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11 Woman's J. 1 (1880)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl11 and id is 1 raw text is: 5hw VOL. XI. BOSTON, SATURDAY, JAN. 3, 1880. NO. 1. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL. Bor eoe d a o tr in bterso Wmant her edcton 1i1ut~l l a nd pltical Equality, andesecall ohrrgoMSErae LUCY STONE, EDITOR. GS oo ..WARD HOWE. EDITORIAL MARY A. IVBRMORE,... CoTraIaUrone. H. B. BLACKWELL-..... Mug.. PAxcts D. GAON,j Mae. H.M. T. CUTLi. ,. Occasional Contributors. LaVINIA GooDsu. ...... SUSIs C. YOGL, Advertising Manager. Tass-S2B0 a year, $1.25 for six months, as cents for three months, inaadvance, 6 cents for single copy. CLaUB RATO-10 Copies one year, $2D00. Specmen copies sent on receipt of two cent stamp for postage. W Thtoisa the only weekly papr of the kind east of the Rocky Mountains. It furnishes a edi- sin of communication for those interested in the various phasesof thoqest ions tbwich itisdevoted, and hence Is tavaln abi s a band of union, and dource of inteligence on its special topics. Boro nb cc-Nol 5, Park Siret, where copies are for sate and subscriptions received. - SUasoITrioNs are also received by the New Eng- land News Co., V Franklin St., Boston, who have the paper for male. ADVERTISING RATES. .15 .... per solid nonpareil line, 1 insertion. 1.a.... 18 o.... 26 Boswas Notions, set uniformly In leaded nonpa- call, with a full-face side head, confined to one col- mn,e2centsper running line each insertion. PHiLADIILPi'Iu Oriou-Rooms of the Pennayl- vala Society, 700 Arch St. ST. Louis Onm'zc.-Mr. J. M. Dutro, 528 Northe2d et. Louis, No. The Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association at Philadelphia, 700 Arch Street, have copies of the WO- WARX'S JOURNAL for sale. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any prson who takes a aper regularly from the post-offce-whether direc to lila name or an- other's, or whether he has subscribed or not- re- sponsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearae, or the publIsher may con- tinue to send ituntil paymenttismde, and collect the whole amount, whether the paper is taken from the emec or not. POETRY. GEMS PROM H. X.,, *rnousav. OMessenger, art ihontheking, or I? Then dallest outside the palace gate Till on thine Idle armor lie the late And heavy dews; the mom's bright scornful eye Reminds thee; then, In snbtle mockery, Thou emilest at the window where I wait Who bade thee ride for life. In empty state My days go on, while false hour. prophesy Thy quick return; at lost, In sad despair I cease to bid thee, leave thee free as air; When lol thou stand'st before me glad and Beet And lay'st undreamed-of treasures at my feet. Ah' messenzer, thy royal blood to buy I am too poor. Thou art the king, not 1. I THE NEW YEAR. ed; I dare say that the millennium will not come just yet. T. W. It. The approach of 1880 brings with it new ---.- hopes for reformers and new faith in the SHALL A WIFE LIE TO SCREEN ER arrival of justice and good-sense. NeverH before has the subject of Woman Suffrage HUSBAND. had so much discussion; never has it filled At the murder trial of Rev. Mr. Hayden, so large a space in newspapers and maga- now going on, Mr. Waller, who made it the zines; never has it drawn such large and at- duty of a wife to perjure herself for the tentive audiences; never found entry into sake of her husband, has called out the fol- halls and churches so reputable. If the op- lowing just and needed criticism and counter ponents of the agitation were wise, they statement from Mrs. Elizabeth B. Chace, in would Ignore It. dismiss it without consid- the Providence Journal: eration, smother it with silence. It Is sui- '-The word I feel moved to say, however, cidal for them to devote so many pages of relates to other features of this trial, and. influential periodicals to proving that the also to the usual methods of dealing with subject is not. worth a moment's attention. crime. I trust that not I alone was shocked Ten lines ought to annihilate it, if it is such by the utterance of Mr. Waller, who cross- a trifle as that. In Mrs. Stowe's capital examined Mrs. Hayden, of his idea of mo- short story of The Minister's Housekeep- rality for all married women, when he said, er Sam Lawson and the ladies of the par- that 'any devoted and loving wife would Ish determine to bush upa certain malicious perjure herself, and ought to do it, to save report, so. they form little bands and go her husband:' and 'a woman would be jus. about to every house, In order to prevent tified in such a case In exaggeration, preva- the matter from being talked about. Wom- rication or perjury.' Although he was re- an Suffrage is being hushed up, just now, buked by the counsel for the defence for in much the same judicious fashion, his question, whether, under oath as she The assertion is still boldly made that was, she would not 'make a misstatement this reform is in a hopeless minority, among to save her husband,' and the Court ruled women and men. For one I have always out the question as an improper one, we believed the majority to be opposed to it, have no report that either the Court or the and that is one reason why I have kept urg- counsel repudiated the sentiment. Fearing Ing it. Yet, some things shake this belief, that this view of wifely duty may not be from timd' to time. If the minority is so an uncommon one, I feel called upon to hopeless, why is It that the essential princi- utter against it my unqualified and earnest ple of the reform, namely, the actual par- protest. And here I take this opportunity ticipation of women in voting, was, enact- to say, that, in any matter which especially ed by the Massachusetts Legislature-with affects the duty of a woman, placed in cir. a majority, in the lower house, of nearly cumtances such aA are utterly impossible two to one,-last winter?, To say that they for a man to occupy, and, consequently, were enfranchised for one purpose only is such as he cannot fully understand, if there like a hen's supposing that so has hatched is any question as to what that dutyis, wo ducklings for one purpose only; once let men are far better qualified to decide than them out of the egg, and theywill soon men are. wish to paddle in the water. It i icon- 4 If Woman is an individual, placed in this ceivable that the Massaihusetts Legislature world, as man is, to develop her best and knew so little of women as to suppose, that, highest possibilities, to assume her own re- having taken all the trouble to pay their sponsibilities, to suffer or to enjoy the con- taxes and march into town-meeting, they sequences, here and hereafter, ofther own would be satisfied to vote only for the actions, and to transmit of these conse- school-committee who regulate the schools, quences to her posterity, through countless and not also for the town officers who are generations; it her conduct and character to decide whether every school-house shall cast their Influence on. the moral sentiment .or shall not have a liquor-shop next door.- of the- world around her, then, I ask, has I These legislators must have known what they were doing; even a woman knows that if you once invite a child to creep, it will soon Invite itself to walk; and it is not cred- ible that the Great and General Court will be very much astonished, this winter, when the petitions for temperance suffrage begin to come in. Another thing which should be a con. stant encouragement to the friends of this movement is that, for some reason or other, it obtains the allegiance of leading public men, in this region. Last year, in Massa. chusetts, both the governor and lieutenant governor were understood to favor it; in the late election, both the leading candi. dates, Messrs. Long and Butler, were claimed in its support; and there is, I be- lieve, no doubt about the opinion of the Governor-elect, at least so far as the gener- al principle is concerned. Of the five prom. inent candidates for speaker, of the Massa. chusetts House of Representatives, three are on record on the same side. Mr. Brack- ett voted for Woman Suffrage in 1878 and for School Suffrage in 1879, and paired in favor of the constitutional amendment in the same year. Mr. Noyes voted against Woman Suffrage In 1878, but in favor of both the bills on that subject in 1879. Col. Stone voted for it in 1878, and last year was not in the legislature. Mr. Walker op. posed it in every form last winter, and is likely to do co again; Mr. Morse voted againstit ten years ago, during which period a good many have changed their opinions, though he may not have done so. All these are men of prominence and influence, and the majority of them favor Woman Suf- frage. It is a singular fact, surely. Why should they do it? Every one of them is sincere about it, or else he is insincere; if sincere his vote shows which way the men active in public affairs are tending; if in- sincere, he is a straw to show which way the wind blows, all the more. Politicians do not bend to a breeze that has no exist- ence. When I think of the anti-slavery times of twenty-five or thirty years ago; of the so- cial and political sacrifices that had to be made by those who advocated it; and then think what a bed of roses, comparatively, is the path of the Woman Suffrage reform- er;-it sometimes seems to me that we may, after all, be nearer to final success than we have dared to dream. What will become of us if we should wake up, some fine morning, and discover ourselves to be without a grievance? But let us be comfort she any duty or right to violate her con- science, to compromise her future peace, to make of herself a criminal, to save any man from the legal consequences of a crime he has chosen to commit? Let us look at it. The husband and father of a family is supposed to have com- mitted a murderous crime. The wife and the mother is supposed to be acquainted with circumstances which may lead to his con- viction or acquittal. She is summoned as a witness for the defence. She has hitherto been an honest, truthful woman, teaching to her children the principles which have governed her own conduct. But it is an admitted principle that, under these circum- stances, a woman is justified in swearing falsely. What is her evidence worth? But, supposing that she thus saves her husband from punishment, what must her life, what must their life together, be afterward-he a murderer and she a liar? What can they he to each other? What can they be to their children? Supposing, on the contrary, she acts true to the principles which have hitherto governed her life, and, in reply to the questions she must answer, she simply and conscientiously speaks the truth, re- membering her duty to do right, whatever the consequences. Let these be what they will, will she not be afterward a happier, more respected woman, and to her children a better mother, if she comes back to them withhersoul unstained by a wilful lie? And, if in after years, the children learn that their father was a murderer, will it not h a blessing and a help to them to know, that their mother was an honest woman, who, though she loved the misguided man, and would willingly have died to save him from crime, would not become his accomplice, by lying to save him from its consequences? The dangerous sentiment, however, which is, I fear, alarmingly prevalent, is, I believe largely due to the abborrence, which is coming more and more to be felt, of the taking of human life as a punishment for any crime; and therefore that this must be avoided at almost any cost. 'And this feel- ing of abhorrence is so strong, thst it is growing more and more dificult to convict a person of murder, where capital punish- ment has not been abolished. I have no doubt that many guilty persons escape con- viction, wholly in conseqpenee of this re- pulsion, which every step In our civilization renders more strong. When the time comes, as it surely will, that all our eorts toward the suppression of crime lie in the direction of reform; when the necessary restraint and confinement are conferred under circum- stances the best possible for the development of good character, even when a life time is too short to fully accomplish it, then we shall know that such circumstances are the best and the happiest in which a criminal can be placed, and all this temptation to swear falsely to save him will disappear, for it will be evident to those who love him best, that his own welfare demands this ed- ucational treatment; and this hesitation to convict when the evidence is sufficient, will no longer exist. Then, if a mistake should be made, and an innocent person should fall under suspicion so strong as to lead to his consignment to this educational process, it can do him no harm; and it will be very remarkable, if time shall not give him op- portunity to prove his innocence. E. B. CHJACE. Vdley Falls De. 13, 1879. MR. OLADSTONE VS. ME, PAREMAN Mr. Francis Parkman, in the January number of the Narth American Reviet says: Most of the matters with which govern- ment properly concerns Itself, such as finance, agriculture, manufactures, tarift, transportation and war. are matters with which women in general can never be fa- miliar, and in dealing with which feminine qualities have no particular place: But below we see that on one of these great subjects, that of war, Mr. Gladstone appeals to women. In addressing some of theladiesof Edinburgh, who had assemb to present him with an album of phoo graphic views of Scottish scenery, , Gladstone said: Ladies, I am not here one of those who have even profesed to believe that the state which our society has reached permits us to make a vow of ua - versal peace, and to renounce upon all ca s the alternative of war; but I am here to. y that a long experience of life leads me, Vt toward any abstract doctrine upon the a b- ject, but to a deeper and deeper convict n of the enormous mischief of war, even a the best and most favorable circumtan . and of the mischief, indescribable and un- redeemable,. of causeless and unnecery war. Look bak over the pages of history, and conslidtr the-feelings with which we now regard the wars that our forefathers Digitized from Best Copy Available 1l 9o 5 I I in their time supported with the most per- nicious enthusiasm, of which we have had some development in this country within the last three years. Can you credit, for example, that the Amrican war, now deemed foolish by 909 in every thousand in thils country, was a war which for long years was supported-which for some years was enthusiastically supported-by the mass of the population? Then see how powerful and deadly are the fascinations of passion and of pride, and if it be true that the er- rors of former times are recorded for our instruction, in order that we may avoid their repetition, then I beg and entreat you to be on your guard against this deadly fas- cination. Do not suffer appeals to national pride to blind you to the dictates of justice. Remember that the rights of those savages, as we may call them, and the sanctity of life among the hill tribes, and the happiness of their humble homes amid the winter snows of Afghanistan, are as sacred in the eyes of Almighty God as are your own. Remember that He who has united you to. gether as human beings of the same flesh and blood, has bound you in mutual love, and that mutual love is not limited by the shores of this country, nor limited by the boundaries of Christian civilization; that it passes over the wide surface of the earth, and embraces the meanest as well as the greatest in Its wide scope. I think that In appealing to you to bear your own part In a political crisis like this, I am making no in- appropriate demand, but am beseeching you, as women, to perform a duty which belongs to you, which, so far from involv- ing any departure from your character as women, is associated with the fulfillment of that character and the performance of its duties, and the neglect of which would in some future time be to you a source of pain, but the accomplishment of which will serve to build your future years with sweet remembrances, and whIch will warrant you in hoping that each of you within your own place and sphere has raised your voice for justice and striven to mitigate the sor. rows and misfortunes of mankind EDUCATEWQOMEN. The demand for higher education for wo- men has called from Mrs. Tracy Cutler a pleasant reminiscence of Its beginning at Oberlin, which appeared in the No Eng- land Journal of Education. An article in your September number, en- titled Kansas Speaks, has led me to go over a little the long experience of my life, which began before it was thought fitting for women to acduire anything beyond the most meagre sa cdeic education. I was living In Lorraine Co., Ohio, when Oberlin was established in principles so for- eign to all preconceived notions, that it was confidently predicted by the masses that it would soon come to an Inglorious end. It was so absurd as tprop the liberal edii- cation of women, 8e~e permitting all ranks, and degrees, and colors of men to struggle for the inestimable prize. Nevertheless, the experiment succeeded. And what has seemed to me Its crown of triumph, has been Its refning, and beautify- ing,and ennobling the home life of all who have come within the sphere of its influ. ence. It is welliIn all such experiments that the beginning should be as free from mis- takes as possible. The wives of the early Oberlin professors were women o! rare good sense, as well s earnestness of purpose. These ladies undertook to give a certain amount of attention to domestic matters, and every week the young ladies were called together to listen to familiar talks on prac- tical duties of life In the home Meanwhile, the lady who led In thecoversation of the af- ternoon had her work-basket beside her and showed the students how to refoot their stockings, or how to sew tapealong the seams of new onessoas to prevent them from break- ing away;thow toso skilflly repair under- garments that they shuld do almost double duty, how to make large aprons of old dress skirts, or to make over material that was worth reconstructing. Then there were talks about the care of roos and the em- bellishment of home, many of them worthy of Clarence Cook. Girls tus taught re- turned to their homes with elevated Ideas of life, but with no false notions of extrav- agance. From the wilds of the remotest West, to the courts of Eastern kings,.these educated women have carried this gospel of life in all Its purity, while it hs been a true leaven all through our land. I cannot con- ceive of any well-wisher of his race who could object to the careful, thorough edu- cation of those who must ever constitute the very innermost of home, and who will either give grace and dignity, or else dwarf life because of their own meager endow. ments. WEATS IN A NAMBYI ErronS JOURnWAL:- Merry Christmast I read in the JournAL of Mrs. Senator Chandler and Mrs. General Somebody (I have forgotten the name.) irewomen sn-. ators and generalst I did not know it, Yours truly, S. R. Unmo, De, 26, 187. . CONCERNING WOMEN. Ms, . F. 0ELLIS established the first kindergarten of Peoria, which is now in Succssful Operation. Lucy HootIn is about to publish a novel entitled, Unnder the Tricolor; or, the American Colony in Paris. Ms. ComoLTAMILLER, agenerous Iowa lady, his given $80,000 to the Garrett Bibli- cal Institute, at Evanston, Ill. Mus. KATI T. Woos will edit the col- umn which the Salem APt will henceforth devote to women and their work. Mius. Auma s D. AJInis, of New Orleans, has applied to Collector Merritt for a place in the New York Custom House, but there is no vacancy. MiS. GRANT Is to receive from the Metho- (list ladies of Philadelphia a gift of an ebony chair, covered with crimson plush and embroidered with black satin. MLLi. ROSA Bonnaun has just bought for $1000 a magnificent lion from the Zoolo- gical Garden at Marseilles, and she Intends to paint Its portrait for next year' Salon. Mas. ELmZAnwrr Twompsox, of New York, has sent Fred Douglass her cheek for $2'50 to aid the North Carolina exiles Il oases of pressing necessity. Ms. Anny EARLE of Athol, has been p- pointed matron of the Rome of the Young Women's Christian Association on Warren- ton street,, Boston, and will assume hr new duties the last of January. Mius. L. WooDRUrr COOPER, of Water- town, has for many years allowed some of her lroe buildings In that city to stand va- cant, rather than rent them to liquor dealers This is temperance work, not word. Rints. 3. B. C. BLADE furnihes a variety of exercises suitable for entertainments, Sunday schools, temperance meetings and for day Schools. They may befound In hr Glod Tims, published at 1o Hawley t. Mas. Joix C. GEzn, of New York, has given $100,000 to the American Sunday Sunday School Union, the interest only to be available. The money Is to be devoted In part to the development of Sunday school literature of a high merit. MRS. CRtLns Damstan, of Hallowel, Me., has given $59 for an annual free bed to the Maine General Hospital, at Portland. This is understood to be in addition to $4000 paid some time since, by the same generous woman, for a permanent free bed. Miss ALai La QYT, of Bristol, England, some yearssince founded a temperance cd% In that city. It has been successfull in sub stituting coffee for beer among the po6r, and upon Miss Le Geyt's recent departure from the place she was presented with- a silver inkstand in recognition ofther efforts, Miss Rooet, a cousin of Ribaid Cob den, has just been distinguishing herself greatly at Oxford, where her xaminstions have been the wonder of theniversity. ' It is said that she writes Latin prose as bril- liantly as any Don in the 'Varsity, and her Greek prose Is also admirable. The young lady has just been appointed lecturer at Somerville Hall, Miss FRAcas WILLARD,Presideatof the Women's Christian Temperance UIon, is at present working in Iowa; duringNovem. ber, in Illinois, organized Women's Chis- tian Temperance Unions -at Biggaville, Buda, Sheffield, Bement. Arrangdinents are in progress. to organize auxiliaries at Sullivan and-Minnis. The Young Woman's Christian Temperance Union have been rep- resented in these different points by Miss Anna Gordon, who now, in lowa, bas i- cently organized a union at Cedia Rapids. MnS. M. BRADFORD Stanthe unCLARK, sister of Antoinette 8terlin;. aniddescendent of Gov. Bradford, born and bred in Jeff. County, New York, and author Of some valuable Sabbath school books, habuilt by subscriptions obtained through great per- sonal exertions a beautiful church (Episco- pal) at her home, Great Bend, near-Water- town. Shehasorganizeda thriving church society, a Sabbath school and temperance society, reads the service, addresses'the peo- ple on reform topics, is deaconess In the church, Alamp amid the night EsAxon B. KING recovered a judgment for $8,845 against William 3acKelhar, be- fore Justice Donobte in New York otn a loan made more than ten years ago. 1res. King had no security for her loan- bit as she alleged, trusted to the wordof- thie de- feadant that a mortgage had beelinade in her name upon a house of thedefendant in Second Avenue. ' The intrisetwds regular- ly paid until January, '178, whon Mrs. King discorered that theSonly mortgage on the property was in thsname of rs. Mae- Kellsr, and that - she herself was without any security, I!L I I NO. 1.

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