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18 Woman's J. 1 (1887)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl18 and id is 1 raw text is: She , s' 4snal. Vol. XVIIl. BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1887. No. 1. The Woman's Journal. A Weekly ewspaper, Vublihed every Saturday in Bos'roao devoted to tleha ntrests o Womain- to her educational, Industrial, legal, nd political Equality, and especially to her right of Suffrage. LUCY STONE, H. B. BLACK WELL, Editors. ALICE STONE BLAC KWELL, JULIA WARID IiOWEI, MARY A.Lvin al Mrs. IH. M. T. CUTI.Et, Occasional LouI8A M. AfoA oTT,' Contrbutors ELIZABElTl STUrAir VIlEI.P'M, SUSAN C. Vil., Business Manager of the Advertising Department. TERMS-V2t0R a year, 1.5 for six mioths,O5cenits for three months, otadvance, Icents For single copy. CLUIS RATE-5 copies one year, *10. All renmittances should be by money or 1P. 0. order and addressed always to box 3638, or to WoiAN's JOURNAL. BoToN OFFICE.-No.5 Park Street, where copies are for sale and ubscriptions receied. The Pennsylvaia Womn Suffrage Association at Philadelplin,, 700 Arch Street, have copies of the WOMAN S JOURNAL for sale. Specimen copies sent on receiptof two-cent stamp. NEWSPAPER DECISIONs. 1. Any person who takes a paper regularly from the postoite - whether directed to his name or another's, or whether lie has subscribed or not-is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, lie must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may con- tinue to send it until payment Is made, and ollect the whole amount, whether the paper is taken from the office or not. WHAT TIME IS IT ? What time Is it? Time to do well- Time to live better- Give up that grudge- Answer that letter- Speak a kind word to sweeten a sorrow; lie that good deed you would leave till to-morrow, 'ime to try hard IIi ltt new situation; Time to toilid up on A solid foundation, Giving up needlessly changing and drifting, Leaving the quicksands that ever are shifting. What time is it? Time to be earnest, Laying up treasure; Time to be thoughtful, Choosing true pleasure; Loving stern justice-of truth being fond; Making your word just as good as your bond. Time to be happy, Doing your best- Time to be trustful, Leaving the rest, Knowg, in whatever countryor cime, Ne'er can we call back one minute of time. EDITORIAL NOTES. A Happy New Year to you! 'The New Year finds the friends of woman suffrage more active and more numerous than eve before. They know their cause is just. With Wendell Phil- lis), they ay to those who still raise ob- jections Or dread the new application of ain adm.tted self-evident truth, Take your part with the perfect and abstract right, and trust God to see that it shall prove the expedient. Forefathers' day wtas celebrated far and wide. Eloquent lips paid tribute to the herolsn, the high purpose, and the daunt- less courage of the men of the Mayflower The foreniothers hiad brief mention. But the world is not yet up to a comprehen- sion of the great price the women of the Mayflower paid for freedom to worship God. The time of their rteognition only waits. Sooner or later it Is sure to come. All true things have a place prepared for them. In the choice of delegates to the New York Constitutional Convention soon to be held, the Labor Party of that State will petition the Legislature that women may be allowed to vote. It is clearly unjust that in revising the organic law, one-half of the people should have no voice. So eminent a legal authority as Hon. Wil- hlam Beach Lawrence made an argument years ago in behalf of women's right to vote for delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The Albany Times, among other influential papers, favors the propo- sition, and looks upoi this as a good op- portunity to test the feasibility of woman suffrage. The argument for woman suf- frage, in this particular case, has special weeight, because the question is a revision of the governmental system. All grades of people Interested, and all important questions at issue, should have representa- tion in that revision. The woman sufrage question and the labor question, says the Times, are to be among the most vital is- sues of that Convention, and the women and the workingmen are entitled to per- sonal representatives chosen by their own votes. The Springfield Republican adds: This is sound argument, and the great beauty of It is that it is in every respect as applicable to the election of a Legislature, a Governor, or a President of the United States. The Bishop of Oxford thinks that the immorality of the United States is due to the factthat here a widower Is allowed to marry his deceased wife's sister. Ac- cording to the Bishop, this has brought the idea of the sacredness of the family into contempt among us. And the bishops of the United States, in their letter lately issued, find that Immorality and Increase of divorces are due to the woman's rights Movement, and especially to the fact that in many States married women now have the control of their own pati iniony and earnings. All this suggests the old bar- ber in Scott's Antiquary, avho attrib- uted the revolutionary spirit of the times to the way in which the modern gentry dressed their hair, and their abandonment of the majestic periwigs by which the low- er classes were formerly held In awe. While the bishops are charging the decay of morals to the property rights of wives, Science and the Popular Science Monthly are showing equal good sense by charging the physical degeneracy of the race to the higher education of women. Woman suffrage, wherever It has been tried, hats had the best results, whether limited to municipal suffrage as in Eng- land, where it has existed seventeen years. or as in Wyoming and Washington Ter- ri'ories, where women vote as men do on all questions. The universal testimony of reliable witnesses over their own names is wholly In favor of the voting of women. Any attempt now to discredit the move- ment or to raise bughears after all these years of trial is like the opposition to steam navigation after Fulton had suc- cessfully applied it to a voyage up the Hud- son. Objections may make a sound. But the solid proof outweighs them all. Mrs. Emily A. Fifleld would be an ad- mirable candidate for the office of School Supervisor left vacant by the death of Miss Lucretia Crocker. Although no candidate for school committee not on the Demo- antle ticket was elected at the recent elec- tion, Mrs. Filleld ran far in advance of her ticket, receiving 22,738 votes, while Na- hum Chapin, on the Democratic ticket, re- ceived only 23.863. Manhood suffrage in Boston, according to the logic of the remonstrants, Is a fall- ure and ought to be abolished. At the late election, the Beacon showed that out of a population of 400,000, only 45,670 votes were cast for mayor. Only one in nine of the inhabitants voted. There are 100,000 men in Boston. Less than one- half of the number went to the polls. Mayor O'Brien's vote was 23,387, less than 6 per cent, of the population. The regis- tration itself was extremely light, being but 58,781 when it should have been nearly double that number. Yet even of the reg- Istered voters only 40 per, cent. voted for Mayor O'Brien. Such a registration and so light a vote is neither a male ma- Jority nor a complete expression of the popular will. The plain truth is that most men in Bos- ton, and almost half the men in New Eng- land, do not care to vote, and it is thought respectable, or at least not disgraceful, to let our elections go by default. In the presidential vote of 1884 In Massachusetts, only 60 per cent. of the adult males voted; In Vermont only 62 per cent.; in Rhode Island less than 43 per cent. In New York, on the contrary, 83 per cent. voted; in Minnesota 89 per cent.; in Ohio 95 per cent; in Indiana 99 per cent.; in Kansas 100 per cent In view of this dry-rot of political con- servatism In New England, George F. Hoar is correct in saying that the advo- cates of woman sufrage are fighting the battle of representative government. They, and they alone, are true to the Republi- can principle. Since a majority of men in Boston refuse to vote, let the womnica who want to vote be empowered to do so. -.1 Harper's Bazar says: Miss Anna Halowell has received the honor of an appointment to the Philadel- phia Board of Education, New York hav- ing set the fashion by similar appointments of Mrs. Agnew and Miss Dodge. It Is now the turn of Boston, Chicago, Balti- more, and the rest of the cities. Boston took her turn years ago, and has had four or five women upon her school board at different times. But sie has now backlidden and fallen from grace-- only temporarily. let us hope. Ill The English Women's Suffrage Journal says: It is well known to all who have studied the subject, that the United States of America are far behind the United King- dom as regards the electoral rights of omn--. . . . . We believe there is not a State in the Union in which women possess the muniipal sufrage. The latest effort in this direction has just been made in Vermont. A hill to extend the municipal suffrage to women passed the House of epresentatives, but hais been rejected by the Senate. It is very difficult to conect- ure on what conceivable ground the women citizens of Vermont are denied a right which has not only been recognized from time i minienorial by Englsh law, but which has recently been secured to women in several provinces of the neighboring Dominion of Canada. It is rather a bitter pill to be told that our boasted land of liberty is far behind the moth. country as regards the elec- toral rights of women; but the pill must be swallowed. A walking-school for young ladies has been opened In Philadelphia by an Eng.- lish professor of the art, who insists upon low-heeled shoes, and proposes to teach his pupils the genuine English motion. The Brooklyn Board of Education has decided to make $1250 a year the nixi. mum salary to be paid to female teachers. Women have no votes, WOMEN AT WORK IN BURLINGTON. Editors 1Woman's Journal: The members of the Burlington Literary Union met at the residence of Mrs. M. E. S. Curtis last week, when the discussion of plans for work, Instruction, and amuse- ment came up A course similar to the one followed by the Chautauqua circles was approved by the mantjority. Thmfre ine many of the ladies In town who are firm believers in woman subuage. A large contribution was sent to the Ba- zaar at Boston. IS & WOMAN'S SOUL HER OWN? A controversy has been going on In London between a Protestant gentleman and Cardinal Manning. Father Moore, of the Kenlsington Cathedral, recently ad- tiitted into the Catholic Church a lady, the wife of a staunch Churchman, with. out giving the husband any notice. The London Telegraph tells the rest of the story: Upon the husband's request for expla- nation, Mr. Moore writes back a conclla- tory letter, InI which he says that 'it is a painful part of the work of a priest to be thbe means of causing a disunion im fam. lies,' but acknowledges that the wife's clandestine reception into the bosom of the church is a fact -and a fact which there was 'no obligation' to communicte to the husband beforehand. Thereupon the husband appeals to Cardinal Manning himself. asking, 'Whether it is in accord with the principles of' your faith for a priest to receive into the Romn Catholic Church the wife of a Protestant. without previously informing hot husband, al- though well aware that the latter has re- fused, and still refuses, to sanction the contemplated change of religion?' ,In his reply, the Cardinal says, in ef- fect, that there is no obigation on a priest to communicate such a fact if the person received into the church is of year'S of discretion; and it, besides, his or her lib- erty of conselence is being interfered with at home. So the dispute rests. In view of the extraordinary position taken by this husband, an American nat- urally inquires: Is a woman's soul her own? C. C. II. lil DISFRANCHISED ON A TECHNICALITY. Editors IWoman's Journal: Last year I voted In this (Dorchester) distrit. This year, on the last day of grace, Nov. 30, a friend informed me that my name was not on the voting-list. With my tax-bill in hand, I went to the regis- trar's office in this district. This tax-bill does not give you the right of registration, I wis told. Why not? I asked. 'Because the word 'ndinistratrix' Is suffixed to your name. If you had a tax- bill showing that you have paid taxes on your own property, it would be all right. But it is evident that a part of the es- tate is my property, said I, silce the bill reads that it Is the estate of -, my late husband. That makes no difference. We have no authority to register your name. But they made no objection to regis- tering my name last year at Pemberton Square. Did your tax-bill read like this? Yes.-as far as I remember. Look up your tax-bill for 1885, said one of the officers, pleasantly; '-and it the word 'administratrix' is not on it, we will register your name on the strength of that bill. I hurried home, and found that the two bills were made out alIke. In thinking over my call at Pemberton Square In 1885, I remember that I went through a series of cross-examinations which I understood at the time to be the necessity of the ofth cers of registration to nmnke sure that I was really the owner of a part of the es- tate mentioned iI my tax-bill. Now, what is the truth in the matter? Did I vote illegally last year? Or am I wrongfully deprived of my vote this year? ADELINE F. MloRO. Mt. Botdoin, Dorchester, Dec. 29, 1886 SOME VIRGINIA WOMEN. Mrrs. Orra Langhorne has contributed to The Southern Workman an interesting ac- count, of A Sunmmner Jaunt Il the Shena-mi donth Valley. Of the ladies of Harrison- burg, from which place a number of peti- tions for municipal suffrage went in to the Virginia legislature at its last session, Mrs. Langhorne says: Nothing impressed me more, InI seeing and hearing of the various interests of Harrisonburg, than the active Influence exerted by strong-minded women, to use that much-abused term in its best sense. Here.as elsewhere, women are the leading element in the church and society, but it is easy to see that in this thrifty lit- tie valley town. women have a voice in matters too often left to the control of men alone, and, as It is not good for men to be alone, some essential portions of the work are often Ill done or left undone. Some years ago, one or two ladies who visited the almhonse regularly, wvere dis- tressed by hearing from the paupers con- stant complaints of bad food and harsh treatment. Talking of these things In their comfortable homes. various opinions were expressed. Some persons ere sure that the authorities whose duty it was to see to such matters, managed themn pro- perly, and that patopers were always nmi- reasonable, and given to complainlig for lack of other occupation. A kind-hearted Indy who was not so sure that menI al- ways did everything properly, decided to investigate for herself. She was usuaily occupied with the cares of a large family, but the poor-house was in sight tof her pleasant, well-provided home. and It grieved tier motherly heart to think that the poor, helpless creatures there should suffer for food. Taking a basket on her arm, she one day astonished the manager of the almshouse by appearing suddenly In the kitchen, where that thrifty individ- ual was serving out a supply of well-pleked bones for the paupers' dinner. To the great disgust of the functionary on duty, the visltor Iusisted upon athering up the dimier, which she placed Inche basket, amd cam-ried home to be Ispected by hier surprised husband, who was one of the city fathers. The aforesaid hones were duly pescmted at a meeting ftie Town Coumicil, and a prompt chnge of aminlis- tration occurred at the almshouse, where there has since been no just cause at qOunj plaint. * I found the cemetery of the tod'n 'id beautiful order, and felt grateful that lov- Ing handsshiould thus care for theire4tga. place of the loved and lostin4, pi' family, as well as for the bu roun*o o so many f ilemds of m yyofibtr-o1 efa miliar forms I miss o bthe st f ei a*ny* visits at home. I learned with mut if ' ure that the cemetery is under the cares an association of ladies, who by great and unremitting effort have secured the neces- ary funds, and have brought the grounds Into their present beautiful condition. Having taken such an active part in mu- Mnicipal allairs, temperance work having also enigaged their attentiom, and faithful efforts having been made In that direction, it Is not surprising that the ladles of the town begin to feel their own strength. Quite a number of them realize that their efforts are cramped by the lack of privil. ges en- )'tyed by thenmale portior of the commun- ity, and strange as It may ound to ay It of Virginia women, THEY WANT TO VOTE! In private life some of the ladies, prope erty-holders, and above the average in capacity, are acknowedged to be among the leadimng citizens of the town. Two or three were spoken of especially ao; being successful managers of their prop- erty, making contracts, building housesI collecting rents, etc., 1mm exelent fashion. Al Itese lades ae very womanly at home. They have faithfully brought up chil. dren, guided the heuse, and fulfilled the other directions given by the apotle, even to washlngthesints'Ifeet, when those In need of such miistrations appear, as they lid in great numbers in the CviI War. At least there were many weary and footsore needing help, If they were not all saints. The little own was full (of hospitals In war- tIaId the women of the commnunity. forced to umusual exertion thn, doubtless learned imany lessons that have since been useful to themm and others. CONCERNING WOMEN. Ms. GEN., MCCLELLAN has already realized $10,000 from the sale of her late husbanid's memoirs. Miss KATE FIELD will be it Boston the second week of the new year, and will be a guest at the Brunswick. Miss LILLIAN C. KEYEs, who has been appointed postmaster at Yonkers, has a salary of $2,600 a year. DR. KATE 1. KELSEY, of Menomonee, Wis., holds the office of city physiiani t that place. MIss MAUp MELVILLE, daughter of the chief engineir of the Jeannette Exped-' tion, is presently to appear In public as a concert singer. MISS HOPE GLENN, who has become popular in England as a concert and ora- toro singer, was formerly a resident of Chicago, and intends returning there to live. M IS. HELENE, a Sister Of Mrs. Lincoln, has been appointed postmistress at Eliza- bethtown, Kentucky. She was the wife of General BenHardin Helene, of the Coifederate army. DR. MARTHA G. RIPLEY, of Minneap- olis, is a member of the faculty of the Homneopathic Medical College. She fills the position with ability, and to the satis- faction of all concerned. Miss EMILy BARTOL, the daughter of Rev. Dr Bartol, has completed her draw- ings for the portrait of Frederick Doug- lass. It is said to be a faithful and striking likeness. ANNE WALN RYERSs, of Philadelphia, has left 970,000 to found an infirmary for dumb animals in that city-a bequest in- fluenced by her interest in the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. DR. CORNELIA BROWN, who is a gradu- ate of Philadelphia Dental College, has settled in Minneapolis, the first woman dentist in that city. A warm welcome is bespoken for her by the sufragists of that city. MRs. CUSTER has finished the book she hiRa been at work upon all summer. It will make a much larger volume than her Boots and Saddles. It will be published by Charles L. Webster & Co., and sold by subscription. MRs. PROCTOR, whose husband was Barry Cornwall, and her daughter Ade- laide A. Proctor, will next year witness her second royal jubilee, it she lives. She distinctly remembers that of George II, in 1800. FRAULIN ANNA KIRBEL Is crdtlg a great sensation in Norway, as a new oper atic star. Ole Bull's son Alexander, among other experts, is said to have pre- dicted that Frauleln Krbel will throw Jenny Lind into the shade. She Is twenty- three years of age. MME. ADELE EsquIlos, who has Just died, was well known in Francesas a novel- Ist She assisted her husband, Henri Al- ,phpnse Esquiros, in his literary labors, 'l igjalaid that his History of the Cel- 'eitate,Lovers of Antiquity was more her work than his. * i WHARLOTTE LANE, of Branes. tkp. h'as itwen appointed assistantlilbra riapof .DIWoin College,-a position for h~ihtl*,a'etluaintance with foreign has 94 agesteminently qualifies her. Itis tolb hoped that other New England colleges including Harvard, will follow Bowdob's example. Mas. LIVERMORE writes of her article on Superfluous Women, in the January issueof TheChautauquan:Iprefertobhave it appear In The Chautaquan because so many women read th'at magazine. Tfo help women has become a part of my relM- glo, and the good work done for them by The Chautaquan and the Chautauqua As- sembly have made me a strong prtisan of both, and very thankful for both MRs. LORAINE IMEN has prepik-d a unique calendar for 1887. Last February she proposed to the Ladies' Literary Club of Grand Rapids, Mich., that a calendar' should be composed of sentiments contrit uted by the different members, each seled ment to be assigned to the birthday of th contributor, or brought as near It as po- sible. The motion was unanimously adopted, and Mrs. Immen was made chair man. The days unclaimed by the, clitb are assigned to noted persons. This Is the only calendar of its kind ever made, and has given much satisfaction. It lit sold only by subscription. Other clubs might find it pleasant and instructive to try tihe same piann next year. Digitized from Best Copy Available

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