The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-12-24
CoNCERNING WOMEN.

"Then. I suppose, Miss Strongmind, you
and Mr.. Sparrow are soon to be man and
wife?r mo, sir, woman and husband"
The wife of the surgeon general of Ger
many, is skillful dentist of Berlin, having a
large and paying practice. She works in part
for the emperor's family.
The first city in the world to welcome
women to the study of medicine was Boston,
and some folks are mean enough to say her
learned women have been drug in the
market ever since.
The various Womans' Foreign Missionary
societies of the United States collected last
year S43S, ,403, with which they maintained
hundreds of missionaries, Bible-readers,
teachers, etc. in India and China.
Talk about woman being at loss for an
expedient She's never at loss for anything
but a man. If she's in crowded street-car
and wants to scratch her head, she simply
changes the location of hair-pin.
\ Philadelphia lady is the owner of a
manuscripts copy of Wesley's hymns in the
handwriting of their author. The book de-
seellded to her from her grandfather, to
whom it was given in part payment of a
debt by the son of the man who printed the
first edition of the hymns.
Nine women have been elected to the Lon
don school board, which consists of SO MEM
bers. There would have been more but they
were the only nine in London who would
blushingly admit the proper age of so years
even for the blushing honors of public Office.
The women who are striving TO gain the
suffrage privilege should remember this in
their wild talk. They should furthermore
remember that the first and truest right of a
woman, as OF man, is self discipline, self
education. the highest culture attainable,
and that any work which tends to retard
mental growth should not be engaged in.
The divine right of men and women Is to be
the highest and best that is possible under
the best circumstances of their lives, and
women who are losing their higher womanly
attributes for the sake of mere notoriety-of
running about over the country and address
ing indiscriminate political gatherings-are
not the women who will do the best and no.
blest for their country or sex.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
One of the most important practical move
ments intended to enlarge the fields in which
women can be advantageously connected
with public affairs relates to their action on
school boards. 1t is said that in l6 of the
38 States, and three of the eight Territories,
women may now uOlO sCuOul OHCtS VI NObe
for those holding them. As a rule, men fail
so lamentably in their supervision of details
relating to popular education, that any
change in this matter could scarcely be for
the worse, and the sympathies of women
ere SO lively in all matters that affect the
educatiOn of children, that they would
doubtless, IN q great many Uasos, be very
desirable substitutes for the old race Of school
directors. In Massachusetts woman has
been admitted to full membership in the
State educational board, and out Of % per-
sons selected in Boston as members of gov
erning boards of charitable and reformatory
Institutions, eight or women. All of these
ladies are reported to be doing their allotted
work in very sensible and practical way
The doctrine that the mental and mora
qualities of women are much needed in
the government of schools as the qualities Of
men seems to be well sustained by reason
and experience