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41 Woman's J. 1 (1910)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl41 and id is 1 raw text is: Pht Vol. XLI. BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1910. No. 1 The Woman's Journal FOUNDED BY LUCY STONE AND HENRY B. BLACKWELL . WeeklyNewspaper, published every Satur- day in Boston, devoted to the interests of women-to their educational, induitrial, legal and political equality, and espe' ally to their right of suffrage. xntered at the Post Office, Boston, Mass., as @eeond.olasg mail matter. EDITOR: ALE STONE BLAOWELL Oriox: NO. 6 BXAOOX ST., BOsTON, MAS. RoomI1018. CONTENTS PAGE A New Year's Wish, Katherine M. B. Sherwood ....................1 Editorial Notes .................. 1 Women and Citizenship, Harriot Stanton Blatch..................1 Mary Johnston on the Status of Women ...................... 1, 2 Concerning Women .............. 1 Stranger Than Fiction, A. S. B..... 2 Child Labor Conference............2 More Support for Suffrage, F. M. A. 2 Susan B. Anthony Memorial Fund. 2 Literary Notice, C. W.............3 State Correspondence: New York, South Dakota...................3 Tributes to Mr. Blackwell..........3 Suffrage Results in Utah...........3 To an Infant of Days, Julia Ward Howe ........................4 A Mothers' Meeting, Ella Gilbert Ives ...... .................... 4 Women in the Churches............4 With Our Exchanges..............4 Letter from Alice Paul............4 Notes and News..................4 Selma Lagerlof a Suffragist........4 Norway's Fine Exhibit.............4 Humorous ........................ 4 A NF.W YEAR'S WISH. By Katharine M. B. Sherwood. Across the solemn spaces of the years How sweet to hear the voices that we knew When fewer hearts were sad and more were true, And life had less of sorrows.than of tears! Then take we gladder-hope to us again, For who shall say that all our past is vain, While one sweet soul esteems our little worth, And singles us from all the good of earth For kindly greeting as the days go by? 0 friend of mine, whose rare fidelity Stands sentinel at Friendship's holy shrine, Lest care and change dissever souls at one, The Lord keep watch between us, mine and thine, Till night is gone and golden dawn begun! EDITORIAL NOTES. A Happy New Year to friends of equal rights! all the During the past year women voted for the first time in Norway at a Par- liamentary election, for the first time in Denmark at the municipal elec- tions, for the first time in Michigan on questions of local taxation, and for the first time in Victoria at an election for the State Parliament. The Councils of Easton, Md., have voted by a large majority in favor of a new city charter, giving municipal suffrage to women owning $500 worth of property. The Baltimore Star says: The Eastern Shore, where still the flower of Maryland's chivalry and beauty persists, is once more to the fore in progress. Easton's chivalric City Council, besieged by Easton's surpassing beauties en masse, suc- cumbed after a parley intended mere- ly to preserve the traditions of mascu- line and councilmanic dignity, and decided to ask the Legislature so to amend the charter of Easton as to permit women who own $500 worth of property to vote at all municipal and councilmanic elections In the town. We hasten to run up to our maintopgallant, or wherever it was that Nelson flew his signal, the neces- sary flags to spell out, Well done, Easton! There is, however, one flaw in tile commendable action of the. Easton solons: That property qilalification. Why make the posses- sion of $500 worth of property neces- sary to qualify the-4emialne suffrag- ist? Either make the men amenable 4o the same condition or do not im- pose it upon the ladies. Why do things-good things-by halves? Anything should be welcomed, however, which makes a breach in the Chinese wall of absolute exclu- sion against Women. It is witi a sense of personal loss that we learn of the death on last Monday of Dr. Sarah Read Adamson Dolley, the second woman in the country to take a medical degree and practise medicine. She died at her home at Rochester, N. Y., at the age of eighty-one. Dr. Dolley took her degree from the Rochester and Syra- cuse Medical Colleges in 1S51, just two years after Elizabeth Blackwell, this country's first graduated woman physician, received a medical degree from the College at Geneva. The Central Trades and Labor Council of New Orleans, representing 40,000 members, has unanimously en- dorsed Miss Jean Gordon, State fac- tory inspector, in her stand to pre- vent any amendment to the child la- bor law. There has been consider- able agitation over the proposed amendment to admit childien to take part in theatrical performances. The Era Club has over 700 women en- listed in opposition to such an amend- ment. WOMEN AND CITIZENSHIP. Editor Voman's Journal: The possibility of a woman becom- ing a citizen when married to a for- eigner is so important, may I give to your readers the details of my case and Henriette Cohn's? Ten days before I applied for citi- zenship, Mrs. Colin applied. Her case was this: She and her husband came to this country from Russia many years ago. They made a good deal of money, and wished to own and transfer real estate. There are many barriers in the way of aliens carry- ing on such transactions In the state of New York. Mr. Cohn declared his intention to become a citizen, but in the end it was found he was too illiterate to be accepted. They were advised to have Mrs. Colin, who is not illiterate, apply for citizenship papers. On her doing so, the clerk of the Bureau of Naturaliza- tiozi took her before Judge Noyes, who is the U. S. Supreme Court judge of this district. He decided that Henriette Cohn was a person, and that, as every person's right of expatriation is sacred, she had the right to renounce Russia, and natural- ize in America. Judge Noyes knew that Mrs. Cohn was taking this step for the protec- tion of property, so he asked the proper authority, if his decision was not concurred in, to appeal the case at once, and not cause difficulties later and throw unnecessary expense upon comparatively poor people. No appeal was made. Next came my case, which is slightly different, for, unlike Mrs. Cohn, I was born and brought up in America, and lost my citizenship through marriage. The clerk referred my case to Judge Noyes. He decided that I was a person, and that mar- riage no more than birth could fix nationality. The right of a person to expatriate him or herself rises above birth and marriage. The judge, the clerk, and my lawyer consider that the legal ques- tion has been decided, and that Hen- rilette Cohn and I will receive our final papers if we can read the con- stitution intelligently and fulfill the usual qualifications for citizenship. Harriet Stanton Blatch. New York City. Fanny Bullock Workman, the in- domitable mountain-climber, has pre- pared for Putnam's Magazine for January an account of some of her most daring and successful adven- tures among the higher ranges of the IHimalayas, illustrated with snapshots from her own camera. She and her husband are veteran mountain-climb- ers, having made ascents in the Him- alayas as long ago as 189S. They have visited the same region twice since then, and some of the more striking of their, later achievements are de- scribed in this article. CONCERNING WOMEN. Mabel Potter Daggett contributes o the January Delineator an article entitled Suffrage Enters the Drawing Roonm. Mrs. Julia Clark Hallam, president of the lowa Equal Suffrage Associa- lon, is doing excellent work through h colunis of the Sioux City Daily Mrs. F. N. Rowe, chairman of the 'petition to Congress committee for Michigan, reports 60,000 names se- cured in that State. Mrs. David Pokorney of New Or- leans,, who is staying at the Lenox with her husband for a week or so, is delighted with the beautiful snow- storin, tile first she has ever sen. Airs. 0. H. P. Belmont gave away 2000 dolls to poor children oil Christ- inns. Each doll wore a Votes for Women sash. This was a pretty way to combine Christnas kindness with suffrage propaganda. Miss Ethel Wood, the Brookline school teacher who is receiving ex- tensive praise for her original story- telling talent, was recently appointed by tile Massachusetts State Board of Education as an instructor in this a rt. Madame Lipkowsha, the Russian prina donna, addressed all open-air meeting in favor of woman suffrage the other day in New York City. She spoke in French and in Russian, and says she hopes before log to Iuar enough English to make a speech for suffrage in that tongue. Mine. Lip- kowska spoke fromi a soap box. The eioeting was held by the National Pro- gressive Union. Mrs. Dinah E. Sprague, who was 100 years old last May, is said to be nlonbci -of t M &-'Woin'n6 Relief Corps. She was born In New York and was one of the early settlers of Cleveland. During the Civil War a large number of soldiers were encamped on the heights in Cleveland, and Mrs. Sprague was un- tiring in her 9fforts to better the lot of the boys. At tile age of 90, Mrs. Sprague claimed her right to the ballot by voting for university trus- tees. Catherine Breshkovskaya, who is to be placed on trial in February on the charge of being a member of the rev- olutionary organization, has been al- lowed her first conference with her counsel, M. Zarudny. M. Zarudny said later that he had found Mme. Breshkovskaya in surprisingly good health, bright and cheerful, but utter- ly unreconciled to the government. She declined to ask for a transfer to the preliminary detention prison, and may possibly refuse to present a de- fence. Mrs. Raymond Brown is president of the Woman's Suffrage Study Club of New York which has been organ- ized to study the movement of suf- frage for women. We are not all of us suffragists yet, said Mrs. Brown, but I hope we are going to be. This society has been formed both for the women who believe in woman suffrage and don't know why, and for the women who are entirely ignorant of the subject and don't know whether they believe in it, but want to find out, Dr. Caroline E. Hedger, health in- spector of Chicago, recently ad- dressed an audience composed of 200 graduate nurses of Milwaukee and Wisconsin on Social Hygiene. She urged that instruction as to the suf- fering resulting from the social evil be given in the public schools, and advocated laws which will make it necessary for both men and women to procure a clean bill of health be- fore being permitted tor marry. A committee of three nurses, composed of Mrs. Joseph Bradshaw, Miss . n Ambridge and Miss Helen Kelily, was appointed t'a take up the work of social purity and outline plans to bet- , : ter conditions. ' MARY JOHNSTON ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN. Miss Mary Johnston, author of To- Have and to Hold, and other delight- ful stories, deals in the Richmond (Va.) Times Despatch of Dec. 12 with the argument that woman suffrage would have a bad effect upon the heme. She.writes: . .. Apparently there is:at tile moment, in the minds of some worthy people, a fear that wheln the .mor of a civiliza- tion which we proudly proclaim as dynamic shall open to equal suffrage woman's love for her home and family will at once fly out of the win- dow. May I avail myself of the courtesy of your columns, and speak upon this subject? Far behind us, In the mists of time, twocreatures, male and female, dif- ferentiated themselves from their fel- lows of the universal forest. The male was physically the stronger, for the female bore the children, but there is no reason to suppose that they were not intellectually equal- equal, not similar. Each to some ex- tent complemented the other. With the passing of ages they grew in men- tal capacity, tley left forever the plane of the merely animal, they en- tered, together, upon that vast syn- thesis, intellectual and spiritual, of which no prophet has arisen who can tell us the eventual glories. There was no family as it is known today. Mother and child com- posed the primitive family. That savage mother bore the child, suckled it, carried it in her arms or u. pon her back, sought food for it, taught it that forest fires would burn and water drown, and certain berries slay hor- ribly, and wild beasts kill and devour. When it was sick or, hurt she nursed it, when the wolf or the tiger ap- peared she ran with the child if she could, if not, she turned and fought for It to her death. Mother and child were the family. And when she found a cave or some green, hidden recess in the forest, there, where in pain she bore her 'child, where she nursed it, where she left it upon the leaves waile she sought for food, where at eve she returned rejoicing, bearing meat for her young-there was the first home. It is to be as- sumed that she loved it even then. No one has even arisen to doubt that she loved her family. Very early, probably, she began, with bright flowers, with pebbles, with what not, to adorn her home. Her love today for her pretty things has its roots so far back as that. For a long time it did not occur to the man either to prefer one mate to another, or to remain beside the one whom, at last, he did prefer. Love of offspring, or desire to claim them as his own, had as little place among his ideas. The child knew not his father, and the father neither knew nor cared to know his child. The twentieth century grants that paternal is yet a light thing beside maternal love. Slow genetic change, running through ages, wrought other condi- tions for those primitive two. Brains were larger. Ceaseless struggle in his war for food, sharp and violent struggle with rival males for tiee possession of the woman of that mo- mlot's desir, had dnle lan swifter to see and to seize in advantage. Ile round a wisdom il recognizing a com- Ibanion. not so physically strong as himself, upon when. therefore, lie 'ould impose his will, and in allaying himself with a blood kindred. -uIs sons could hunt and fight with him, and his faughters Colild bai tlh e bl' dens on the march. Tie wonan, in her turn, found that the man was strong to ward off or to fight with and kill the beasts that prowled around her ioie, and that lie could procure food for the child where ste could not. Moreover, through interest and through inclination, she was monoga- 111011s. She was content with one mate, and, physical passion aside, her nature was such that she could trans- fer to this mate something of the al- truistic devotion with which she r- garded her child. The family en. larged Its borders.. The man became a member of it and a sharer of the home. He was physically the stronger, and as the age of chivalry had not yet ar- rived, ,and as the age of justice is to. day, like Halley's comet, only tele- scoplcally visible, lie now arrogated to himself the position of head of the family, and enforced his claim with knockdown blows. At this point in history was settled tie status of woman. Such as the two were, very primi- tive, close to the earth, pathetically akin to the beasts of prey about them, but holding within pdtentialities of all beauty and wonder, they henceforth dwelled together-though upon hard terms for the woman. Slowly enough they climbed an upward road. It is conjectured that the man, using a stick for a lever, or flattened stones for mortar and pestle, devised the first tool, the faraway ancestor of all the industries of the world. It is con- jectured that the woman, babbling and cooing to the infant at her breast, exchanged with it, later, those half- articulate sounds which even today we call baby-talk, later yet accus- toming it to cries of warning and command, to sounds of comfort, sym- pathy and welcome, was the insti- tutrice of all human language. She is today more garrulous than man, and the trait is accounted for by her long dealing with children. It is prob- able that the man made the first weapon, parent of the torpedo-de- stroyer and the Benet-Mercie gun. Woman, it Is thought, began the do- mestication of animals. Man hunted far and wide and brought flesh meat home to that family which by now, in his own rude fashion, lie loved and protected. With a sharpened stick, with the first hoe, woman dug in the forest for edible roots. She gathered berries and fruits, and somewhat later, she planted seeds. She watched and tended their upward growth and gleaned and stored the produce. She was the first farmer. Man, hunting and warring now together with his kin, began to organize the horde, and so entered upon his administrative career. Government sprang into ex- (Continued on..page 2.) Digitized from Best Copy Available MISS MARY JOHNSTON. guru. a)+

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