4 February 1871, Page 2

WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN AMERICA.

The women'a-right question appears io he gaming adherents in an eminently practical sense in America. A kindly feeling appears to be springing tip in the towns and cities of ne.v England with respect to the extension of the suffrage to women. The lecture field, which is so extensive in America, is occupied by a large number of lecturesses, for we presume we must so designate the fair speakers who seek to charm the American public by their eloquence. The American correspondent of the " Athenaoum " states that in America women are everywhere encroaching on what was once regarded as the domain of man. In the United States women have printing oiliees, edit newspapers, keep grocery stores, and follow other occupations which have hitherto belonged to the Province <>i man. There is a school committee in Maine of which a lady is a member; there is a firm in Indiana rejoicing in th« title of Mrs Smith ami Husband ; Miss Fanny Meeller is the junior member of a large bookselling tirm in Boston ; in a town in the Stale of New York there is a lady insurance broker : and women are to be found in schools and colleges, in the laboratory of the chemist, and the dissecting room of the hospital, working as hard and as earnestly as the most zealous of male students. They make money on 'Change in New York ; they preach ; the}' form clubs; they influence public opinion; they will soou be placed in possession of the suffrage ; and should they be able to efficiently discharge the duties which they appear so anxious to impose on themselves, we perceive no valid reason why they should be prevented from fulfilling their destiny. If nature has not qualified them to fill the oiliees they seek, we may be certain that their ambition will speedily he checked, and their geuius diverted towards more feminine occupations.