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10 Woman's J. 1 (1879)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl10 and id is 1 raw text is: 5kv VOL. X. BOSTON, SATURDAY, JAN. 4. 1879. NO. 1. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL. & Weekly Newspper,.published everY Saturday. in avs, dQ evted to th .t8 o Wom - her and elieWlea eal andpocalEquality, IUl . WARD HOW .......I JJVCY STONB .... ......I Ner. a REMRY B. BLACIKWB . W. HIGOINSON....Eini , Co umuo.. SLAZY . LIVERMORE . Ynu-02.5 Oayvar, g., for six month., 5 cents for three month., cents foral ie copy, a odas. ADYWETISING RATES. S .15 ....per solianonpauH une, 1Insertion. 1..... 1.00 ... .5 ig 11o .... s isssMmanos, set uniformly Inladed nonpa. ll, with a full-face side head, confined to one col- ra, so casta per runni line each insertion. Boavo, 9 ioI.-NO. 4. Park Street, where cop- es ae for sae and subscriptions received. Onus aRais--0 copies one yea, 30.00. Speamen copies sent on receipt of two cent stamp for Postage. For ale and subecrptions received by Ta New 3|eL&A1' News Co., 41 Court St.. Bo ton. p151ul3L531a u On.--Room of the Pennsyl- rans Sciey, 00 rch St. S.o .-Mr. J. M. Dutro, 58 North 3d it. LosVu Me. SAN CocAIoI50 Oio-H. snow's Book atore, go. 819 Keary Street West side. Pheneuyvants W~oman Suffrage Association at PhiladelphiA, c00 Arch Street, have copies of the W. tAx' JousuAL for sale. POETRY. For the Woman's Journal. ONLY A LAF. Br Loual v. 3oM. Only a leaf, but it grew for me At the homestead old, on the gateway tree; Vhrough lovely spring time and summer fair, Lightly it waved in the mountain air; And when autumn came like a misty dream, Soft purpling over each hill and stream, O'er this fragile leat swept a pasionspell Where a wordless story Is pictured well. Rich-veined and spotted with gold so bright, And It tips illumined with crimson light; 'TIe Apollo's signal, in dot and line, Displaying the Prost Rings counter-sign. But its tale is not of the Aelds of blue, That the fair and tar-off stats look through, From a rogion of blessednem &Ad bliss Exceedlng the happiest hopes of this. The story for me, leads through memory-ways And the shadows of long-gone yesterdalys, And sweet is the thought that the grief of then Ca never approach my heart again, And I smile serenely to And the trth, That, in place of the vanishing visions of youth, The joys of life's autumn have come to be Like the picture fair on the leaf I see. Where the flush of the spring time that passed away, The glow of the summer that would not stay Shine peerless now;-they'were not dlayed 'Till the fitting page should be ready made, And spring time's blossoms and summer's green Be over-matched by the autumn sheen. My life, I know, on the Infinite Shore Is a flattering leaf, no less, no more; But 'tis something, at lest, for there Impressed It keeps what of all It has found the best; For joy has left traces, aspure gold bright, And faith shows the streaklngsof dawning llght, And the fragile leaflet traced line by line Waits calmly the death-angels counter-lgn. Dubint, Way To., 11, A NIW TZA '| s le TING. Many readers of the WoMArN's JOUIAL ust have sen with surprise, as I did, last wek, the announcement that this publica- tion now enters on Its tenth $ear. Ten ears is commonly reckoned a long life for reformatory periodical; and it is'far be. Yond the longevity attained by any previous organ of this particular movement. This must of Itself be counted a success. Ellery Channing says of human beings IThe greatest yet is he who still lives on. And this Is emphatically true 9f newspapers. Dne is often struck with the Interest inspir- d by even the earlier volumes of any per- dical that is still published, as compared bth the dust which soon gathers over all e series of one that is discontinued. A bound volume of theOi'aqi or the RivrsWd agasine for instance, seems already much remoter than a bound volume of the Atfa- *i Monthly for the same year; and yet were' the Atlantia discontinued or merged, thf rame atmosphere of distance would soon gather round that. It is something, therefore, that the Wo- KAx's JoUmui. now enters on its tenth 'ear. With what constant labors and cocca tional sacrifices this result has been achlev. d, the public does not know; and indeed ny personal share in them has been so mall that.I hardly know the' details for myseltf 'But the public may rest'asured hat no ordinary amount of energy and pa- ient purpose has gone into the life-blood of he WoMA'¢s JoumAL; and. there have een times whenJ hands weaker or les teady would have let Rt fall. This can prop rly be said here, for I have never been, for single day, one of the editors of the Jous ALe, and my sole personal connection with ,beyond an occasional suggestion, ha sen in these weekly editorial contributions i these, to be sure, I have had many 0 the satisfactions of editorship, with few of its pains. A public speaker, if a sensible person, likes an occasional response from his audience, even if only of dissent; for this proves, first, that they are awake, and secondly, that lie himself is. It has always been claimed as a merit in Dr. Clarke'sSex in Education that so many books were written in reply to it; and some of my articles that have given me most satisfaction have achieved this by bringing out public and private dissent. Not that this proved them either right or wrong but it proved them to have been carefully read, and by intelligent and wide-awake crit Ia; and this is the great desideratum. Con. sidering the haste with which these editorials are sometimes written-haste Is never a de- cent apology, in case of a book, but it is sometimes inevitable In journalism-I am glad to have been so rarely convicted of se- rious unfairness or misstatement. Perhaps the most important testimony given, by these papers to the cause they ad- vocate may be found, after all, in their number and their unbroken continuity. It certainly never occurred to me, at the be- ginning, that either they or the JonjRxAL itself would last so long. That I should with so little effort find material for nine years of weekly writing; should almost al- ways be furnished with several subjects in advance; should never find myself, so to speak, pumped dry, this seems to me a very strong argument in favor of what is called the Woman Movement. And I do honest- ly urge those who regard the whole agita- tion as abnormal or ephemeral,-and those who know me to be, In the other affairs of life, a person of ordinary common-sense- to consider the importance of this testimo- ny. An eminently successful lawyer, with- drawing from practice in his prime, once gave it to me as his reason that law was a mere system of traditions and that there was not in it enough of food for thought to occupy an educated intellect for a single hour. I never supposed his view to be cor- rect; but it certainly is some proof of the fertility of a theme when one can write upon its various aspects, week in and week out, for nine successive years. 1 know that the fertility does not in this case lie in the brain itself, for I have often applied that organ to subjects which seemed at first sight quite as promising, and have found it in the condition of a squeezed orange in a tenth part of the time. Every year it has seemed to me that after another year I should retire; but this has never been from.any prospective exhaus- tion, but from a very different cause. I have had two different fears; one of repe- tition,-a thing which is inevitable after such long writing, and must simply be for- given ;-and the other of growing opinion- ated and arrogant, and of laying down the law. This Is the besetting sin of the edi- torial writer as of the sermonizer In pulpits; and whoever is thorqughly convicted in his own conscience, on that subject, ought to stop writing. There is also the danger of unconsciously falling into a patronizing tone. In the delightful burlesque of Pinafore the admiral cautions the captain; Do not patronize; I trust you never patronize the British sailorI If amen, writing editorials on the rights and duties of women, is ever betrayed into doing them, individually or colleciively, injustice, he may be forgiven; but if he ever is betrayed into patronizing them, they ought to deal with him in the gradation of discipline provided by the old' Harvard College statute-book - First, friendly caution and warning; second, sol- emn admonition; third, Expulsion. The readers of this JOURNAL will admit that i have taken up very little time, these nine years, with anything In the way of per- k sonal controversy, and have especially avoid- 'ed prolonged debates, and replies to rejoind- era to' remarks. I have in return to -thank them for sparing me the need of such con- troversy and for fortifying me with facts, suggestions, illustrations and reproofs. None of these can come too abundantly, so long Alit is not required that they should be :answered in print. Careful critics will oh- serve that I have often availed myself of their counsels, long after receiving them; and have sometimes touched a matter indi. r rectly where It was not handled directly. After all, the bewt reward of a reformer is i In the conscious sympathy of other reform ere who hold up isi hands. If he bas this e constant support, he can easily wait with 6,patience for positive successes. Miss Mar - tneau tellsaus that Sir Samuel Romilly, who r reformed more abuses than any man of his - day, yet voted in the minority three times h out of four; and we must all be prepared, as as ,reformers, to pay for a few great finn .victories by a great many preliminary do )f feats. . w.E. ON A FILE OF SANITARY COOMIION BULLETINS, Among the treasures of our library we count a file of Sanitary Commission Bulle- tins, from December 1803, to August 1885, Inclusive. 1 like to pull them over occa- sionally, refreshing mymemory of the good work done by the women of the North in those sorrowful but heroic years. As I turn the pages a slip of paper flutters to the floor. It isclosly printed on one side, and is one of the monthly reports of the New England Women's Auxiliary Association, signed by the ever-honored name of Abby W. May. In the closing address of the Central Com- mittee to the branch aid societies, we find this: It is not too much to say that the army of' women at home has fully matched in patriotism and sacrifice the army of men in the field. But patriotism and a readi- ness to sacrifice herself for her country, doea not entitle Woman to a share In its government. It seems that she alone may vote who can fight. If those citizens only may vote who are able to back their vote with' a gun (or whatever warlike utensil hap- pens to be in vogue) it follows that those who can thus tight, are entitled to vote. There are then women ii the United States who may claim the ballot upon this ground. Their names figure in the police reports. They can back any proposition they choose to make, ei et armAs. There is not a shadow of doubt that they are good fighters. Among the illustrations in' Stanley's Through the Dark Continent, i. one'of the Emperor Mtesa drilling his Amazons. They stand erect, shoulder to shoulder, soldier-like. Should Uganda ever become a republic, certainly these women should vote. Must we begin to learn our lesson back- ward? Is physical courage mightier than moral courage? A thousand times not -'Heroic males the country bears, But daughters give up more than sous; Flags wave, drums beat, and unawares You flash your souls out with your guns And take your heaven at once. But we-we empty heart and home Of life's life-love I we bear to think You've gone-to feel you may not come, To hear the door-latch stir and click Yet no more you- There is No. 37, with its black lines in mourning for our good President . I was just thinking',said the soldier, list- lessly whittling by the brookside, that I never knew before how much I loved our President. A type of our frail humanity that so often forgets to listen while it may, for the few voices, and watch for the few lamps, which God has toned and lighted, to charm and to guide us, that we may not learn their sweetness by their silence, nor their light by their decay. In this number we meet the six little girls who originated the Little Acorn Fair which netted four thousand dollars to the commission. And all through the Bulletins we catch glimpses of single figures out of that grand army of little folks, who sup- plemented with such charming abandon the work of their elders; the little girl who gave her dried butterflies; the three sisters who gave up sugar for the soldiers; the sunny, unkempt Matches with his gift of dirty scrip, and the curly-headed Dot who confided to the visitor at Garden Fair that they had dot twenty-fee dollars. Bless the childrenI I was about to'say, but I pause, dismayed-Alasl they are no longer children, They are hopelessly grown up. Let us hope they retain their generous enthusiasm. What a pity to think, said James Elia, while looking at the Eton boys at play, that these fine vigoroussiads in a few years will all be changed into frivolous members.of Parliament! In No. 3, we find the account of the great North Western Fair, of which it is impos- sible to read to-day with eyes undimmed. But the part fullookof interest to me is that which tells us of the Lake County delega- tion of farmers. They brought one hun- dred wagon loads of farm produce, and, runs the story' in parenthesis (many of r these men had their wives with them on the loads)-We may be sure that the women on these farms did their part faithfully, fom do we not read in No., 1(, how certain farm- er's wives in Wisconsin, having exhausted their own stores in giving, begged wheat o the farmers for twenty or thirty miles 9 around, until they had nearlyflive hundred , bushels for the granary of the Commission? 0 The farmers' wives of the great North i west and of New England are akin, and they come of right royal stock/l Mrs. Liv Sermore tells us, in Bulletin No. 12, how shO a found them working in the fields; so many men bad joined the army there were nu enough left to gather in the harvest. Tihf d reminds one of a passage in the lotters o - Abigail Adams, wherein she writes her busi bnd that if many more men are drafted Digitized from Best Copy Available 0 Ve - . - 1. 1 *4 the women will be obliged to harvest, and though she thinks she may succeed very well with the 'orn, she should make a very poor figure at digning potatoes. It was my fortune to be in a farming com- munity of less than five 'hundred inhabit- ants, at the time when the women formed their Aid Society, and I was present at the first meeting. At the hour named in the call, over fifty had gathered in the Town- house. Most of these women had done a hard forenoon's work, cooked the family dinner and washed the dishes before com- ing, and many of them had walked a mile or two. They promptly organized, and worked till the close of the war, sending their contributions regularly, and overcom. ing obstacles with a quiet persistent purpose. There were not wanting sad hearts among them. I remember well, one bright Sun. day morning as I walked down the aisle of the little church, Mrs. S. met me with out- stretched hands and a burst of heart-rend- ing sobs. The news of the death of her only son in the hospital had reached her the night before. Butshe was a woman of kin- dred spirit to the mother whose only son was a prisoner at Andersonville. She went down to Annapolis one day, when there was to be an arrival of prisoners, to find him: Have you seen my George? she asked of a comrade. Yes, was the reply, I saw George carried out of Audersonville prison dead, -'Oh, not George can't-be dead[ My George can't be dead I' cried the unbeliev. ing mother-heart. And as the ghastly, ghostly company crept feebly by, she eagerly scanned each face; but she found not George. Then, as the dead were borne on, she lift- ed the sheet from. each quiet face, but still she found not George. At last, turning away, she said, Well, It is no matter. They are all Georges to me, and instead of grieving and lamenting I will go into these hospitals and take care of them, just as I would of George. Was there a braver heart in the Union Army? What were shot and shell to the memory of a son starved at Andersonville? I never expected my boys would return to me unharmed, said another mother, but I never dreamed one of them would;, be starved to death. And here, attached to Bulletin No. 21, is a plan of Andersonville, that accursed spot, with its fetid swamp, its dead line, its brist- ling cannon without, over whose entrance might well have been placed the Inscription Virgil saw upon Dante's hell. All hope abandon, ye who enter In I The very memory sickens, as it recalls the vile, the nameless horrors of the place- the legitimate fruit of barbaric slavery. During all these years at which we have glanced, Woman's work was not limited to the fireside. She was busy in fairs, in con- cert-rooms, In a variety of public entertain. ments whereby to raise funds for the Com- mission. She was found at sanitary'rooms, in hospitals, by te battle-fieldsin tents, waiting with supplies as the trains of wounded were carried by.: At Annapolis to greet the returning priiner;: pleading in crowded houses in behalf of the 'Isldieri everywhere where a good word 'was to:be spoken, or a good deed l done, Womn' as found, and we catch n'hint that she was out ofplace. It has been r6eeved, for alter time, when these women have'asked for a' share In the government of the country they helped to save, to admonish them to keep to their special domestic duties, and' to ad- vise them, through aspiring youngsters as well as white~haired sages, of the limits of: feminine delLcacyI Experience hal long since proved that participation in public affairs does not un-. fit women for domestic life. Commonsense t suggests that It gives added zest to the sweet security of home. Harriet Martineau Is an apt Illustrationof this truth. Rarely has there been a woman fwhoIhastakenamoreactivepartin questlint r folating to the science of government; and yet aitd all the stir and brilliant successof r hen' loig life, sh cluNg to her home-e.e - We know all about The Kno11, from the I buying f tle field to the day when she en- tered in with her 'faithful handmaidenS. S She keenly enjoyed tfle details of 'domestic i life; its very monotopy was dear to'her. She writes understandingly of domestic ser- - vice, sad is heartily interested Inthe'weight I of her pigs, and the welfare'of her chicia, Neverthe4)e, 'the very next opponent of Woman Suffrage I ieet, willtell e y utterly irreconcilable is the performance'r l tpublic duties (voting more es'pecialtl)' With i' the special ends-(giving a list of ,iVdse.ond as they are flied In lilaor herind) to, - which 'Woman was created--Ebeul Meilrveme, Dee. 27. F. A. u. CONCERNING WOMEN. MRS. HELEN Rici, of Brasher Falls, is lecturing In St. Lawrence Co., Nw York, on Temperance. M S H. 0. 0ouO wN gave a reception for Miss Celia Thater at her residence In Cambridge, Friday evening of last week. MADAMua AnDRItSON, who is walking in Brooklyn, has completed 1044 of the 9700 quarter miles she is trying to walk in 2700 quarter hours. MIss NELLIV. BALL, of Emat Cambidge Mass., was organist at the solemn High; Mass celebrated in the prison at Concord o Christmas Day. Miss MARY L. BooTs has receptions every Saturday evening at her new home en Fifty.ninth Street, New York, and acholeev literary set may usually be found there. MRs. WOLoor, widbw of Gen. Wolcott. at one time Attorney General of Oio, and. only sister of the late Secretary of' War, Edwin M. Stanton, is to, receive a cletkahip. in the War Department. She is an' age lady. MIsS MAY COL, the eldest daughter of' Jennie June, a pretty girl 6f nineteen; made her debut at the Flfth-Atemuu Theater Isr Monday night as Meenle in Ai a4 Wm, kle. She appeared well, and had, . T- markable reception for a young girl.i, su hi a subordinate part. Mnu. HAnDT, of Boston,. lectured'before, the Cambridge Womanta Union, on Friday. December 20, on the subject of VoioeoCul-, ture. She presented the subject Ina6ery' interesting manner, and at the close gave hw recitation. The ladies of theUnion pro. pose to form a class, with Ms. Hardy-as- teacher, for the purpose of studying the physiological culture of the voiceW Miss EunstA Lawis,. the wellknown colored American sculptor, was given a. re- ception by the colored citizens of Ne* Yrh, in Shiloh Presbyterian Churh, Thuriday evening. She unveiled a life-size bust of John Brown, her own work. the bust being presented to the Rev. Henry Highland Gar- net, the veteran colored abolitonist. 'Mim' Lewis will Soon return tq her work In'R mie. *Miss SAaAhI.O aLUtl, the artiatf.-slepm of: Rev. James Freeman Clarke, baa given his Sunday School a painting of the great gnarled old tree, beneath which Mary'.n said to have rested, In the flight Into ,Egypt. -It is one of the rather dreary eastern,.: it4- scapes, but painted, with te sentiment that such scenes need,.rand a more charming Christmas present could not have been made to them. MIss MAn A. PmL5Ps recently made application for admission into the chief' Methodist Episcopal school of Theology in the Northwest, at Evansville, Ill.- The r&, fessors looked with disfavor, upon her, bit she has proved herself so much of a atudent, and has given so much promisethat they havedecided to allow her to'graduate,hih she is nearly ready to do; she .1 d'to, b the first of her sex to. take n-wdee..0 ins, Methodistseminary.- Mae A. J. .DvNwAY,, visiting the fonti'o,' v,,iges0g!of far-off Oregon, fmum he usual quotA of men-supported women, in'fei Ia Wa1,i engaged i nma ioig iP d6 , 'two~ rNsJMllcas Mi 11y Mrs. BleImett are among' the dress-makers, and Mrs. Wilson and&Mis. Schnebly deatlIn milllnery(the latter quitb e tensvnek), In addition 'o their work inthe des-tiig line, in which theyeachkeep agoBdly num- ber Of lales employed as day laborers. MfS J. Bauer, one of the most Intelligent 1448, she ham' ever;'m et anUy here, h4,s classes inFrench and othor branobe' 'with which she is ucceeding'admlW ny '. ladies grekeeplug boarders iid1lodgers, and many others'aredoing pai swi !o ek outthilr incomes and' t' littleept diK money ndepoendevtlY;' , Mm. A, T. STAziT baa recently uini-- fested her kind o'ng towardbthe ews by off ering o sendtwo sums f$00each, an, one of W,,. to'three of the Jewihb chart' - Sble instil tlnso rf N'Y Y It s pA P ht, *' did ne perOnly, O~ n d t ef a g_o

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