Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE.

Brilliant Pollnb Portia Recently Admitted to the French Bar. Women are now In increasing numbers entering the various professions, ing In the field of actual and practical politics. In four States of the Union they possess suffrage on equal terms with men. In Australia and New Zealand they enjoy full suffrage rights, and In the ancient duchy of Finland nineteen of them have seats In the national parliament. The day of “woman in politics” has dawned, and if the same agitation for full political rights is kept up for the next twenty-five

years as it has in the past, the equal suffrage demands of women should be complete In many lands. ► Professionally, women have achieved their emancipation. Women In the professions are familiar enough now in the United States; and in Europe the woman doctor and lawyer are met with. France granted to women the right of becoming lawyers in December, 1900, and since then women have been competing with men for honors In that honorable calling. The latest accession in Paris to the ranks of women lawyers is Mlle. Miropolsky, belonging to a race which has given to the world many women of noted beauty and noted talents. She is a Pole and Is beautiful as well as talented. Had she tembraced the stage Instead of the legal profession, Miss Miropolsky would long ago have been famous, for she has a beautiful voice charm of manner which is most captivating. But like her countrywoman. Madame Curie, the co-discov-erer of radium, she goes in for the serious things of life. The intricacies of law appealed to her bright and analytical mind and Paris predicts for her at the bar a brilliant and successful career.

MLLE. MIROPOSKY.