Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-07
TEMPERANCE.

1n0 town voted No License" last fall, but we don't see any change for the better In consequence. as yet.-1honaGstOn Er- press.
 A Thomaston correspondent of the Tem- perance Journal gives the following ex- planation of such facts Gf they are facts ? as the following:
 Those who gave their hundreds to stop the traffic, and led off in the matter. are nos total. abstinence men: they keep cider upon their tables, and some love some thlng stronger at least they buy it by the case; they also, by their party and by tnelf town votes, gave us license law and preached 1t from the pulpit, and still they nave not accomplished anything. Strange isn't it?
 Says the Wolcottville correspondent of the Litchield Sentinel
 The Temperance women in this village are very busy just at the present time go- Ing around seeking whom they may de- vour, but your correspondent is of the oplnon of most of the sensible people of this village, that woman's prattle is of short duration and thinks if some of them would cast the beam out of their own eye they could see more plainly to cast the mote from their neighbours eye. Wine and cider from the family sideboard, and public opinion against the responsibility Of the users, will do much.
 We judge that the woman's prattIe" against intemperance will be found to be no mere ripple of sentiment but an endur- ing force. Especially will that be the case when woman is allowed to give ex- pression to her earnest feeling on this sub- ject at the ballot-box.
 The taunt of an enemy is often full of good advice, if we only have the temper to take it. It is perhaps too much to ex- pect that total abstinence will soon become fashionable virtue; but when good men and good women do finally come to see that the indulgence at their own tables makes it impossible to check the indul- gence of others of very different social habits; when they come to appreciate the fact that in buying liquor at wholesale for family use, they disqualify themselves for stopping the traffic that deals out liquor at retail across the bar of the saloon; then we cannot but believe that they will set such an example as we have right to re- quire of their high position and high pro- sessions. Cannot the women of the land see to it that our social practice is raised to a higher standard? That is the first great step to take towards thrusting the traffic in liquor down to level with the other evil trades that no respectable per- son would for Q moment excuse.
 New York Free Medical College for
 Women.
 We give the following from letter written by Mrs. s. B. Law, M. D., for merly a resident of this place, and who has lately graduated from the New York Free Medical College for Women:
 This institution has a very desirable To- cation in the central part of the city, in the vicinity of Cooper Union-with all the free scientific lectures in the great Hall, with reading room and library, near the Astor and and Mercantile Libraries, the Eye and Ear Infrmary, the Ophthal- mic college and numerous Dispensaries. It was originally founded by few phi lanthropic individuals, men and women, and its charter was obtained through the persevering efforts of one devoted lady. Starting from this small beginning it is now in it's third year, and it ought to form the nucleus of one of the great colleges of the world. Foremost in freedom and lib- erality and designed for the teaching of scientific knowledge, free from sectarian bias, it leaves its graduates to decide for themselves whether they will adopt the Allopathic, Homeopathic or the Electic practice. Its instruction should also be free for all who would come and listen, whether for the purpose of obtaining degree and practicing medicine, or to bet ter qualify themselves to understand the structure and functions of their own be- ing.
 The importance and necessity of this knowledge of themselves are just beg1n- ming to be understood by thoughtful wo- man who deplore the ignorance, degrada- tion and misery in which the greater part of their sex are submerged to-day. The anylist who traces effects to their causes and sees how much of this misery is due to ignorance of physical law-to the un- favorable circumstances under which that human artist the Mother has wrought out her divine work--cannot but feel as if this knowledge cannot come too soon, or be too highly estimated. That woman's ed ucation has been so deplorably neglected when it is of the first importance that she should be thoroughly instructed, is mov- ing the hearts of those who love humani- ty to attempt her relief in the cause of humanity and justice. That the voice of justice is being heard at last is evidenced by the opening of the doors of the tenn ples of learning for her admission after ages of exclusion.
 The excellent instruction here given, and the fact that it is given without charge, has made the success of this col lege unparalleled considering the short term of it's career. It has outgrown the old female colleges here. This year it matriculated forty-eight and graduated fourteen students; and, besides. its lec- ture rooms have been often crowded with ladies not connected with the college who were interested listeners. I wish the be- nevolent ladies who so readily respond to the real or supposed wants of strangers in distant lands could realize the benefits they would confer upon their own sex by sustaining this institution, whose pecunia- ry resources have not kept pace with it's growth in other respects, and which are so much needed to maintain and carry on a noble undertaking.