ymnasium_ prepares for the university,
making the classics an essential part of the curriculum. [Tr.]
[62] By Vera Hillt, _Statistics of Labor_, VI, Helsingfors, 1908.
[63] See the complete list of measures in _Jus Suffragi_, September 15,
1908. This is the organ of the International Woman's Suffrage Alliance.
[64] In 1904 women were declared eligible by an official ordinance to hold
university offices.
[65] It might be well to mention _Dansk Kvindesamfund, Politisk
Kvindeforening, Landsforbund, Valgretsforeningen of 1908_ (a Christian
association of men and women).
[66] Compare similar proceedings in the United States and England.
[67] Since Switzerland contains a preponderance of the Germanic element,
it will be considered with the Germanic countries.
[68] In Geneva and Lausanne the men exerted every effort to exclude women
from the typographical trade. The prohibition of night work made this
easy. The same result will follow in the railroad and postal service.
Therefore in the Swiss woman's rights movement there are some that are
opposed to laws for the protection of women laborers.
[69] Industrial training was promoted chiefly by the "Lette-House,"
founded in Berlin in 1865 by President Lette and his wife.
[70] In Germany there are one million domestic servants.
[71] For information concerning the German woman's rights movement we
recommend _The Memorandum-book of the Woman's Rights Movement_ (_Das
Merkbuch der Frauenbewegung_), B. G. Teubner, Leipzig.
[72] A body having advisory powers in matters relating to the medical
profession and to sanitary measures. [Tr.]
[73] The question was decided by the administrative court in _one_ special
case. Compare the case of Jacobs, Amsterdam.
[74] See _Dokumente der Frauen_ (_Documents concerning Women_); November
15, 1899.
[75] The German system of stenography. [Tr.]
[76] See the resolutions of the party sessions in Graz, 1900; in Vienna,
1903; and of the first, second, and third conferences of the International
Woman's Suffrage Alliance, in 1904, 1906, and 1908.
[77] Except in Illyria, Carinthia, and Lower Austria.
[78] For political and practical reasons Hungary will be discussed at this
point.
[79] _Dokumente der Frauen_, June 1, 1901.
[80] The proposed law grants the suffrage even to male illiterates.
[81] Later the Code Napoleon infected other countries, but such horrors
originated spontaneously nowhere else.
[82] In the years
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