AUTHOR. Twenty-five years of age; and a certificate attesting that the individual knows how to read, write and reckon, that he possesses an elementary knowledge of the history and geography of his country; together with a correct theory with respect to Right and Duty, and the destiny of humanity upon earth. The knowledge of a small volume would be sufficient, as you see, to enable every man and woman, twenty-five years of age and healthy in mind, to enjoy political rights, after having been subjected to an initiation by the enjoyment of civil rights. But, I ask you, what could those do with political right who confound liberty with license, who scarcely know the meaning of the words Right and Duty, and who are even incapable of writing their own vote! Men have their rights, let them keep them! a right once admitted cannot be taken away: let them render themselves fit to exercise them. As to women, let them first emancipate themselves civilly and become educated: their turn will come. READER. It is very important that men should comprehend that you do not deny, but merely postpone the political rights of our sex. AUTHOR. Be easy; they will comprehend it rightly; they will not mistake counsel dictated by prudence for an acknowledgement of inferiority and a resignation of functions. III. READER. Will you now state the legal reforms which we should demand successively. AUTHOR. So far as civil life is concerned, we should ask: That a woman who is a foreigner may be able to become naturalized in a country otherwise than by marriage. That woman shall not lose her nationality by the same sacrament. That woman be admitted to sign, as a witness, all certificates of social condition, with all others that have been hitherto interdicted to her. You know that already, in derogation of the law, midwives sign certificates of birth of unacknowledged natural children, and that, in certain notarial documents, drawn up by justices of the peace, to attest to a fact in the absence of written evidence, the testimony of women is admitted. We demand that tradeswomen and merchant women shall form a part of the boards of trade; that in every criminal trial, women shall be placed on the jury: that to women shall be entrusted the management and superintendence of hospitals, prisons for women, and charitable associations. That in every district, a woman shall be appointed to superintend girls' schools, infant asylums, and nurses. You know that women are already filling public employments in derogation of the law, since the teaching and inspection of girls' schools, and other asylums, are entrusted to them, and since women keep post-offices, stamp offices, etc. READER. This regards civil Right in general; what reforms shall we demand concerning married women? AUTHOR. That the conjugal abode shall be that which is inhabited by the husband and wife _together_, no longer by the man alone.