ed considerably.
The average wages of the women domestic servants are 20 crowns ($5.36) a
month; the average wages of the workingwomen are from 2 to 2.5 crowns (53
to 67 cents) a day.

Since 1880 the wife can secure separate property holding rights through a
marriage contract. Where joint property holding prevails, the wife
controls her own earnings and savings. In 1888 municipal suffrage was
demanded by the "Danish Woman's Club," but the _Rigsdag_ rejected the
measure. Since then the question has occupied much attention. In 1906 the
Congress of the Woman's International Suffrage Alliance performed
excellent propaganda work. New woman's suffrage societies were organized,
and the older societies were enlarged.[65] In the meantime the bill
concerning municipal suffrage was being sent from one House to the other.
Finally, on February 26, 1908, it was adopted by the Upper House, on April
14 by the Lower House, and on April 20 signed by the King. All taxpayers,
twenty-five years of age, were permitted to vote. All classes of
women--widows, unmarried, and married women--were enfranchised. They have
active and passive suffrage. In March, 1909, they exercised both rights
for the first time. The participation in the election was general; six
women were elected in Copenhagen. The women are now demanding the suffrage
in national affairs. Immediately after the victory of 1908 the Woman's
Suffrage League organized strong demonstrations in forty cities in favor
of this demand.

Here it must be mentioned that the women in Iceland were granted, in the
autumn of 1907, active and passive suffrage in municipal affairs. In
January, 1908, they participated in the elections for the first time. In
Reikiavik, the capital, 2850 people voted, 1220 of whom were women. Four
women were elected to the city council, one polling the highest number of
votes. In 1909, the Icelandic Woman's Suffrage League joined the
International Woman's Suffrage Alliance. A number of Icelandic woman's
suffrage societies in Canada have affiliated with the Canadian Woman's
Suffrage League.

On March 30, 1906, official regulation of prostitution was abolished in
Denmark; but a new law of similar character was enacted providing for
stringent measures.

THE NETHERLANDS

Total population: 5,673,237.
Women: 2,583,535.
Men 2,520,602.

Federation of the Netherlands Women's Clubs.
Woman's Suffrage League.

Although women are in a n