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3 Woman's J. 1 (1872)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl3 and id is 1 raw text is: Ike Nhluanus surnaLt VOL. III. BOSTON, CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1872. NO. 1. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, - AND - IIB WOXAN'S ADVOCATE, CONSOLIDATED AUGUST 18, 1870, A Weekly Newspaper, ublished every Satur in RosTON anid CHIAGO, evoted to the interests of 7o. ma, to her educational, Industrial, letol and political uaUty and easpecially to her rightl ofSufage. JULIA WARD HOWE......... LUCY STO0................. EDITORS. HENRY B. BLACK WELL.......... T W.EIGGINBON.... .......... I MARY A. LIVERMORE, CORnaerONDIO EDITOR. TEaMs.gs.50ayear, invaray in advance. Sin- glpocopy, 6 oe. CsLo Rrs-S copies, one year, 86.10; 10 cop. soNeyear, 69000. Wpeolmencopies nt on receipt of two-cent stamp Fo adauboripionsreceived byTn NEW ENLAND Niws Co.,1 Cort tretBo~ton,ind TanseAmERCAN Nws Co., 19 Nssan street, New York RATES OF DVERTISNG-One sare of eight Sr noo 61. ubseque iserion, 50 foradvertising la uniform and lafixible. Bomeor 0jrCE-8 Tremont Pae, rar of Tremont touse an second door from Beaon street. at. uis Address, FANNY HOLY, Inrance Ex- Chanf~ Building, Room 18, corner Fifth and Olive streeC. All communications for the WomAN's JOURNAL, and all letters relating to its editorial management, must be addressed to the Editorsof the WoxMAX's JOURNAL. Letters containiog remittances, add relating to the business deprtment of the paper, must be dresed to Box 4297,Boton. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any person who takes a apr regularly from the postoflc-wheher directed orisnam oranoth- er's, or whether he has subscribed or not-ia respnsi ble for the payment. b. If a epaen orders his paper discontinued, he must pa al rages, or the publisher may contin- ue to snd It until payment Is made, and collect the whole amount, whether the paper Is taken from the *Maie or not. . T e courts have dedd that reat to take newspapers and priodicals rm the pstofce, or re- moveigand leavig them uncalied for, is prisaesce evidence of intentional fraud, AN OERNG. There is no flower in all the land, Not e'en an April blossom, To shut within your snowy hand, Or fold upon your bosom. No wind-flower gleaming In the shade, No violet 'neath the hedges, No columbine its path hath laid Across the wintry ledges. All, all is bare of bud and bloom, Yet in the forest mazes Some little brightness for the gloom Looks out of shady places;- Soft, verdant vines that hide and seek And ever go a-straying,- Green moss that lays its tearful cheek Where beauty is decaying,- Ill gather them from glade and glen, The brightest and the rarest, And bind them Into wreaths again, And you shall have the fairest. And every leaf and climbing vine Shall bear some tender token Ofthe fadeless love forever thine, And the troth by death unbroken. IDA WHIPPLE BENHA. NW LqxDol, Dec. 20, 1871. TER TRW 11SEN. Over the waters, clear and dark, lew, like a startled bird, our bark. All the day long with steady sweep egalls followed us over the deep. Weird and strange were the silent shores, Rich with their wealth of buried ores; Mighty the foreast, old and gray, ithte s loked in their hearts away; Semblance of castle and arch and shrine Towered aloft In the clear sunshine; And we watched for the warder, stern and grm, And the priest with his chanted prayer and hymn. Over that wonderful northern sea, As one who salls in a dream, sailed we, Till, when the young moon soared on high, Nothing was round us but sea and sky, Par in the east the pale moon swung- A crescent dim in the azure hung; But the sun lay low In the glowing west, With bars of purple across his breast. The skies were aflame with the sunset glow, The bllowsre all alame below; The far horizon seemed the gate To some mystc world's enchanted state; And all the air was a luminous mist, Crimson and amber and amethyst. Then siletly into that fery sea- Into the heart of the myste-- Three ships went sailing one by one, The hirest visiont under the en. I Like the flame in the heart of a ruby set Were the sails that flew from each mast of jet; While darklyagainst the burning sky Streamer and pennant floated high. Steadily, slently, on they pressed Into the glowing, reddening west; Until, on the far horizon's fold, They slowly passed through its gate of gold. You think, perhaps, they were nothing more Than schooners laden with common ore? Where Care clasped hands with grimy Toll, And the decks were stained with earthly moil? Oh, beautiful ships, who sailed that night Into the West from our yearning sight, Full well I knowthat the freight ye bore Was laden not for an earthly shore!I To some far realm ye were sailing on, Where all we have lost shall yet be won: Ye were bearing thither a world of dreams, Bright as that sunset's golden gleams; And hopes whose tremulous, rosy flush Grew fairer still in the twilight hush: Ye were bearing hence to that mystic sphere Thoughts no nortal may utter here- Songs that on earth stay not be sung- Words too holy for human tongue- The golden deeds that we would have done- The fadeless wreaths that we would have won! And hence it was that our souls with you Traversed the measureless waste of blue, Till you passed under the sunset gate, And to us a voice said, softly, Wait!,, UATTLEDOO AND BRUTTECOCK. Dr. Samuel Johnson pronounced it essen- tial to a great man's fame that he should be attacked as well as defended. Fame, he said, is a shuttlecock, that needs to be kept up at both ends. And this is not true of per- sonal reputation only, but of the prestige and final success of any great reform. The first thing to do is to bring it fairly before the pub- lic; to join issue; to get the case into court. Now it takes two to make a quarrel, even a legal one; and to bring a case into court im- piles a defendant as well u a plaintiff. Those who have never been trained in the advocacy of popular reforms can never un- derstand that reformers are honestly pleased at a certain amount of honest opposition. How much good-natured condolence we are now receiving, for instance, over the petition of sundry well-meaning ladies of Connecticut against suffrage. If we say the plain truth, that we are glad of such petitions, and ex- pect good from them, our kindly advisers shake their heads, and evidently think that we are only trying to put a good face on a bad bargain, like the Vicar of Wakefield's Moses with his gross of green spectacles. But surely any one can see how much good such open oppositiondoesus. First, these peti- tioners advertise our movement, and call the attention of many toits importance for good or for evil. Then, they allude to our special ar- guments, and among many misstatements give currency to much of our truth. Their way of handling these arguments, too, shows us which of them are most efflecious, and we watch them, as in war a general watches the batteries of an enemy, to see where his shot tells. They lead us to inspect our own ordnance, too, to lay aside any which Is worth- less; to cease firing from any batteries which fall short. We need, in any contest, to know as much as possible of the enemy's strength and weakness,-or of our own. We all watch with eager interest, also, the effect of this contest on our opponents them- selves. So far as they go, they are doing just what we are urging. We claim for women the right to speak and act for them6elves, and that is just what these petitioners are doing. We have always said to them,If you do not speakin favor of Woman Suffrage, you oughtto speak against it. If you do not sign our peti- lons for it, petition the other way. In either case you are petitioning, and it is only about thirty-five years since John Quincy Adams (not the present gentleman of that name) had to vindicate for Massachusetts women,notonlyI the right of petitioning Congress against slav- ery, but the right to petition at all. In main- taining that right we have now the powerfhl aid of Senator Buckingham and his constitu-j ents. We hold, not without plenty of practicalI illustrations to cite, that for a woman to speakj in public against Woman Suffrage is the first. step towards speaking for it; that she who be-I gina by signing a petition in the negative willI be much more likely to. end by a signature ni the affirmativehiban if she had never put herI name to a petition at all; and the same withI all other demonstrations. Themoment a wo- man sees her own name on a bit of paper,- Jane Smith,-with the full and deliberate in- tent that her modest autograph shall be read and quoted in the Capitol at Washington, that moment she has begun to act politically. It is as if in Turkey, she had for once unveiled her face In order to deliver more distinctly her solemn appeal in favor of veils. The act Is stronger than the theory. Thenceforth she is, in attitude and consciousness, a strong- minded female; and having once grown used to military service, she Is liable at any mo- ment to turn her guns on our side. Then again, if' it happens that there are many people who are resolute and combative toward all opponents, who are yet easily de- tached and repelled by the follies of their own friends, we expect such persons to he convert- ed to us by our opponents. Here Is a woman who is invulnerable against the WOMAN'S JOURNAL, but try her with the True Woman, If haply a copy of that small and unobtrusive antagonist can be discovered. Dr. Bushnell ,has made converts for us, as well as Stuart Mill. There are women who will go away unmoved from Lucy Stone, but whom an hour of Rev. Mr. Fulton will secure to our cause forever. Where the stock in trade of our opponents consists so largely of personal as- saults and of undisguised contempt for wo- men, the more we have of their opposition the better. And, in fine, all our strategy Is based on the belief that we are urging the truth, and that the truth will prevail. Nothing is perilous but stagnation, and to fear discussion Is to distrust our own cause. And there is a high- er view than this; for of course we only wish for Woman Suffrage on condition that its principle be true and right, and if Senator Buckingham and his fair friends can prove to us that we have been mistaken, it will certain- ly save some of us a great deal of trouble, and the sooner they accomplish their benevolent work the better. T. W. . LTTER 70K' 0110*8. VUoAo, Dec., 1871. DEAR JOURNAL:-To months since the great fire in Chicago, the fire by whose light it would seem the judgment books had been opened, so plainly has character been revealed, so nakedly have human beings stood before their fellows as good or bad. I have listened to the recitalof thepersonal experience of more than half a hundred people on that dreadful Oth of October, and each has told me of deeds of charity and real heroism that make one proud of one's humanity; andof acts of selfishness that must make their perpetrators wish mem- ory could be destroyed, and of fierce, savage brutality the thoughtof which even now makes one shudder. Said a good Swedenborgian to me, The hells were very near us during those few days. 'Tis said the compensations of calamity are made apparent after long Intervals of time. Certainly to this generation no one thing, not all things combined, can make amends for A destruction unparalleled in the history of the world. People at a distance find compensation for our calamityin thespirit of beneficence evoked in so many lands, in the wonderful shower of gifts we have received, and one di- vineoes so far as to say we could not afford to have done without the Chicago fire. A disinterestednescomparableonly tothatof the late Artemus, who was willing to sacrifice all his wife's relatives. Now we in Chicago could very well have afforded to do without the fire, to keep the noble institutions of our beautiful city, for beautiful it was and growing in lovel- ness year by year, to have gone on with our work, public and private, paying honestly there- for instead of feeding our people the bitter bread of charity, for bitter it must be, however kind the hand that gives., The spirit of this people is something mar- vellous. It in rare to hear any one allude to money losses; If personal regrets are expressed, they are for some cherished household god, and all are at work bringing order out of chaos as cheerfully as if they had not lost forunes,-the women ministering to neighbors a little poorer than themselves, the men putting aside the leisure habits to which lives of active usefulness had entitled them, and plunging into business with the ardor of twenty. Where all suffer,-for this fire withdemonia- cal ingenuity contrived to strike every one at some point--it is hard to tell what class most deserves sympathy. T my own heart, as ap- parently to that of Mr. Stewart, If we may judge by his princely gift, come nearest theI women who supported themselves before theI fire, and of these, the teachers. Those inthe4 public schools will soon be provided for; the school-houses must be rebuilt, the city mustI provide for the education of her children; but in the ease of private tihwers no such nacessi tyxists, and they have not only lost the frits of their labors, but the means by which theyI lived,-their pupils are scattered to the fourI winds. . . The experience of one of the most success-( ful will illustrate what I mean. This one, as the result of seven years of hard work, saw her- self the 8th of October the occupant of a hand- some house with a class of fifty girls, four teach- ers in her employ and all the appointments of( a first-rate school. Not believing danger im-I minent, but having two young ladies with her( confided to her care by parentseabsent frommthe city, she dared take no risks, and unable to get( a vehicle of any sort, left her house with suchE things as she could carry In her hands. She took refuge with a friend at some distance, and( while breaking her fast was arranging to rent a vacant house in that block should her ownI burn, when she found the fire had reached theI rear of the very house she was in. AnotherI flight and another, with the flames leaping from block to block behind them, five times that dayI she sought rest; at last she reached the limits of the city, hospitable doors were thrown open to her. Can I stay ? for I will not stop again till I can stay to rest. Stay and rest. A week ? As long as you please. She washed the grime from her face, and lay down to seek the coveted rest. At midnight a cry came, as startling to them in their fanced security as to Samson-'The Philistines be upon thee-and out into the glare more horrible than darkness they fled, Then, aid she,I despaired and but for those girls that I knew I must restore to their moth- ers I should have lain down and let the fames take me* Without a book, without a memento of the years of rest in Europe and the years of workI here, without afull change of wearing apparel, she began the world again. Homes have been offered her; she has been begged to rest at least this winter. No, I must work now as never before; if I stop to think I shall go mad. A ltte room in the West Di- vision, a class of three in the one house left standing in the North, a German lesson or two in the South-such is the beginning of one of our most accomplished women.. The last time she came in for the place alwaysi aiting fbr her she had been five miles for the one eobon and the one dollar. But I need the dollar., To the General Relief such persons cannot go even by their friends, and the special funds, divided among so many, only supply the most pressing needs, for in what is left of our city there is unfortuately more than one similarly situated. Those who taught only music, drawing and the languages are of course in sorry ilight, for these are luxuries burned-out people think they must dodwithout, as usual economizing In the wrong direction. An Italian whom I left two years ago with daily lessons enough to support herself and continue the education of her son, I found with her son, who receives for his work li a shop the enormous sum of four dollars a week, in one room, with one mattress, and no phiow but the shawl she wore during the day. Imt, mediate wants we Bsoon supplied, but the sew- Ing machine! for by that she expected to live, lesons, you know, being out oftthe question.I Yes, too well I knew it, but I said within my-. self, if the women who are to wear the epbrol-I dered dresses, which it seems are the fashion1 in spite of the fire, wouldbutthink plain gowns in good taste and pay the differencefor lessons! Most of the gifts we receive come shackled with conditions. Thus the sewing-machines are for worthy seamstresses who lost theirsI in the fire,' As if all must furnish proofl ofI saintliness before beingpermitted to earn their bread. My little Italian was noteven a seam- stress he had lived by her brains, which are at a vas unthere now. Luckily theBeverend to whom are consigned the coveted machines has that inusele which often proves such , 4 troublesome posseslon, and took the respon- sibility of following his own kind Instincts rather than the letter of his instructions. The good things given by pitying ones flow to our destitute through many channels out- side the General Relief, and I only wish these were multiplied, for it lessens the Iurdens of the sadly over-worked managers of the Aid So- clety, and saves the time required for the prop. er making out of the tediously long papers that must be approved before the Issuing of an or- der for anything. Trying to persons who have little strength and less patience, but nee- essary, doubtless, to prevent the greed of those that already have means of support, and enableF the society to carryIts heavy burden throughv the winter, that threatens to be as pitiless for b us as the last was forthe wretchsin beleaguer- ed Paris. The wind never is triperd to the shorn lamb, but blows as keenl a if the shiv- erer had not lost his fleece. But'whygoon with a reeltal of the woes thathave taken awayall the joy oflife brusla Another day I will try to tell youof some of C Digitized from Best Copy Available the means women are taking to lighten these burdens, for we have learned that even the coarse work, still imperative, cannot be well done unless elevated by something finer and more spiritual. A new helper we have, one we feared lost to us by the fire-Dr. Mary Safford. As brave as she is skilled, she has pitched her tent in the desolate city, and is gathering about her those that will love her as well if not ab to appre- ciate her so fully as the friends she left in Ger- many. For the first time we have a woman doctor who has had all the advantages of in- struction and hospital practice men enjoy. The right hand of fellowship has been cor- dially extended to her by all of her own school, and some of the Professors of the Old School College have expressed a wish she should vi-. It their classes, bt they could not answer for the deportment of their pupils. Fortunately she need not risk rudeness, as she can have lit- tle to learn from lectures addressed to' such persons. Yours, KATE N. DoGeTT. CONCERNING WOMEN. Four ladies are studying In the Bussey In-' stitution of Harvard University. Miss Phoebe Cousins, of St. Louis, has been admitted to practice as a lawyer. The late Mrs. Jacob Whiting of SouthHing- ham, mother of the late Joseph J. Whiting of Boston, left a bequest of $3000 to Tafts Col- lege. Mrs. H. L Simonds, of Morton, Wis.,made and sold from the milk of four cows 1024 pounds of butter, from January 1 to Novein- ber 24, 18C Women have been admitted as members of the parish by the Unitarian society at Spring- field and also as members of the FirstUnitari- an Pariqh in Hingham. Ithoda, the new serial story, the opening chapter of which appears in Merr's M m for January, waslwritten by a niece of a.- known Ne* England poet. Miss Margaret -A. [moAnih was the rst in the prize list ofstudents who attended Pro fessor Huley's recent coure of Instruction i biology for teachers of science. A Vermont lady has a girls' school in Yoko hams, Japan, which v as opened on the las of September last, exclusively for girls, and is numbersseventeen pupils now. It is rumored that MissNilsson will appear no thore on the European stage, but willmar- ry and retire into private life as soon as hr - gagement In this country ls over. The Miss E. A. Taylor who is writing a sto. ry for Macmillan's Magazine, calle.Between the Hills, is a daughter of Sir Henry Taylor the author of Philip van Artevelde, the Statesman, etc. Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ams is to write the memoirs of Alice and Phebe Cary. The le. ters and papers left by the two ssters will be Intruated to Mrs. Amses, who wal one of their most intimate friends. Mrs. H. 8. Baird, of Green Bay, Wis, has been recommended by Gov. Fahrhild to - colve and superintend the distribution of gifts- for the relief of the wonen and children who were reduced to destitution by the grea ree of the Northwest.- Miss Betsey WHileas,who died the othse day, in her 824 year, cherished the meor of her great ancestor, and in her willleaves fhrm to the city of Provdence, with a proviso that a monument be erected to Roger Williums whlah shall cost notless tian $500. The Queen of Holland, who lnte self warmly in the literary people or,. while visitIng there some time ago; made a of ihe artists of Rme, morerecently,bestowag- the greater part of her attention on the stu- dios, and especially noticing Mr. Buchanan Read. Mrs. Caroline L. Barnard, forierly of this city, but now a residentof Lyn, has provided at an expense of $300 a pump and a stone drinking-fountain, at the junction of Min and Summer streets. The fbuntain is exceedingly large, and is especially Intended for the use of animals. Miss Bertha Gerolt, the baon's daughter, is not yet located. She did not accompany her father to a German convent, as reported, but stayed in Washingtona a postulan, witheome present prospect that she will get thed of cou. vent life, and resign before her season of pro. bation isover. Over 800 sewing machines have been t-h nished to the sewingwmen of Chilago by thi Belief Society. They are valued at 00 esb, bu arefthrnishedlbythemanotheturerstor$8. Of this aouatthe Belief Boolety donsatei~ and the hotlplenit obligates herself to th~e the $10 wigtimoe year. 144,.

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