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33 Women's J. 1 (1902)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl33 and id is 1 raw text is: 5k~ Vol. XXXIII. BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1902. No. 1. The Woman's Journal FOUNDED BY LUCY STONE. A Weekly Newspaper, published every Satur- day in Boston, devoted to the interests of wo- man-to her educational, industrial, legal and political equality, and especially to her right of saffrag KITORtS: ACK WELL. &NE BLACKWEILL. NT DITORS: 6DKINSON. %MIDUTOls: MA. D. BosroN OFpio-NO. 3 Park Street. were cip- Is$ are for sale and subscriptions received. SUBSCRIPTION. Per Annum...........$2.50 Six Months . . . . ..... 1.25 Single copies............. .05 First year on trial- - -. . .10 Three months on trial- . . . . 1.25 Checks and drafts and post-office orders should be made payable to the WOMAN'S JOUltNAL. Let- ters containing remittances should be addressed to the office of- the WOMAN'S JOURAL, 8 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Registered letters or Ex- press Co.'s money borders may be sent at our risk. Money sent In letters not registered will be at the risk of the sender. J.i. MotRIsoN. Business Manager Adv. Dept. CONTENTS. - I'AGE Editorial Notes ................................. 1 Equal Payfor Broom.Makng .................. I A Prize f.,r French Artists ................... Emancipation in M.rrlage ..................... I Mrs. Florence Fenwick Miller .............. 1 A Young Woman Areheoligist ................ 1 Women and Civil Service Reform .............2 Victory for Methodist Women ............... 2 Camera Versus Gun............................ 2 Musical Notes, F. I. A .......................... 2 Free Kindergarten Work ......................2 A Woman Colonel .............................. 2 Women for Board of Agrioultul e ............2 Mrs. Hussey's Fair ............................ 2 Emancipated by a Moral Purpose .............2 Gossip and Gleanings ........... t ............. 2 Children's Column.......................... 2 The Right of Suffrage,.i u.nit .................4 Cardinal Gibbons on the Iome. A, S.i ........ 4 Women's Clubs and Club Women, F. I. A.... 4 Women of te Press .......................... 4 Women it the Churches ...................... 4 Queen Victoria as Mother ..................... 5 In Memoriam-Mrs. Jennie C. Croly-A. M. Waugh-Mrs. Emilia E. Gilbert ............. 5 Our New York Letter .......................... 5 Story-'The Last Conquest of Mrs. Byrd.... 0 College and Alumnm.......................... 8 Women Lawyers .............................. 8 Sa ving the Children ........................... 8 The Januarj Magazines ...................... 8 State Correspobdence - Minnesota-Dist, lot of Columbia-Nebraska N. Y.-Maine ..... 3, 8 Massachusetts Clubs and Leagues ............. 8 ENDEAVOR. BY ROBERT BROWNING. Aspire, break bands, I say, Endeavor to be good, and better still, And best. Success is naught, endeavor's all. HDITORIAL NOTES. The women cast their ballots for the first time at the recent elections in Nor- way. In Christiania their votes turned the scale, and elected a Conservative majority in the municipal council. Three men followed and annoyed a young woman in Paris one evening not long ago. At last one of them seized her around the waist. The frightened victim struck at him with her umbrella, which put out his eye and penetrated the brain, causing death. The French courts have decided that it was a case of justifiable self-defence, and have acquitted the young woman. After a tour of inspection among the dairies that supply Chicago with milk and butter, Food Commissioner Patterson pro- nounces fourteen out of fifteen he visited to be filthy and absolutely unfit for the purposes used, and a menace to the public health. *.His description of them is a enough to make any person of sensitive nerves feel ill, even without drinking r the milk or eating the butter. Whether i the pure food law shall be enforced or not depends upon politics. A witty writer t has well said that the influence of politics is not 'outside the home,' but inside the baby. Give the mothers of Illinois a vote, i and officials who wantto be redlected will see that wholesome milk is provided for t the children. In France, the Society for the Improve mot of Women's Condition and the Sctur ing of their Rights is concentrating it forces on the effort to obtain for womei the right to be guardians of minors, an( members of a family council, on the sam, terms as 1en. Ata recent meeting held it Paris to advocate this reform, M, Yve Guyot, who presided, mentioned that It had been present not long before at a wed ding where one of the witnesses was a wo nian-an almost unheard-of innovation yet the heavens did not fall. Vigorous protests have been called on by the discovery that a text-book advocat Ing the State regulation of vice Is in usi at the Army Mqdical College in Washing ton, and that this abominable system o dealing with the social evil has been in troduced by the U. S. military authoritiei not only in the Philippines but also it Cuba and Porto Rico. Members of Con gross are being pelted with letters by thei- constituents, and.the matter will be thor oughly ventilated. President Roosevel is khown to be strongly opposed to tho system, and there is good hope of it speedy abolition. Here is another instance showing ti folly of the rule adopted by certain schoo boards that married women shall not bi allowed to teach. The Boston Post says The rising young artists of Worcestei have been placed in a position of confu. sion and suspense. They are dangling il the air, and can get neither up nor down. In the English High School, which these aspirants attend, the teachei in drawing has for some years been Mrs. Helen D. Burgess. At the October meeting of the Worcester school committee, an irade was promulgated that no married woman should longer be employed as a teacher in any of the schools. This included Mrs. Burgess. The committee on drawing and manual training was instructed to lind a successor to Mrs. Burgess. They could not. There wa, in the city of Worcester no unnimarried woman who could or would teach drawing. Finally they heard of an unmarried woman in New York, Miss Genevieve Williamson, who could teach drawing, but the committee on teachers refused to indorse her, probably on the ground that a lady of her grace and beauty was not long fnr single blessed- ness. In despair, Mr. Henry E. Kenney, of Worcester (domestic status not given), was proposed, but lie has not been ac- cepted. Meantime the juggernaut ramn- bled on, and Mrs. Burgess's pay has been stopped. The children are informed that until there is unmarried drawing for them they cannot have any drawing at all. EQUAL PAY FOR BROOM-MAKING. A man who de8ervels the gratitude of women is Director of Charities Cooley of the Cleveland (0.) Workhouse. The prin- cipal industry in that institution is broom- making, and from time immemorial its custom has been to pay the women just half as much for their labor as the men, although the records showed that the work of both averaged the same. Thus it took a woman just twice as long as a man to work out her fine. The present direc- tor declared this discrimination a rank Injustice, and he has just abolished it. Mrs. Ida H. Harper says in the N. Y. Sui: Some reforms have to begin at the bottom and work up. Perhaps this one in time may reach the public schools, where the same practice is followed. EMANCIPATION IN MARRIAGE. But though there can be no emancipa- tion from marriage, this Is not saying that there may not be emancipation in marriage, says William M. Salter in the January At- lantic. Marriage is not necessarily a one- sided contract, in which the woman agrees to obey or to serve. To consent to make one's self another's subject or servant is unworthy of a human'being, even if done freely. In law we do not allow one person to sell himself into slavery to another; the contract is null and void. There is no reason in morals why a woman should put herself at the beck and call of a man. Any true marriage is a relation of equals,-it is a relation in which the freedom of each is respected by the other; it is a relation of mutual service, in which forceis never used, In which command is never heard. If the wife is obliged to submit to her husband, that is barbarism, no matter who, what rite, what Bible, what law, sanctions It. Authority maybe exercised over children, It may be justified in the State, but to the extent it is exercised between partners in the marriage relation, the beauty, the sacreduess, of the relation is gone. Mrs. Miller can accept a few lecture en- gagements during her stay in the United States. She has a long list of lectures, on many topics of interest. For subjects, dates and terms, address Miss Kate M. Gordon,. 2008 American Tract Society A PRIZE FOR FRENCH. ARTISTS. News comes from Paris that M. Leygues, the Minister of Fine Arts, is at last going to sign a decree admitting women students at the School of Fine Arts to compete for the Grand Prix de Rome. This prize, a scholarship enabling the winner to study music or paint!ng in Rome, is strictly limited to students of French nationality. Several distinguished men have held it in the past, prelninent among whom was Gounod. M. Couyba, in his recent report on the budget of the School of Fine Arts, strongly urged that this prize should be thrown open to women. He points out that the women are regular students of the school, and ought in fairness to have access to all its opportunities. There are now seven women studying painting, eight sculpture and one architecture In the School of Fine Arts. A YOUNG WOMAN ARCHEOLOGIST. Mrs. Victoria Vaschilde, a young Rou. manian, is distinguishing herself in ar- cheology. She has just presented at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes of the Sorbonne at Paris a thesis on the history of the con- quest of Dacia, which has won high praise and will be printed by the school, an honor accorded only to the best theses. Mrs. Vaschilde took her diploma In his- tory and philology. She is the daughter of a professor in tie medical department of the University of lassy in Roumania, and early distin- guished herself as a student In both science and languages. At eighteen she married a Roumanian doctor, a learned man and a great worker. The young couple came to Paris, where the husband entered the Ecole des flautes Etudes as head of the laboratory of experimental psychology, and his wife went to decipher- Ing anciont Greek and Latin inscriptions in a way that amazed her professor, M. Heron do Villefosse. He said that it was the first tine he had seen a woman Inter- est herself in these dry subjects, and lie was sure she would not stick to it. But she did, and she has now graduated with distinction, to the delight of M. Gaston PArls, the head of the school, who says I he Is glad that a woman has done it, and only regrets that some Frenchwoman was not the pioneer in this line. Mrs. Vas- I childe declares that she finds archeology t a most Interesting and fascinating'study. c CONCERNING WOMEN. MIss LLzziE PECKHAB Ihak been appoint- ed tax collector for the town of Scipio, Cayuga County, N. Y. FRAULIa MADELEIN NIENTIC is said to be the first woman pharmacist in Ger- many. She was born at Carlsruhe In 1881. She had to take her preliminary studies In Switzerland. She is now a studentInbhe pharmacy of Dr. Iloldormann at Licliten- thai, near Baden-liaden. QUEeN ALEXANDRA of Great Britlan, who is reported to be rafidly iecovering. from lier recent indisposition, Is now in. her 58th year, and thoug. :very deaf, has unusual health and vioy. She was, the second child and eldest daughter of King Christian IX. ofqDenmark. She was born Dec. 1, 1844, was married on March 10, 1808, to the Prince of Wales, and with him succeeded to the throne of England on Jan. 22, 1001. REv. ANNA H. SHAW, while conducting the question box at a recent equal suffrage meeting, was -asked How can women be rprevailed upon to overcome' petty jealousies? As longas the Schley matter Is on the docket, she answered,, I wouldn't say anything about jealousies' among women, if Iwere you.' Pettiness is not a matter of sex, but of temperament and environment. Get out of the petty environment as fast as you can. MRS. WABSZKLWIcZ, president of the, Netherland Women's Peace League, has Just published a book called .Carmen proInviotis, the whole proceeds of which are to be used for the beneflt of the Boer women and children in the concentration camps. The volume Is issued in several languages. Among the contributors to it are Bjornson, Paul Hyacinthe Loyson, Bertram Romilly and Sully Prudhomme. It may be ordered from Mrs. Waszkldwicz, 85 Stationsweg, The Hague, Holland,, price $1.20. MIeS MARY E. WILKINs was married on New Year's day to Dr. Charles Freeman,, and they have sent out written notices to .thelr-friends.,...The-w.eddtng ,WAS. t6.hve. taken place at the bride's bnoe in Ran. d01ph, Mass., but owing to the illness of Dr. Freeman's mother, who had set lier heart on being present, Miss Wilkins con- sented to go to the Freeman homestead in Metuchen, N. J., for the ceremony. To avoid gossip and reporters, she made lier preparations very quietly. Some days ago sie had lier baggage sent to Brock- ton, Mass., and checked from there to New York. Two days before the wed- ding, accompanied by lir friend, Mrs. John Wales of Randolph, she took the marketmen's train long before light, came to Boston unobserved, and took tie train for New York. There Dr. Freeman met them and the trio started for Metu'chen. In order to avoid the curious villagers the party left the train a few miles from Metuchen. Dr. Freeman's carriage was waiting and they were driven to the Free- man homestead, where in the presence of a select few Miss Wilkins and Dr. Free- ntan were united. All the readers of Miss Wilkins's charming stories will wish them joy. Miss AoG s Wss'roN has lately had the degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon her by the Glasgow University. But English sailors long ago gave her titles which she values more highly-Mother Weston and the Bishop of the Blue- jackets. Miss Weston, while still a girl, noticed the wretched condition of English sailors when on shore-the filthy, squalid inns to which they were restricted; the vice and debauchery forced upon them. Sile founded at Devonport The Sailor's Rest, which provided clean, cheap ac- conmodations for ,Jack as soon as lie landed, gave him medicine, books, and, most Important of all, amusement, and defended hh11n from the hsrples who had robbed him. Branch homes have since been established in most of the seaports. Site went from one to another, making friends of the sailors, writing to each when at sea, caring for his family, and never giving up the effort to, draw him to the right. Many a poor Jack Tar wander- lug over the seas reckoned Mother Wes- ton his only friend in the world. The knowledge required to manage the vast Interests of this undertaking Is so great that the grave Scottish University has thought fit to name Miss Weston Doctor of Laws. Queen Victoria had a high respect for Mother Weston, often sent for her to ta lk about the work, and It-is said that the Queen both laughed and cried over her stories of the sailors. Digitized from Best Copy Available CIA MRS. FLORENCE FENWICK MILLER. Mrs. Florence Fenwick Miller will rep- resent the Woman Suffrage Associations of England on International Day at the National Suffrage Convention in Washing- ton,.next month. - Florence Fenwick ller was born in London, and received her early education there. In her eighteenth year she went to Edinburgh to study medicine. She passed the Arts examination of the Uni- versity with first-class honors in English literature; but before the time for begin- ning her professional course, the Univer- sity authorities had resolved to refuse ad- mission to women students in future. I She returned to London and studied med- icine there at the Ladies' Medical Col- lege, taking first-clabs honors in all the seven subjects of study in that institution, and also attending the practice in several hospitals, in both London and Paris. But medical practice being then still illegal for women in England, she decided to give it up, literature and public life hav- ing gradually opened to her. She was elected at the early age of twenty-two a member of the London School Board, by the great London constituency of Hack- ney (60,000 voters); and this confidence was renewed by the electors for two fur- ther' terms, making nine years' public service, after which Mrs. Fenwick Miller declined to be a candidate for another term. Her special care had been given to the women teachers and the girls, a fact which was so highly appreciated that the Metropolitan Association of Board School-Mistresses offered to bear the whole cost of another election if Mrs. Miller would again stand. Her lecturing and journalistic engagements, however, prevented acceptance, her pen now being in constant demand. Since 1886 she has contributed a weekly page of feminine news and chat to the Illustrated London News, and her articles appear from time to time in all the important newspapers of England. But it is perhaps as a pub- lie speaker that she is best known. She has lectured in all the principal cities and towns, often to audiences of thousands. She spoke in public first on behalf of woman suffrage while still in her teens, and with speech and pen has been untir. Ing in advocating the cause. From 1805 to 1809 she owned and edited in London the woman suffrage newsiaper, the IWo- man's Signal. Her booksinclude several volumes on physiology applied to personal in and domestic health, and others on the d woman movement; also a Life of Har- P riet Martineau and In Ladles' Com- I pany, sketches of Illustrious women. Mrs. Fenwick Miller married at twenty- two, but by previous arrangement retainedel Mher own name. She has two daughters., a

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