About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

28 Women's J. 1 (1897)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl28 and id is 1 raw text is: Vol. XXVIII, BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1897. No. 1. I I I__ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _I__ _ _ _ _ The Woman's Journal. FOUNDED BY LUCY STONE. A Weekly Newspaper, publtshed every Saturday in BOSTON, devoted to tie interests of woman - to her educational, industrial, legal and political equality, and especially to her right of suffrage. EDI ios i H. B. BLACKWELL. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. ASSISTANT EDITORS: FLORENCE M. ADKINSON, CATHARINE WILDE. OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUrORS: JULIA WARD HOWE, MARY A. LIvERMORE, HELEN E. VILLARD. ALICE WELLINGTON ROLLINS, LILLIE DEVEUEUX BLAKE, HARRIET PRESCOT'r SI'OFFOnD, DR. EMILY BLACKWELL, DUt. LELIA G. EIIELL, Dn. ALIIA C. AvxfAv, ADELAIDE A. CLAFLIN, CANIACE WInEELICR, BARONESS ALEXANDRA GuIiPENIIErO, PROF. ELLEN HAVES, MARY PUTNAM JACOIII, M. D., BOUToN OFFICE--No. 3 Park Street, where copies are for sale and subscriptions received. SUBSCRIPTION. Per Annum------- - $2.50 First year on trial-... ..-1.50 Single copies........05 CLUB RAT'S--FIve copies one year 10.00 Checks and drafts and post-office orders should be made payable to the WOMAN'S JOURNAL. Let- ters containing remittances should be addressed to Box 3638, or to the office of the WOMAN'S JOUR- NAL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Registered letters or Express Co.'s money orders may be sent at our risk. Money sent in letters not registered will be at the risk of the sender. J. B. MORRISON. Advertising Manager. NEW YEAR SONG. BY CELIA THAXTER. 0 Sorrow, go thy way and leave meeI Weary am I of thee, thou Sorrow old. Unclasp thy hand from mine and cease to grieve me, Fade like the winter sunset dim and cold. Depart, and trouble me no longerl Die! Vanish with forgotten yesterdays. Eastward the darkness melts, the light grows stronger, And dawn breaks sweet across the shroud- ing haze. Die and depart, Old Year, old SorrowI Welcome, 0 morning air of health and strength! 0 glad New Year, bring us new hope to- morrow, With blossom, leaf, and fruitage bright at length. EDITORIAL NOTES. A Happy New Year to our readers! Let us all make it one of our New Year good resolutions to work harder for equal suf- frage in 1897 than we did in 1890. Let Massachusetts suffragists from city and country plan to attend the annual State suffrage meeting in Association Hall, Boston, on Monday afternoon and even- ing, Jan. 11; also the business meeting of the State Association in Park Street Chapel, on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 12. Eminent speakers will be present. Thii week the annual reports of the' Massachusetts Leagues and of the Na- tional Franchise Department of the W. C. T. U. have crowded out much Interesting matter, Including the State Correspond- ence, the continuation of Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi's From Massachusetts to Turkey, and sevral Important obituaries. The world moves. One of the daily papers of Boston most opposed to equal suffrage says without a shudder, and even under the heading, Death of an Estima- ble Woman : Mrs. -, wife of -, and chairman of the school board of-, died at her residence Saturday night. Imagine the effect that would have been produced by such a paragraph twenty years ago!I Gen. Colby, whose wife, Mrs. Clara B. Colby, is well known among suffragists, Is said to be preparing an expedition in aid of the Cubans. Miss Frances E. Willard, though unable to go to California as she had hoped, is constantly busy. She keeps two stenogra- phers at work, yet finds time daily to spend several hours in open-air exer- cise. Miss Wllard Is occupying a pleas- ant cottage near the sanitarium at Castile, N. Y., with Anna and Bessie Gordon, their mother, and Mrs. Alice Gordon Gulick, the pioneer of the higher education for women lu Spain. A type.written let- ter just received from Miss Willard on business, bears at the end'these'cheering lines, pencilled by her own hand: I am 'all right.' Pay no attention to the news- papers! WOMEN'S CLUB HOUSE CORPORATION. The first shares of stock of the Wom- an's Club House Corporation were issued at tile office of the WOMAN'S JOUINAL, 3 Park Street, on Dec. 21, 1896, and were promptly taken. Share No. 1 Is held by the Castilian Club, from which came the original call for the organization. The certificates are handsomely engraved. Stock may be purchased at 3 Park Street, on Jan. 4, 1897, from 2.30 to 5.30 P. M., and, at any other time, from the treasurer, Miss Amanda M. Lougee, at (15 Franklin Street, Boston. Clubs and individual subscribers are urged to call and pay, or send the amount of their subscriptions. The annual meeting will be held Jan. 11, at 10 A. M. The funds of the Corpo tion are de- posited with tile Massachusetts Loan and Trust Co., 18 Post-Office Square, Boston. WOMEN ATTORNEYS. Miss Estelle Mae Davisson, who was recently elected County Attorney in Brown County, Neb., is one of the best and brightest lawyers in that State. Miss Davisson is the only woman in Nebraska, perhaps in the country, who has been elected County Attorney. Miss Daisy D. Barbee, who was recently admitted to the bar in St. Louis, Mo., has applied for membership in tile St. Louis Law Library. She handed in her applica- tion in person, and her appearance caused quite a flutter among the lawyers present. In the memory of tlhe oldest practitioner It was the first time that feminine foot had ever crossed the threshold. Miss Barbee's application gave her place of birth as Pullman, Wash., mentioned the date of her admission to the St. Louis bar, and named Mr. Charles Nagel, presi- dent of the City Council, one of the best- known lawyers in the city, as her refer- ence. An act was passed in New Zealand, a few months ago, to allow women to prac- tice at-the bar. The profession of law has at last been opened to women in Canada. The benchers of the Ontario Law Society passed reso- lutions in November allowing women to be called to the bar, under an Act of the Provincial Legislature giving them power to do so. The regulations order that the women must attire themselves in a black dress under a black gown, with white collar and cuffs, and be bareheaded. England is less progressive in this re- spect than her colonies. The Woman's Signal, of London, remarks, in this con- nection: A lady has In vain applied to be allowed to keep her terms and become a barrister; and a father, who is a solicitor, was refused leave to article to himself his only child, because that child was a daughter. How- ever, the barriers are going down in our colonies, and this may be held a hopeful augury for the future here. F. M. A. A MOTHER OF THE REVOLUTION. Forefathers' Day. Dec. 22, was cele- brated by the Buffalo (N. Y.) Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion. The 260 members of this Chapter boast of an ancestry that is notably dis- tinguished, and on their festal occasion many facts, histories and traditions were entertainingly told. One of the speakers, Miss Elizabeth Townsend, gave an account of her foremother, Hannah, wife of Peter Townsend, who was the peer of the nine- teenth century's newest woman. Peter Townsend, though a Quaker, rendered the peaceful and patriotic ser- vice of forging in his factory the wonder- ful chain, with links weighing over 300 pounds each, which, kept in place by anchors and rafts, was swung across the Hudson River from West Point, to impede the progress of the British In the early days of Arnold's treason. A link of the chain, now in possession of the Town- send family, was exhibited at the meeting. Hannah Townsend, a hundred years ago, was able, at the death of her husband, while he was in the midst of forging the chain, to take up the work where he left off, keep the forges going, her hundreds of employees at work, and complete the great undertaking. She also organized a cooking-school, a hospital, and a training class for nurses, all of which she turued to the advantage of the American soldiers of the Revolution. COLORADO WOMEN. The Rocky Mountain News, a leading paper of Colorado, in a capital editorial of Dec. 20, bears manly testimony to the worth and stability of woman suffrage after three years' trial In that State: A wave of critinisin seems to be pass- ing over the country and falling on the de- voted heads of Colorado women. Whether this is because Colorado is in disgrace as the leading silver State; or whether equal suffrage has progressed so rapidly in the last four years that its opponents are roused to fear that it is becoming a thing to fight rather than scoff at, it is hard to tell. At any rate, while tIle women of Wyoming have voted for twenty years and no one has criticised their action or augured any ill from it, the daily press of the country has reeked, since the last election, with misrepresentations of Colo- rado women. For instance, the Philadel- phia Times expresses itself thus: If we were starting anew to fix the qualifications of a voter, we might stop short of universal suffrage, even for men. But we are not, and the recent vote of the three States where tile suffrage hlas been extended fully to women, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, quite fairly indicates that the removal of the sex qualification at the present time would simply swell the ignorant and cranky vote at least equally with if not in greater proportion than the intelligent vote. Next to Kansas, Colo- rado and U tall are two of the States most to be avoided as political examples, and the association of woman suffrage with Bry- anism is likely to give level-headed women pause. On the contrary, a St. Paul daily finds tears to sied on account of an opposite situation. In a recent issue it said edi- torially: But there is another consequence of woman suffrage which has developed in the present campaign, and which has been foretold as a certain consequence of the innovation, and that is the division of the sexes. It is stated by this correspondent with regard to Colorado, and we have learned from other and reliable sources with regard to Utah, that the women in both States are largely for McKinley. We know beyond a doubt that the men of both States are generally for Bryan. Now, unless there are non-voting men on tie one side enough to offset the non-voting wives on the other, it is clear that there must have been lively differences of opinion in tile domestic circles of Utah and Colorado within the last three months. Consider- ing the intensity of the feeling every- where, and the especial bitterness that attached to it in the silver States, it is not a stretch of Imagination to suppose that these differences must have reached the proportion of at least temporary estrange- ments In many cases. So far as the result of tile election Is concerned, we do not see that the feminine vote in the three States mentioned has operated to help the cause of progress. The Boston Herald gravely announces that. The participation of women in the political affairs of our country does not appear to have been productive of the beat results, when judged of by the out- come of the last election. In this late contest, in which, more than in any other we have had for the last quarter of a cen- tury, a moral issue was presented, those States in which suffrage was granted to women tirew their vote, without an ex- ception, upon what is considered to be the immoral side of the question. The inference is that women voted for the immoral side of the question. The Boston Daily Advertiser chivalrously tries to combat this by devoting considerable editorial space to prove that the women of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah voted largely for McKinley, as they were great readers, ind thus too well informed to be led away by tile free silver craze, and so didn't vote on the immoral side, after all. So behold the women of Colorado trem- bling between Scylla and Charybdis! Whatever course of action they may take will be construed as a menace to the further extension of equal suffrage. If they cast their ballots for silver, they will be set down as voting fortimmorality and dishonest money. If they turn for refuge to McKinley, it will prove conclusively that domestic peace has fled the West. ';Then, while the Eastern press finds something to criticise in any action that the women of Colorado may take, ex- Governor Waite proposes to stump Kansas against equal suffrage. All these conflicting opinions show how absurd it is to argue from a prejudiced standpoint on the justige of a general principle. When Colorado elected Mr. MeIntire, the Eastern press, Republican and Democratic, gave the women praise without stint, because the women did Lit. Clarkaon, ,th~et IowaRepublican chief, wrote a motglowing artile In thle Des Moines Register, to prove that equal suffrage was the finest sort of thing, and that Colorado women were tile flower of their sex, because they were supposed to have carried the State for the lepubiicans. Now they have voted as they believe was for tile interest of their State, to say noth- ing of tile Interests of the country and lumanity, and they are accused of swell- ing tile crank vote, and throwing' their influence upon tile Immorail side. As a matter of fact, women will never vote unanimously upon one side of any ques- tion, any more than men will. Tley will be divided in opinion, like any other class of citizens. They will be affected by all tile causes that affect tie opinions of any voter. They must secure thleir informla- tion on economic and political questions through the same sources, tile rostrum and the press. Tile marked benefit of equal suffrage is that women are incited to secure this information. There is no political meeting in Colorado in which at least hal1 tile audience, and sometimes more, is not composed of women. Women have discussed the issues of the past campaign with as much intelligence as the older voters. Some great political leaders there are In Colorado who have made the financial question tile study of a lifetime, who are belter informed upon it than any others. But considering the average voters. the women will be found as well informed as the men. The same is true of local questions. Women are as much interested in tile Denver charter, and In every species of beneficial legislation in tile State as the men - perhaps more so on an average. An increasing influence goes out from the women in their clubs and their iomes, calling for good legislation and good gov- ernment. The increase in thleintelligence of the women of the State in regard to all tlese subjects, since they received tile ballot, has been simply astonishing. And as the education of the young and the molding of their character is, and must always be, chiefly in the hanls of women, this change in the wom . of the State cannot but make its influence felt in a very marked degree on the next generation of voters. The women have not effected any radi- cal or sudden changes in local govern- ment. They have not tried to do so. They have preferred to pursue a quiet and conservative course until they had attained the experience necessary for such action. Organization, political influence, and political experience are necessary to achieve any marked change. 1 hese tile women did not possess when they were suddenly and almost unexpectedly enfran- chised three years ago. Three years, even, is a very short time in which to learn these things. It Is to be doubted if the womenever start on any radical cru- sade. Their influence witl be felt in a quieter way; in the gradual uplifting of the standard of excellence demanded in public service and candidates. Certain it is that any other course would have created antagonism, and done much to nullify all their efforts. The St. Paul daily referred to quotes an article in the New York Herald, which declares that the women of Colorado are thoroughly sick of politics, and willing to give up suffrage forever. Any statement of this kind is simply absurd. Suffrage in Colorado has come to stay. The wom- en of the State cast a fuller vote on last election day than on any previous one. There has never been any question in Colorado as to the fact that the women voted in as large proportion as the men, and sometimes larger. There doubtless are some women who do not value the ballot, or use it, just as there are some men. But the great body of women in the State value the right of suffrage, and would resent any attempt to take it away from them sufficiently to warn any un- lucky politician from the experiment. There is no doubt that some women have become discouraged in their attempts to secure reform, and have said that equal suffrage could achieve nothing. They did not realize what they had attempted when they began. That in a common feeling at times with every one who engages In re- form work. There are not wrnting those who say that representative government Itself is a failure. And there were not wanting threats in New York during the last campaign, that If the election went against the desire of that section of the country, representative government, as typified in that election, would be over- thrown. But there are no arguments against equal suffrage which do not obtain with equal fores against suffrage at all CONCERNING WOMEN. Mns. MAUDI Ho*E ELLIOTT has re- joined 1er husband in Rome. BAtoNEIsS Hilnscn has given $250,000 to endow a home for Hebrew consumptives in England. Miss CLAIA BARTON has issued a very interesting report of liar relief work In Turkey in aid of the Armenians. DR. CAROLINE B. WINSLOW left a will bequeathing liar body to Howard Univer- sity, to be dissected by a woman medical student for the purpose of advancing her knowledge of anatomy. QUEEN VIcTOlIA is drawing up the programme for tie fdtes to be held in celebration of the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne. Rents in Loedod are said to have risen in anticipation of tile rush. HAliiIT MAXWELl. CONVERSE, the Indian chieftain, is soon to start out on a lecturing tour, her subjects being the hls- tory and traditions of the red men. She is a fluent speaker, an able writer, and understands 11cr subject perfectly. LADY HENnY SOMERSET has sent a London lady doctor and two trained nurses to Bulgaria to help care for the Armenian refugees, who are in great need. The work is to be doiie and a refuge to be built under t!;e auspices of the World's W. C. T. U. Mits. AIacu PAiiKER LssEn will give a series of talks to women on legal ques- tions at the Woman's Educational and In- dustrial Union In this city. They will begin Jan. 11 at 11 A. M., and will treat' particularly of the law as it affects women. Mrs. Lesser is a graduate of the law school of Boston University. The talks will be interesting as well as instructive. MIss MILDRED HOWELLS, Miss ALLN-, onA EoGLESTON, and MissCABzE have all. an hereditary right to talent, although they display It in different lines from those followed by their fathers. Miss Howells, indeed, writes, but she is an artist with brush as well as with pen, and. has studied in London, Rome and Paris. She frequently illustrates her father's- works, and Miss Cable does the same for Mr. Cable's stories, while Miss Eggleston is clever at wood-carving, and paints charming portraits of children. MRS. EMMA SOUTIWIcK BRINTON, of Washington, as delegate to the Inter- national Peace Congress at Budapest and the Woman's Congress at Berlin, gathered much interesting matter for three lectures she is now prepared to give. In reference to these she may be addressed at 126 West Concord Street, Boston. The lec- tures will be fully illustrated by fine stereopticon views. Mrs. Brinton is well known as the originator and mistress of the famous New England Log Cabin, at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 and also at Chicago, She is a woman of large experience and ability. MRs. S. GUERNicY LAPIIAM, of Syr&- cuse, N. Y., has interested herself so largely In life insurance for women that she is being called upon for lectures and informal talks on this subject. Women were formerly considered undesirable as subjects for insurance, but the companies have at last become convinced of their value as policy-lolders, and offer so many inducements that the balance of the bene- fit appears to be on the side of the sub- scribers. Mrs. Lapham recently addressed the members of bliss Grace Dodge's Club, for Working Girls, and, at the request of Mrs. Russell Sage, lectured before the, Emma Willard Alumn Association In New York. Me. BELVA A. LOCKWOOD, of Washing- ton, who was one of the delegates from the United States to the second Inter- national Congresses, held at Geneva, Switzerland, in September last, to consider the administration of public charities and the protection of children, has made an instructive report to the Department of State. Ten nationalities were represented by about sixty-five delegates. The Con- gresses lasted six days, during which time many valuable papers were presented and ably discussed. Among the important topics considered were the education of abandoned children and the children of vicious parents, and the best methods of relieving the poor so as to make the relief permanent and to diminish instead of increasing pauperism and crime. It is to be hoped that a full report wili be pnb- lished. Digitized from Best Copy Available

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most