About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

35 Women's J. 1 (1904)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl35 and id is 1 raw text is: 5 Vol. X V. The Woman's at F FOUNDED -BY LUCY ST A WEEKLY NEWNPAPEB, publis SATURDAY in Boston, devoted to the of Woman-to herEducational, Indu Legal and PoliticalEquality, and-es cally to her Right of Sulfrage. kEntered at the Post Office, Boston, Mass., second class mallmatter.) EDITORs: 0 B. B. BLAOKWELL. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL ASSISTANT EDITORS : OIEARLOTTE PnnK INS GILMAN. FLORENC kM. ADKINSON. CATHARINE WILDE. OCCASIONAL OONTRIBnUTOR: Baroness Alexandra Grlpenberg. Mary Putnam JacobiM. D. Prof. Ellen Hayes Lillie Devereux Blake, Laura M. Johns. BOSTON OFFinE: - - NO. S PARK STREET, Where conies are for sale and subscriptions taken SUBSORIPTION:: First Year on trial $1.50 Six months,. ...I-- -2 S in g le co p ies . . . . . • Tfiree months on trial 5 . Club iate - - . - - 1.50 Single per Annum . 2.50 Checks and drafts and post-office orders should be made payable to the WOMAN'S JOURNAL. Letters containing remittances should be ad dressed to the office of the WOMAN'S JOURNAL, 3 Park Street, Boston, bMass. Registered letters or Express Co.'s money orders may be sent at our risk. Money sent in letters not registeied will be at the risk of the sender. J. B. MORRIsON, Business Manager Adv. Dep't. CONTENTS* .;- . -.... PAOE Editorial Notes.............................1 Women's Clqbs and ClmbWomen .........1 College and Alumniae........................1 Did a Woman Discover Spencer?........ . The Fortnightly................................1 Vital Issues, Charlotte Perkins Gilman ..... 2 A New Year's Letter .................. 2 Five Million * omen ......................... 2 The World's Mother ................ .......... 2 From Now On....................... 2 Women Lawyers ........................ 2 The Minerva Society and Sorosis..........2 Literary Notices; ..... ................. ......8 Scols of Cinp .~D........ .......4 The Grange for WSnniu Suffrage, n..n ....... 4 Australian Notes............ ............... 4 College League Theatricals ......... : .......... 4 The Sin of Too Much ....... :. ...............4 Pleasant W ords........ : ....................... 4 The Power of Laughter ........................ 4 Story-Mr. Hastle's Lesson...... ....... 6 State Correspondence-New York-Ohio-' Pennsylvania-Michigan .................. 7, 8 Are WivesSupported?....... ........ 8 JANUARY. BY SARAH ANDREW SHAER. The cold sky bends ina solemii b0w' Over a world ofstainless snoW. r In chill brownlines.the hedges creep. Past sheltered farms to-forests deep. The steel-blue ice, windswept and clear, Covers the breast of the lone!y.,mere. In cedar thickets the bluejays scold, Whle snow-rbirds whirl throughtheb'itter And tiny, timid, hasty print On white drift gives of hares a hint. . -Thee Outlook. EDITORAL NOTES,,., A bill'giving full State suffrage to wom- en has just passed the popular branch of the Victorian. Parliament for the eighth time. The majorities for it have grown from year to.yearotand this time It passed without opposition. Women now have State suffrage in South and West Austra. ia, Tasmania-andNew South Wales. Vic. toria and- Queensland-are the only two Australian States where!,it is still denied them. InIVictorla a bill to give it- to them has,- passed the ::eleotive Lower House eightitimes, and has been thrown out seven times by the non-representative Upper House. This time there is said to be more: prospect- of mits passing that fog- sllized.:body than ever before. Women now have national suffrage-throughout all Australia; and those members of-the, Victorian Upper House -who -apire to. seats in the National Parliament ;fill havetoreckon with the women's votes in the -,national elections. ItAs clearly i-., congruous that women should be allowed to vote for members of the National:Par- liamentbutnot forimembers of the State Parliament. It can beonly'a question of' time wenth-e'anomaly; will- be don 6' away. Gov ;.~LldliffF.' C. Garvin of Rhode IslInd'iagFbeei~nime'd~gi- ptosable Delir. ooratlo €tudidate for tli Presidency.- Such' BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1904. No. 1. I Digitized from Best Copy Available a nomination would lIft the party to the trut Jeffersonian level, and if maintained would ensure Its eventual return to national con. trol. -The statesman who has twice been chosen governor by the people of Rhode Island in defiance of the plutocracy of that rporation-ridden State would be a fitting 'er for a genuine National Democracy. Hale, higginson and Hoar are our lead- ing grand old men, while Howe is our particularly grand old woman. Quite alliterative I says the Boston Herald. Yes, and there is a more important moral al- literation. Three of the four, including the grand old woman, are strong woman suffragists. Mrs. Mary G. Slocum, wife of President Slocum of Colorado College, contributes to the Outlook of Dec. 20 a brief reply to Miss McCracken's sweeping charges that the ballot has had a disastrous effect upon the womanhood of Colorado women, etc. It is to the credit of the Outlook that it has admitted a reply; though the editor gave to Miss McCracked, a casual tourist, seven and a half pages in which to expati. ate upon her unfavorable impressions, while he has given barely three pages to Mrs. Slocum, and has prefaced her article with half a page of editorial comment de. signed to break its force. Mrs. Slocum's calm statement, however, by its very dig- nity and moderation, is more likely to carry conviction to unprejudiced readers than Miss McCracken's ultra and extreme- ly one-sided presentation. The editor of the Outlook also denounces the Denver News for publishing and the WOMAN'S JOURNAL for reprinting the re- port that Miss McCracken had gone to Colorado with an understanding in ad- vance between her and the Outlook that she was to write unfavorbbly of equal suffrage. We are told that throughout her tour of the United states, Miss Me- Cracken was urged to -make perfectly in- 'depbbkvatbnsad t 9~6~'ft,6 conclusions without regard to the ,views of the Outlook. Those who have ob- served for years the one-sided course of the Outlook on the suffrage question will take this editorial disclaimer for what It may be worth. If Miss McCracken, as the result of her independent observations, had sent Dr. Lyman Abbott seven and a half pages of unqualified praise of equal suffrage in Colorado, instead of the same amount of unqualified condemnation of it, does anyone really suppose he would have published it? The editor of the Outlook, In his preface to Mrs. Slocum's article, illustrates amus- ingly the straws at which opponents of equal rights are ready to clutch as argu- ment': The Denver News reported that a Denver woman (unnamed) had said that Miss McCracken told some one in that city that she was to be paid for an article on the: other side and therefore must Write it; and the WOMAN'S JOURNAL copied the statement; and these two facts, the Outlook asserts editorially, go far to confirm the reasonableness and jus- tices'of the general position of Miss Mc- Cracken's article, i. e., that the women of Colorado in general have been demor alized by the ballot, that it has struck a disastrous blow at their womanhood, etc. Was there ever a more laughable case of '!a non-sequitur by a hundred miles? But it shows how far from impartial is the spirit in which the editor of the Outlook approaches the subject. Mrs. Slocum, It appears, was not in favor of equal suffrage before it was granted, and is only mildly in favor now; but she denies Miss Mc- Crsck'en'schief statements in oto. WOMERN' CLUBS AND CLUB'WOMBN. The'club women of Los Angeles are trying-to raise $3,560 to pay the cost of conducting a juvenile court for the com- ing year. ,The Wednesday Morning Club has taken the lead. Portland, Ore., has a city federation wich includes the Teachers' Association arid t' Jewish Council of Women. It is IT6lears old. its first year's work was ibibehalf of sanitary conditions In the pnblic schools. This year other educa- tiollal 4ork has been taken up. The fed- eration is anxious to have cooking Intro- /luce~d inS0 the public school system, and expetts soon to have a domestic science department established In at least the higher grades. I The Era Club of Plttsburg, Pa., is plan. a ning the erection ofa&clubhouse for the b use of the women's clubs of that city. Club women In SanFrancisco are plan- ning to start a womnfis municipal league. San Francisco is Said' to have 3,100 un- r licensed saloons, besides an unspeakable Chinese quarter. Munlcipal politics have become so demoralized that public-spirit. ed women are awakening to the need ol concerted action on' their part. It is to be hoped that'they will work to put an end to the enforced slavery of Chinese girls to a life of Vice. 'More than a thou. sand such girls are held as slaves in San Francisco alone, with no option of their own in the matter. It is hard to under- stand what Californlawomen are made of that they do not rise up against this abomination. At a recent meeting of the Brooklyn Heights Branch of- the Woman's Muni- cipal League, Miss Margaret Livingstone Chanler, Miss Grace Dodge, and Miss Catherine -Leverich 'spoke. Miss Leve- rich, who is the organizer of the Juvenile City League, reported that there were 1,330 boys'enrolled in branch clubs of the League.' They have' done excellent work in keeping the streets In their own neigh. borhoods clean, and'ihave aided in placing receptacles for waste paper, etc., on the corners.' Miss Levericih has devised an ingenious inducement for boys to become members of the Junior League, in a sort of °clrculatlng library of boxing gloves, balls, and bats, which are lent to mem. bers, Miss Chanler advocated establish- ing branches' 6f the!League in every sec. tion of New York Cijy The Chicago Woman's Club Is prepar- ing for a conference uWomen in Mod- ern. IndustrialIsm,2!.v'to be held in the early Spring. The c6n mittee having It In T, ,ee, -bdrpn f-t six departments of the club. .The art and literature department will, report on the status of women as artists, artist-artisans, authors, journalists, designers, musicians, actors, etc. The philosophy and science 'department will present -the status of women as.physicians, surgeons, chemists, physicists, etc. Each department will make a concise statement of actual condi- tions, and papers and discussions will fol- low on the topics: Women's Education as Affected by Industrialism, Marriage, Health, and Social Life as Affected by Industrialism, Family and Financial Obligations Borne by Women, and Po. litlcal and Legal i~abIlities Affecting Women in Industrialism. COLLEGE AND ALUMNA. Girls' collegesuin India have to contend with some difficulties unknown to West- ern institutions. The MysoreHerald con. talns a report of the proceedingsat a re- cent meeting of the Managing Committee of the -Maharani's College -in Mysore, which was lately thrown-open -to Indian Christian girls as the result of agitation in the press. The IndtaWSocial Reformer (Bombay) says: The concession, how- ever, was qualified in a manner which would have been ridiculous if it were not so offensive. The college has now been thrown open, to -all- non-Hindu -comm uni. ties, -but the offensive-and meaningless qualification Is still allowed to stand. The new rule runs thus: 'The Maharani's Girls' College shall be open to all caste Hindus; and pupils of approved parentage belonging to the-native'Christian, • Ma. hometan, Parsi, Jewish, Eurasian, and European communitls, who have passed a standard equivalent to the 'English lower secondary 'examination, may be admitted to the high sch6bl andcollege classes, such admission being subject to the ap- proval 'ofthe whole committee.' It is further provided that girls belonging to non-Hindu commn unities shall pay a fee in excess ofi thahA'arged 'at'the convent school in the city, with tfie object evi. dentfy of mak'[ni g'admisisons of such girls as few as possibl'e. We do not wish to comment on these proceedings, except to say tlit they areutterly untenable. 11 Why shoulditbe enecSsary f-rh6 cmmittee to 'approve' f the parentage of non. Hindu girls seekIng adilno This is neiter suprstltion nr' enl'htenment, It Is limply an invention' df thocommit- tee to put obstacles In the Way'Ofr a -re- form which they h'ave' ii7 the coniience THE FORTNIGHTLY. A meeting In charge of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Gov- ernment's Committee on the Care of the Young, the Poor and the Defective, will be held at No. 6 Marlboro' Street next Tuesday, at 3 P. M. Rev. Father O'Far- rell, Mr. Meyer Bloomfield, and Mr. Max Mitchell will speak on Civic Work at the North and West Ends. Every alternate Fortnightly Is arranged by the Boston E. S. A. for G. G. All the members of the Massachusetts W. S. A. and of its branches are cordially Invited to be present, and to bring their friends. DID A WOMAN DISCOVER SPENOER? In reading an essay upon Herbert Spen- cer, I found a high tribute to woman, which is worthy of notice. Herbert Spencer's writings at first met with neglect, and then with condemnation, until Prof. Edw. L. Yonmans brought his writings into notice in this country. But Prof. Youmans says that when he first read the Principles of Psychology he could make nothing of It, and threw it aside with impatience. But his sister, Miss Eliza A. Youmans, took up the dis- carded volume, read it with care, and told her brother it was a new revelation in philosophy. In truth, then, we ought to say it was Miss Youmans who discov- ered Spencer. May we not score another point for women in this instance? ROSA S. ALLEN. Medfleld, Mass., Dec. $6, 1903. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt addressed the Michigan Teachers' Assoclation at its annual meeting, held at the University of Michigan last week. to resist nor the courage to adopt. Or- thodox Hinduism does not make a dis- tinction based on individual parentage. From Its point of view, the Mysore Her- ald is right In denouncing the change al- together. But on what grounds will the committee justify their not very straight- forward conduct? It is less offensive to be excluded by communities than to have one's parentage sifted and assorted, even by the excellent gentlemen who manage the affairs of the Maharani's College. Then, the action of the committee in fix- Ing no scale of fees, but making itdepend- ent on that of a neighooring institution, is hard to justif., We have never heard'of such a thing before. We earnestly trust his Highness the Maharaja will sweep aside all these cunningly contrived cob- webs, and throw open the institution to all comers, irrespective of parentage and on the same scale of fees. A backward class may be allowed liberal scholarships by way of encouragement. The present rules are calculated to prove highly irri- tating to large classes of his subjects, though they may never think of sending their children to the Maharani's College. Imagine an American college instituting an inquiry into the parentage of its stu- dents as a pre-requisite for admission! As a matter of curiosity, we wonder what sort of parentage is required by the My- sore committee? For the first time there were last year students at the University of Michigan from every State and Territory except Alaska. Among the outlying regions rep- resented were Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines. The Boston Branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnin will meet in Alls. ton Hall, Grundmann Studios, Clarendon Street, on Jan. 9, at 2.30 P. M. The Com- mittee on Education has arranged the fol- lowing program on the College Graduate in the ElementAry School: 1, The need of the college graduate in the elementary school, Supervisor Mau'rice P. White, Boa ten '2, Thae prbf4~iOnkl 'tiaining 'af the college graduate who is to do elementary school work, Miss Anna McKeag, Associ- ate Professor of Pedagogy, Wellesley Col- lege; 3, The opportunities In Massachu- setts for college graduates to receive pro- fessional training for elementary school work, Wallace C. Boyden, principal Bos. ton Normal School; 4, How can we in- crease the number of college graduates In the elementary schools? Dr. W. P. Beck. with, principal Salem Normal School. The College Club invite the Branch at the close to spend a social hour in their rooms i 'the same building. CONCERNING WOMEN. DR. ELLEN L. LOWELL Of New York has been appointed chief bacteriologist at the Graves Pathohuglcal Laboratory of the Orange (N*. J.) Memorial Hospital. She will have entire charge. Dr. Lowell is a graduate of Leland Stanford Univer- sity, and received her degree of M. D. from Johns Hopkins Unlverity. She is a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Lowell family. MRs. WATSON LISTER, secretary of the Women's National Council of Australia, Is spending a month in Boston. She and her husband are staying at 169 St. Botolph Street. Mrs. Lister has been beset with questions as to the working of equal suf- frage and other reforms In her far land, and answers them with Intelligence and unfailing good humor. She will probably be among the speakers at the National Suffrage Convention in Washington next February. MRS. CHARLOTTE PEinsIu GILMAN be. gins with this week to edit her new de- partment, Vital Issues, in the WOMAN'S JOURNAL. She contributes a New Year's poem, a witty and Inspiring little sermon on New.Year good resolutions, and several short articles bearing on the woman ques. tion. From the many expressions of pleasure called out by the announcement that Mrs. Gilman would this year be a weekly contributor, it is clear that her department will be popular with our readers. REV. CAROLINE BARTLETT CRANE will address the Michigan State Board of Health at its annual meeting, to be held next week in the medical school of Michi- gan University, on The Inspection of Meat. This is a subject to which Mrs. Crane has given much study and attention. She first brought about a reform in the scandalously unwholesome condition of the slaughter houses in her own city of Kalamazoo, and then secured from the Michigan Legislature a law requiring State inspection. DR. MARY D. Hussey, of East Orange, Association at Trenton, Dec. 29, on-What organization by women has done for wom- en. The general subject for that after- noon (the women's session) was The Sta- tus of Women Teachers in th Public Schools. Of New Jersey's 8,214 teachers, more than 7,000 are women. Yet there, as in many other States, there is an open- ly.avowed determination to exclude wom- en teachers as far as possible from the honors and emoluments of the profession, no matter how superior they may be in character, culture, and successful experi. ence in teaching, to some of the men chosen to hold office over them. Some of the ablest teachers are growing restive under this unfair condition of things, and are urging that women teachers shubld be given an equal chance to rise in the pro- fession if they show themselves competent and worthy. They are also seeking a law providing that teachers shall not'be dis- missed except for cause, after written charges and a fair hearing for the accused teacher, The new charter of New York City contains a teachers' tenure.of-office clause guaranteeing these safeguards to the teachers of that city. Miss JANE CAMPBELL, president of the Woman Suffrage Society of the County of Philadelphia, Is also on the board of the City History Club; a member of the board of the American Catholic Historical Sol. ety (the only woman on the board with fifteen men); on three committees of the Site and Relic Society; leader of the Cur- rent Events Class in the New Century Club; a member of the municipal depart- ment of the Civic Club, a member of the Alumnm Association of the Philadelphia High and Normal School, and of St. Vin. cent's Aid Society (to provide nursing homes), and she has been since 1876 libra. rian of the Children of Mary in connection with the Convent of Notre Dame. She was also a delegate from the Pennsylvania' State Federation of Women's Clubs to the last biennial of the Geneli Federation. Miss Campbell does not seek office, but she is evidently the sort of woman whom offices seek, and offices of the most varied kinds. While In France and Belgium re- ligious strife runs so high that Catho!ics and Protestants can hardly be civil to each other, the greater religious tolera- tion prevailing in America is pleasantly shown by the fact that a Roman Catholic lady is president of the largest local wo- man suffrage association In the Unitid States, although most of the members who Year after year elect her to that posi- tion are Protestants. No. 1.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most