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VOL. Xiv.
BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1883.
THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL.
, weeol tfWse r yIlthd ery Slatuay
,amae, devotte4 ds I W~VOmantlls
4adatsonal, tadeitrla.Ilegal and political Equality,
sad especiallyto her right otunraee.
LUCY STONa is-n .
V. W. ttOG NGOR..... EDITORAL
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BaiLotsa . BOYD.
A poet-pilerim, staff In hand,
Wanderedi erewhite ai gypt's land.
And did nke friend with mystery
Where mighty. namneles raine be;
Where Obatieks ant sphinxes are,
And.' shattered now. a stony stair
Leading in dlearv darknea on
To silent chambers ghostly lone.
Wh're are the herlyphtics wrought
To hold a dead pat's death'ess thought
And keep the sayings dark of old
That later languate left untold,
There faintly outlined he cond see
a princess stand t majesty
And loveliness, while to her breast
A oaren lty had she pressed.
The poet smiled, the poet lared
'CenturIes past she lived sd fed,
-Sot, thnuthe minsed she stands spit,
some 'nve-dream smitaring in her heart,
A princess in youth's far fair bowers,
Bleat for she found there love and owerl
this maidei, holding tenderly
The flower that seemed her type to bei
'The jnet's very being iled,
And so his eagor fancy thrilled
That ever and forever more,
On mountain loe. by peopled shore,
Ont strangely sweet and vagiely aim
1er phantom form will follow hi's,
And send his memory back among
'hose tempie, old ere Romer eng.
Where most agust AntIquity
Bervotua'te hides from iltory,
Where Pride sits slle on the tomb.
An Doubt4air 'gase through thegloom
tUoSeek the troabled smeet bid
Beweeo the sphinx and pyramid,
He only sees the imate fair
Of the Kir's Daughter stanin there.
Well are that poet's numbers known
In othei lands beside his own,
But keeps he still one sangn unsng,
His best, about the princess young,
Who calmly stands from Time apart,
Unwakened love-dreams In her heart,
And to her ntitanaltuous breast
A lifetesOdeathless tily pressed,
-Dueba Ind., Dec. tqa.
REW Y ARS OREETING.
The WoAN's JouaRAL enters on Its
fourteenth year with the new January; and
can honestlygIreet withundiminished confi-
dene, an undimhiffilished and indeed in-
oreased body of well-wishers. Certainly the
agitation which it represents hs never been
more widely spriiad; the Woman Suffrage
agitation remarins, as it must remain, for a
time, I a minority; it gains as yet no great
battle, but It 'puts a' ever-ncreasing army
in the field. It Is 'easier, no doubt, for a
tiea .to keep hispatiecco with this slow
prbgras~e than for a woman, since a man
feelsthewrong only through others; but I
know that many' women also. feel that the
slowness merely proves the greatness of the
iork. The daily ebb and llow of the tide
gives no proper emblem of It. and
the leetag moon
oe planet i of ours;*
t he' rk' In which we are engaged re-
setables thoevast cosmlo changes by which
consiental are raised or submerged, while
those who watch the slight daily changes
atea otSawir thatanyg ing remarkable Is
ol6g ogn. The while movement for the
eqlighi toand opportunIties of women,
whIle it is ittertnallyfIar less stirring and
agifanati tli thil and-slavery movement,
so only becatuse It Is more complex and
far eaching, and fI destined to have a yet
rofounder Influence upon the ages yet to
Mome.
While the Movement Is still underrated
Its opponents In this country, it Is seen
through a magnifying glass from the
other side of the'water; and is popularly
suPPosed by those. who- observe it from
afar, to ba-c gone farther than it has. The
misapprehension is sometiMes almost udi-
crous, as where a writer in the Paris (oy
enne, now before me, balances the Ameri-
can woman against her German sister, and
assumes that the American has succeeded
only too well in getting under foot the old
enemy,man. The American womansuper
ior to the American man, disdains him; the
German woman admires and venerates him;
the American makes him wait on her;
the German woman is proud to wait on
him, finding her happiness In her inferior
lty. The writer then proceeds to argue
that the French race, and the Southern
races of Europe generally, whose qualities
are better balanced (miews equilibries) will
avoid these extremes, having more brains
than the women of the one race, and more
heart than those of the other. They neith-
er desire to have man for their master, like
the German woman, nor for their servant,
like the American (ni pour erviteur, comme
'Americaine), but for their equal and their
friend.
We have not got on quite so dangerously
fast or far as this. Our French readers
may rest assured that the vaulting ambi.
tion of the women of this republic has not
yet o'erleped itself-or its selle,
whichever may be the finally accepted
Shakepeare reading-but is still quite satis.
fied with being the (qual and friend of
man. If there ever was a period of extrav-
agance and exaggeration in the Woman
Suffrage movement in America, that period
is past. There is little now to be heard
among us-nor was there ever much-in
the form of denunciations of the tyrant
man; and, on the other hand, this French
vislon of the subject-uan is as hard to find
in actual flesh as the stage Yankee. It is
true now, as it always has been, that there
are no households better ordered or mieux
equilibiae than those where Woman Suf-
frage opinions prevail; although it may
sometimes happen that the husband fetches
his wife her shawl, as well as the wife her
husband's slippers. It is true that the for-
mer practice greatly shocked the good Ger-
man pastor, Dr. Christlieb, and led him to
doubt whether the spirit of Christ was
not seriously wanting among us. Never-
theless Itdoes not seem as if it could be
wholly unevangelical to bear one another',
burdens, even in the form of shawls and
slippers; and it would be sad to think that
America is the only land where the husband
maybe as attentive as the lover.
We should rather appeal from the corre-
spondents of La 'Citoenne to its editor.
who heads her paper with theopicture of a
ballot-box Iorcribed Urne Electorale' at
which a man with the most correct of Eng-
lish hats Is putting in a large ballot marked
War (Guerre) while a woman with an ir-
reproachable French bonnet offers on the
other side a still larger vote, inscribed
I Peace (Pis.) Here at least the women
of the world may yet unite-in the promo
tion of peace; their reform will not,like that
of the abolitionists, end In blood; it will
rather tend to peaceful progress and the
victory of higher over lower elements in
human life. In this hope, at least, the Wo-
VAN'S JOURNAL may well enter upon the
new year. T. W. ff.
II:
XR. ALCOTT'S TRUE CONDITION.
As the reports of Mr. Alcott's present
condition are altogether wrong, it is desira-
ble for the sake of anxious friendsand busy
family that the real facts should be made
known.
Mr. Alcott's mind is brighter than some
weeks ago, but still weak and incapable of
much exertion, either in seeing people, try-
fog to talk, or reading. His speech is at
times very indistinct, and it is difficult for
him to find the proper word to express his
thoughts. His right side is still entirely
helpless; he takes no Solid food, and seldom
leaves his bed for a reclining chair.
Soclety excites him and disturbs hissleep.
which otherwise is usudly quiet. The
bowels still remain torpid, and othersymp-
toms show that, while he has improved in
some ways, there 'Is no prospect of entire
restoration to health.
His great vigor will doubtless sustain him
for a longer time than most men of his age,
but at eighty-three, and after three attacks,
it Is not probable that he will reover.
L. M. ALoor.
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new subscriber to the WoxANs JOURNAL,
we will send postpaid to the address of the
friend by whom the subscription Is obtain-
ed. the Letters of Lydia Maria Child, a
most Interestnr autobiography of a noble
woman-price $1.50.
AN INIDIOUS DANGE.
We have many words of congratulation
for our readers at the beginning of this new
year. We have also a word of warning, on
a subject which deeply concerns women.
For some years past, occasional attempts
have been made to introduce in the United
States the system of State-regulated vice-
acopy of what Francs Power Cobbe calls
the ever infamous Contagious Diseases
Acts of England. The effort is to have all
houses of ill-fame put tinder government
supevision, and to have the women inhab.
iting such houses forced to undergo a
weekly medical inspection by government
surgeons, In order that they may not com-
municate disease to the men who visit them.
There Is no general wish for such laws
among our people. They are essentially
immoral. despotic, and opposed to the spirit
of our institutions. Indeed, except in large
cities and a few especially Immoral dis-
tricts, the idea of such legislation strikes
most people as so monstrous and impracti-
cable that they cannot believe there is any
serious danger of its being foisted upon
them. But this is just what a small
body of persevering and determined spec.
islists are constantly trying to do. Baled
in one place, they try in another. They
are like the devil,who, as an old writersays,
makes up for his weakness by a most In-
fernal activity. Within a few months,
the American Public BetLh Association,
after having had the subject under consider-
ation for several years, refused, by a two-
thirds vote, to petition for anything of the
sort. Within a few weeks, the Cleveland
Board of Health, unabashed by this action,
has asked the City Council for an ordinance
embodying the worst features of the Eng.
lish Acts. Since our last issue, the Dews
has come that an effort is to be mde to
procure the repeal of the good Missouri
law which forbids any licensing of vice in
that state. These attemts have been espec-
ially numerousduring the last months of
the year which has just losed. They are
always made as quietly nd unobtrusively
as possible, because pa il dliisaliti
generally fatal to tm. 'TIIIf T
great danger that they may bie'iudessful
somewhere, simply through public security
and carelessness. We therefore urge upon
all our subscribers, froomn alne to Califor-
nia, the following point4
1. Let every reader of the Woaw's
JoRNAr tonatitute himself a vigilance
committee of one, to see that, noting of
the sort is passed in his city or state with-
out his knowledge.
2. Let every one who bears of such a
proposal, in any part ofthe country, send
word at once to the President of the N. Y.
Committee for the Prevention of State Reg-
ulation of Vice..Mrs. Abby Hopper Gib-
bons. 55 W. 47 St., N. Y. City, who will
furnish them with documents and inform-
teon to combat the measure. Let them also
send word to the WoxN's JoulanAwhich
will be glad to help expose the business.
S. Follow u'p every such attempt of the
enemy by carrying the war Into Africa-
i. e. by securing a law forbidding the II.
censing of vice anywhere in the state, as
has been done in Missourir aid Illinois.
4. Let us all double our efforts to secure
to women the right to vote, which will
make such leislation impossible.
We havet not felt It necessary to say
much about the sanitary failure of state
licensed vice, because its manifest injustice
and wickedness were reaon enough for
opposing it. But there is ample evidence
that it does not Improve the public
health. It is notorious nast European
capitals where regulation prevails are
worse scourged than our American cities
by the diseases resulting from vice. Paris
has had regulation for a hundre years.
Paris has probably the sharpest police in
the world, and gives them much wider and
more arbitrary powere than any American
community would be willing to grant Its
police. Yet the police, according to official
estimate, can only succeed In bringing
under government control about one-eighth
of the vicious somen to Parts. The licene-
og system thete has deadened the public
conscience to a frightful extent. It has
corrupted and demoralized the pollee, who
are eerywhee in league with the brothel-
keepers. It has led to repeated cases of
the arrest of virtuous women on suspic-
ion; to the levying of unlimited blackmail,
and to such a series of blunders, conflicts
and scandals that the City Council has
recommended the summary abolition of
the Morals Police. -The experience of
other European capitals has been much the
same. But it is not the incidental abuses
of the. system against which we protest.
The system itself is an abuse, Any law
which endeavors to make vice safe In-
creases vice. Any law which as.
sumes vice to he a necessity and raises
an essentially vicious tra0o to the
rank of a lawful Industry, deadens the pub-
lic conscience. A law which Increases
vice and deadens the public conscience has
no business on the statutebook, and would
have no business there even If it could so-
cure the perfect physical health of the
whole community.
But this is not the alternative. The bitter
experience of Europe shows that licensing
vice, while It damages the public morals
Incalculably, does not promote the public
health. The Increase of vice consequent
upon fancied security more than counter-
balances the little good done by the com-
pulsory medication of one bad woman In
eight. Asa distinguished American phy
sician says: The countries where the
regulation systen has been most fully tried
show the largest prevaleince of disease.
Their salitry failure leaves these evil laws
without the shadow of an excuse. Some
particulars as to their sanitary failure are
given in Mrs. Bolton's able article in
another column, to which we commend the
attention of our readers. L. .
EDUCATIONAL ANA INDUSTIAL UNION
The Women's Educational and Indus-
trial Union now appeals for money to place
it on a permanent foundation. It has
worked quietly and earnestly for five years.
Will not allicome forward and help, accord-
ing to their means, with sums from fifty
cents to hundreds of dollars?
Begun by a few women who at first gather-
ed forSundaymeetings, it has grown until
it has a membership of 950 and eleven
distinct departments of work. Thelodus-
trial Committee offer for sale clothing,
fancy articles, preserves and cake made by
needy women; the Educational provides
classes and lectures for those who wish to
learn; the Protective collects wages of
working girlsaunjustly withheld; the Moral
and Spiritual holds Sunday services; the
l-yglenic looks after th tick and furnishes
a physician's care; the Employment finds
work for those who wish it; and the Com-
mitteeon Social Affairs seures amusement
in the parlors of the Union, for those who
in their busy lives may And little of it
elsewhere.
The Reading Room and Parlors are open
throughout the dayand evening to all women.
especially to those coming from a distance.
There Is also an Agency of D reotion
which gives Information in regard to local-
ities lectures, schools, places of entertain-
ment, boarding places for women, e.
K. 0. w.
DILLIAWT OATION ST A MOTOR
LADY.
In a graphic sketch of a recent Women's
Demonstration at Glasgow a writer says:-
P'or twenty minutes Miss Craigen held the
audience spellibound. This lady Is one of
the greatest orators I have ever heard.
She gave the impression of being an Inde-
pendent and original thinker, fearless In
speaking out her convictionstand some of
the passages of her speech might be justly
described as logic as fire. There was an
almost Shakespeareandgity and music in
snme of her sentences. In this, for exam-
pe: If women are to hel men to nobler
thoughtsthey must think themselves. low
can they think if they are not free? There
is no thought in slavery. She contended
that political corruption will never be cured
until women take no interest in politics;
sad one of her remarks under this head
mlight havebeenspoken by Carlyle: Our
kinge of today. she said, are no longer
in Winded or St. James. They are In the
counting house and work-shop, and If you
go through the streets on a summerevealg
you may see them at the corners, or passing
In and out of the doors of the public-house
with caps on their heads and short pipes in
their mnotihs. But if these kings who are
to goveri us have not the isdom, hdl to
govero themselves, what Is to become of
s?
It was this speaker who raised the meet-
Ing to its highest pitch of enthusiasm which
it had resebed,whenspeaking ass cotch-
woman of her native country, she pro-
nounced a glowing eulogy on uncoiquered
Scotland, In which therelsnot a spot that
is not made upof the dust of our martyrs.
For thrilling oratorisal power this was the
speech of the evening. and when It was
done the resolution was carried unanimous-
ly.. no oneventuring to stand up against il
Every woman In the ball seemed to hold
up her hand in its favor.
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CONCERNING WOMEN.
MRs. JULIA WARD ows has an artiole
on Dr. Francis Lieber, In the last Crte.
Miss BamTuA VON HILLERN has her
home In Boston, butb her present abode Is
Strasburg,Va. where she may be addressed.
MIsS MULLRa is re-elected to thelondo
School Board by a handsome majrity,
Those of us who had the pleasure of met
Ing her here last summer will be glad to
know that the late election resulted so well
for the School Board, and for Miss Muller.
MARoUaRITr CAULan, daughter of a Bel.
glan journalist, has been presented, amidst
general congratulations, with the CiviO
Cross, first class, for having saved from
drowning a young man at the seaide town
of Blarkenburg.
DR. MART TAToa BresaL. a recent
graduate of the Woman's Medical Collee
of the New York Infirmary. read a paper
before the Brooklyn Woman's Club on
Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 36th. on The
Physiological Educationof Children. The
paper was an excellent one and was welt
received.
Miss MAr RooaRs. of Dubuque, Iowa,
is the author of The Waverly Dictionary
and various critical and historical paiir>
She was invited to read her celebratdd p-
per on Madame Roland before a &thpany'
of ladies and gentlemen In the club tis
of the Sherman House on Monday Decam.*
ber 18.
Mrss GRACE W. 801En has this week
been added to the staff of the Boston Jour-
meJ. This is the sixth of our daily papers.
that has recognized the demand for the
feminine expression In its .olums, and
provided for IL Miss Sorer is a gradate
of Cornell and comes 2ad goes with her
father every day.
Mas. . D GrLawla, who was the
bead of the Ladies' xecutive Comnittee
of the Centennialt'has undertaken serie
of six symphony concerts, given t the
Academy of Masie, under the leadership of
Theodore Thomas, on the evenings of Nov-
ember 1st, December 21. .1 anuary 97th
February 24th. Marsh 14th, and April
15th, 1883. The progrmmes already
announced are ery atractve.
MrIN Euvas. daughter of the late Mr. D.
A. Evans, has baappointed gaistrar of
births and deaths for the Aberyatwith Ion-
don district The Reglistrar-General had at
first decined to confirm her appointment,
on the insufiolent ground that there are
out stations which have to be attended to
in all weathers. Fortunately, the Bward of
Guardians persevered in their reonumea
dation, and they have been succsPfat.IAs
overcoming ofoicial prejudice.
Miss MAlt Tuoxs, daughter of one
of the Trustees of the Johns Hopkins id-
verlty,has just taken the degree of P:. D.
tanmes ura laude, at the University of
Zurich-a distinction rarely attained by
malse graduates. Miss Thomas Is grad-
nate of Cornell, and studied three years at
Leipsig; she took her examinations at Eur-
ich because the Uniersityof Leipzig does
not grantdetrees to women. Her subact
was philology, a particularly difficult one
In Germany.
Miss AxT . BnALE. principal of the
Tileston Normal SctoloWilmingtoe,0 0.M
sends out a little elght-page pl$Oaer li
the LThi ilt e. The Nove erntitsnuber
of this little paper contains the stuihnon
W man's Ministry as lxemplified sinthls
Southern Statels. by Rev Geo-ObIei
which notel Mrs. Aug1smtus Ieme y to
buld thdi s hol building a 187,
Contiue tosupport Lit by an annual contri-
bution of about $5000, maintg her tos t gift
aggregate $80,000. This is I l Ihth as.
that lights indeed.
Mtd, M. LosaLnX, inspectresa-gea.
eral to the primary obohols of Ps and
Mile. M. Couturier, a dmirct o *6th girls'
igh sol of Havre, are in A aie. In-
vestigating our 'sbool-system, by comel*-
Ion of the Freabh Government. T. otb-
jeat of theiriall Is to learn by actal 'ob'
servation wherein our schools are superior
to those of France, aid to recommend sAch
,features as they believe can be introduieed
with profit into the public sbools of lbat
country. That two ladles should s ole-
ted for such an important duty abreack 1
sIgnlifcant, and an observation of
may prove of benefit6to the directors i tour
own great edueusalotalaIntereist s sraoe
has given evidence, bi this fact, It she
recogofses the value of women s ectors
and as the directors ofducatiloilitterams.
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