Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1881 — Treatment of Women. [ARTICLE]

Treatment of Women.

From the fall of the Roman empire in the west to she fourteenth' and. fifteenth centurypwomeq sprat most of thelt time alone, almost entirely, stranger to the joys of social life seldom went abroad:but to.speptwtort or such public diversions' and gmasemente to the fashions dfi the I times countenanced- Francis I. was (he flret who 1 introduced women on public daysrto conrnUbfore his* time nothing was to be seen in any .of the dourtslh Europe’ ’but gray-liearded politicians, plotting -the destruction) of the rights and litertie&of mankind: pud warriors in complete anqor, all ready to put their plots Intadctitdop, jn the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries elegance had scarcely any exhardly considered as laudable. The Ce of them was. not known and the ost dplicate of 'the' fair sex wore WooleikiUuderelothing. In Paris they* had meat only times -te week: citizens used splinters of wood and* rags dipped in oil instead of Whieh in these days were a luxury* Rarely to be met with. Wine was Qnly tObC had at the shops of the apothecaries. where it was sold.as a <x>rdiaV?«toMlto ridden -S car was reckoned agrandeur kotenviable that Philip the Fair prohibited (he wives Of citizens from enjoying It. In the Ume of Henry VIII. Of England, the peers of the* realm mrri& their wives behind, them ■on hofoeback when thfy went to London/and in the same manner took tjiem back to their country seato Wltta -hoods oi waxen- linen over. theU. heai.. gr»rf wrapped in mantles of cToth'foTfecure them from fee ar? ; ■ AWt ■ .-r —, > i O * 1 ’ * - Tito Rev. W. H. H. Murray is writ ing letters from his San Antonio, Texas, farm to the Boston Herald.