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21 Woman's J. 417 (1890)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl21 and id is 1 raw text is: She 30< BOSTON, SAtURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1890. No. 1. - - -~ ~ - -__-__ - - - - --.------- ------ ---- ---.- -- -- - - The Woman's Journal. Weekly Newspaper, published every Saturday BOSTON devoted to the interests of Woman- her educatIonal, Industrial,.legal and political uslity, and especially to her right of Suffrage. EDITORS: LUCY STONE, H. B. BLACKWELL, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUTORS: JULIA WARD Bows, MARY A. LIVERMORE, MRS. H. M. T. CUTLER, ELIZABETH STUART PRHELPS WARD, MARY PUTNAM JACOBI, M.D., FRANCES . WILLARD, MARY F. EASTMAN. DR. EMILY BLACKWELL, MISS MARY E. BEEDY, HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD, DR. LELIA G. BEDELL, MRS. ELLEN B. DIETRICK, MRS. LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE, DR. ALIDA C. AVERY, MRS. ELLA DIETZ CLYMER. MILS. MARY E. HAGGART. MRS. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL. MRS. LAURA M. JOHNS. PROF. ELLEN A. HAYES. MRS. SARAn BRISTOL COOl'EI:. MRS. A. M. DIAZ. SUSAN C. VOGL, Business Manager Advertising Department. T.ERns-$2.50 a year; to a new subscriber for first r, $1.50, in advance; 5 ots. for single copy. CLUB RATES-5 copies one year, $10. Sample copies free. BOSTON OFFICE-No. 3 Park Street, where copies e for sale and subscriptions received. The Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association at hiladelvipa, 1601 Mt. Vernon Street. With the beginning of this new year, ill not every subscriber make 1890 a goqd ,ear for the WOMAN'S JOURNAL by paying h. or her subscription in advance? A recount by the Boston aldermen gives )r. Elizabeth C. Keller, for the School loard, a majority of fifty-three over Mrs. sabel C. Barrows. In other words, it hows the election of the entire ticket ominated by the Women's Ward and ity Committee, the Loyal Women of ,merican Liberty, and the Committee f One Hundred. This is the most ex- raordinary election ever held in Boston. [eretofore, any candidate who secured the mot nomination of Republicans and Demo- crats was sure of election, and a candidate rho was on neither the Republican nor he Democratic ticket had no chance. 'his year Mr. Wellington was on both the Republican and the Democratic tickets; o was Mr. Macdonald; yet both of them were defeated, 'because they lacked the support of the great body of women vot- 1rs. On the other hand, Dr. Elizabeth Keller and Mr. Daniels, who were on neither of the regular party tickets, but ho were supported by the majority of he women, are elected. While we regret hat Mrs. Barrows was not elected as well s Dr. Keller, there is no denying that this year and last the women voters have roved themselves the dominant factor in he election of the Boston School Board. Among the different colleges and univer- ities, contestants for the honor of having een the first to establish co-education are oming into the field. But the credit will orever belong to Oberlin, in Ohio. In 833 Oberlin College, at Its very begin- ing, opened its doors to women, and de. lared that neither color nor sex should be disqualification for adnission. Our Kentucky correspondenti in another olumn, gives at considerable length her teral construction of some lo'l4ed Bible assages. The discussion of Bible-inspira- on Is not germane to ourcolumns. What e say is that upon the theory of Bible- spiration woman's equality is plainly in-. ulcated. The unwisdom of contrasting he condition of Hindoo and Christian 'omen, to the disadvantage of the litter, s clearly shown by a letter from Pundita Ramabal, copied elsewhere this week In rour columns. It is a rare thing for a Virginia court to receive an application from a lady for a license to practise law. Recently such an applicant, although fully qualified, was refused a ce'tificate by the Circuit Court of Plttsylvania. The judge held that in the law the word person used in descri57- ing those to whom licenses could be granted meant men only. To cure this defect a bill has been introduced in the Virginia Senate to allow women to be ad- mitted to the bar. The despatches say: The ladywho was rejected by the Pitt- sylvania court, and in whose behalf especially it is proposed to amend the law, has for years been assisting her hus- band in the preparatiou of some of his most complicated legal cases. There are not less than four or five of the most brilliant society women in the State who an prepare briefs. One wrote out opin- ions equal to those of some of the best lawyers at the bar. Mlle. Popelln, who was refused admis- siqn to the Brussels bar on account of her sex, appealed to the Cor de Caeasaion, which has confirmed the adverse decision of the lower court. The death of preju- dice is slow, though sure. The New England Woman's Press As- sociation held its annual meeting at the Parker House in this city, Jan. 1, and elected the following officers for 1890: President, Mrs. Salile Joy White; Vice- Presidents, Mrs. Allie E. Whitaker, Mrs. Isabel C. Barrows; Corresponding Secre- tary, Miss Belle Grant Armstrong; Re- cording Secretary, Miss Edith K. Perry; Treasurer, Miss Helen M. Winslow; Audi- tor, Mrs. Susan C. Vogl; Executive Com- mittee, Mrs. Marion A. McBride, Mrs. E. Addle Heath, Miss Grace W. Soper. Mrs. E. M. H. Merrill, the secretary, declined a re-election. *The Albany Times, which has just been made the State paper for New York, is an outspoken advocate of woman suffrage, and has been so for many years. Surely the world moves! A private letter from a friend in Eng- land gives this amusing account of the im- pression which the weekly story in the WOMAN'S JOURNAL has made upon her servant's sweetheart: I have never told you how young Elliot, our Maggie's 'young man,'Iobjects to the WOMAN'S JOURNAL. He declares that all the tales are written for his benefit ex- pressly, to enforce 'equal rights.' He is a real good fellow, and believes in equal rights; but, as he likes tales, he thinks he gets a little too much dosed on this one point, as he does not need it! The Pall Mall Gazette thus describes some of the good results that have come to the English agricultural laborer through the suffrage: Lord Spencer's plea for village councils was one of the most useful speeches of the recess. It is quite true, as he says, that nothing can be more important than to infuse life into our villages, to vivify the intelligence of the poor people In them, and to create among them a feeling of re- sponsibility. But until the agricultural laborer had a vote, no one cared for him. He was merely like manure in the State. Now he has become the pivot round which our whole system revolves. The change In his status, of which Lord Spencer's speech is the latest illustration, is an im- mense incentive to renewed zeal in the cause of the enfranchisement of women. In politics, the interests of the unrepre- sented are ignored. Not until your name is on the electoral register do statesmen remember that you exist. Nothing can be more obvious than the truth of Lord Spencer's observation: What could be of greater interest than the sanitary con- dition of the cottages of a village to the poor people who live in them, or the man- agement of the schools, or the water sup- PIT, or the proper management of the vilage charities But this truism was ignored by everybody until the day when the poor people who lived in the cottages of our villages were admitted within the pale of citizenship. As it has been with Hodge, so it will be with women. Let them seek first admission to the electorate roll, and all other things will be added unto them. POLICE MATRONS IN NEW YORK. Ah effort will be made this winier to amend the New York statute providing for the appointment of police matrons. In New York City, despite, frequent applica- tions and remonstrances, the law has not been carried out. At the meeting of the county conven- tion of the Women's Christian Temperance Unions, held in that city recently, Mrs. Howard, chairman of the committee on the city prison and jail work, gave in her report the reasons why the law Is a dead letter. In her efforts to discover the cause of the delay, she was referred from one official to another. In the bill that passed the Legislature last year, it was provided that when the board of estimate should make an appropriation for this purpose, the police commissioners were authorized to appoint two police matrons for each station-house in the city. The board of estimate have made no appropriation, con- sequentLy the police commissioners have a valid excuse for not making the appoint- menits. Mrs. Howard finally wrote to the mayor, and received for reply:- I presented your communication rela- tive to an appropriation for female at- tendants in the various police station- houses to the board at the meeting this day, while they were considering the es- timates of the police department for the coming year, and in view of the fact that the police commissioners would not advo- cate it, the board refused to act. In Brooklyn, also, the law has been in- operative. A delegation from several women's organizations has interviewed Mayor Chapin, and asked his support for the new measure, providing for an ade- quate number of matrons and making pro- vision for their salaries. The Brooklgn Times, in commenting upon this visit to the mayor, pointedly remarks: The law providing for the appointment of police matrons in Brooklyn has never yet been carried out. It has simply been ignored by our local authorities. If a like number of appointments providing fat sinecures for voters were at the disposal of the Board of Aldermen, we presume they would not be vacant very long. But a number of appointments to places which require hard and disagreeable work, and which will have no political influence whatever, seem not worth bothering about, even if the law, seconded by an equally imperative public necessity, demands that they be filled. Yet the places ought to be filled. It is disgraceful and discreditable that they have been left vacant so long. It is an outrage that in the treatment of women prisoners, their arrest, their im- prisonment, even in the searching of their persons, men only are employed. Many women might be helped or reformed under wiser and more delicate treatment than is accorded them in this city of churches. We need a new women's jail. We need police matrons. Let us have the latter immediately, and the former as soon as possible. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. WASHINGTON, D. C., JA. 1, 1890. Editors Womans Joural : A happy New Year to you and all your readers! If prosperity means happiness, and deserving It means getting it, then the JOURNAL has plenty of joy before it. Washington is alive once more. Few people, outside of the regular residents, have any idea of the difference between the summer life and the winter life of this city. People from all over the world come here during the season, and go away with the impression that the National Capital is the gayest place in the world; when, in actual truth, a place more abso- lutely quiet and devoid of excitement from the time Congress adjourns till it convenes again, it would be hard to find. But Congress is In session once more; the men are all back again, and the women, too. Consequently Washington is inter- esting. Miss Anthony is at the Riggs House, where Mrs. Jane H. Spofford has kindly placed the spacious parlors of the Riggs at the disposal of the District Suf- frage Association. This fact alone was sufficlent to call out a large attendance, for every one was eager to greet the tried friends. Miss Anthony gave an in- esting account of her recent Western trip. The number of lectures given, and hun- dreds of .miles travelled, were quite suffi- cient to convince her hearers that Susan B. is a long way from being laid on the shelf. Miss Cousins is here trying to convince the Government that injustice has been done her and her father before her, during their terms of office as U. S. Marshals. As usual, Uncle Sam is mulish, and does not try to understand; but Miss Cousins is equal to giving him a plain exposition of the facts. Mrs. Colby Is also here with her bright paper, TAe Woman's 2Wbune, and Miss SaraWinthrop Smith is assisting her. Mrs. Colby is full of zeal and enter- prise, and her paper never fails to strike a blow for women and their cause. Kate Field has come with her Wasiugon, a weekly magazine, and if Miss Field will devote it to the true interests of humanity, it will be what she is capable of making It, a success. But Kate Field is a good deal of a shooting star, and there is no telling where she or her magazine will hit when they light next time. Lawyer Ada M. Bittenbender, of Lincoln, Neb., is here- again, looking after the Legislative inter- ests of the W. C. T. U. She was recently entertained at The Fredonia, a new hotel opened by Mrs. S. D. La Fetra (president of the District W. C. T. U.), to- gether with Mrs. Bateham, of Ohio, Na- tional Superintendent of Sabbath Obser- vance; also Msj or and Mrs. J. A. Pickler, from South Dakota, who are ardent pro- hibitionists. At its next monthly meeting the W. S. A. will elect its new officers, or re- elect its old ones, as the case may be. One and all are looking forward with interest to the coming National-American Conven. tinn. ELLA MARIE MARBLE. LETTER FROM KANSAS. SALINA KAN., DEC. 23, 1889. Rditors Woman's Journal: I have just returned from a short trip in the State, and find no abatdnent of Inter- est in our cause. I spoke for the W. C. T. U. at Marion and Clements, and found these Unions, as is generally the case in Kansas, permeated by suffrage sentiment. And yet, what timid and inconsistent souls we are, notwithstanding our moral strength and power after we get into the struggle! We can fight, and do fight bravely enough when we must; but how we do fence about and temporize, lutting off the beginning of the fight! At one point on this trip, where I had been en- gaged to speak for the W. C. T. U.-being State W. C. T. U. Superintendent of the two departments of scientific temperance instruction in the public schools and of social purity-I had but just stepped off from the cars when I received a message requesting that I speak on temperance in- stead of woman suffrage, because that town had never had a suffrage lecture, and they feared It might not be a popular sub- ject. Now, feeling that woman's enfran- chisement is the main root of the temper- ance reform, I could not be persuaded to use up my small stock of strength in coax- ing little buds and branches to grow, when I could be sinking the roots deeper and deeper into soil that would give vital strength and everlasting life. So I dis- coursed on the suffrage question, and showed how the resubmission wave now sweeping across our State would dash in unavailing fury against the adamantine wall of woman's ballot. The doctrine was evidently well received. At the close, the lady who had sent me the timorous message said, It wasn't a bit like what I thought a suffrage lecture would be. At Halstead I found the auxiliary which I organized just a year ago, and for which I feel a motherly solicitude, strong and active, and its members imbued with such self-respect, and respect for their own sex, as filled me with delight. I hold that women need to cultivate self-respect. It seems to me that while women are suf- fering from the presumption of no brains, and the presumption of no rights that either individuals or churches are bound to respect, women must not, even for the sake of peace, accept whatever humili- ating conditions individuals or organiza- tions may capriciously put upon them; but always remember to conduct their own side of the case with wisdom and dig- nity, so as to make the untoward and un- comfortable episode, whatever it be, re- dound to the honor and profit of the cause and the glory of womanhood. It seemed to me that the work of this auxiliary had brought the rich blessing of growth to its members, and this should be the case with every such society. In this organization is Grandma Ingalls, eighty-five years old, and full of earnestness and zeal. It was an inspiration to see her at both meetings. At Anthony was held the Harper County Annual E. S. A. Convention...lt was an interesting meeting. There .br, nine organizations in this county, due to the energy of Mrs. C. L. Denton, ofif L.: tica. Mrs. Edith Gaines, Mrs. Val,4da. Mrs. Sallie Denton- are leadingA.I1its in the county. On one of the mdsi1%s We had a curious little symposium o ezpeP ences in church work; and it showed tht' nearly every woman present was heavily burdened with labor for raising church funds, and that each woman gave of her substance and her strength-even leading women in the suffrage work -twenty times as much to the church as she gave to the work for her enfranchisement, and this in the face of the fact that each be- lieves that she could further the cause of temperance and morality with the ballot faster than by any other means ! I am glad to tell your readers that we are to have Rev. Anna Shaw with us in March, beginning on Feb. 26. Miss Shaw's work has been wonderfully useful to us in this State. So popular is she here as a speaker that I always have more invi- tations for her than she can accept. There was great disappointment when her illness made it impossible for her to fill her engagements here last spring, and now there is much rejoicing over the fact that we are to have her in our State this March. Her unselfishness, her devotion to the cause, breathe through all her work and strengthen her eloquent words. Most of her dates are now filled, and I wish to fill the rest before Jan. 6. Those desiring her lectures will please address me at once. LAURA M. JOHINS. CONCERNING WOMEN. MADAME CARNOT gave a Christmas party to four hundred poor children at the Elys~es in Paris. MISS MARIA PRATT, now residing In the City of Mexico, is translating the Bible into Span ish. MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE will fill five lecture engagements in Kansas on her way home from California. MME. ANTOINETTE STERLING, the well- known contralto singer of this country, long resident in England, has applied for admission to the Society of Friends. Miss MARY STOCKELL Is stenographer for the District Court of Tensas Parish, La. She lately distinguished herself by ta'.,Ing 180 pages of evidence in two days. MRS. ELLA HAGGARD, mother of the author of She and King Solomon's Mines, has just died, aged seventy. She was a good musician, and the author of a number of poems. MRS. ELIZABETH W. CHAMPNEY, whose Vassar Girls has reached its eightieth thousand, is going abroad again in the spring-this time to Ireland-to catch the local color for a new story. ABBY ButGEss, now Mrs. Grant, has had charge of the Matinicus Light, north of the Penobscot River, for twenty-eight years. She was at first employed as as- sistant, but was given full charge in 1866. Miss SuSA B. ANTHONY Is taking ac- tive steps to raise money toward the ex- penses of the National-Americai Annual Convention to be held in Washington next February, and has issued an appeal for funds. Contributions may be sent to her at the Riggs House, Washington, D. C. MRS. BENTLEY, the wife of one of the best-known African missionaries, is teach- ing telegraphy to some black boys on the Congo. The last time she was in Europe she learned telegraphy for the purpose of training native operators. She hopes to have them ready for service by the time the Congo railroad is laid. MISS PHI LLIPA FAWCETT, daughter of Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett and the late Postmaster-General of England, is a very bright girl, and Is making Cambridge men look about them. The Wegisser and Lambeth GazeWe says: Thos iwho are going in for mathematics are trembl l lest their laurels should be wrested froi them and the honors carried off by a woman. FRAu Lixk Moaw sEN, Deutac Hausfrous aeituag, Berlin, W. Lutzow. platz, Nr. 14, has Issued two volumes of The Women of the Nineteenth Century, a very extensive work, of which there will be one more volume. Though It Is writ- ten in German, she asks women In all civilized lands to aid her by sending bio- graphical notices of women whose lives belong in this collection In honor of their Sin. ;.fps. %~iOzOIA A. Psix has had the ex- 4f.i-ve.Vitorlal charge of the Boston Cor- ssorneefilth since March, 1886. She is, we tbpel ve,.thejsole exception to the rule that ...i . t a daily or woekly newspaper l 20oft xappt the woman suffrage and tampqrMo. 'phpmr whose managing editor • j.g *e dI. 'hut the Boston Common- .his been for more than twenty years an outspoken advocate of woman suffrage. I MRS. DLIZ ABETH CADV STANTON lately gave an address on womaq suffiage at the Sanitarium of Dr. James C. Jackson, at Dansville, N. Y. Mrs. Stanton and her two daughters hav been passing a few weeks at this institution, and they found a great need of enlightenment on the sub- ject. Mrs. Stanton has presented about fifty books to the library of the Sanita- rium, including a good deal of equal rights literature. MISS MARIA LOUISE BALDWIN, a young colored lady, has been appointed principal of the Agassiz SBhool at Cambridge, Mass. Miss Baldwin is a daughter of the late P. L. Baldwin, who was for many years connected with the Boston post- office. She graduated with honors from the Cambridge High School, and later from the training-sehool. She then took a position in Chestertown, Md., but in October, 1889, returned to Cambridge, at the request of the school board, and was put In charge of the- ninth primary grade of the Agassiz School. Here she performed such admirable service that she was successively promoted to the eighth and seventh grades. Digitized from Best Copy Available OL. XX[.

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