eal estate to the eldest male heir repealed.
The law of 1871 gave a married woman the right to make a will,
provided her husband gave his written consent, with the names of
two respectable witnesses thereunto attached. In 1873 the law was
repealed, and another act passed giving married women the right
to make a will, buy property and hold it exempt from the
husband's debts, but this law does not affect his tenancy by
courtesy.

Prior to 1868, bonds, mortgages, stocks, etc., were counted
personal property, all of which went into the possession of the
husband the moment the woman answered "I will," in the marriage
ceremony. I worked hard to get the law passed giving the wife the
right to her own separate earnings, and at last was greatly
helped by the fact that a woman petitioned for a divorce, stating
in her application that she was driven from her home, that she
and her two children had worked hard and saved $100 for a rainy
day, and now her husband claimed the money. It was a case in
point, and helped the members of our legislature to pass the
wages bill.

Delaware College, the only institution of the kind in the State,
was open to girls for thirteen years, but owing to a tragedy
committed by the boys in hazing one another, resulting in death,
the doors were thereafter closed to girls, although they were in
no way directly or indirectly implicated in the outrages. When
Governor Stockley was appealed to, he simply gave some of the old
arguments against coeducation, and did not recommend, as he
should have done, an appropriation at once by the State to build
a similar college, with all the necessary appointments for the
education of girls. We have women who are practicing physicians,
and are also in the State Medical Boards. We have none who
practice law or preach in our pulpits, and all the political
offices of the State are closed to women. No notaries, bank
cashiers, telegraph operators. Women are still in the belief that
work outside the home is a disgrace to the men of their families.

In February, 1881, Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony, Miss Couzins and
Mrs. Lockwood, held various hearings before the legislature. Mrs.
Lockwood read to the gentlemen article 4 of the constitution as
amended in 1834: "Any white male citizen over 22 years o