assertion adds that 1,500 women in Chester
county, Pennsylvania, have petitioned the court to grant no more
liquor licenses.

Suppose wives should come reeling home, night after night, with
curses on their lips, to destroy the food, the dishes, the
furniture for which husbands toiled; to abuse trembling children,
making the home, from year to year, a pandemonium on earth--would
the good men properly be called "nuisances," who should rise up and
say this must end; we must protect our firesides, our children,
ourselves, society at large? To have women even suggest such
beneficent laws for the men of their families is called "a
nuisance," while the whole barbarous code for women was declared by
Lord Coke to be the "perfection of reason."

The prejudice against sex has been as bitter and unreasonable as
against color, and far more reprehensible, because in too many
cases it has been a contest between the inferior, with law on his
side, and the superior, with law and custom against her, as the
following facts in the _Sunday Dispatch_, by Anne E. McDowell,
fully show:

The decision of the Court of Common Pleas in the case of Mrs.
McManus, elected principal of the Mount Vernon Boys' Grammar
School, is to the effect that, no rule being in existence
prohibiting the exercise of the duties of such office by a woman,
the resolution of the controllers against the exercise of the
duties of that office by the lady was unjustifiable and illegal.
Since the decision was pronounced the controllers have come up to
the boundary of the principle held by the court, and a rule has
been proposed that in future women shall be ineligible to be
principals of boys' grammar schools--the case of Mrs. McManus
being specially excepted. That lady, therefore, will be
undisturbed. But she may be, like the celebrated "Lady
Freemason." an exception to her sex. The controllers have not
favored the public with their reasons for opposition to the
employment of females in the higher positions of teaching. Women
are good enough for inferior service about a boys'
grammar-school, it seems, but they are not capable of
superintending it. They may be, and are, teachers in all the
classes in such schools, even to the highest; but when the
question arises whether a woman, perfectly competent, shall be
superintendent of all the classes--for a principa