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BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1888.
No. 1.
The Woman's Journal.
A Weekly Newsppr abtdever atardaY
t. etIndustrial, legal. md political
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MANY PUTxAN JACOaI, M. D.
FRANCES E. WILLARD, Contributors.
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For the Woman's Journal.
PURITY.
BY EMILY ATERS.
Tints that dazile, hues that glow,
Shine In sunlit flowers;
Flakes of flame consuming slow,
Gold in drift., in showers,
Sheen whose gemlike powers
Dim e'en golden dowers.
But when night's dark shadows fall
A bloom by daylight alighted-
One white flower-outgleams them allI
Ah I blossom inly lighted,
Might we bear such unblighted,
Undoubted bloom, benighted I
EDITORIAL NOTES.
I again earnestly recommend, as an act
of simple justice, the enactment of a law
securing municipal suffrage to women.
These brief, emphatic words of Gov. 011-
ver Ames, in his inaugural message to the
Massachusetts Legislature, on Jan. 5,
place the question where it belongs, on
the solid bed-rock of political justice.
Gov. Ames' endorsement of woman sut-
frage elicited considerable applause, as
did also his reference to the public schools,
and his proposal to limit the number of
liquor licenses.
Next week the WOMAN'S JoURNAL will
issue a supplement containing a valuable
statement of the legal condition of women,
by Win. I. Bowditch.
So many petitions for woman suffrage
are pouring in upon the iashington Ter-
ritory Legislature that the clerk's desk Is
piled up with them, and It has been voted
to refer them to a committee without read-
Ing. To read them all would take a con-
siddrable part of every day. It will be
remembered that after women had voted
there for three years and a half, the euf-
frage bill was unexpectedly declared un-
constitutional last winter by the Supreme
Court, because of a flaw in its form. The
best people of the Territory are eager for
its re-enactment, and three bills to that
elect have already been Introduced. The
gamblers and liquor-dealers, however, are
making a desperate fight against it. It
was on an appeal raised by a gambler,
who had beei convicted by a jury partly
composed of women, that the Supreme
Court, by a majority of one vote, declared
the law unconstitutional.
The first skirmish occurred over the
question to what committee the woman
suffrage petitions should be referred. The
friends of the measure wanted them re-
ferred to the committee on elections,
which is in favor; the opponents wanted
them referred to the judiciary committee,
a majority of whose members are opposed.
After a discussion which lasted all the
forenoon, the opponents carried their
point by a majority of two votes. The
chairman of the judiolary committee repre-
seants a lquor district, and was chosen at a
special election held since the women
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were deprived of the right to vote. He is
a conspicuous opponent of woman suf-
frage. The fight Is so close that the re-
sult will be watched with great Interest.
The gamblers and liquor-dealers found
the practical workings of woman suffrage
very uncomfortable, and they will strain
every nerve, and spend money like water,
to prevent Its re-enactment. The chief
argument which has weight with the de-
cent people is the fear that the Territory
will not so easily be admitted by Congress
as a State, if woman suffrage Islestablished
there, or that Cleveland might veto its ad-
mission on that ground.
In the Washington Territory Legisla-
ture, on the 13th ult., Representative Eck-
ler, of Dayton [Republican], ntroduced a
bill restoring suffrage to women, with a
provision to exempt them from compul-
sory jury duty. Representative Clark, of
Yakima, offered a bill referring the ques-
tion to a vote of the male people. All the
suffrage bills have been ordered printed.
The suffragists refuse to entertain any
proposition which does not restore suf-
frage to women. Some Republicans who
are not In favor of woman suffrage on
principle, say that they are bound by their
platform, which indorses it.
The Tacoma Ledger is in error when it
says that Congress passed a bill to admit
Washington Territory as a State, with
woman suffrage, and Cleveland refused to
sign it. Nothing of the sort ever hap-
pened. What Congress did was to pass a
bill annexing North Idaho to Washington
Territory, and President Cleveland refused
to sign the bill because the governor of
Idaho objected to it. It Is falsely asiserted
by the opponents of woman suffrage that
the enfranchisement of women by the Ter-
ritorial Leglelature will endanger Wash-
ington's admisslon as a State. As admis-
elon is above all things desired, this
groundless objection will be worked for
all it Is worth, as was recently done in Da-
kota. There is no reason to think that the
question of suffrage will affect admission
either one way or the other. President
Cleveland signed several woman suffrage
bills while he was governor of New York,
had Is understood to be personally in favor
of the measure.
Senator Dolph's bill to provide for the
formation and admission into the Union
of the State of Washington, Introduced
Dec. 12, and referred to the committee on
Territories, proposes to add the counties
of Northern Idaho to the new State. The
Oregonian, which opposes the re-enact-
mont of woman suffrage on the ground
that it will endanger the admission of
Washington Territory as a State, refutes
its own objection by adding:
The bill may pass the Senate, but it is
not likely It will pass the House In this
form. Washington, in all probability,
will not be admitted till two or three other
Territories come in with it.
Nothing would so greatly promote the
material Interests of Washington Territory
as the re-enactment of woman suffrage.
No act of legislation would attract so much
attention, or receive such favorable com-
ment throughout the country. Thousands
of families would be drawn, as they have
been drawn during the past year to Kan-
ase, which has never had so large an im-
migration as since the passage of the mu-
nicipal woman suffrage bill last March.
Mrs. Margaret W. Campbell, in the
Iowa Woman's 8tandard, gives an excel-
lent report of the Suffrage Bazaar lately
held in Des Moines. The results were
most encouraging, both in the receipts and
In bringing about a larger acquaintance
and co-operation between suffragists in
many parts of the State.
Mrs. Fannie Holden Fowler, of Manls-
tee, Mich., urges the women of her State
to offer their votes and claim the right of
suffrage under the fourteenth amendment
of the U. S. Constitution. A test-ease to
try this claim was made some years ago by
Miss Anthony, and was carried to the U.S.
Supreme Court, which decided it against
the women. Thisdecision,whetherrightor
wrong, settles the matter In law until It is
reversed; and there is no reason to hope
that the present Supreme Court Is more
liberal. All efforts of women to vote,
however, help to agitate the question, and
so far do good. -
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Queen Victoria derives her title to the
throne of. Great Britain as the nearest
protestant descendant of the Princess Elil-
abeth, daughter of James I. and wife of
the Prince Palatine. Women get their
right to vote from Adam and Eve, who
received their title from God when he
made man in his own image, male and
female, and gave them dominion.
Rev. A. A. Miner said last Sunday:
Men come here from foreign lands, ig-
norant and depraved, with bludgeons in
their hands and pistols in their pockets,
and threaten to overturn everything that
does not please them, and they are given
the privilege of the ballot; but our Intelli-
gent women, who would not suffer in com-
parison with our most intelligent men, are
told politics are not their sphere. Women
are learning the difference, and it is time
we were learning it.
Rev. Dr. Ell Fay, of Los Angeles. Cal.,
has made a conditional offer of 600,000 to
the Unitarian Conference of Massachu-
setts, to establish a college for women at
Worcester, Mass. Jonas G. Clark, not long
ago, gave an enormous sum to found a uni-
versity for men in the same place. What
a pity they cannot agree to put the money
into one amply-endowed coeducational in-
stitution! The system of the separate edu-
cation of the sexes belongs to the dark
ages, and is steadily going out of fashion.
The number of colleges already exceeds
the wants of the rising generation. It
would be wiser for charitable millionaires
to strengthen the beat of the coeducational
colleges that already exist, than to start
new separate Institutions in a community
already overstocked with them.
N. E. WOMEN'S PRESS ASSOCIATION.
The N. E. Women's Press Association
met In the WOMAN'S JOURNAL parlors
January 3, the President, Mrs. Sallio Joy
White, in the chair. The following officers
were elected for the coming year: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Sallie Joy White; Vice-preal-
dents, Mrs. Barrows, Mrs. Whitaker;
Secretary. Mrs. Estelle 3. H. Merrill;
Treasurer, Miss Helen Winslow; Auditor,
Mrs. Susie C.Vogl; Executive Committee,
Miss Alice Stone Blackwe, Miss Mary
Twombly, Miss Minna C. Smith. Mrs.
White acknowledged her re-election in a
very graceful little speech. Some minor
changes in the constitution were made.
The Association voted to have a table at
the fair to be held in March for the benefit
of the Home for Intemperate Women. The
Association will hold a press reception at
the Parker House on the Slat Inst.
IN A 1BW YORK COFFIN WAREOUIE.
Bddtors Women's Journal.
A line in your correspondence from
New York of last week recalls a visit on
the eve of the late election to a polling
placeIn that city, with Mr. and Mrs. Dem-
orest. The location was in a coffin ware-
house-not unfittingly, since they were
prepared and interested, Inaa business way,
to bring women's hopes there.
At the dinner-table of Mr. and Mine.
Demorest, an Interesting account was
given of an afternoon call on the ward
officers, at which Mine. D. advised them
that she should come In the evening to ask
registration, promised to give bonds to
hold them harmless, and supplied them
with valuable printed matter bearing on
womnpo suffrage. During the call, some
expression f Individual opinion on the
matter in hand by Mr. and Mrs. D. oc-
curred, at which the amased official ex-
claimed with a sneer:
Why, you don't agree on this your-
selves.
No, said Mr. Demorest. I we
thought just alike I might possibly repre-
sent my wife, but as she has opinions of
her own, you see L can't. That's why we
are here.
The evening call at which I was pres-
ent, was painfully Impressive and instrao-
tive. The registration was, of course, re-
famed, and 'the assistant official, who tried
to be courteous, was roughly asked by his
superior offier, 'Why do you talk with
the womap tr
Be, meantime, in sharp contrast, was,
metaphorically speaking, patting on the
back the voters who had been brought in
at the eleventh hour. With locose and
flattering remarks he proceeded to qualify
them, giving to each a filthy volume to
kiss, the contents of which they did not
stopto examine.,
I did, however, with cautiou touch, ad
found It to be really the Bible. The copy
had been brought from a police-station,
and coarse expressions were Scribbled on
the fly-leaves beneath the gilded cross on
the cover.
It was heartickening to feel that the
accumulated returns from polling-places
thus managed would be published and be-
come operative as the will of the sover-
eign people. MAnRy F. EASTMAN.
CALIFORNIA AID BRITIHB WOMEN.
Bditors Wrosan's Jourmala:
It may be Interesting to your readers to
learn that during my stay in California
lest winter, I saw the possible solution of
a problem which has occupied maniy of the
most thoughtful hours of my life, viz., the
way to benefit the women of my owncoun-
try by helping the overtaxed housewives
of the Pacific coast. There are thousands
of sensible, educated women in Great Brit-
ain who are skilled to housework, but who
earn a very scanty pittance. They would
be an untold blessing in the homes of Cali-
fornia. I have already sent out two par-
ties, and am organising athird. The later-
state law prevents their getting any redu-
tion on fares, and they have to strain every
nerve to raise enough to carry them nearly
seven thousand miles from home. I be-
speak for them the kindness of the Boston
ladise, In making their stay there as inex-
pensive as possible. The excursions leave
Boston at stated times, and the steamers
sometimes land them a day or two earlier.
These ladies are all members of the British
Women's Temperance Association, and
committees of the W. C. T. U. are to re-
ceive them at their destination in Califor-
nia. For those who go to New York and
join the excursion at Albany, Mrs. M.
Louse Thomas, President of Sorols,
with a committee of ladies, promised to
meet all at the steamer on landing. To-
night I hear from her that she gave them
a dozen oans of tongue and ham, and boxes
of choice biscuits, a. quantity of fruit, and
other comforts for their six days' railroad
journey. She says:
I have just seen our English friends
on board the train for their long journey.
They were all In the best of spirits. They
could not have beei more carefully guard-
ed if their own fathers had been with them.
There was no homerickness among them,
but all were full of hope and happy an-
ticipations of the lovely homes that await
them. They tok supper with me. I am
much pleased with the quality of these
women. More and oore I realise, dear
friend, that this is a great work. We are
doing a good work for women, and with
God's blessing I Intend to devote myself
to it here, as you are doing in Britain.
I may say that the class of women I de.
sire to help are above the servant class-
the Industrious, poor, middle-class, edu-
cated women, who find it so hard to earn
money here. When Lather's little daugh-
ter died, and his wife was weeping over
the remains, he tried to comfort her by
saying: Don'trtake on so, Kate. This is
a hard world for women. And so, if I
can make a brighter pathway for the
weary feet of qofy:et arf-wpppa who
sorely need it, I paltdel' ba i h'ave not
lived In vain. May I hope to Mhar that
Boston responds lb*hppupajf, ,
my neV., pte pAli*. -ti elste to
New I iV will join .iie topiern
Pacific exca pg ro Besto IAr4.
Since writin thy 1wI til; vOb*e I was
feeling the burden oftais h*4t work upon
me, there came a letter from a working-
man in California with a obeck, sayog
he wished it to be used to help poor women
whocould not pay all their passage money,
and what touched me most was that he de-
sired they might not know the source of
this help. I felt a reverence for my un-
known friend that I cannot describe. It
was the very first help that had come to
me. My printing and writing had cost ume
much. I could not also pay passages, and
this note of obeer has strengthened me
Much.
Yours for the sacred cause of woman,
afnARPA T E. PAKER.
PeksWurr gtons, Botend.
Miss- Lti WsaZtoes, a quiet Ver-
mont girl whocame to Boston some years
ago, has acquired a national reputation
among kindergarten teachers. She- has
studied the kindergarten system both In
this country and in Europe. She i prin-
elpal of the kindergarten l Chaouncy
Hall Scboel, Boston, abeiies having
charge of the primary department It
Berkeley Street Church, and giving In-
strution to primary teachers every star-
day afternoon in the Melonson.
CONCERNING WOMEN.
Ms. LIVERMORa has been chosen pres-
Ident of the New England Conservatory
of Music.
MR. ExxA MONt MORAR, of Purdue
University, has been elected president of
the Indiana State Teachers' Assoolation.
Miss LELIA J. RINsOx, the author of
Law Made Easy, will contribute to the
WOMAN'S JOURNAL a series of articles on
the laws relating to women. 3is Robin-
.Son has returned to Boston after an ab-
sence of four years in the West, and will
reainue the practice of law in this city.
Miss Gica Soce, a graduate of Cor
nell, has just published in Harper's Basr
a highly interesting collection of statistics
relating to the present occupations of
the women graduates of twelve American
colleges. It Is a work of much research,
and brings many vague theories to the test
of facts-a test, in the main, strongly
favorable to the collegiate education of
women.
MRS. LAURA 0. HOLLOWAY, of Brook-
lyn, has received within the past three
monthe more than two hundred letters
from women, strangers to her, who want
to earn a living by literary work. It may
be partly because of the lucreasing lter-
ary activity of Southern women, and part-
ly because Mrs. Holloway is herself a
Southerner, but most of these letters come
from the South.
MME. FLOQUET, wife of the French
statesman, is an active promoter of techni-
cal ashools for girls, which she aids both
with money and social Influence. She is
also interested in homes for servants, and
offices and homes where Alsatian girls cat
obtain shelter and places. It was she who
thought of celebrating the opening of the
new Hotel de Vile by a lunch to the chil,
dren of the communal schools of Parid5
which delighted the children and their'
parents, and added greatly to her hus-
band's popularity.
CLARA BARTON, President of the Amer-
ican Red Cross Society, recently had an
audience with the Emperor of Germany.
He stood erect and affable during the In-
terview, and it was hard for her to realise
that he was ninety years old. His step
was frm, and he looked unusually well,
but when they parted he shook her hand
kindly and said. This Is probably thelas
time we shall meet. The conversation
was carried on In French, but when she
left the room he said Good-by in Eag
lish.
Miss J. STIOKFORD, a LouslanM lad,
Alls the varied odices of ticket-agent, tale
graph-operator, shipping-clerk, epre-
agent and train disptober at Prodhmine
station on the 'tas iPa18 Ralroad,A
little above Alexandria. TheNew Orleas
25me.sDemocratsys thath dretIg,ts
handling of cotton anid other freight,
dering the loadingaend uicoadhg f a
etc., whiah sometimes strains thelli 06o
of the most amiable sen, Miss Bt'
maintains Ivariable digob ity aid
temper, and all goes soothly tade
wise and careful supervito.
MR. fBt K iiI3 tInksllteatr
poor proflaon in Ame a
cause It Is overcrowded ad prty fil
the lack of international opyi^t h
discourage yotaig wones from ta
it, unless they have .rptioal t
She is reported as sayingi,A gdw
woman in whoin I was inis ted
about an equal amontof tletf u0-
log and for drawing. She i10
pen, but I dissuaded he Atr.,
took to the pencil. She ear
lars a week as an Illtiio
two holidays in the tk i-
graving and Illustrating it
crowded, and ofe no a better a
women than literatune.',
Tas PNCs&HRISnht awls
by her inghters Louise addVi i-
veiled.& aasaue of the Quaeend
at the Boyal Holloway
Women, at Egham Eng.; a
Christia made to address. It
tell whlck.would have seemed n
shocking to conservatives, fifty
-that there should be a colifiv o
or that a womanA should makea!'i'
speech. Asfthe royalfabys62i1.
the most conservatve faly
dom, whean of Qaten
ters mpy an address r
womes, I easy be takei c
the higher edeolldit p
ing of weoe haire boh1Vi
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