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13 Woman's J. 1 (1882)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl13 and id is 1 raw text is: She c e's eusmaL VOL. XIII. BOSTON, SATURDAY; JANUARY 7. 1882. NO. 1. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL. A Weekly Newspaper, published ever Satarday ia BlosTog, devoted to the Interests of Woman-to her educational, industrial, legal and political Equality, and especially to her right of Snrage. LUCY STONE, Eaon. T. W. HIGGINSON......... ERTrOMas R. B. BLACKWEIL.... .1orasuoas. JurtA WARD Hows, Maa A. LvaRDoa, OccasionalContributors. MRS. FRAoo D. GAO, Mas. H.II. M. . CUTLER, SUSAN 0. VOGL, Anvsnsux MAona. Tass-2.50 a yeat, $1.95 for six months, 65 cents for three months, in advance, 6 cents for single copy. CLUB RATES-1 copies one year, $20.00. BOTONr Orrn-No. 5 Park Street. where copes are for sale and subscriptions received. Specimen copies sent on recolpt of two*centatamp PtILADETIIA OPPE-11R ooms of the Penneylva. nia Society, 700 Arch Street. Sr. Louis Orrsor-Mr. J. X. Dutro, 17th and Pop. lar Streets, St. Louts, No The Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association at Philadelphia. 100 Arch Street, havocoples of the We. XAN's JOURNAL for sale. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any person who takes a paper regularly from the pos -office-whether directed to his name or an- otber's, or whether he ias subscribed or not-s re- aponible for the payment. 2. If a perenn orders his paper discontinned, be must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may con. tinue to send it until paymeq Is made, and collect the whoe amount, whether me paper is taken from the office or not. For the Woman's Jomnal. ART VERSUS HEART. BY BEBIS 18B. HUNT. Quaint old atr are rising, faling, Up and down the curtained street, Tongues from many steeples calling, Calling to the Savour's feet. Through the door-way of a dwelling Steals'h figure, sad and slow; By her steps 'tis easy telling That the tide of life is low. Not the tide of age, receding From its wave-washed lines of care, But of fortune, little heeding That its victim's cheek is fair. Out and on her steps are titming, With the throng upon the street, All her Stifled spirit yearning The enduring good to greet. 'Ti. the church of the Messiah; Enter, all who love the fold; Enter, enter, come up higher, bang the invitation old. Slowly from its Sinai thundered For-h the organ load and clear, Till the silence waked and wondered, And the echoes shook with fear. Softer now, and almost ending, Soundsathat late had risen far; Out again with voices blending, They have set a gate ajar. Not a golden gate and pearly, But a little wicket low, Leading back to childhood early, Where food memory loves to go,- To a swing beneath the willows; To a boat that rocking lay On the spent and wasted billows Of a cloverscented bay; To the skies that tears were raining All the dark horizon ro'end; To a day that, in its waning; Left a newly-covered mound. Come, ye weary, heavy laden- Back again the wicket swung; Prom a cushioned throne the maiden Heard the words divinely rang. And a voice went thrilling, thrilling, Through the chambers of her heart, Like a loosened spirit, willing To perform the conjurer's part. Sorrow newlyclothed in glory Stood transfigured In her ight; Wrong with many winters hoary Stood revealed God's chosen right. Sympathy was deeply glowing With the dye that stained the crose; Charity was sweetly flowing; Gold was sifted from its dross. Stirs a silken rustle, bleding With low murmured greetings near, All that glowing vision ending In a chill unshapen fear. Was it real or only seeming Transformation she had heard? Broad awake, or was she dreaming, That her heart was strangely stirred? Impulse stronger than volition Sought a reassurance hold; Poverty and its monition Could not now her purpose hold. Fad he tenderness for anguish, Like the chosen one of old? Would he mourn that one should languish For the love within the told? Hardly was her wan band lifted By the impulse of bar heart When the man d aely gifted Gave the stony stare of Art. ILA CITOEZNE. The forty-fifth number of La Gitoenne, a weekly political and literary journal, pub. lished In Paris, lies before me. The editors ire Hubertine Auclert and Blanche D. Mon; ad the motto Is briefly condensed-The litoene (womancltisen) Is that woman who possesses her full rights and does her full duties. Another motto Is taken from Alexandre Dumas the younger, being his prediction that within ten years women in France will vote like men. There Is little in the four ample pages of this paper to justify this bold prediction, but there are many things to intercist the reader, and in- deed to surprisp those who remember the rather languid local interest inspired by the convention on this subject held In Paris in 1878. It appears for Instance that in the twelfth electoral district (arrondisement) of Paris, a woman was regularly put in nomination for thebChamber of Deputies, on the part of a society called Leerce deadtudessociales. She received fifty-seven votes, the success- ful candidate having 087; and the point of exultation on the part of her supporters seems to be that these votes were regularly counted and recognized, instead of being thrown aside as blanks. The natural con- clua A the editors seems o be that if this minority vote was counted and regis- tered, the same would have been the case with a majority vote; and the eligibility of women is thus conceded, a convenient point being thereby established. Should the san- guine prophecy of Alexandre Dumas fil be fulfilled, the name of Lonie Bouzade will certainly be famous as that of the first feminine candidate for office in Paris. It is pleasant to have from these pages some elimpses of these great philanthropies of Paris which a stranger is so apt to over- look. There is aii account for instance of a new lodging houseforpoor women, estab- lished by the oiet Philanthropique. There are sleeping-rooms, bath-rooms, an eating-room and even a small library. Es- pecial provision is made for mother, and there are in all thirty beds and ten cradles. It is proposed to enlarge the building so that it shall contain a hundred beds. Again, under the head of philanthropy it is stated that the press-subscription in Paris for the sufferers by the Vienna catastrophe origi- nated with a woman, the well-known au- thor and journalist, Madame Edmond Adam (Juliette Lamber) who called a meeting at her office for this purpose, and was placed at the head of the committee of relief. The Citoyenne gives a list of the French women thus far admitted to the degree of Doctor of Medicine; namely, Mle. Ver- neuil, Mme. Bris, Mme. Guenod and Mme. Perrie in Paris, Mine. Ribard at Nantes, Mile. Clarisse Danel at Montrouge, and Mile. Domergues in the South of France. To these is soon to be added Mme. Inds Gaches. On the whole, this journal gives much less of personal information than is customary in our own newspapers, and this is quite a relief; but it mentions as an item of what would be here called Society Gossip the approaching marriage of Mile. Melanie Talander to . Niox-Chatean. This lady is known to many Americans through the long residence of her family in London; she is an artist and an author In her own right; while her father, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, has written on French politics in the International Revieo. Much space is given by the Oitoenne to the report of the Louisville Convention of the American Woman Suffrage Association. The French printers get no nearer to Mas- sachusetts than Masshachusetts, and transform the Washington University at St. Louis into the University of Washington, (D. C.) but the report is correct for sub- stance of doctrine and' i.a certainly ample. It is strange to come uponlittle scraps stray- Ing about, like the following, which adds a certain weight and importance to familiar facts by translating them into a foreign tongue: Les Prtreea a 'di-neoviame sieele. Les journaux amricains annoncent quo Mile.. Myrs Kingsbury vient d'Otre designee com* me desservant (i. *., officisting clergyman) de l'egise de Shehesqui en Pensylvanie, Eileeit d6jA chargde auparavant d'une parolise dans P'Etat d Vermont. One of the most amusing communications Is an Imaginary letter from a village in Nor- mandy describing the exltement produced there by the arrival of a copy of La Cito yene. It Is written In that quaint peasant dialect with which French novels have somewhat familiarized us, and It produces a strange effect to see reduced to this jargon the very arguments, pro and con, with which we are familiar. It is urged for in- stance, in the little Normandy village, that if women vote, they will always vote for the clerical party. (Bi les fames sotent iou, ea fra touta-fi anal, pasegue el sent taouts etericala.) To which it is replied that their bigotry is not half so bad as that of the men, who are bigoted enough to vote for the candidate who gives them most to drink on election day. And again, more seriously, it Is pointed out that even this feminine bigotry is the fault of the men, who can easily cure it by giving women equal advantages of education. Then the village disputput follows up the advantage by pointing out that the French would have less taste for war it women could vote, and at no mother would lend her influence W war that should kill her sons. The weight of argument is naturally made to remain-as It should-with the party of attack; but it is Interesting to find that the same old scarecrows are set up, all the world over, and have to be knocked down every where in much the same manner. T. W. H. WOMEN IN POLITICS. A friend writes us as follows: Mr. Eveleth, representing Iubbardton, Templeton, Phillipston, and Petersam, is heartilyin favor of conceding equal politi cal ights to women. Notwithstanding Mr. Blkwell's reply to Justice,in last week's JoUINA,,itrieally appearsato methat women have opportunity to work in the local cau- cuses, wherever local seqtiment is tavora- ble. The refusal of a Stite convention to invite atendance is not refusal to admit such as come. The caucus which sends a woman to Worcester is not likely to refuse to admit her to its own assembly. Each lo- cal cauces makes its own rules, and may disregard, to some extent, the action of a tate convention. We fully agree that women should seek access to all centres of political power. The most important of these is the caucus. Wherever even two or three men will agree to support the effort of women to attend the caucus of the ptrty in which they be- lieve, let women go and take part in the nominations. Even if objection be made and if they are not allowed to participate, their presence will be the best argument they can make for Woman Suffrage, No doubt in many localities they will be heartily wel- comed. Jt. . n. UNUSED POLITICAL POWERS. Those who are seeking an enlargement of 'the field of political fition may well make a preliminary survey ofithe field already open to them, by conideig what oppor- tunities of political influp,4e are permitted by the laws as they exist.fln dal depar- ments of life the right use of existing privi- leges is the stepping stone to higher privi- leges. The exercise of the power possessed Is the most direct way of securing still greater power. Asking ourselves the question, What op- portunities of political influence are already open to disfranchised classes? may show that such as exist are largely unused, not only by those who are without Suffrage, but also by those who enjoy the right. A real service will be perfored for the cause of Impartial Sufftage If any endeavors shall lead to a better and more general use of ex- isting rights. So long as such rights are neglected, this neglect furbishes the most telling argument to those ho oppose grant- ing additional rights. It s true that the same neglect is found, in *ome degree, on the part of voters, but thiswIll not prevent the use of the logical we' on furnished by the neglect of the non-vos. Political information is great and legi- timate power In civil affa r. It is the es- sential basis of all intellige political action. An acquaitance with pollcal history, sat. once and economy is as frly open to non. voters as to voters. - Ther may not be the same stimulant to the aeq sition of It; but there is even greater need or such acquisi- tion. Those who are see ng rights of, the exercise of which they fe I themselves un- justly deprived, have th greatest reason for giving attention to the means by which those rights are to be secu d. But do not women, wh are seeking en. franchisement, largely neglct the aquite- ment of political lnTormaton, and instead of reaing books which ford knowledge of public affairs, join lmAthe cry which - comes up to the public li1rares, for more fiction, fiction, fiction? History and true political information may :be gleaned from some works of fiction, ut the mass of these have little to help on in the discharge of public duties. I The answer maybe -made: Talk to voters about this. But that will ot at all help the cause of those who are king Suffrage. Such romen need above I1 things to In- form themselves of the na re of their pro- spective duties, the parli entary conduct of public meetings, the p oiples involved in laws relating to public jutice, money, commerce, etc. - The political canvass is great and often controlling power in pol cs. The ballot only registers that which been Irrevoca- bly decided by the can There is noth- ing in our laws to prevent any person, man or woman, native or foreigner, from taking part in this. And in this we may include the primary meetings (otherwise called cau- cuses), public speaking, the use of the press, and the payment of money for the legiti- mate expenses of hiring halls, bands, lec- turers, and the circulation of printed mat- ter. The canvass, with its methods, legiti- mate and illegitimate, is one of the greatest forces in masculine politics, from which there can be no legal exclusion of non-vot- er. If any are shut out by the local usage of parties, meetings or conventions, there is ever the resource of separate action, which often gains the balance of power. Some will doubtless wait for an invitation to the political meeting. But the fathers did not wait until they were invited by George III.. to set up a republic. Hereditary bond (wo) manm, know ye not That they who would be free Themselves must- it will not do to cay, speaking to ladies, Strike the blow, but, it may be added, ask for that which they deem their right. The point of dell- cacy on the part of many voters will be that they cannot see their way to invite women to that which is adverse to the inclinatio of many. A State convention which has refuned to invite women to the caucus did not refuse to admit women when they came as duly accredited delegates. The refusal to invite women at large to participate in the meet- ings for nomination is not a refusal to ad- mit such as knock at the door. When wo- men ask, not alone for Suffrage rights in general, but for Suffrage in the caucus, of their husbands, brothers and friends, with that persuasiveness which they command whenever they are In earnest, it will be found impossible to deny them. When the signers of the'Declaration of Independence wrote their names, they pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred bonor. Here is very respectable warrant for the honorable use of money to secure po- litical rigts, and an illustration of the way in which masculine voters maintain their prerogatives. The third House, otherwise the lobby, which can .soareel-wina- respectful allow, sion from the press, is hone the less a pow- er in legislation. It may be taken as the representative of direct influence brought to bear upon Legislatures, by personal com- munication with the members in or out of the State House. So far as this Is an hon- orable appeal fUom the people to those who represent them, it is wholly proper. It has ever been claimed by opponents of Woman Suffrage that women are represented by the masculine legislators. If they are rep- resented, it is clearly in order for them to present their claims to their representatives. It is only abuses which have brought the third House, open to all, into disrepute. The disuse of School Suffrage, illogical, incomplete and partial as is this or any law. granting it alone, tends to strengthen the hands of those who would, by all means, prevent any further extension of the right. Any concession of the principle, which is welcomed and intelligently acted upon, be- comes a preliminary to further extension of Suffrage. One.of the strongest pleas of the opponents of Suffrage for women Is that en masse they do not want It. Those desir- ing it should not strengthen this plea by re- 'fusing a part, because they are not given the whole. It would be well for all concerned If the people would exerciseea4little common sense relative to certain slang catch-words of the newspaper press, such as bosses, ma- chine pqliticians, rings, cut-and-dried political works,etc., etc. If such phrases were not so common, good taste would for bid even allusion to them. A boss Is a skillful tnd, It is assumed, unscrupulous, political organizer. But the only way to defeat,hig plans is by more skillful and hon- orable poitical organization. The way to defeat thd machine Is by means of a more powerful machine. The way to overcome the ring, which is an association of. polit- ical workers to accomplish their object, Is by a larges and better association to defeat them-a greater ring. All public business should be prepared by those who take part In it, and this is all that is expressed by the phrase cut-and-dried Some have pre- pared their work, while others have not. The use, then, of political Information common sense, the canvass,the right of pub- lic petition, and personal appeal, In a proper way, to representatives, is free to all. It is the use of these means that must bring all additional rights to women. LYxAx OLAns. Peerasham, Mass., Dee. 27, 1881. OONCERNING WOMEN. RosA BoNIXsua has rented the Villa St.- B616ne, at Nice, for the winter. Ms, EDMUNDs. the wife of the ldnator, is an artist possessing much taste and skilL Me. CELIA THAXTER Ia to pass the win ter in Boston as the guest of Mrs. Annie Fields. Miss RHODA G. SAUNDERS isoan assistant in the astronomical department of Harvard College. FANNIE E. RIoCconducts theodepartment of the Gospel Bannero Of Augusta, Me., en- titled Woman and the Home. MsS CATHERINE WOLF has given twen- ty flive hundred dollars to the American Episcopal church at Rome, in Italy. Mus. NoAH WOOD has founded the Blake Scholarship at Bowlol, in memory of her son, at a cost of five thousand dollars. MIsS MABEL WILY, one of the Colorado college students, will go East with Mr. Ten- ney for the purpose of entering Wellesley College. Miss Lucy HuNT has just brought out, through Lee and Shepard, a hand book of light gymnastics. Miss Hunt teaches gym. nastics in Smith College, and knows what she writes about. Miss JosEPRNEX MEEKER, who'was cap- tured by the White River Utes, is still a clerk in the Indian bureau at Washington, and has just been promoted, with an in- crease of salary from $720 to $840. MARY L. PARKER has recovered at Bos- ton $18,000 in a suit against the Boston and Albany railroad company for $20,000, for injuries received by the sudden starting of a train from which she was alighting at Newton. M1s. BELVA LoCKwooD acquitted herself well in this city. The fact that little note was taken of this first appearance of a wo- man lawyer here, shows the change time has made in the opposition to new openings for women. A Miss MAny Mono, daughter of Hon. i'ames Monroe, of Oberlin, is teaching at Wellesley College, having been invited to accept a position in that institution by Hen- ry F. Durant, its founder, a short time be- fore his death. MisS ELLA Scor, an experienced and successful teacher, has been chosen princi- pal of the academic department of Tualatin Academy and Pacific University, at Forest Grove, Oregon, @eee Prof. J. D. Robb, who resigned to engage In business. LADY STRANOFORD 8isforming c1808 for the instruction of soldiers' wives in element- ary nursing, at Sandhurst, Taunton, Wool wich, Newport, and Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth. The Instructor will be Mr. H. Crookshank, M. R. C. S. Mas. McDowaL, whose works copied at Kensington Palace obtained the prie at last year's exhibition, is engaged at Buck- ingham Palace by permission of the Queen, painting copies of the pieces of tapetty presented to Her Majesty by Louis Philippe in 1848. Mase. Bus E. HUSTON,who lately gave $1000 to the town of Mendon, as a founds- tion for a free library, to be called the Taft Public Library, has now offered a gift of $100 o the trustees of the library, to be ex-, pended in fencing the lot on whih the building standin which the libraryl (sept. Mas. GARFIELD has been entertaining, during'the holidays, Colonel and Mrs. Rock- well 'and divers members of her own fa- ily. The health of the late President's mother is singularly good, and though she falls into moods of sad reflection now id then, she is usually sprightly and talkative. MADAX Jauwt LID GoLDCRMne 1 , M. Conway says, 'is only sixty' and doe not look fifty, her hair being but slightly toucb- ed with gray, 'her eyes stilt bright sid ap py, and her figure tillI gIcefI. 1i pleasalthome, and, retainingbiwar1 m4, ories of America, has kindly welcoked I1 advised the young Americn siagers who have sought her out. . Miss L. B. HUMPrREt, f opedale, wA recently awarded $800 by L, Prang do being the second and third priles offedby the Prang Company for the best du In Christmas cards. Artiste of th J' th States and Canada were Invited t-ompete, and 600 designs were recently plced on ex- hibition at the American Art G(al'leypltw York City, Miss Humphrey taiing theso- ond and third prizes Digitized from Best Copy Available

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