(From “Woman, Church and State.”)
Under French law, woman is a perpetual minor under the guardianship of her own, or that of her husband’s family. Only in the case of the birth of an illegitimate child is she treated as a responsible being, and then only that discomfort and punishment may fall upon her.
Custom
By Sarah Sellers
(In “The Woman’s Journal.”)
I was dreaming
And I saw the children,
The babies from heaven;
The mothers of the future
Who will nurse us and rear us.