This does not mean that Colorado has weakened its schools by barring men from the teaching profession.

It means that women are superintendents of schools in many counties, and that one woman was, for more than ten years, State superintendent of schools.
Contrast Colorado with Louisiana, possibly the last State in the Union a well-informed woman would choose for a residence.

The laws of Louisiana were based, not on the English common law, but on the Code Napoleon, which regards women merely as a working, breeding, domestic animal.
"There is one thing that is not _French_," thundered the great Napoleon, closing a conference on his famous code, "and that is that a woman can do as she pleases." [Illustration: A "WOMEN'S RIGHTS" MAP OF THE UNITED STATES] The framers of Louisiana's laws were particular to guard against too great a freedom of action on the part of its women.

Toward the end of Mrs.Jefferson Davis's life she added a codicil to her will, giving to a certain chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy a number of very valuable relics of her husband, and of the short-lived Confederate Government.

Her action was made public, and it was then revealed that two women had signed the document as witnesses.