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31 Women's J. 1 (1900)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl31 and id is 1 raw text is: Ike Ii O1)'1~P S Vol. XXXI. BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1900. No. 1. ______________________ __________________I___ The Woman's Journal FOUNDED BY LUCY STONE. A Weekly Newspaper, published every Satur- day in Boston, devoted to the interests of woma- an-to her educational, industrial, legal and political equality, and especially to her right of euff rage. EDITORS: H. B. BLACKWELL. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. AsnISrMANT EDITORS: FLORENCE M. ADKINSON. CATHARINE WILDE. BOSTON OFFIOP.E-No. 3 Park Street. where cop- ies are for sale and subscriptions received. J. Ii. lORisOx Advertising Manager. CONTENTS. - PAGE Editorial Notes ................................ 1 A Peace Prize ....................................1 The Japanese New Year .........................I The Filipena .....................................1 Women of the Press...... .............I Miss Hanlon's Case ............................ 1 The Women of Hawaii ............................ 2 The Chinese New Year ........................... 2 Flowers at the White House .....................2 Woman Suffrage in Holland ..................... 2 Mrs. Chace's Kind Heart ......................... 2 W omen in Chile ................................ 2 A Colorado Editor on Mrs. Corbin ............... 2 On an Ostrich Farm ............................3 Gossip and Gleanings ............................ 3 Children's Column-Humorous .................3 Inside the American Custom-House, ii. B. iB.... 4 Woman as an Inventor, Mary A. Livermore .... 4 Progress in Ireland, A. s. n ....................... 4 Women Physicians ............................4 Remember the Armenian Women, A. s.B ....... 5 Women's Clubs and Club Women, F. 31. A ....... 5 Our New York Letter ..........................5 A Postal Episode ................................. 6 Our Slinsters and Bachelors.............. 6 Patti's Parrots ................................ 6 State Correspondence-Oregon - Iowa - New York .......................................... 6,7 College and Alumnne ............................ 8 Freedom Overlooked ..........................8 Frances Willard's Statue ........................ 8 Women in the Churches ......................8 Energetic at Eighty ............................8 W. W. Howard Starts for Cuba ................8 Massachusetts Clubs and Leagues......... 8 EVOLUTION. BY HJALMllCR H JORTH BOYESON. Sublime is life, though in beginnings base At first enkindled. In this clod of mould Beats with faint spirit pulse the heart of gold That warms the lily's cheek; its silent grace Dwells unborn 'neath this sod. Fain would I trace The potent mystery which, like biidas's hand, Thrills the mean clay into refulgence grand; For, gazing down the misty aisles of space And time, upon my sight vast visions throng Of the imperial destiny of man. The life that throbbed in plant and beast ere long Will break still wider orbits in its van,- A race of peace-robed emperors and kings Achieving evermore diviner things. EDITORIAL NOTES. Let every woman read carefully the editorial on page four, entitled Inside the American Custom -House. The status of women In our new possessions will probably be settled by Congress dur- ing this session. It will come In as a part of the wider question of whether the Inhabitants of these outlying possessions shall be given the priceless boon of self- government under national supervision, and if so, to what extent and under what conditions? The elimination of race and sex restric. tions in the suffrage are two vital points to be insisted upon. In semi-civilized com- munities the social and political equality of responsible, intelligent women is espe- cially needed. In such countries as Hayti it has been found necessary to give wom- en ownership of their homesteads as a condition of domestic stability. While the men are very generally indolent, absent, and neglectful of their families, the women are anchored to their children and their homes. It would be a cruel and unstatesmanlike mistake to debar prop- erty-owning women from the right of suffrage in the government of our new possessions. Almost equally important is it that these islandcommunities should bemade a part of our Awa'ricau continental system of domestic free-trade. Absolutely un- restricted commerce between our States and Territories, from Maine to Washing- ton, and from Michigan to Texas, has proved the greatest possible blessing to each and all. Even more so, if possible, would be the benefits of similar freedom of trade between temperate and tropical products. It would put an end to the monopolies which at present double the cost of many articles of universal utility in order to enrich a few wealthy corpora- tions. In the itemized report of the Suffrage Bazar given in another column, one fact Is particularly noticeable. This is the smallness of the expenses, which were only 17 1.2 per cent. of the receipts. It may be doubted if any other among the many Fairs of the season can show as good a record in this respect. It was due to Miss H. E. Turner's economical and judicious management. Miss Turner, while giving credit in her report to the many others who helped to make the Bazar a success, does not allude to the fact that she was herself the mainspring of the whole af- fair, devoting months of patient and un- selfish labor to the preparations for it. The unexpectedly good result achieved In the face of unusual obstacles is due to her more than to any other one person. A PEACE PRIZE. The next Alfred Noble prize for tie best argument for peace between nations, presented through any of the arts, will be awarded Dec. 10, 1901, the date being fixed by the Norwegian Parliament. The prize will be from fifty to eight thousand dollars. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, left his whole fortune of several millions to science, literature, and philanthropy, the interest of one-fourth of the amount to be given annually to that person who should do the most for the promotion of peace among nations. It is likely that this vast sum may eventually become the foundation of an institution for the study and development of international law at Christiania, which will invite students in friendly competition from all parts of the world. A SOCIAL MUSEUM. The establishment of a museum of social economy In New Vork City is pro- posed by the Rev. Dr. Josiah Strong, president of the League for Social Ser- vice, and Dr. William H. Tolman. It is part of the plan to make the museum a source from which information as to mu. nicipal progress may be obtained by other cities, and to furnish employers with details of what is being done by other concerns for the benefit of operatives. Regarding the scheme Dr. Strong says: In a social museum, by means of care- fully collected data and photographs, one might study the park system, public baths, street cleaning, disposition of garb. age, light and water systems, fire depart- ment, and the housing problem of every considerable city In the land and of all the great cities of the world. Concerning a given problem and its solution one might learn more by a single visit to a social museum than by a month's tour of the cities of our country. WOMEN OF THE PRESS. Mrs. Eliza Archard Conner, who has been resting In the Isle of Jersey after her experience in the Philippines, will spend the latter part of the winter in London. Mrs.Connor,a life-member of the Woman's Press Club of New York City, is said to be the only woman who has ven- tured upon the duties of war correspond- ent In Luzon. After a trip to the Klon- dike, not the most restful sort of an experience, without taking any time for recuperation she went to Manila, and succeeded in getting to the front. She helped to Identify the killed and to care for the wounded on more than one battle- field, and did active work as a writer at the same time, although while 'crossing the Pacific, happening to be on deck in a storm, she was blown down a companion- way, and had her arm broken. All Mrs. Connor's writing was done on a type- writer, and, of course, with one hand. Nevertheless, she turned out copy with a rapidity that caused wonder to those around her. She has had the same ma- chine with her in Jersey, and will take It to London, where she hopes to find time for some society letters, to be printed in the United States. Before returning to New York she expects to visit St. Peters- burg, and possibly some of the Russian provinces, and will spend a month or two at the Paris Exposition. At the annual meeting of the New Eng- land Women's Press Association, held in this city last Wednesday, the correspond- ing secretary reported a membership of 151, ar~d the treasurer reported $255 in hand. Officers were chosen as follows: President, Mrs. Nella I. Daggett; first vice-president, Mrs. Annie G. Murray; second vice-president, Miss Mabel B. Caf- fin; recording secretary, Miss Ivah Dun- klee; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Alice Fessenden Peterson; treasurer, Mrs. Ere- line C. Riker; assistant treasurer, Miss Floretta Vining; auditor, Mrs. Alice E. Whitaker; executive committee (three years' term), Mrs. Evelyn Greenleaf Suth- erland; the present members are, chair- man, Mrs. May Alden Ward (elected in 1898); second member, Mrs. Barbara Gal- pin (elected in 1899); finance committee, chairman, Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln; second member, Mrs. Ella A. Bigelow; third member, Miss Marian Hosmer; chairman of programme committee, Mrs. Sarah T. S. Leighton; chairman of reception com- mittee, Mrs. Jennie Bond Chaloner. It was voted to hold the gentlemen's night at the Vendome on Feb. 21. TER FILIPINA. The following extracts are from a poem on Current Events read at a recent din- ner of the Chickatawbut Club In this city, by Edward Payson Jackson: THE FILIPINOS. What shall we do witi, this vast crowdi The constitution eke to quote, No color line must be allowed,- Thus saith the law-sothey must vote. Well, nothing very strange in that:- We've done the same thing o'er and o'er. A man may vote, though black as your hat; Not so with Mary Livermore. Livermore? She knows more Than many voters o'er and o'er, Yet she can't vote. And that grand woman, she who wrote The book that set the black men free, Who gained for them the right to vote, She, too, was in the self-same boat,- She couldn't vote. Why, even the Goddess of Liberty Herself can't vote I Though dynamiters, anarchists, Stock-gamblers, bread-monopolists, Prize-fighters, with their brutal lists, Tam:. ny thieves, polygamists, And, the other human beasts, .rhey al can vote I From all this, what conclusions follow? We all can see where we are'at; If such big camels we can swallow, Why should we strain at one small gnat? If we can give the vote to these Degraded, vicious savages, Why, surely it would be no meaner To give It to the Filipina! THE JAPANESe NEW YEAR. The Japanese New Year is the most curious mixture possible of religion and pleasure, business and sentiment, tips and masquerading, writes Miss Irene Mann, now In Aomori, Japan. It belongs to the same family as the Chinese New Year, and until Japan brought herself up to date it used to be celebrated at the same period. It now coincides with the Western New Year, and is gradually acquiring European fea- tures. Every good Japanese begins the year with a family meal. It consists of certain dishes, and only one liquor is admissible, saki (rice whiskey). For days before New Year's the pro- vision shops are crowded with customers, to whom the little wooden luncheon boxes cannot be handed out fast enough. To the family meal every man must bring a good conscience and a clean ledger. He must have settled up all the last year's accounts, paid all his debts, taken every- thing out of pawn, and be prepared to make a fresh start financially. He must also have performed all the religious duties of the season. His prayer papers should be secured from the priest, and a liberal tithe paid for them, and suitable offerings should have been made at the household shrine. After breaking bread and drinking saki with his family, he has next to remember the claims of his friends. If be be of the court, he has to pay his first visit of the year to the Imperial Palace, where the Emperor always holds a New Year's re- ception. If he be an official, he has to pay his respects to his immediate superi- ors, and so on all through the hierarchy. If he be a priest, he has special New Year service- to bold, beginning at mid- night and lasting far into the morning. Should he be a tradesman, he must wait on his principal customers, and with many salamas and obeisances offer them presents carefully adjusted to the value of their custom. On their side, his pa- trons are bound to receive him courteously, and to entertain him according to a pre- scribed code of hospitality. The New Year visits in Japanese soci- ety have a ceremonial code of such intri- cacy that it takes years to learn. This study is one of the recognized branches Digitized from Best Copy Available of school education, and covers every- thing, from bowing to an acquaintance on the street, up to presentation at court. The higher ceremonials, such as tea drink- ing, require a special course of training, and In Toklo women of blue blood make a handsome living by teaching it. *'Even the coolies at the docks need to know something of etiquette, for a pre- scribed bow is required of them by the policeman on the beat, and a more re- spectful one still by the inspector. Even guides, who have come to regard themselves as half Europeans, cannot escape from the clutches of New-Year ceremonial; they cease to be guides on New Year's Day, and become pure Japan- ese again. Early in the morning they assemble at their headquarters in Yoko- hama, and in their best Japanese robes set out to make a round of the hotels. At each hotel they have to offer a present to the manager, and he provides his best champagne for them, that they may drink with him to the New Year. When they have visited all the hotels in Yokohama, they must go on to Tokio, and make a similar round there. The mummers, or 'Christmas waits,' are abroad early, and keep at their queer antics as long as they can stand up. Theo ir elaborate programme extends at times to a short play. The ox-headed mask is turned to all manner of uses. Boys wear it on the street while begging. Mummers mas- querade in it, and it frequently does duty on the stage, but whether it Is comedy or tragedy we do not know. I saw a grand effect produced in a Kioto theatre last New Year's night by the entrance of a pantomime elephant in a blue velvet skin and red slippers. It had one man for the fore legs and another for the hind legs, in proper pantomime fashion. There Is a vital difference, how- ever, between the New York and Kioto ideas of pantomime; the Japanese take theirs very seriously. In one respect the Japanese New Year has a distinct advantage over ours-it lasts much longer. Native authorities say it does not really finish till the 16th. Anyhow, there Is little work done by any class in Japan during the first fortnlghtof January, by which time all New Year calls have been returned, all presents ex. changed, and life settles down to its ordi- nary routine. MIS 8ANLONSM 0AS. The Boston Post has done good service to women in calling attention to the scandalous case of a respectable girl lately arrested as a street-walker by several policemen, all of whom swore that she was a bad character, perjuring themselves, apparently out of esprit de corps. We have already published several of the Post's vigorous utterances on this subject. Its latest editorial is as follows: HOOSETT AND THE OTHERS. Why was Patrolman Hogsett chosen by the police commissioners as the scapegoat to bear their sins and the sins of their agents in the Hanlon case? Why was he punished for giving untruthful evidence in court when the other patrolmen, who gave testimony to the same general effect, were held guiltless by tile Board of Police? This is the point; Hogsett was specific in his charges of immoral conduct on the part of Miss Hanlon, giving dates as well as places, and as the charges were false it was easy for the innocent young woman to bring absolutely conclusive evidence to prove that she was not at those places on the dates named. But the other police- met, who testified tc the same general effect, prudently refrained from giving dates. They swore roundly that they had seen her often pursuing a shameful traffic; that she was well known to them as a disreputable character; but when urged to make their accusations more precise, they would name no dates. What was left for the young woman, thus confronted by a broad charge of im- morality by men who refused to take the responsibility of naming a single specific instance? She did the only thing possible. Having shown the untruth of Hogsett's specific charges, she met the vague and general accusations of the others by bringing overwhelming evi- dence of her good character, which could not be impeached-indeed, there was no attempt made to impeach it. Is not this a very small hole for the police commissioners to crawl out of in adjudging these other officers guiltless of lying while convicting Hogsett as a liar? The Infamy of it is that by acquitting the associates of Hogsett they Inferentially indorse the false evidence brought against tbe character of Miss Ilanlon, Is there no such thing as justice for this young woman under the institutions of Boston and Massachusetts? CONCERNING WOMEN. Mts. JULIA WARD HOWE will preside to-day at the reception and dinner of the Authors' Club at the Vendome, and the Marion Osgood Ladies' Orchestra will play. Miss BELLE KEARNEY, after lecturing three months in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and adjacent States, will spend the remainder of the winter with her parents in Flora, Miss. M Is. JANE A. GIBSON, of . urora, Ind., made the Veterans' Home Society of the Indiana M. E. Conference a munificent Christmas present of a house and lot, 207 Hampton Place, Cincinnati, 0. MISS HELEN GOULD fately visited the naval branch of the Y. M. C. A. in Brook- lyn, and presented it with a handsome music-box. It is said she has promised $50,000 toward the erection of a building. MRS. T. W. BInNEY, president of the National Congress of Mothers, who has been obliged by illness to forego her social activities, is now convalescent, and will soon resume her philanthropic work. Miss HAY, the eldest daughter of the Secretary of State, is about to publish another book of verses. Her first volume was well received. The second is repre- sentative of child life, its dreams and ambitious. Mis. ADMIRAL DEWEY startled Wash- ington society by announcing that women as well as men would be welcome at her New Year's reception. This is the revival of a custom that was abolished In Cleve- land's administration. Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY has given to Mrs. Elnora 31. Babcock, of Dunkirk, N. Y., chairman of National Press Work ior the Suffrage Association, the sole right to sell the latest and best portrait of Miss Anthony, from a photograph taken last November. The price is forty cents, and the proceeds are to go to the press work. Mile. JENNIE C. CitobY, at the iqw Year luncheon of Sorosis, recalled the fact that thirty years ago a man applied for membership, and she answered that the club was too young to attend to any- thing but its studies, so to speak, and that for some time to come its motto must be, Principles, not men. SIG NOItA DR RIVA MONTE, who ha been appointed by the Superior Council of Pub- lic Instruction to the chair of compara- tive anatomy in the University of Pavia, is one of the most learned and famous women in Italy. She is a doctor of medi- cine, and has written several books on subjects relating to comparative anatomy. She has been honored by several learned societies for her services to science. Miss AnnIE EASTMAN, of Phmnix, Ariz., inherited five copper claims three years ago, and has been working ever since in hotels in California and Arizona to earn the money required to hold them until they could be developed and sold. She has always been obliged to earn her own bread, but with the sight of a fortune before her she worked harder than ever. She persevered, and lately sold one claim for $45,000. Miss EVELY ASrHTON FLronu has invented a system of teaching children music which is more like play and less like drudgery. The division of time is taught by a game with blocks, and the intricacies of the scales are also set forth in fascinating fashion. With the notes cut out of cardboard, live different and amusing games can be played. Fourteen games can be played with musical blocks, and each game has an object. Miss ADELINE W. TORREY, of Orange, N. J., carries on a novel business for a woman, that of raising mushrooms. She began ,t several years ago. After taking some lessons from a mushroom-grower she branched out alone, and to-day can scarcely grow the mushrooms fast enough to supply her many customers. Miss Torrey has lately added to her mushroom Industry a hot bed of violets, and the two yield her a comfortable income. Miss GENEVIEVE WILSON, daughter of a prominent insurance man in Denver, Is now on her way to Manila to serve as an army nurse. She did good service at Huntsville, Ala., and Charleston, S. C., during the war with Spain, her knowledge of languages making her an unusually valuable nurse. Miss Wilson was born in Missouri, and went to Colorado in 1881 After finishing the school course in Dan. ver she studied in Germany and Switzer- land for several years. On returning to D)enver she was graduated as a nurse from the St. Luke's Hospital Training S. h.oi

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