Woman's Journal V. 32

32 Women's J. 1 (1901)

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Vol. XXXII. BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1901. No. 1.

The Woman's Journal
FOUNDED BY LUCY STONE.
A Weekly Newspaper, published every Satur-
(lay in Boston. devoted to tihe interests of wo-
man-to ter educational. industrial, legal and
political equality, and especially to her right of
suffrage.
FEDITOUS
H. It. ILACKWELL.
&LICE STONE BLACKWELL.
ASSISTANTI EDITORSr:
BOSTON OFFIO No. 3 Park Street. where cop-
ios are for sale ant subscriptions received.
H. E. TuRnER, Business Agent.
J. it. MoitasoN, Business Manager Adv. I)ept.

CONTENTS.
PAGE
Editorial Notes .................................. 1
Licensed Vice In the Philippines ...............1
Twentieth Century Fund for Colleges, A.S. It... 1
The N xt Fortrightly, Mary A. Livermore ..... I
Another Kidnapping Case, A. s. 11.............. I
Our Young Women .............................2
William Morrir on Woren Councillors........2
A Modern PI rtia ................................ 2
A Voter at 83 .................................... 2
Teachieg the Doukbobors ......................-
Women in Architecture ....................... 2
Tie Twentieth Century Wonan ..............2
State Regnlation of Vice in Austria ...........'2
Character Counts ................................ 3
Children's Column .............................. 3
A Twentieth Century Sautatory, if. i,.i ...... 4
Progress of Equal Siffrage, A. s. i............4
Belated Professor Wendell, if. n. it...........4
Peace Notes .....................................
Women in the Churches ........................ 4
Women of the Press, F.A l. A .................... 4
With Our Exchanges, F. M A ................... 4
Mirs. J. Ellen Foster on Women Voters........4
College and Alumina.....................4
Henry Villard's Will .......................... 5
W0otntn's lPlacer in the State................ 5
Our New Vork Letter ...........................5
In Meruoriam .................................... 5
The Ugly Man, Mabel Ellery Adams...........6
Soe Questions of Dress ...................... 6
We men's Clubs and Club Women..............8
State Correspondence- Maryland--Nebraska
Georgia-S,.uth Carelina-New York-3Mon-
tana-Calirornila-Wisconsin ............. 6, 7, 8
Massachusetts Clubs and Leagues ............ 8

A WINTER STORM.
BY W. 1'. FOSTER.
From my hill-circledhome, this eve, I heard
The tempest singing on the windy height-
The first wild storm of Winter in its flight
Seaward--as though some mighty arctic bird
Had left its snowy nest, and on the flirred,
Steep mountain summit passed one boister-
ous night
To fill the valleys with its fierce delight.
Ali ree I thought, how every pine is stirred,
Till all its deep storm music is unbound;
How every waving bough gives forth its
roar,
And the firs shout as though some harper
hoar
Laid his great hand upon the hills around,
And drew a loud hymn forth, a voice to
sound
Far, far away, beyond the world's dull
shore I

EDITORIAL NOTES.

A noteworthy sympositm on the wo-
man question appeared on Dec. 30, as a
syndicate article in a number of promi-
nent papers. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster wrote
on Women's Power In Politics, Mrs.
Harriet Prescott Spofford on Women in
Trade, Army, and Politics, Mrs. Belva A.
Lockwood on Women in the Profes-
sions, Mrs. William Tod Helmuth on
Evolution of the Club Woman, Ellen
Spencer [ussey on Possibilities of the
Red Cross, .Mrs. Russell Sage on The
Place Held by Women without Fads (it
is instructive that they chose a suffragist
to treat this subject), Jeannette L. Gil-
der, No More Men Journallsts; Mrs.
Kate Tannatt Woods, Woman's Future
Judged by Present; Susan G. Walker,
Tie Coming College Woman; Grace
Greenwood, Woman an Active Worker
in Church; Lillie Devereux Blake,
Woman to Become the Peer of Man;'
Edith Griswold, The Law and the Lady;
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Give Woman
her Rightful Place; Mrs. Donald McLean,
Her Patriotic Influence; Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt, Suffrage, Past and Pres-
ent; Annie Russell, Woman and the
Stage; Izora Chandler, What She Has
Done in Art. A few of the headings are
silly-probably the women who wrote the
articles did not choose the titles-but
some of the articles are exceedingly good.
Mrs. Chapman Catt wrote:
The women of the year 2000 will be
voters. Not alone will this be true in the
United States, but it will be true In all
the civilized nations of the world. No
one who carefully observes the trend of
civilization and the growth of sentiment
toward democratic government will doubt
this statement for a moment. When the
position of women in the year 1800 is con-
sidered in comparison with that they
occupy in the year 1900 it requires small
gift of prophecy to foresee that if the
same degree of change is maintained in
the 20th century therb will be perfect
equality of rights and opportunities be-
tween the sexes when another hundred
years has rolled around. The prejudice

which is common to-day will have been
swept away before the convincing testi.
mony of tile actual achievements of
women in every walk of life. Women will
then be eligible to every position in tie
State, and patriotic political service will
be regarded as one of the most sacred
duties of the true woman. Qualification,
not sex, will be the guide to choice of
officers. If in that day a woman shall
appear whose fitness for tie position
seems greater than that of any man, the
public will have no hesitancy in placing
her in tire President's chair because sHie is
a woman. Qruedns have occupied thrones
of great nations and rave received the
homage of their people, since reverence
for royal power was great enough to over-
come sex prejudice.

Mrs. Helen Campbell is at Hotel Belle-
vue, Boston, for the winter. Site is at
work on another book to follow her novel,
Ballantyne, which has just gone to the
press of Little, Brown & Co. She is giv-
ing a course of lectures in Cambridge, and
is open to engagements at other points.
In mid January she will speak in Port-
land, Me., on Woman Suffrage in Colo-
rado. Mrs. Campbell has lately returned
from Denver, where she made her home
for nearly three years.

In France a favorable report has been
rendered by tire parliamentary committee
to which was referred M. Rend Viviani's
bill proposing to make the fathers of
illegitimate children responsible, in cer-
tain cases, for their maintenance. Up to
this time the French law has forbidden
any effort to as.zertain the paternity of
such a child. Under the bill proposed by
M. Viviani, no action can be taken by the
child's mother if the alleged father is
under eighteen and sie is herself above
that age. Otherwise, under certain re-
strictions, irhe father may be made re-
sp)usible. If the bill passes, it will be a
great improvement upon the present law.

The Georgia Legislature ras lately voted
down three bills that had been earnestly
asked for by the women of Georgia, one
raising tie age of protection for girls from
ten years, one prohibiting the labor of
children under twelve In factories, and
one admitting young women to study in
the State textile school. The defeat of
tlese measures has made suffragists of
hundreds of Georgia women who never
before desired the ballot. An able article
on the subject by Mrs. Ottley, of Atlanta,
will be found in our State correspondence.
She says: I sometimes think that the
Legislatures of our Southern States are In
league witt tie equal suffrage associations.
Such votes as tre above are the best suf-
frage-breeders I can imagine. They are
not confined to the Southern States. The
Vermont Legislature has just voted down
a bill strongly urged by the women's
clubs of that State, asking that women be
Ilaced on the boards of prisons and insane
asylhms where women are confined-and
the Vermont women, like those of Geor-
gia, are drawing the logical inference.

LICENSED VICE IN THE PHILIPPINES.

Tire following letter from Dr. Alice B.
Condict, a Methodist Episcopal missionary
in Manila, dated Oct. 28, 1900, was read at
a Congressional hearing on Dec. 6, before
tre Committee on Insular affairs of the
U. S. House of Representatives:
Several missionaries here have recently
received letters from home Inquiring as to
the truth of accounts published in tire
United States of the licensing of houses of
prostitution for tire benefit of our United
States soldiers. I have accordingly been
making inquiries, and find to my chagrin
that these shocking reports are only too
true. I am forced to write it. Our United
States Government officers have estab-
lisled here regular houses for prostitute
women, exarmining them every week and
giving each a certificate, with her own
photograph on it, to securely identify tire
girl who holds it. The reports are that
after the election is over in tire United
States, the military authorities think of
having this system of prevention of disease
more systematically carried out here.
This, of course, is simply the iniquitous
plan of men wro regard the army simply
as so much fighting material. Tire Idea of
right and wrong has not been considered
at all, therefore tie dark deeds have be-
come tre military law. It therefore be.
hooves Christian America to rise and
assert itself. Especially is it the province
of Christian women to come to the front,
and I fully expect and believe that they
will be found fully equal (with God as
their leader) to rise and put an end to this
horrible evil.
Ex Consul Genoral Pratt fully confirms
Dr. Condict's statements.
At the same Congressional Irearing was

read the following letter, dated Juno 1,
1900, from Rev. F. I. Morgan, a mission-
ary of tire Methodist Episcopal Board Inr
Singapore, Straits Settlements, who, tin.
able to believe the reports which had
reached him that there was legalized pros-
tituition under our fIlag, went to tie island
of Sulu and personally investigated the
matter. Rev. A. B. Leonard, D. D., secre-
tary of the Methodist Episcopal Board,
vouches for the absolute trustworthiness
of this missionary. Mr. Morgan writes:
The colonial expansion which has taken
place in our country has brought in its
train certain evils which we have never
met hitherto. Great Britain and the con-
tinentrd powers have set the pace in many
things which are not altogether acceptable
to Christian sentiment at home or abroad,
anl one of the evils which they have fow-
tered, but from which we have hitherto
been free, Is tire pandering to the vice of
soldiers. It is a fact not probably knownt
at home that the inlqlitous contagious.
diseases acts, formerly openly, and at
te present time, it is clained, secretly,
enforced in the cantonments of India, are
now in effect in our new possessions.
The subject was brought to my attention
a few weeks ago, but, unwilling to jump
at conclusions, I have waited until I couhl
confirm the statement tnen made that in
Sul, and If there, doubtless in other
plares, there is a quarter sot off by the
commanding officer, General Kobbd, mas
the recognized resort of prostitutes; that
these women, mostly Japanese, are
brought there with the knowledge and
consent, if not the approval, of the atr-
tlhorities; that they tire segregated and
only soldiers allowed to consort with
them; that sentries are posted at the en-
trance, to keep peace and order and pro.
vent the entrance of natives or the escape
of the toomen, and that it is a recognized
institution of our military occupation.
The officers rave full knowledge of it, but
have yielded to the sophistry so common
among military men that you can't pre-
vent the men doing such things, hence it
is better to safeguard them as nuchi as
possible.
Do our Christian people at home realize
wrat this means-that their sons are
taken from Christian homes in Christian
America and brought to the Tropics, with
all the seductive itrIurences prevalenrt there,
and under the sanction of their officers
find everything made as easy as possible
for them to live lives of impurity and vice;
that our CrrIrtian Government, through
its representatives, provides every facility
for such sin, and says, by actions, if not
by words, that it Is necessary, and that a
young man can not be continent and pure
away from home and mother? The can-
teen is evil, but this is infinitely worse.
Ought not the matter to be investigated
and the seal of disapproval set upon it by
the united Christian sentiment of our
land? We want pure men to guard tlese
outposts and to set the native races an ex-
ample. The reports which came to my
ears were confirmed by tie Sultan of Sulu
himself In an interview which I recently
had with him.
Where Is the sense of exclaiming against
the polygamy practised by tie Sultan of
Sult, an uncivilized ruler who knows no
better, while our own military officers
are allowed to license, sanction, and offi-
cially supervise an elaborate system of
polyandry for our young American sol.
diers?

20TH CENTURY FUND FOR COLLEGES.

It is proposed to celebrate the opening
of the Twentieth Century by raising a
fund to place the WOMAN'S JOURNAL in
the reading room of every college In the
United States.
A number of the men and women now
most active in the work for equal rights
were converted by reading the WOMAN'S
JOURNAL In tIheir college days, ten, twen-
ty, or thirty years ago, and they now re-
fer gratefrlly to the fact. At many differ-
ent times during the past thirty years,
generous friends have contribrted to send
the paper to various colleges in which
they were interested, and this has borne
ricr fruit; but it is felt that a more sys-
tematic effort ought now to be made in
this direction. In every respect tie
methods of the new century should be an
advance upon those of the past.
This field is of especihl importance for
two reasons. The colleges ind urniver-
sitics are now educating the future leaders
of thought. Those who are to stand
hereafter at the head of every profession
are taking their preliminary training now.
To-day they are young, open-minded, full
of generous impulses, ready to be Inter.
ested in new ideas. Their minds will not
be half as receptive when they are middle-
aged men and women, absorbed in family
cares or In the keen struggle for fame
and fortune. Now is the time to convert
them.
Human beings follow their leaders much
like sheep. Get the leaders, and you will
have nine-tenths of the flock. Therefore

toney spent in converting those who are
to be tire intellectual leaders tf timrecv
century is trebly well 4pent.
The WOIAN'S' JOUItNAL will be sent to
tile reading room of ary college or lmiver-
sity for half prce-$.25-and in every
suroh reading room it will be accessible to
scores of stndents. Who will start tire
T'wentieth Century College Fund by srb.
scribing to send tire paper to a hndred
colleges? A. S.nIt.

THE NEXT FORTNIGHTLY.

The next neeting of tire Fortnightly
will be hel in thie parlors of tire Wo-
MAN'S JOURNAL, 3 Park Street, on the
afternoon of ''resday, fair. 8, at three
o'chck. Miss Mary Currier, professor at
Wellesley College for twenty.five years,
will lecture o Tire Negro In tire Twen-
tieth Centtry.
Sinc te her retirement from Wellesley,
Miss Currier hims set fihe winters at the
South, studying its colred peopio ald
familiarizing herself with their helps and
hindrances, and i seeking to answer the
question, What is our dty-tthe duty of
womenr-in reference to this great prob-
lent which lils come before tire twentieth
century for solution? Sie lhas visited the
great schools at Tuskegee and Atlana,
and those less prrominent in other locali
ties, and site ias been tile guest of emo-
nent white Southernr'rs, Home of them
favorable to tire rplifting of tie negro
race, and others bitterly opposed to it.
Sire is to Spend tire month of January at
the North, lecturing It tire interest of tire
colored people, and then site will again
return to the South, to work for and with
them. The public is invited to hear Miss
Currier.
All who are not members of the Associ-
ation will be expected to pay an admission
fee of 15 cents at the door. At tire close
of the lecture light refreshmments will be
served, and there will be tire usual socal
reunion. MArtY A. LIvlieItEou, Pres.

ANOTHER KIDNAPPING CASE.

Tihe pmpors annorunce that Sydney Miller,
a seven year-old boy, has been kidnapped
by his mother, and recovered by his
legal owner, the father, after an exciting
chaise through three or four States. Tile
entire police and detective forces were
called in, tile mother was tracked like a
hunted deer, and was finlly discovered itn
Lawrence, Kar., at three o'clock in tire
morning, asleep with her child, who
was promptly taken from her. A despatch
to the Indianapolis Sentinel says:
Is it kidnapping whenI take my own
child? sime asked. Hiaven't I an equal
right to him with my huisband? Mr.
Miller and I separated seventeen montrs
ago. It wa with tile rnderstanding then
that the boy was to be with me half tire
time and with him half (rf tire time. I
kept him three months; tie father hus
had him fourteen nronths. I was amsrzed
when Mr. Miller told me that I could not
have him any more. I have been defeated
in this attempt to get my child, but I am
not discouraged. The proverb says we
are wiser after we are defeated. I have
tire consolation thiatomes from that, and
also the consolation that comes from the
fact that I was engaged in a thororghly
righteous cause.
Samuel D. Miller, son of ex-U. S. At-
torney-General W. If. H. Miller, married
Miss Harriet Karchner, of Pittstown, Pa.,
nine years ago. The cause of their sepa-
ration is not mentioned.
This case calls attention anew to the
fact that there are only eight States in the
Union where the father anrd mother are
joint guardians of their children by law,
as they are by nature. In all tire others
tire iusband is the sole legal owner of tire
child rntil a cort decrees the contrary.
He line tire right to separate the children
from their mother entirely, and even to
send them where she will never see them
again. Thus tire courts of a neighboring
State upheld the right of a Chinese hus-
bnund, married to an Irish wife, to give
their three-days'-old baby to his brother
to be taken away to China and brought
up there.
Most men are better titan the law, and
few husbands use the extreme and tyran-
nical power that, the law gives them. But
there the law is, all ready for any bad
husband to take advantage of it.
And yet we are assured that tile laws
are more than just to women; and the
Massachusetts Association Opposed to
the Extension of Suffrage to Women has
published over its official imprint a leaflet
defending the present law whichr gives the
husband thre sole right to the children.
A. 8. B.

CONCERNING WOMEN.

CLARA BARTON lae laccd with a flrn
at Kittrll, N. C., an order for 1,000,000
strawlerry ilants, to be distributed among
tire frumit growers of Texas who sriffered
so severely fromin tie great September
storm.
MRS. SAnAlt I)AVls, of Finirero, near
Buckingham, Eng., is sad to be tire old-
est school teacher itt thi worldu Iliactive
service. Sire regularly teaches tire pupils
of tire National School Ini that village.
Iher ago is 8.1, andl site has taught tie saume
school for more thn fifty years.
VnRGINnA A. GALAO IErt, of Newport,
Ky., hae invented it little contrivance for
tire locking of tire window blind iooks,
after they have been Inserted Itn tire
notched phrtes, to keep tire blinds closed.
It Is a common Iractice for housebreak-
ers to open the shuttere by renching
through from the outsido with tie flugers.
'rhis lock Is designed to prevent tire open-
lug of tire siutters I that wily.
MIss KArE MAnItI, who has for several
yors been ttie efficient. clerk of the South
Carolina State Board of Penoins, and
who has done much to keep tire ier-
oners hit tihe right road and save then
trouble, wits releeted at tire meeting of
tire board, a few days ago. Miss Maier
Is desc-ibed s one of tire most efficlent
clerks In the State [louiose, and one whose
place woul be hard to fill.
Mis. S. T. Ronutri, tire famous teacher
of cooking, hau never had a headacie, and
is tire pictatre of health. Yet shIe is onto
of tie Irislest women in the United
States. Besides her editorial work for
tire Ladies' Hoine Journal, which Involves
answering several thosand letters a year,
sHie conducts a large cooking school It
Philadeliahr, anl lectures almiost con-
stantly during the season, travelllng all
over the country.
Mir. E. J. BAtTOr,, In an address before
tire Now Centtry Club of Pliladellla,
recently, tol( of tire Maori women of New
Zealand. Mrs. Bartol tos twice made a
tour of the world, and while it New 7elt-
land visited many of tire rentote native
villages. It is an Interesting incident oin
an election( day, site says, to find a baby
carriage outside tire irhs, and tire hus-
sand and wife Both inside voting. Within
tie memory of people now living these
women have ben transformed from
frowzy squaws into intelligent voters.
MRS. MARIETTA HARMON, of Syracuse,
has secured tire highiest rating ever given
by tire New York State Board of Phar-
riracy Ii an examination for a llcense as a
registered pharmacist. Her paper was
almost perfect. Mrs. Harmon is a teacher
in one of tire public schools of Syracuse,
and tire proprietor of a drug store on
Almond Street. The store was left to lier
when lier husband died, three years ago.
Sire tried to sell the business, but the
offers she received were so low that she
decided not to make the sacrifice. In-
stead, sie hired a licensed clerk and set
out to run tie business with is assist-
ance. Every spare moment out of school
hours Idus been spent in the store and In
the study of pharmacy. The result of her
hard work Is seen i the good slowing
sire made Inn irer recent examination and
in tire success of her business.
Mns. SERAr'iIINA PINSKO, for the past
eight years presilent of the Jewish Chari-
ties Association of Denver, Col., has re-
signed ier position to devote herself to
raising funds for the National Hospital
for Comnsumptives in that city. Sire Is
travelling In tire Interests of this work,
and tire rabbis of various cities allow her
to occupy threir pulpits on Friday even-
ings to present the subject. Mrs. Pisko
has just visited New Orleans. Th.e Picay-
une says: She is a very beautiful and
Interesting woman, and her good heart
speaks from lier eyes. She says Denver
was overrun with consumptives, many of
them absolutely destitute. They had
managed to git as far as Denver, when
their means failed and they were left de-
pendent on charity. The Jewish com-
munity raised $40,000, and built a hos-
pital, which was opened about a year ego
with 00 patients. Now it Is desired to
extend the accommodations to 150. Con-
surmptives are admitted without distinc-
tion of creed, and the hospital has pa-
tients from all parts of the country. It
receives only those who are actually des-
titute. It is situated in the most beauti-
ful part of Denver, on the crest of a hill
overlooking the city park. All the sur-
roundings are bright, cheerful and In-
spiring.

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