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9 Woman's J. 1 (1878)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl9 and id is 1 raw text is: She H oanS jmurnal. VOL. IX. BOST SATURDAY, JAN. 5, 1878. NO.L F ------- - - -. --------- -NO.---:- THE WOMAN'S JURNAL. AN SNasedevey O RAy.In Doaodvoted tel inet f oa-o hr educational industrial, legal and political Equality, ad especially to her right of Saffrage. JTULIA WARD IIOWE....... LUCY STONE............... .EDITOs. RENRY B. BLACKWELL........ T. W. HIGGINSON.......BEIo tAL CONTRIBUTOR. MARY A. LIVERMORE Tsax-.50 a year, in advance. single copy, 6 ete. ADVERTISING RATES. $ .10....per solid nonpareil line, I insortion. 86 ...! 1. 11 4 .a .... 48 .90 .... Is 1.60.... 26 3.00 .... 5'' .5 Bmassa ortozs, set uniformly in leaded nonpa- rel, with a fell-face ide bead, confined to one col- ema, SD cents per running line ach insertion. Boero Omvmon.-No. 4. Park Street. Copies for sale and subscriptions received. CLU RATas-10 CODies ne year, $90.00. Specimen copies sent on receipt of two cent stamp Ifo eeandenbscritions received by THE Nw ExeLAND fsWS CO., 41 Court St., Boton. PELHnahrIA Oruin.-Room of the Pennyl vana Society, 700 Arch St. S. Louis OPwos.-Mr. J. M. Dutro, 523 North 2d St. Lonia, Mo. SAx FaArCISCo OPlat-Il. SnOW's BOok Store, No. $10 Kearny Street, Wet side. POETRY. COBNELIA . CHISHOL. BY MARY CLEMMER. And do we dream we hear The far, low cry of fear, Where in the Southern land The masked barbaric band, Under the covert night, Still fight the coward's fight, Still strike the assassin's blow- Smite childhood, girlhood low! Great Justice! canst thn see Unmoved that such things b? See murderers go free, Unsought? Breised in her grave The girl who fought to save Brother and sire. She died for man. She leads the lofty van Of hero women. Lift her name With ever-kindling fame. Her youth's consummate flower Took on the exalted dower Of martyrdom. And death And love put on her crown Of high renown. * * * * Cense, bellsoffreedom, cease! Ilush, happy songs of peace! If such things yet may e, Sweet land of liberty, In thee, in theet NEW YEAR'S THOUORTS. Changes in thie current of popular feeling show themselves not only in things that are done, but in criticisms made when things are not done. There is the question of lit- erary dinners, for instance. When the Bal- lantynes gave a dinner to Sir Walter Scott, and a chapter of the next Waverly novel was read from advance sheets, did anybody ever complain in the newspapers that Miss Edgeworth was not summoned from Ireland to attend? Nay, in the early days of the Atlantic the contributors had monthly dinners at the Revere House, at which no woman over appeared; these dinners were often described in the newspapers, but no- body inquired whether the contributors were all masculine and why the rest were not there. On one occasion, some eighteen years ago, when Mrs. Stowe was going to Europe, site was invited to a special enter- tainment; wine and tobacco were abjured and guests of both sexes were invited. Holmes and Lowell were at the. head and foot of the table; Whittier and Longfellow were there, and many others; but after all only two ladies accepted the invitation- Mrs. Stowe herself and Harriet Prescott, then a timid girl and known only as the promising author of In a Cellar. I re- member that some one proposed that the young lady should send down into her cellar for some wine, as Mrs. Stowe would permit none above stairs. For the want of this, or for some other reason, the dinner was not found to be an eminent success. But now such a dinner would be attended by many ladies if tthey had opportunity; and the fact of their absence on a recent oc- casion has occasioned general remark, most- ly unfavorable. This shows a change ih public sentiment, within a period quite re- cent. Again, in regard to the losition of women on School Committees. Just before the late city electiorn in Boston, a scrap went the rounds of te country papers to the effect that the experiment of putting women on the Boston School Committee had failed -or rather, th statement took that fact for granted and went on to assign the reasons why it had failed. Then came the election itself; the only woman nominated for re- election was the only person named on all the tickets, and she had finally more votes than any other candidate. Thus a course of action which o:iginally cost angry discus- slon and solicitors' opinions and legal enact- ments and heated public meetings, has re- iiewed itself at last with the general acqui- escence of all voters. This certainly shows great progress. -.Mm Samphommalolft MaksmILMAN I I The successive editions of Mr. Sewall's pamphlet on the Legal Position of Women in Massachusetts shows a steady advance in the laws of that State; and in other states there is aii organized effort, this very year, to secure the same reforms. It is perfectly true, as opponents of Woman Sutffrage say, that our legislators generally correct the disabilities of women when their attention is called to these; but it is also trie that it often takes very long to get their attention, whereas the ballot would be a very short road to it. We must always hold to this; that all other facilities are imperfect, all other guarantees insecure; nevertheless all that can be got even by means less effective is to be held and secured if possible. The usefulness of always asking for all that one can easily demand, and leaving on others the responsibility of cutting down your demand, was never better shown than in the late petition for the admissionof girls to the Latin School. Had the petitioners merely asked the city, humbly, to fit girls for college at the public expensie, the de. mand would probably have been almost as stoutly resisted as the more ample demand actually made. But by boldly asking for the whole, the petitioners secured at least half without a struggle; the city will not grudge the expense of fitting girls for col- lege, if the cherished Latin School can only be kept pure from this dangerous society of girls. What can people be made of, who do not see that the movement towards equalizing the position of the sexes Is advancing as in- evitably as the march of the seasons? You can no more undo it than you can re-convert 1878 into 1877. The final possession of the ballot is just as sure as any of the other steps, and the only question is as to the pre- cise digits that tell the year when it shall be enacted. Most people do not see what is coming; because the trees groi' green in spring they suppose that the buda are not formed till spring; but the buds are on the boughs tall winter, nevertheless, and for those who have eyes to see the buds are the sure guarantee of the yet distant summer. T. W. T. SEPARATE EDUCATION AGAIN. I have just come upon a sentence of Vic. tor Hugo's Les Misrables which illus- trates what was said in the last number about the tendency of separate education to pro- duce the very evils it seeks to cure. Rien no prpare i.o jeune fille pour les pasion cotmm le couvent. Le couvent tourne la pemn- sc dut cold det P' inconait. . . . Le ovuent eat une compressionquti pour tri-ompher duitcoeour hunain dottuer toue la vie. (Part IV. B. III, § 4.) Which may be freely translated thus Nothing educatesayoung girl for the passions like conventual education. The convent turns all thoughts in the direction of the unknown . . . The convent is a re- straint which in order to conquer the htit. man heart should last the whole life long. 'I. W. mI. WOMAN'S DAY IN THE SENATE. On Tuesday the morning journals an- nounced that that would be Woman's Day in the Senate. The announcement in the journals was made with dignity and without comment. In the Senate the peti- tions were presented without dignity, and, with a few exceptions, with comments which reflected deep discredit on those who uttered them. It isa disgrace to the United States Senate which cannot be wiped out, that it will not receive a petition coming from thousands of honorable women in the land without laughter, ridicule, and sneers. No matter what the personal opinion of a senator may be, the honest petition of any citizen, black or white, man or woman, is entitled by that citizenship to his respect- ful consideration. At least, he should be gentleman enough and have self-respect. enough, if lie have ever so little for time pe- titioner, to present her petition with the manner and in the tone of a' gentleman. If we needed any added proof to the already too evident fact that, as an aggregate,.the Congress of the American people toes not consist of gentlemen, we have it in their tones, words, and manners when they pre- sent a woman's petition. Judging by these, you must believe that nothing on earth is quite sofunny as that a tax-paying citi- zen-often the widowed head of a family, an intelligent, educated,.thoughtful being- should ask that she have some voice in the laws that govern her; that she should, at least, be free to give that consent of the governed on which even the man-framed Constitution declared all just government rests, which is not denied the lowest creature that crawls, if so be he happens to crawl in the shape of a man. A woman of great nature could afford to pity the men, Sena- Digitized from Best Copy Available tors of the United States, who that daiy made themselves look so small. Had she not been sure that, as a creature of Gotd, she was greater than they, she might well have bowed her head in humiliation and covered herself with sckclothi anid ashes, that more than ten thousand women, her peers, have come to sue at such it court as that. Is the caste of sexso all-pervading, so omnipresent, thata man cannot read even the petition of a woman without at once dissolving into ancering laughter and inane ridiculo? In autocratic Russia to-day a woman sits regent on the imperial throne, while her husband and her four sons, beyond the Danube, fight the battles of their religion aid their race. The third volume of the Life of the Prince Consort, just issued in London, refutes forever a favorite assertion of mien that the Queen of England is Inst a puppet in the government of her vast realm, In pouring light upon the general manage- ment of public business in England, it shows us in unerring outline the Queen, from the beginningof her reign to this day, for forty years, attending personally with the minutest attention to the routine busi- ness of departments, carefully studying and weighing every subject, small or great, which affects in the slightest the well-being of her people. Let the women of the world arise and bless her, that she, a wo. man pre-eminent in station, has for forty years proved herself equal to her opportu- nity. Not only wife, mother, woman among the best, but every Inch a queen. Prince Albert, writingof Napoleon Third, said: le seemed astonished when I told him that every dispatch went through the Queen's hrnia and was read by her; as he only received extracts from them, and, in- deed, appeared to have little time or in- clination generally to read. When I ob- served to him that the Queen would not be content without seeing the whole of the diplomatic correspondence, he replied that lie found a full compensation in having per- sons -in his own confideque who reported directly to him. I could'not but express my sense of the danger of such an arrange- meit, to which no statesmani in England, at least, would consent. Again Prince Albert writes from Paris to the Queen: The Emperor told me one of tme deepest impressions ever mmadhe upon hin was when, after having gone from France to Rio Janeiro, and thence to the United States, Ihe arrived in London shortly after King Wil- liam's death, and saw you, at the age of eighteen, going to open Parliament for the fI-st timme. Charles Sumner, in wriing of the same occasion, confesses that hi.prejudices were all against the youthful Qiteen; but she won him completely, not mor by the womanly trembling of her hands than by the splendor of her elocution, which, 1 Ideclared to his friend Hillard, lie had never heard equaled. It was the elocution of allwoman, at eigh- teen a queen, upon an occision as august as the earth could show. Ntaman lived that would not have felt hono ed to come with- In hearing of that perfect nice. All this is possible in Europe-to a oman. It is in America that even the plition of Woman is a thing to be laughed At and scorned by her highest lawgivers. I is in the sweet land of liberty alone tha- It is supremely ridiculous for a woman t stretch forth her hand to touch even the h!rn of the garment of the state. Forty Senators present~ petitions, signed by thousands of men' a4women, asking for a constitutional amen ment enfranchis- ing women. A few rea the petitions as they would any other, likh dignity and without comment; but ti majority seemed intensely conscious of lding something unutterably funny in tlrir hands. They appeared to consider it huge joke. The entire Senate presented tl1 appearance of a laughing school practicing side-splitting and ear-extended grilso3 Mr. Wadleigh leaned back in his chalmmu and shook with laughter, after portrayin.to his next neigh- bor, Pinkney Whyte, of iaryland, the ap- parition of Pinkney's ladhlady descending upon the polls like a wolf on the fold, to annihilate Pinkney's election-an avenging landlady, of terrible repate for executive temper, who, it is declared, imprisoned Pinkney in his own parlor, and barricaded another descendant of a signer of the Dela- ration of independence,' Hiester Clymer, till,to save him from starvation, food was lifted tohim from the street, on poles. The heir of' the Pinkneys leaned. back, int his senatorial chair and quaked at this:lsion of the coming woman, while Wadlelglh laugh- ed and laughed at the mental havoo he had created. Oglesby, ert warrior of Illinol, spake with such endearing gallantry of his 'dear constituents, whom lie did all his wit could do to make ridiculous, till the whole Senate laughed, and even Roscoe Coukling, who never condescends to sneer at a woman in public, turned and listened and smiled his most sardonic smile. Then Thurman blow his loudest regulation blast -sure portent of approaching battle-and rbin and moved that the petitions be refer- red to the Conuipittee on Public Lands, of which Oglesby Il.chairman. At this prop- osition-intended to be equally humorous anti contemptuous-the whole Senate laugh. ed aloud. There was one Senator, man anough and gentleman enough to lift the petition from this insulting proposition. It was Senator Sargent, of California, the husband of the woman who, though a Sen- ator's wife, is brave enough to be tto treas- urer of the Woman's National Suffrage As. sociation. le turned to Mr. Thurman and demanded for the petition of more than ten thousand women, at least the courtesy that would be given, to any other petition. WhCrlpon Thurman, with a flippancy of which I would not have believed him capa- ble, if I had not seen it, blow his nosoenew, and declaredthat lie only wished the peti- tion referred to the Committee on Public Lands thAt the women might have two strings to their bow Then the craven Senate declared the motion, which was only an insult, carried. Let It be recorded of the Senate of the United States of the Forty-Fifth Congress, that the one petition which it received as a preposterous joke, and treated with utter contempt and outrage was the petition of tens of thousands of the mothers, daughters, and wives of the land; that the one petition which they received and dropped with utter indifference was the petition against intcmperance-the pe- tition that seeks to lighten the heavy load of degradation, misery, and murder that lies upon the land and most heavily upon the hearts, the lives, the homes of women. In its unmncing utterance, The Capita of Sunday was perfectly correct when it said: The ladies managing the business managed it badly. If they had employed the fenale lobby or sent In a delegation of pretty Treasury clerks, the venerable So- Ions would have softened, and thrown open their doors as readily as their hearts. It seems an ungraielous thing to sayj bu It is the truth. The woman who wins her way with the majorityof 1te*-e mien Is hIotthle plain, earnest-eyed woman, with a small knob of native hair at the back of her head. It is theilren of the gallery and the mite- room, wlie~nds in her card and her nvita- tion to the seiator at his desk. She never talks of rights. She cares for no cuse but her own cause of case and pelf. She shakes her tresses, hanged and usally blonde; she lifts.her alluring eyes, and nine times out of, tei makes him do as site listthm. No wonder, whon' the earnest appeal of honest women reaches his hands, lie has neither response, honesty, honor, or justice to give it. The Graphe's. Poleg Arkright was quite right when he wrote:, As long as men are bossee, Thogos reason to declare, womin's work will be a problem Still of lips and eyes aind bair. We can wait-as the stars wait'hin their spheres;'as God waits. One hundred years from now, if I may come back from sonic distant world'to this little eath, I shall not find upo 0 oeo sn of woman willing to believ J1,t1 biliotef 'eI back there lived a ma, n u'nwillig' Unit his sister should have' an ecul hane 41)h, himseilf;:a man who c w offered indignity,' traday; Ijais'did the guise of protcl0i4*tq one daughtel or,' mother of the.,race.* Has woman nothing'to d i vli'*hI s'e result?, Evorything. MIn to-day is what a longline of weak, inglorlos women have made him., Remember that, thou woman, in the humblest home. .You are themoth- er of a son; you lay your.mhand upon the dome of thought to shape the mind of a man. Shape It. to something larger.and finer than the mind of the best man you know. It will be your fault if that man lives to, sneer at the sex that gave him lis mother. 'I Qaeen awake to, thy renown,, Requirewhat 'tis man's wealth to give, And comprehend anmd wear the cro'tan Of thy despiped prerogatival I who in Manhood's name at length With glad songs eonic to abdicate The grossregaltyof strength must yet In this thy praise abate, That trottgb thie erring hmItnbleness, And disreard of thy degree, Mainly, ha man beo much less Than te his fello wwith thee. BiIghthoghts had sh e foolish brow, 'The coward hadgais he hero's swrd, 1The vilet had bee h, liadt thu, Just totqfI uth'i reward. r ltrier, in N. Y. Independent. CONCERNING WOMEN. MAlE. Esmiro- Ihas been engaged to give forty concerts in Germany. Mins. EMMA MoLoY is at her homein Elk hart, Indiana. Shie apeaks dutringthe niontli of February for the National Prohibitioni Al liance. MIN. JULIA WUnaEL, of Shieboygan, Wis., has devised a new Dress-Pattern Chart, which is quite simple, and . which furnishes a guide for any size or style of cutting. Its use is quickly learned. SARAI BERNHARDT, the dlstinguishied French actress, has proved her right to a high position mis a sculptor so fully that the French Government has given her ani order for a marble bust of F61icin David, for the Museum at Versailles. Mine. L. Woamen, one of the wealthiest summer residents of Newport, has just bought the celebrated painting, HolyFam- ily, by Knauss, pitying therefor twenty thousand dollars. . This painting was or- dered by the Empress of Russia, but declined by her because of the threatening war. - Miss ALcE WILLIAMS and Miss M. FmE- IiIKA PERRY are graduates of the Universi- ty of Michigan, and not of Oberlin College. Mss MARY MASTON, another graduate of Michigan University, Is at present teacher of Greek in 'Wellesley College, and MARY D. SH1ELDON IS at the head of the Histori- cal Department. Mhus. TEuY and MISR SAWYER, Of New York, and MnS. RIcuAnDsoN, of New Or- leans, were the first ladies that ever reached the summit of the peak Popocatpet, in Mexico, which is 17,880 feet above the level of the sea, and 214 feet higher than Mont Blanc. This feat has now been accomplish- ed agin by Mrs. Skilton, wife of the United States Consul General to Mexico, andl Miss Berth Read, of Missouri. Mss IIELEN MAGmIL, daughter of Presi- dent Magill, of Swathmore .College, Penn- sylvania, went through the entire Latin school course, and afterward gradated with-- honors at the Bostoni Urivorsity, She studied Greek,likcwhlos Sauscrit beme a proficient in both, and ieither lost health noi womidisitess, nor became involved in anmy scanidal,aindshe Stands to-dty ai unanswerhi- ble argumenit In iuvor of co-education, anmd an undsputable refutition of the argu- ments employed against it. Miss MARY G. WAnn has. an. adirabule article in the Neo Jrmsaenm g otAe., the prevention of crimeA0song women, ant. much of her philosophy a0plies equallyjt; to men. The number of criminlsin our- prisons liasdoubled in ten years, anid this, outflow of crime does,notcome from the generation:which foughti the.war,' but from their children. Mrs. Ware thinks there Is a great defatilt in our inorlt tmaling; iftel- Ihciunal' edcation, we' givei, tbit iot morld, and she proposes to relieve thir ghlessness of the common schools, not by tatting in- the Bible, as the Catholhipriest does, but- by teaehing manual skill. Asn mauRAN LAG.:PIImac, Of &Sn Fraui- cico, Cal., has Illustratid by her life what- a woman camndo, She1piarted out, thirty years ago, as a 1eacher, aad;has held high positions in that, prfessli. .More, thaa twenty years agoshelofther native tate of' Maine. and, became principal of ayoupg 14- dies' school in Vickbnrg, Miss,,reidigg- there some years. Subsequentlyto this, si organized tho Young LadiesIuomoInstitutq, aboarding-school in Portland, Maine,.wh)#~I *bucame a well-known aind flourishing Insti- fa1tom, of learning for niany years.The .great fire in Portland, In July, 180, so dam- aged this school that iss Prineabandoned it, and seized the opportnityo, gratjfy long-cherished, desireto visit the iPa* coast ;Here she againm established a HomIA', Instituitefor young ladies, in Sam;Franieco,lt- which became, a paying successa ang111fromim whichshe retired atfewmopthessine.. After a few years of teachfgp(tis pchool,;iles Prince puirchased land,;in the city,,at $80 a frot foot, and ercgdda large.huse for boarding-school. At ieltimethititerest ont: the hired capital, whicl, her actyonet- *,rprise led.,her to employ,'was nohess thaji thrdclollars ,a day;,ani, yetehe carriedtlis lod and sustained her school, paid her debts, and to-day she iresides on aconmfpor iblp cal- petenoy. 'In addition.to thmeabore achicyp- ments,,an aged'father mnd mother dre, thei supportfor years largely from beald and that of her sister Mary., Thelatter ias been a companion for Miss Bell, and assist- ant teacher, during e part of the abo Oex- peiience; and both have done and continue to do, many deeds of love and kidness to 'needy. people, to which benevolent work th!,y linai'c a natural devotion.

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