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A PIONEER tie
Mother said at her birth: "A woman's life is so hard
I'm sorry it's a girl." by ARA J. GEBAROFF
THIS SLOGAN was undoubtedly originated by some male jealous of his prerogative rights.
Perhaps this was in the mind of a certain Massachusetts minister when he made this peculiar public announcement: "I am asked to give notice that a hen will attempt to crow like a cock in the town-hall at five o'clock tomorrow evening. Those who like such music will of course attend."
He was referring whether facetiously or seriously, to a lecture to be given by Lucy Stone, a pioneer in the field of Woman's Rights.
This same Lucy started to think of her life-work when as a child she read in her Bible that wives must be in subjection to their husbands. She ran in tears to her mother asking, "Is there anything that will put an end to me?"
Early did she become indignant at man-made laws, and the way men treated women. A married woman's property and her earnings belonged to her husband. He had sole control of the children while he lived. If he wished, he could at his death will them to strangers.
A wife could not make a contract, and had scarcely any legal rights. She was entitled to stay only forty days in her house without paying rent, after the death of her husband.
Lucy Stone was born in Massachusetts in 1818. Her mother said at her birth, "I'm sorry it's a girl. A woman's life is so hard."
She should have reckoned with Lucy. She had inherited something which put her ahead of her times, even as her famous prototype, Anne Hutchinson.
But whereas Anne rebelled at women keeping silent on religious matters, and did something about that, much to the wrath of the Puritan fathers, Lucy Stone determined on another course.
She wanted to find out for herself just how badly translated certain BibHeal sections were. She wanted to read in the original Greek those passages relating to a woman's being in subjection to a man.
She became the first woman from Massachusetts to graduate from a college. That college was Oberlin in Ohio. It had been founded in 1820, and made no distinction of color or