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VOL. V. BOSTON, CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY_3, 1874. NO. 1.
THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL.
A Weekly Newspaper, published every Saturday, in
Boarox and CEalaGo, devote. to the interests of Wo-
maan, to her educational, Industrial, legal and political
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IN WOMAW'SJOURNAL,DBO. 13.
BY MRS. 0. B. LBOW.
le marveled that his words should wound,
For men too often fail to see
That in lite's smallest things 'tis found,
The truest love will thoughtful be.
She hid the pain within her breast
And grieved in silence and alone,
For women hold this truth confessed
That lov, is thoughtfl of its own.
One other troth shall make il clear
And save the hurt, the doubt, the blame,
Though each the other holds most dear,
Love cannot lookto both the same.
LOVE UBOUGRT.
.Y H. W. LONGELLOW.
Like Dians kiss, unasked, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought;
Nor voice, nor sound betrays
Its deep impassioned gaze.
It comes-the beautifll, the free,
The crown of all humanity-
In Silence and alone
To seek the elected one.
Oh, weary hearts! Oh, slumbering eyes!
Oh, drooping souls, whose destnies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved againl
No one is so accursed by fate,
No one so utterly desolate,
But ome heart, though unknown,
Responds unto his own.
Responds,-as if with gsen wings,
An angel touched its quivering strings;
And whisperin its song,
Where hast thou stayed so long?
MINERVA ANDTB DOCTORS.
BY B. H. W.
If time be heavy on your hands
Are there no be rs at our te,
Nor any poor ab your lands
-J d Claera Vere do Vere.
There are no beggars at my gate;
The public schools take all the scholars,
Machinery turns the spinning wheel
And stitches all the cuff, and collars.
Old Harvard turns her back on me,
And, thoughl'm Urighterthan my brother,
She bids me stay at home and be
A healthy wife and happy mother.
Reekly I fold my hands and wait,
Read doctor-books and watch the weather,
The coming man Il rather late-
The husbands and the happy father.
1 can't read novels, for Bret larte
Has shown what comes of that vocation:
In love with Luke? For my own part,
'Twere worse than too much*cerebration.
I sit like Hannah binding shoes-
Like Hannah looking out to sea;
The world before me where to choose,
But where the lover to choose ne?
Minerva, once, was counted sage,
And great Diana held in honor;
Minerva in our nineteenth age
Has all the doctors down uponher.
They will not own hr as a peer;
They say her brsin is not so bulky
As their's. Perchancethe doctors fear
She'll try to rm a doctor's sulky.
The time is heavy on my hands;
I wishI'd entered a profession,
Had been a clergyman in bnds,
Hiad held a post, or had a mission.
I've no domestle hearth to cheer;
I board at number sixty-three;
I've wished a dozen times a year
I'd studied Trigonometry.
-Proridence Jure.
THE NEW YEAR.I
I do not see how any believer in the equali-
ty of the sexes can begin this year with any
feeling but one of encouragement. Of course
this remark applies only to those who have
enlisted (or the war. Those who have enlist-
ed for a few years only,-who suppose that the
Inequalities of ages are to be remedied In
months-may well be in despair. But it is
fortunate for this agitation in America that it
fell among descendants of revolutionary fa-
thers, who went to war for a principle, and
among the successors of the Abolitionists, who
expected to die without conquering and who
lived to succeed against their expectations.
In such ands, the cause of woma's equality
should be firmly and patiently, as well as reso-
lutely held.
It is hardly to be expected, in this country,
that Woman Suffrage will be established by
the action of the general government, though
it would be a great comfort if this should ever
happen.rThis not being theocase, the states
and territories must do* it, one at a time.
When a single one has done It, the first step
towards realization has been taken. Leaving
aside Utah as exceptional, the example of
Wyoming has thus far been all that we could
ask, as a pioneer experiment. By the strong
testimony of governor and judges; the measure
has been a signal success, for the period of four
years-a very satisfactory term. It will cer.
tainly be admitted by the thost cautious, that
this puts the whole measure in a far more fa-
vorable light than when the arguments In Its
favor were all theoretical. If Wyoming were
aState, its experience would be no more valua-
ble than now; but its action would be more
permanent. The only drawback to the satis-
faction we can take in the action of this pio-
neer Territory Is the fact that it is, after all,
governed from a distance, and that Senator
Frelinghuysen is still plotting mITschief at
Washington. If woman suffrage can only be
left to those who have seen it tried, it is safe.
So long as wmansuffrage is not actually
adopted in the different states, all tht need
be looked to, by patient reformers, is that the
agitation in those states should be healthy
and unabated. This I believe to have been
eminently the case, takng one state with
another, this year. We know that in no pre-
vious year have memorials been brought be-
fore so many different Legislatures or been
discussed so generally. This has been notably
the case in Maine, Pennsylvania and some
other States, where local advocates, hitherto
unknown to us, have argued the cause most
ably, as members of Legislatures and Consti-
tutional Conventions. Of coursrliscussion
seems to do little good, scrlong-as final action
is defeated; but to Ignore its importance, dur-
Ing this intermediate period, ise s if a man
should deny that the tide is rising, merely be-
cause it is not yet high-tide.
It shows how surely prejudice vanshes;
when the Ice is once broken, that the appoint-
ment of women to the official supervision o
schools,-once considered as objectionable as
any thing else In the way of The Rights oi
Woman,-is now becoming the settled poll.
cy of large cities and states, from New Eng
land to Illinois. But the reform cannot stop
there, for It opens at once those broad ques
tions of common sense and consistency which
the iiasses readily co.prehend. It seems ab
surd that women should be able to be voted
for and yet not to voe; since commonly,
among men, the class of persons eligible for
office is more restricted than that of voters
Again, if women can serve on School Com
mittees, why not as Overseers of the Poor, and
so on, step by step? To concede these officee
is logically to concede woman suffrage.
There isa steady, quiet advance in the open
ing of industrial avocations to women; and in
some of the higher departments, as literatur
and lecturing, there Is now absolutely no dia
tinction of sex in the rates of pay. The ten
dency of the introduction of machinery isev
erywhere In favor of women, as I have mor
than once shown, because all machinery con
verts trades into arts, in Napoleon's phrase
-making less demand for rude strength
which is the great advantageof man, and mor
demand for quickness and lightness of touch
which are the attributes of woman. On th
whole, therefore, the outlook is certainly grow
ing more favorable for woman, as to employ
Mente.
As to education, the steady prosperity of co
leges for women and of joint institutions ge
erally, has nearly abolished most of the old o
jections; as is shown by the zeal with whic
those who oppose-equality in education hav
tae up the opinions of Dr. E. H. Clark
t I have already tried to show, his boo
deems besty, exaggerated and anything hit
scientificin its spiritor structure; but it h
the merit of siftig the grgument onR e
grounds and tfinai grounds.e we can on
so organize ear ollges as to evade his sped
points of objection,-and the whole tendency,
under the elective system is certainly that
way-I do not see what other objection will
be left. The whole case of the opponents of
higher education, must then go by default,
and they will find that they have made a fatal
mistake in accepting so sincere a man as Dr.
E. H. Clarke for their spokesman. In regard
to our high-school system, greater difficulties
are doubtless presented, since a prescribed
course is more necessary there, On the other
hand our high-schools for girls are pretty
strongly established, and there is more danger
of their heeding Dr. Clarke's counsels too
ittle than too much.
The WosAN's JOURNAL may therefore be
gin the year withigood courage. It has already
lived longer, I believe, than any organ of this
reform has ever lasted; and may it live until,
like the Liberator, it is made superfluous by
the final triumph of the cause which gave it
being. T. w. H.
SEX IN EDUCATION ONCE MORE.
Don't be frightened, DEAR JOURNAL, at Iny
heading, for I am not going into a criticism of
Dr. Clarke. But I merely wish to place my.
self if possible a little nearer right before your
readers.
T. W. H., in his article week before last,
calls me by name, as one of the many who
have mistaken the meanings of that writer.
I sincerely hope it may be so, and that
no other woman will for a moment suppose,
(as many are doing now, especially theoppos.
ers of Equality of Educational Privilege for
the Sexes,) that Dr. Clarke throws his intin-
ence against that measure, when he so gravely
decides that girlscannot endure equal mental
and physical exertion with boys.
I have a feeling (perhaps it's old fogyism)
that when a manor woman assumes to teach
society a better wisdom than they have been
using, on a particular subject, they should
make their ideas so plain that the reader or
hearer, even an old woman, need not err as to
their meaning. Now let Dr. Clarke go.
I sincerely deprecate every sentence I read
or hear that is calculated to impress upon the
minds of people the idea that women are weak
naturally,and that they must th fore be de-
pendant. That women, as civi ssty
now places them, have less physe force than
men, is true. That nature Intended, they
should be in part protected by the stronger
limbed male, is also apparent. But a girl and
boy, born of the same parents, clothed and
fed alike, allowed the same opportunities for
healthful play and rest, will grow into man-
hood and womanhood, in most cases, prepar.
ed to walk side by aide in all life's essential
cares and duties, with equal endurance, ease
and comfort.
A certain canal contractor of huge proper
tions, and noted for his health and strength,
once found it necessary to nurse for a day and
a hafa sick, cross cil', who weighed eighteen
pounds. I found him at night, cmpletely ex-
hausted, declaring thathe would rather work
in the water up to his neck all day lifting
f stone, than nurse that fellow. It would not
tire him half so much. I saw a girl a few
years ago, five feetten in hight finely propor-
tioned, and weighing one hundred and fifty
pounds, and heard her call on her gray-haired
father of three-core and ten, to lift a tea ket
tle off the stove for her. She had never prac
tised' ifting tea kettles, and the canal man
, had never nursed babies.
What I wish to be understood to say Is, tha
we need strong, well women, for the menta
and physical work of the race, and that, in
order to so 'have them, they must be traine
to exertion and effort from the first hours o
life to adult years. Only this will bring ou
the real power of the man or woman,
Far be it frops me, to assert, that a weak, in
. experienced girl, corset-bound, and flounce
- hung, with seventy-five dollars worth of hal
or jute piled on her precious head, to be puffe
,e and frizzled, braided and curled every morn
- noon and night, can compete with a brothe
who has run theatreetsjumped fences, swan
, rivers, and played base ball, every day of hi
life, But she will most likely get on as we
, as her other brother who has been delict
e been kept in doorswrapped In furs, petted an
. pilled, and worked Into dyspepsia by candleu
and sweatmet , etc. I hve aknown istac
where she did better, so have'you If you wi]
l- think a little. If women are weak, leteus in
- quire whether it is natural or aquired weak
b. ness?
h Do not statistics show us that girls and boy
e are-born in pretty equal numbers? Do th
e. same statisticsehow us that girls are more ap
k to did in Infancy than boys?'Aretheir nu
t be not about equal at maturity? Are w
s men not often in this country foundoIn pr
w ponderance at middle life? I ask for infor
ly Atlol.
a Mark me, I don't say girls are as strong a
boys, as the world now goes. I don't say they
are equal to boys. But I do think, that if
schools and colleges are opened by govern.
ment to the latter, they should be to the for.
mer. And if we find, (as Ihave to my sorrow)
that our boys fall and die young, or are ren-
dered useless for life, and girls do the same,.
then let us ee to it that neither boys or girls
are ever more murdered In this way. Do not
write it down for the discouragement of all the
sex, that girls are weaker naturally than boys,
and need more watching and care, and there.-
fore must be discouraged from effort, and left
to lament, through all coming years, that they
are women.
Blame custom, habits, law, ancestors, what-
ever you will. But remember, that God said,
Let us make man in our own image, after
our likeness, and let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea, etc. So God created man
in his own image, in the image of God created
he him, male and female created he them.
Not a word of a weaker vessel needing Adam's
care.
I would say, farther, that I see no need of
either girls or boys being compelled to study
more than they can bear In any given space
of time. If three or four years will not suf-
fice, take six or eight, or lengthen out the
study to a lifetime. FRANCEs D. GAGE.
New York, Jan. 2, 1874.
ANOTHER WIDOW.
EIrons WOMAN'S JOURNAL: - Apropos
of Mrs. Lilley's experience, Is one lai my
neighborhood. A family of five persons were
all stricken with small-pox except the wife
and mother. As is usual in such cases, this
woman nursed these children and her husband
in this loathesome disease, apparently indiffer-
ent to her own safety; and evidently consid-
ering it of secondary importance. One by
one the husband and children were all taken
away, and this childless widow was left alone.
During all this illness no one dared to go near
to comfort and assist this faithful wife, save
hired persons who were paid to perform the
sad duties, and so far as the nelghborsor the
public knew, there were nc relatives
But just as soon as the premises were disn-
fcted, two able-bodied brothers of the hus-
band turned up; the magnet being , some
property. These precious specimens of Wo-
man's Protectors wanted their share of their
dear brother's estate, even though this al-
ready crushed woman, would be turned out of
doors to accomplish it. The crowning insult
was the reason assigned for their claims, viz.,
that there were no children left.
It was not enough for this heart-broken
mother thatshe had ten children lying beside
their father, but It was used as an argument
why she should not have the few paltry dol-
lar she had helped to earn.
I knew that, for years, this woman not only
Sreared and nursed these children, but oy her
needle, helped her husband to build the house
where, in so short a time, husband and chil-
dren were afterwardastricken down.
It does seem as though no human being
could doubt thejusticeof allowingthis widow
the melancholW pleasure of owning or occupy
. lug this desolate home. But no! this free
country sanctions the turning out of doors
of helpless women, in order that property,
. which is hers already by every consideration
. of justice or decency, may be divided be-
tween male relatives of her husband.
LIZZIE A. DODGE.
t Washington, Dec. 25.
A OOD REPORT.
d The following letter is from a man, now
o well stricken with years, whose friendly help
f was always given to the cause of the slave
and now, when the years press upon him, he
is still helping in the broader work for W1-
- man. Hisjudgment is worth somethingas to
- whether women want to voi.
Mas. Lucy SToNx.-Dear friend:-I car
red round your petition and gave all the men
and women that-are of age, an Invitation to
r sign it, and the result Is,ts far as I wen
n ( wih i only a small par of the town,) Out
of 51 women asked to sigr the petition 42
signed it, nd I believe, if I could have gone
l over the whole town, the result would hae
a, been about the same. I did not see as man
4. men as women, as it was in the day tie, ad
a they were away, but about two thirds of those
I saw signed It. I think it would be proved
if the whole State could be canvassed, hata
II large majority of the women want the righ
, to vote, and- that a majority of the men ar
willing they should have it. -
Among the names on the petition are Dr
Colamoe and wife, and the Rev. M. Dagget
s d andwife. I do Io:know but others in thu
e town have this tition. I hope they have
and wish I coul have gone longer, but I ca
not go evenings, and must be about my wor
a- In the day time,
I was very muc lased with your tea pt
a.ty and wish we souI have been tere. is
e do not expect to live to see Woman have the
Sballot, yet I hope and ray that youmay.
s Is MCLAUTLIN.
as Pembroke, De, 20, 1873.
CONCERNING WOKEN.
Mrs. E. D. Cheney preached on Sunday
last, for the Parker Fraternity.
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Churchill lectured in
Providence, last evening on The Home Guard
of 1776.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee (Miss Neilson) registered
at the Grand National Hotel, Jacksonville,
Fla., on the 14th.
Mrs. George W. Deners has sold the Inter-
est of her late husband in the Albany Veening
Journal for $30,000.
Mrs. Thompson, daughter of the poet Burns,
died at Crossmyloof, near Glasgow, recently,
eighty-four years of age.
A New Swedish Nightingale Is said to have
been discovered in the person of a servant
girl named Martha Ericson.
Miss Nellie Grant has been prsented by
Colonel Steinberg with a collection of rare
birds from the Navigator Islands.
Miss Flora Searles plunged into the river at
Lewisburg the other day, and rescued a boy,
Wilham Greasinger, from drowning.
Rev. Phoebe A. Hanaford, of the New Ha-
ven Universalist church, accepts her call to
Jersey City, but will not leave till April.
, Mrs. York, of Michigan, and Mrs. Hart-
sough, of Iowa, have both been licensed to
preach the gospel in the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Miss Lucy M. Follansbee of Salem, In her
will gives the town of Newburyport $10,000
to be appropriated to various charitable pur-
poses.
Miss Savita Brady, of Washington, has
given up a position In the Treasury to accept
a position on the editorial staff of the Chicago
later-Ocean.
Baroness TurdettCoutts contemplates the
erection of several squares of compartment
houses in Dublin and Belfast for the poor,
which are to be paid for In Installments.
Jenanie Collnsthanks the Boston press for
its valuable support of her efforts in behalf of
the working girls of the city. She frther
says that there has not been a Aingle com-
plaint against the servants furnished to fai-
lies from Bodlin's Dower.
Mrs. Caroline R. James, of Weymouth,
preached her first sermon in Rev. Mrs. Fe!-
. som's pulpit, at Weymouth, a week ago last
Sunday. She Is a woman of high culture,
and Is at present engaged in writingsa book on
Primitive Religions. She contemplatesen-
tering the ministry.
Miss Harriet L. Ladd, one of the eachers
at Chauncy Hall School, was presented with a
beautiful gold watch and chain Wednesday,
by the pupils of the upper classes. Miss Ladd
Is a universal favorite in the school, and the
gift was a genuine surprise to her, and also to
all except the pupils who managed the affair.
Miss Ella M. Noyes, of Abington, a graduate
of Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1872, left
home recently for Tahlequah, the capital of
the Cherokee nation, where alo Is to take
charge of the Park Hill Female Seminaty,
which was closed during the war, but which
has now re-opened with good promise of sue-
cess.
George SandAs the wealthiest authoress In
the world. Forty years ago almost on the
brink of starvation, she has now an annual
income of over 100,000 francs from her copy-
rights and life contracts with French publish-
ing houses, &ad her maglfient country seat
at Nohant could not be bought for 500,000
francs.
The lecture by Mrs. Houghton, in the India
street course, Portland, last Friday evening,
. was an earnest and eloquent discussion of the
Woman question; she thought that inanial
equality should precede the suffrage question,
. and argued that' Woman in married life per-
forms her share of the work and consequently
one half of the common property shuld. be-
long to her as a right; she earnestly contend-
ed that Woman is the Intellectual equal of
man and should be placed t'sasoaltequallty
with him; Mrs. HoughtoIt Is a yong woman
of fne appearance, and se held the close at-
tention of her audience.
Mazzini's lady friend and ally, Carlotte
Bettini, is dead. She began her political e-
e reer asbaly as 1833. When she was only
twenty-one she was arrested, with two co-
panions, for writing and distributing revol-
tionary docaments, and threatened with Wv.
, tue and death. Her fellow-prisoners aere
n dragged to execution before her eyes,.bt she
held firm, and in k year got out -jall I
t. 1849she fought a La 4 'wsaise t hard-
0 cades in Genoa. Twice she id Nauslal II
Sher house. When he was awrsisner at Gaeta
in 1870 she hastened to attend him. htal9
free considered her a heroine.
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