tain questions which have harassed my mind, and are
the following:

If there be a woman's sphere, as a man's sphere, why has not
woman an equal voice in fixing the limits? If it be unwomanly for
a girl to have a whole education, why is it not unwomanly for her
to have even a half one? Should she not be left where the Turkish
women are left? If women have sufficient political influence
through their husbands and brothers, how is it that the worst
laws are confessedly those relating to female property? If
politics are necessarily corrupting, ought not good men, as well
as good women, to be exhorted to quit voting?

If, however, man's theory be correct--that none should be
appointed jurors but those whose occupations fit them to
understand the matters in dispute--where is the propriety of
empanneling a jury of men to decide on the right of a divorced
mother to her child? If it be proper for a woman to open her lips
in jubilee to sing nonsense, how can it be improper for her to
open them and speak sense? These afford a sample of the questions
to which I have been trying in vain to find an answer. If the
reasonings of men on this subject are a fair specimen of the
masculine intellect of the nineteenth century, I think it is
certainly quite time to call in women to do the thinking.

Yours, respectfully and cordially,
T. W. HIGGINSON.
MISS LUCY STONE.

MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE cited the Convention to a case recently tried
before the Court of Common Pleas of New York, as illustrating the
husband's ownership of the wife, the Court deciding that the
friends of a woman who had "harbored" and detained her from her
husband, though with her own consent and desire, should pay him
$10,000. He recovered this sum on the principle of ownership; the
wife's services were due him, and he recovered their value.

Mrs. Gage also commented on the divorce laws, which she declared
were less just in Christian than in Mohammedan countries. In
those countries if the husband sues for a divorce he is obliged
to restore the dower, but in Christian America the husband not
only retains all the property in case he sues for a divorce, but
where the wife, being the innocent party, sues, she even then
r