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24 Women's J. 1 (1893)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl24 and id is 1 raw text is: Sir VOL. XXIV. BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1893. The Woman's Journal. A Weekly Newspaper, published every Saturday n BOsTON , devoted to the interests of Woman-to ier educational, industrial, legal and political iquality, and especially to her right of Suffrage. EDITORS' LUCY STONE, II. B. BLACKWELL, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. ASSISTANT EDITORS: FLORENCE M. ADKINSON, CATHARINE WILDE. OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUTORS: JULIA WARD iOwE, MARtY A. LIVEInoItE, Ms. I. M. T. CUTLER, ELIZABETH STUART PIIELPS WAitD), MARY PUTNAM JACOBI, M. D., FRANCES E. WILLARD, MARtY F. EASTMAN, Dit. EMILY BLACKWELL, MISS MARY E. iIFVDY, HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFOt, DR. LELIA G. BEDELL, MtS. ELL EN B. DIETRICK, MRS, LILLIE DEVEtEUX BTlAKE, DR. ALIDA C. AVEY, PROF. ELLEN HAYES. MRS. MARY E. IAGGARTI, MRS. MAY WRIOIIT SEWALL, MRS. LAURA M. .OIINS. MRS. ADELAIDE A. CLAFLIN. BOSTON OFFICE-NO, 3 Park Streetwhere copies re for sale and subseri ptons received. SUBSCRIPTION. er Annum .. . .... $2.50 I'rst year on trial. . . . ... . Uingle copies,... . . . ....05 OLUR RATES-Five copies one year,.- $10.00 lample copies free. WORDSWORTH'S GRAVE. BY WILLIAM WATSON. Not Milton's keen, translunar music thine; Not Shakespeare's cloudless, boundless hu- man view; Not Shelley's flush of rose on peaks divine; Nor yet the wizard twilight Coleridge knew. What hadst thou that could make so large amends For all the0t hadst not and thy peers pos. sessed, Motion anti fire, swift means to radiant ends?- Tho hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest. From Shelley's dazzling glow or thunderous haze, From Byron's tempest-anger, tempest-mirth, Menturned to thee and found-not blast and blaze, Tumult of tottering heavens, but peace on earth. Nor peace that grows by Lethe, scentless flower, There in white languors to decline and cease; But peace whose names are also rapture, power, Clear sight, and love: for those are parts of peace. EDITORIAL NOTES. With this number the WOMAN'S JOUa- NAL enters on its twenty-fourth year. It has carried Ideas of equal human rights, not only to all parts of the United States, but to nearly every country on the face of the globe, nd to .many islands of the ocean. The readers of the WOMAN'S JOURNAL are Invited to aid In extending its useful- ness by sendilug us the names and ad- dresses of any of their friends who might like to become subscribers if they were acquainted with the paper. We shall be glad to send tiieni sample copies, free of charge. Willard's Hotel will be the headquarters for the delegates during the Washington convention, to be held Jan. 15-19. It will give reduced rates, $3 per day, in- eluding fire, when two persons occupy one room. The full programme for the convention will be found on another page. Able speakers have been secured, hn- portant business Is to come up, and there is every prospect of an Interesting meet- ing. There should be a large attendance. Twenty-seven State Legislatures con- vene this week. They have the opportu- nity to win immortal honor for them- selves by securing to women their right to vote in municipal elections. Each Legislature is competent to do this. They can also change unfair laws, and enact better ones. May they do so! The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage As- Poclation, the National Woman Suffrage 'Association of Massachusetts, the Massa- chusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Independent Women Voters, and the Loyal Women of American Lib- erty have all united this year, for the first time, In petitions for a single object, viz.: To Secure for women, legally qualified to vote for school committee, the right to vote in all town and city elections, and for all elective town and city officers, on the same terms as male citizens. These petitions will be presented as soon as the Legislature is organized for the transac- tion of business. No other petitions will be presented by any of these bodies until this one is disposed of. By the terms of Miss Garrett's contribu- tion to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, men and women are to have equal advantages for study anti for de- grees. If at any tine or for any reason tills should cease to be true, the money reverts to Miss Garrett or her heirs. A commit- tee of six women, which committee shall fill its own vaeancles, is to have charge of questions aflecting the women medical students. Thus carefully has Miss Garrett guarded the equal opportunities of her sex in this new onward and upward step. Nothing could have been finer than the graceful courtesy with which the trustees of Johns Hopkins University accepted the terms and conditions laid down by Miss Garrett for the contlnuance of her munifi- cent gift to that University. There was a generous response to our call for helping hands to direct and fold suffrage literature. One friend took to her home more than a thousand envelopes, and returned them beautifully addressed. Two ladies, both past seventy years of age, spent a whole day in folding anti enclosing, one of them keeping on till the darkness stopped tile work. Several other friends have come in anid helped for a longer or shorter time. Sixty dollars from the Mary Lowell Stone fund have just been placed in the hands of Mrs. Lucy Stone, to be used for the circulation of suffrage literature. The expenditure of the money will be reported III the WOMAN'S JOUINAL. ..... .-40 - - .... . The Maine Woman Suffrage Association did a good thing when it sent to the tax- collectors of all the towns In the State to find the amount of taxes paid by women. The Maine Legislature will hear from it this winter. Win. 1. Bowdltch did the same service for Massachusetts twenty years ago. lie found that millions of dollars were paid in taxes by women. One woman paid as much as six hundred men In her town. These men could all vote as to how her tax money should be used, and how much the lax should be, but the woman herself had no vote about either question. An exciting election took place at Lon- don, Out., on Jan. 2. The principal points at issue were whether a free library should be established and whether all bars and saloons should be closed after 7 P. M. There arc iI London 958 women who have munlclpal suffrage, and nearly all of them voted. 'ile free lirary was carried by a large majority. The early-clozIng clause was defeated by the small majority of 152 in a total vote of 5,666. The London Daily Advertiser says: TPhe liquor men worked hard to defeat the early closing of bars by-law. The aliti-early-closing scru- tineers in more than one ward demanded that women voters shiould be sworn. By this means, votes for the by-law were un- doubtedly lost, because not a few of the ladies, though well qualified, declined to go through the formula. The women must learn to swear-not profanely, but judicially. They will not be caught that way again. IN THE COLLEGES. It is reported that Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Ind., Is pledged, by the acceptance of a gift recently made, to the Introduction of co-educttion within three years. Wabath is the oily college of high rank in the State- that does not admit women, and there ha' been an effort made for msny years to open its doors. It was thought at one time that women would be admitted at the opening of the present college year, but the authorities were not ready for the change. !u the death of Professor Eben korton Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass., on Jan. 1, Wellesley College loses a constant and generous friend. He has been president of the board of visitors'since its organiza- tion. The college library has been en- dowed by him. He introduced the Sab- batical year, by which the professors are allowed every seventh year for rest and study in Europe, and also started a system of pensions for the professors. The University of Chicago receivedt a Christns gift of another million dollars from Mr. John D. Rockefeller, making 83,600,000 that lie has given to that listi- tution. The Univ3rsity now has 594 stu- deuts, of whom 166 are graduates, repre- seuting nearly every University in the country. The faculty numbers 119 pro- fessors and instructors. The University has two publications. the University Weekly, in magazine form, and die Uni- versity Daily News. Women at the Universities Is one of the subjects announced at Yale on which compositions are to be prepared for the Ten Eyck prize speaking at the junior exhibition. The American Hnane Education Society offers $200, $150, $100 and $50 as prizes for the best essays on the impor- tance of humane education in all the higher institutions of learning; also three other prizes of $100, $60 and $40 for the best practical plans of promoting increased humane education in our higher Institutions of learning before named; none of the essays to exceed six thousand words. Competition is open to all stu- dents in colleges, Universities and Theo- logical Schools in the United States of America, both Protestant and Catholic. All manuscripts must be sent to Mr. Geo. T. Angell, 19 Milk Street, Boston, on or before March: 1, 1893. Mr. Angell will furnish full Information regarding these prizes on application. F. At. A. WOMEN IN THE CHURCHES. At the late conference of the Iowa As- sociation of Unitarian churches, Rev. Mary A. Safford, of Sioux City,was elected president of the Association. Her associ- ate pastor, Rev. Elinor Gordon, preached the opening sermon of the conference. A memorial service for George William Curtis was held, in which Miss Safford spoke on 11ls Work for Equal Rights. Miss Safford preached the opening sermon at tie Minnesota Unitarian Conference. Rev.Mrs. C. J. Cochrane, of Bath, N. 11., has resigned, in order to join her husband in parish work at Ellsworth, Me. A cor- respondent of the Christian Register writes: l1er labor has been very satis- factory, and we regret very mnch that our new church was not completed and dedicated so that she could have preached tn it before she left. Site has proven that a woman can be ordained and be supported in preaching the Unitarian doctrine in New England nearly three years. Rev. Carrie A. Rice is pastor of a Uni- versalist mission In San Diego, Cal. Under her leadership a church is to be built, and site asks Universalists to send dime con- tributions to help build this new Church of Our Father. The admission of women as delegates to the General Conference of the Free Baptist church has become the established order of things without any ecclesiastical disturbance. Iin 1889,at Ilarper's Ferry, there were seven lady delegates. Prevl- ous to the opening of the session, they huddled together like a flock of timid sheep, and pltnned to sit together; but wiser counsels prevailed, and they went with their respective delegations, says the Missionary Helper. This year at Lowell (Mass.), there were thirteen women delegates present. Two others appointed were not able to attend. The Helpee remarks significantly: They seat- ed theiiselves with their delegations as naturally its If they had always had seats in the body. In the appointment of com. mittees by Prof. Howe, president, the women were duly recognized, three being made chairmen and all the others Ilavlng places on committees. Papers were read by several women, and were heard with marked attention. The women delegates were faithful to their duties; they took part In the discussions, and voted accord- Ing to their convictions. The conference gave the women additional recognition by voting that of the twenty-one members of the General Conference Board, which Is to have in hand the business between ses- slons, seven shall'be women, and by elect- ieg them in this proportion. This in- stance of courage and progress is hereby commended to the consideration of our Methodist Episcopal brothers. Women in the Ministry was the sub. ject of a symposium in the Boston unday Gtlobe of Dec. 18, to which seven Massa- chusetts ministers contributed. Rev. Lorenza Haynes, Rey. Mary TIraffarn Whitney, of Somerville, Rev. S. Louise Baker, of Nantucket, and Rev. Blanche P. Bageley, of Iaverhill, write from the fulness of experience, and the general tenor of their views is voiced li these con- cluding words of Rev. Miss Baker: '-The time Is ,lt hand when the woman pastor sh1all be no longer unliqle In her position, but suchi t universally recognized factor as to call forth little counent. Rev. Cyrus A. Bartol says emphatic- ally, lin the opening of ills letter: I ani In favor of the admission of women to the privileges and responsibilities of tile min- Istry. Rev. James Do Nornlndie, of Roxbury, says: The question has been settled that women are to be preachers, and ihe urges that they be given every opportunity to become the best possible ministers. By all means lei the advantages of the theological schools it Harvtrd and else- wlere be speedily opened to them. Rev. Minot J. Savage, of the Church of the Unity, Boston, says, conclusively: It is no longer a question as to whether women shall be admitted to the pulpit; they are already there. It is no use to say that they have no voice for public speaking; for they are speaking, ani are being heard. Mrs. Livermore,Mrs. Chant, Miss Wilkes, Bliss Hnltin-such are some of the women who have stood In my own pulpit, and done such work that a warm welcome awaits them when they wish to come again. For the utterance of these encouraging and convincing words, women everywhere should be grateful. The ecclesiastical emancipation of women Is coming on. In the North Georgla Methodist Con- ference, held last month at Madison, the committee on temperance reported a set of resolutions, one of which endorsed the W. C. T. U. Dr. Candler opposed this resolution, on the ground that tile IV. C. T. U. favored woman suffrage. Rev. Mr. Wadsworth and others advocated adopt- ing the committee's report as a whole, and it wits so voted. Then a reconlsidera- tion was moved, a variety of substitutes and amendments were proposed, and there wits great confusion. Finally the Confer- ence substituted for the resolution endors- ing the W. C. '. U. a resolutlion to co- operate with all temperance movements. P.Mhi. A. COLLEGE GIRLS AND WOMEN. Miss Sydney Randle, of the Georgia Normal and Industrial Collegejunlorclass, has been appointed postmistress of the House of leprescntatlves at Atlanta, at $4 per day. She Is the first woman ap- pointed as post-master to this Legislature. Miss 31. K. Conylngton, '94, discusses the Homestead struggle in the Wellesley Magazine for l)ecember. On Dec. 31, at the Thorndike, the elgh- teenth anntal meeting of the Boston branch of the Associate Alumnie of Vassar College wits held, and these officers were elected: President, Mls E. 31. Howe; vice-presidents, Miss S. B. D. Lewis, Miss E. G. Houghton; secretary and treasurer, Miss B. E. Chester; iassistant secretary and treasurer, Miss L. S. King. Reports from the college were submitted, and Biss Start, '90, read a paper on The Status of Vassar Women in Graduate Work. Miss Lewis reported for the Aid Society, show- ing that It, was ralsing $750 annually for scholarship purposes. Mis Benison is a vice-presihelnt of the senior law class at tile University of Michigan. Mrs. Cassie Scott Cushing, a graduate of the Northwestern Univeisity at Evins- ton, ifl., has offeredt a prize of oie hundred dollars, whilch is open to students i: the departmnt of political economy, and will be awarded ann'dally to tiho writer of the best dissertation on Municipal Govern- il ent. The subject for this year will be City Government for Chicago. Vassar girls dressed 300 dolls for distri- bution at Ciristmas by the College Settle- ment In Rivington Street, New York. Two young women graduates of Welles- ley College, Miss Charlotte H. Conant, of Greenfleld, Mass., ani Miss Florence Blge- low, of Natick, Mass., both of them ex- perienced teachers, have bought the Henry G. Harwood residence and four acres of land in Natick, Mass., where they pr pree to open a preparatory school to be known as WalnutlHill School, Welles- hey Preparatory. Miss Shafer, the presi- dent of Wellesley, and the other members of the faculty, promise the new enterprise their hearty support; and cobperation. P. M. A. Digitized from Best Copy Available No. 1.. CONCERNIXG WOMEN. REV. MARION MuitociC contributes to this week's WOMAN'S JOURNAL an Inter- esting account of the Women's Liberal (Political) Association at Oxford, Eng. MRS. MAItY E. LEASE has withdrawn tier nan i as a canhtlate for the U. S. Senate, I i'order to leave the Populists free to unite upon some candidate satis- factory to all of them, and free from entangling alliances with the Democrats. IEV. ANNA OLIVElt, who has lived abroad for many years, suffering severely from ill health, lately returned to this country, seeming much better; but she returned onily to die. We should be glad to have some of the friends of this gifted and courageous woman preacher send us facts for an adequate memorial notice of hier. Miss FRANCES L. FULI.ER, of Madison, has long been the assistant secretary of the Wisconsin Agricultural Society, and the growing success of the State Fair is said to be largely owing to her. When site was appointed, eight years ago, site was the only woman employee about the capitol; but she proved invaluable, and has retained lier position under three con- secutive secretaries. Shie has systematized the whole work, prepares the annual re- port, attends to te vatst correspondence, and assists In making out the annual premium lists. MISS CLARA BntETT MARTIN Is the young lady to whose perseverance is chiefly due the recent admission of women to the practice of law il Ontario. Miss Martin graduated from Toronto Univer- sity about three years ago, and decided to study law. On presenting her diploma to the convocation of benchers, it was re- jected, and Miss Martin was told, in sub- stance, that site would either have to give up hier purpose or go to the United States. She decided to do neither, but to win hier admission at home. The question was introduced into the local Legislature at its last session by the attorney-general, who favored the movement, and the Le-gis- lature empowered the benchers of the Law Society to admitwomen, which they have now done. The matter caused hot de- bate, both liu the Legislature and in the Law Society; but it has ended as such struggles always end, in the long run. ,rhe newspapers and the progressive women of Toronto, notably Dr. Emily Stowe ant Mrs. McDonell lent vigorous aid to Miss Martin. Mts. A. S. OAKLEY, of 227 Dubois Street, Newburg, N.Y., is managet of the town street-roller and sprinkler busiiess. Sihe succeeded her husband when lie was stricken with blindness seventeen years ago. She employs twenty men, and owns nearly its many carts. She goes about town with her own horse and phaeton, does her own collecting, and sees that the work is performed thoroughly. Mrs. V. Dillon, 251 Ann Street, Newburg, con- ducts a large and successful truck busi- ness. It ils grown from one horse and olle small express wagon which she bought years ago aid hired a man to drive. Site selected this unusual branch of busi- ness because site saw an opening to suc- cess. After a while shie contracted for the town trucking, and has engaged to dothe eltire work for a large hotel in course of builting. Before her marriage, Mrs. Dillon was employed as a compositor on the JIebreiv Leader in New York city. MiSS GItACE WELLS, a Cincinnati girl, determined at fifteen that shie would be a doctor. tier uncle, with whom shie lived, did not approve of the idea, and could not afford to give her the necessary education. She persuaded him to lendi her a cow, a dozen hens and six turkeys for a year. At the year's end she had made profit enough out of them to buy a printing out- fit, which she set up in the corner of a woodshed. Site then solicited the print- Ing of cards, letterheads and envelopes. At the end of the second year, she paid her uncle the rent for the cow and fowls, and had money enough to take lessons twice a week front the preacher- By the time she was eighteen she had saved money enough to take her to the academy during the fall and winter. In spring and summer she worked at her trade. She, has paid for her schooliig herself, and now has enouzgh money in the bank for her medical course. Mean- while she has been reading with a New Haven doctor.

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