Office Holding: In January, 1900, the Supreme Court denied the application of a woman to practice at the bar, on the ground that a lawyer is a State officer and all State officers must be voters.
In the one city of Wilmington women are eligible as school directors, but none ever has been elected.
A woman factory inspector was appointed by the Chief Justice in 1897, and reappointed in 1900.
Women never have served as notaries public.
Occupations: Only the practice of law is legally forbidden.
Education: Delaware has one college, at Newark, which receives State funds. Women were admitted in 1872, and during the next thirteen years eighty availed themselves of its advantages. It was then closed to them. The only High School in the State, at Wilmington, is open to girls.
There are in the public schools 211 men and 643 women teachers. It is impossible to obtain their average salaries.
FOOTNOTES:
[211] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Martha S. Cranston of Newport, president of the State Woman Suffrage Association.