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26 Women's J. 145 (1895)
Issue 19

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl26 and id is 145 raw text is: Ike VOI.. XXVI. BOSTON, SATURDAY, MAY I. 1895. The Woman's Journal. FOUNDED BY LUCY STONE. A Weekly Newspaper, published every Saturday in BoSTON, devoted to the interests of woman- to her educational. Industrial, legal and political equality, and espeolady to her right of sufrage. EDITORS H. B. BLACKWELL, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. BOSTON Orrioz-No.S Park Street,whereoople s are for sale and subsoriptions received. SUBSCRIPTION. Per Annum,0. .. . .....02.50 first yea ontrial, . .... .0 tSle copies. ..05 OLUD RAT-Fiveoopes oue year, 0.0c TO MRS. LIVERMORE. (On her edn wedding day. The following poem was received from Mrs. Whiton-Smith, on May 6, accompanied by a moon. stone ring : Golden wedding day I said, Chance than that before more fair, When a bride with sunlit air, Neath the blossoms growing red, Lo I your wedding march was chorused By the singing birds o'er head. For a maiden sweet and true, Though the flush of youth you wore, In your heart strange dreams you bore And your aspirations grew. 'Till your eager soul was lifted To the work you longed to do. And your lofty scorn for wrong, Has been earnest for the truth, Of the dreams you dreamed in youth. And your life's work, grand and strong, Day by day has grown diviner, Like the measures of a song. Golden wedding day, I said, And again you stand in air, Than that sunlit day more fair, And 'neath olossoms growing red, Hear the wedding march repeated By the singing birds o'erhead. EDITORIAL NOTES. The bill to take a vote of the men and the women qualified to vote for school committee as to whether they favor muni- cipal suffrage for women has advanced ... ene-.atap--further4n_ the Massachusetts House. The Insincerity of Its promoters is shown by the fact that two years ago nearly every opponent in the House voted against a bill to give women municipal suffrage on condition that a majority of the men and women should ratify the measure at the polls. It was thought then municipal suffrage could constitu. tionally be extended in that way. Now that the Supreme Court has decided that it cannot, the opponents have become clamorous for a popular vote, which will give women nothing if it goes in their favor. We have little doubt that a majority of the women voting on the question would vote in the affirmative, but we do not believe their doing so would change half a dozen votes in the Legislature. In South Carolina, May 8, an Important decision was rendered by the U. S. Cir- cuit Court regarding the registration laws of that State, which are held to be uncon- stitutional. Judge Goff holds that it was the inten- tion of the Legislature, in passing the reg- istration law, how best to abridge and destroy the greatest number of votes of the citizens of African descent, while at the same time interfering with as few as possible of the voters of the white race. The decision of the court is that the reg- istration law is harassing, unnecessarily rigid, discriminating and outrageous in certain provisions, and is null and void. This leaves South Carolina without any election laws, or with the same conditions as existed prior to 1882, when the law was enacted. The decision is expected to have more of a tendency than anything in recent years to bring white people to- gether again. Let us hope that it will help to open their eyes to the injustice and impolicy of disfranchising one.half of the citizens of the State because they are women. The E nglish woman suffragists have collected and published in the London cho opinions from many eminent divines, English, Scotch and Irish, in favor of extending full Parliamentary suffrage to women. The list includes the Bishop of London, the Dean of Durham, Dr. James Martineau, Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, Canon Wilberforce, Dr. Newpman Hall, the Bishop of Edinburgh and many others. The Boston Transcript says: This does not look as if the 200,000 women in Great Britain who already pos- sess the municipal suffrage had made a very bad use of it. ' THE LIVERMORE GOLDEN WEDDING. cordial expressions of love and good will that were showered .upon them. The golden wedding of Rev. D. P. and In the sitting room at the right, beauti. Mrs. Mary Ashton Livermore marks an ful and numerous gifts were exhibited, era in the woman's rights movement ap- while in the dining -room, handsomely propriately celebrated. decorated, a bevy of lovely girls served In their plcasant Melrose home, cur- orefreshleot. I From Mrs. Ole Bull came a large basket of delicate-hued violets. The Womin's Club gave fifty yellow jonquils, while from the W. C. T. U. came a large bouquet of pinks. The Mary A. Livermore Tent No. 17, D. V.. sent .Mrs. Livermore some beautiful flowers with the following note: 7 1~.' C but as the list of names ran up into the thousands, before a good beginning had been made, It was decided to make the affair Informal and invite all of the United Ststes-that is, all the people in the United States who care to come. From 2 until 7 P. M., the house was Tou, who have done so much for human- iy, present you with these fifty roses. Mrs. Livermore was touched, and re- plied: . I do not belong to your generation and it is very sweet of you to remember me. With the hour of three, arrived a pri- vats carriage, bearing two little tots from the primary department, little Miss Hazel Loveland and Master Harold Curtis. They presented a pin with five ribbons of gold, formed like petals, and inlaid with blue enamel forget-me-nots. In the centre was a large diamond, surrounded by five smaller ones. With it was a stick-pin, which matched it admirably. This present was specially interesting, as all the teachers and scholars of the various grammar and primary schools of Melrose gave some- thing towards it. Many and exquisite were the gifts. MARCIA ELIZABETH HUNT LIVERMORE. Mrs. McKay of Indianapolis, sent a Parlan bust of Eros and Hermes. The Beneficent Society of the New England Conservatory of Music gave a beautiful Benares gold ware salver and a bouquet of bride roses tied with a ribbon of gold satin. A set of gold coffee spoons came from Rev. J. S. Digitized from Best Copy Available No. 19. CONCERNING k WOMEN. MRS. MARY F. LOVELL, Box 163, Bryn Mawr, Pa., oilers a prize of ten dollars in gold for the best essay of 2,000 to 3,000 words on Cruelty to animals In Re. lation to Dress and Food. Contestants must be from eighteen to twenty-eight years of age. MRS. ANNIE T. AURBACH, 20 Trow. bridge Street, Cambridge, Mass., has been chosen State Superintendent of Press Work for the Massachusetts W. S. A. Her work will be to supply the editors with suf- frage news items. Mrs. Auerbach will be glad to receive clippings containing such news, from friends of equal rights in any part of the country. Remember, it is news that is desired, not arguments. MRS. WELDON, the wife of Mr. Frank Weldon, of the editorial staff of the At- lanta (Ga.) Cosstlution, Is in corre- spondence with the Princess Nazie of Cairo, Egypt, with a view to securing an exhibit of the work of the women of Egypt in the Woman's exhibit at the Cot- ton States and International Exposition. The Princess Nazie, though a Mosim, has abandoned the veil, and enjoys more freedom than most Mohammedan women. She is regarded as the most enlightened and progressive woman in Egypt, and has many friends and correspondents in America. MISS LOTTO OTT, a Chicago young woman, was called Into Judge Hanecy's court the other morning as a juror, her name hiving been drawn from the poll lists. The court excused her, of course; but she claimed the fee paid to men who are called as jurors and for any reason are excused from service. This was 02, representing one day's pay and mileage from her home to the court and back again. Judge Hanecy said she was en- titled to the fee the same as a man, and she received the money and went away, prepared to do a little shopping before she returned home. MIss ESTELLE REED, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Wyoming, in companyW ith otheSi officials, Is making a tour of several States examining penal and reformatory institutions, looking for Improved Ideas and methods. She recently visited Lin- coln, Neb., and is reported by Lucy A. Bently, of the New Republic, as say- ing that woman suffrage in Wyoming works admirably. Women make no fuss about voting, but go to the polls as nat- urally as to the post office. Fully as large a per cent. of women vote as of men, and there is no opposition now to woman suffrage. MRS. MARGARET STANTON BLATCH, a daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is at the head of the department of phys- ical training in N. Y. Teachers' College. She recently gave an exhibition of what her girls could do before 2,500 people in the armory, and at the final exercises of the school on Friday the hall of the col- lege was crowded to its utmost capacity. After the exhibition was over a lunch- con was given to Mrs. Lawrence, who is greatly beloved by her pupils. She resides with her mother, Mrs. Stanton. They have a pleasant apartment at 26 West 61st Street, and here the noble leader, who is now In her eightieth year, leads a Itfe of literary activity but is always ready 'to welcome friends who come to pay their respects. MRS. HORACE GOODWIN, 13 Union Park, Boston, has at the Pharmacy Fair an interesting exhibit of her own inven- tions, Including the Goodwin Accurate * Cooking Measure, a nest of tin cups by which exact measurements of teaspoon- fuls, cupfuls and fractions thereof can be speedily made. Another is a medicine spoon with a hinged lid and a small opening on each side which is commended by lead- Ing physicians as the best spoon for Its pur- pose. A mustache spoon, soup size, made on the same plan, has been pro- nounced indispensable by President Cleveland. Mrs. Goodwin has also in- vented a burglar alarm, a book rest, and an invalid's head rest. She has diplomas and silver medals from the Massachusetts Mechanics' Association Fair and the World's Fair, and the California Mid- winter Fair. The latter awarded her a gold medal in addition to the diploma. All her inventions are simple Ad practical. Mrs. Goodwin is now perfect- ing a much needed appliame for electric street railway car, and In-order to give her entire attention to this, she desires to sell all her patents Te opportunity ould doubtless he made cue of profit by some enterprii business woman. 42

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