Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-07-17

as if it were 1corth minding. ANY thing
like the number of female lecturers which |
heard of in Illinois, | had never imagined
The medical women are readily accepted in
most places, even without proper vouchers ;
and 1t Is astonishing, how far common sense
contrives to supply the place of education
But the want of vouchers is a serious evil
which must soon be met. In Chicago | heard
wonderful stories of the business canacitv of
certain women. One lady, very well-known
on Michigan Avenue, brought one hundred
thousand dollars worth of Chicago CITY
bonds to Boston and New York. and safely
sold them for her husband. 4 farmers wife
from the centre of the state, came up. while
| was there, to speculate in corn. She said
her husband had lost money several years in
succession. and now she was going to trv.
BY her first speculation she made five thou
sand dollars and this she put into compe-
tent hands, for re-investment. 1t gained her
twenty thousand dollars. The Chicago mer-
chants thought she would 90 on specializing
until she lost it all but do not | think
our Pleasant Street Hospital has proved that
women are more cautious than men, and are
willing to bear good deal of obloquv rather
than permit rash ventures to he made.
In the country, everywhere. heard charm
ing anecdotes of the vigor and self-sacrifice
women showed in the early settlement of the
states.
1t happened one spring, that when lie ice
broke up on the Fox River a terrible storm
of wind and sleet and rain came with it
Not man in the state. however great the
emergency, would have thought that he could
cross In this state Of things, woman was
taken in childbirth, some two or three miles
from the ferry. just the ferry-woman
was going TO bed, in the outer darkness >
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shouted from the opposite bank She lis
tened, and grievous story was shouted
across. She went 70 the stable and saddled
her mare, and. all alone, forded the stream :
the floating ice, heaped into walls, struck
the sides of the faithful beast and tore the
woman : skirt 10 tdtters. Now and then
flash of lightning showed her what progress
she made At last, she struggled to the
bank, and gave the ncedful help. Nobody
ever asked how she got back On the grass
about Elgin, whole ships load died of chol-
era, nearly forty years ago All the neigh
borhood stood back in dread but saw one
aged woman, who closed the eyes Of nine. and
received the foreign blessing. which she felt
although she could not understand In
Quincy. found two ladies Just establishing
a high school for girls, whom | have previ-
ously mentioned as hdSins pushed through
the endowment. for women, of the State
University at Lawrence, and having opened
class IN modelling in clay, under Professor
Nolkers- At the Cooper Institute | found
more women at work than ever before and
to better advantage. \ large class had Just
been formed TO color photographs on glass,
porcelain. and paper. ndcr such circum-
stances. we need not be disheartened because
an ignorant woman, in a man 5 costume has
found the way to attract some attention in
Europe and some contempt from Tom Hughes.
Neither need ii dismay Us that the ." Boston
Advertiser thinks the Equal-Rights meet
ings. in New York, have not been largely
attended There are those who want the
suffrage. who do not care To encourage wo-
men to offer themselves for Congress before
public opinion can accept them. and who are
sufficiently disgustcd by what looks like
manish coalition with Democrats. to keep
away from public meetings
Meanwhsle the women Of Parma cIamor
for the right to vote for Victor Emanuel \
freedwoman, Charlotte Scott, proposes a
on behalf Of her cmancipated
race, to president Lincoln: and the noble in
spiration of Harriet Hormcr carries out the
thought.
But the very things we turn from force the
necessary issues on the wUrld. wise action
would never have brought the recent debate
in Congress nor prudent measures have
cured thirty votes for Mrs. Stanton and nine
senatorial ballots for female suffrage Once
agitated in these quarters, the matter draws
nearer to a final test.