d in length 16 Feet; thought to be the largest of its
Kind ever seen in America.

In the same paper of the following week occurs this yet more
extraordinary announcement:

TO BE SOLD.--A Healthy Young Dutch Woman, fit for town or country
business; about 18 years old; can spin well; she speaks good
English, and has about five years to serve. Inquire at James Der
Kinderen's, Strawberry alley.

In one century of growth a woman's sewing machine was better
protected than the woman herself under the old common law:

AN ACT _to exempt Sewing Machines belonging to Seamstresses in
this Commonwealth from levy and sale on execution or distress for
rent_:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in general
assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
same, That hereafter all sewing machines belonging to
seamstresses in this commonwealth shall be exempt from levy and
sale on execution or distress for rent, in addition to any
article or money now exempt by law. Approved, April 17, 1869.

While the following order reflects the spirit of the seventeenth
century, the comments show the dawning of the right idea, and are
worthy the time in which the great State of Pennsylvania could
boast such women as Lucretia Mott, Anna E. Dickinson, Jane G.
Swisshelm and Sarah J. Hale:

A WOMAN ORDER IN PITTSBURGH.--The mayor of Pittsburgh has ordered
the arrest of every woman found on the streets alone after 9
o'clock in the evening; the consequence of which has been that
some respectable ladies have recently seen the inside of the
lock-up.--_Exchange, June, 1869._

Now let the mothers, wives and daughters of Pittsburgh obtain the
passage, by the city council, of an ordinance causing the arrest
of every _man_ found in the streets after 9 o'clock in the
evening, and the law will then be equal in its operation. This
legislating upon the behavior of one sex by the other
exclusively, is one-sided and despotic. Give both sexes a chance
at reforming each other.

Another step in progress was indicated by the assumption of some
women to influence civil administration, not only for their own
protection, but for that of their sires and sons:

An exchange says that women are becoming perfect nuisances, and
to substantiate the