The Republican journal., 1882-07-06
woman's WORK.

WHAT THE WOMEN ARE DOING IN THE FIELD
ART.
There are now employed in the public schools
of Massachusetts, 1861 teachers. of whom 1927
are women.
The next annual meeting of the American
Woman Suffrage Association will be held in
Omaha, Nebraska, early in October.
The city government of Portland, is con-
siderins the advisability of appointing a wo-
man city physician. There are three women
doctors in that city.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of Des MOnes recently purchased two acres
Of land north of the city. and will prepare a
home for fallen women in the building now on
the property.
DR.. Mary F, Thomas, of Richmond Ind,
read paper on employing lady physicians in
hospitals for insane women, before q con-
Ncntion of regular physicians last week.
Mrs. scott Sexton, of Louisville, Ky, has
Instituted, organized. and successfully carried
forward school of Elocuton and Oratory,
and this summer opens Il 'Summer school
at tredonia, n. Y.
At school district in Lancaster precinct.
Just cast of Lincoln, Neb. as many women
as men attended the annual school meeting. and
Mrs. Perkey was elected as a member of the
schoOl-board.
The Beaver City (Neb.) paper says: The
Woman'S suffrage movement is gaining ground
i'll this part of the state. Miss Rankin. the
county superintendent of this county, was
elected unanimously"
Mrs. Rebecca Taylor. mother of the late
Bayard Taylor, has presented to drygoods
house III Philadelphia handsome skein of
six, reeled and spun with her own hands, in
the ei%hty-third year of her age.
The question of the admission of women to
columbia College is to come before the trustees
Of that institution at its next meeting, in June.
The petitioners have gathered a mass of VERY
il fax # lIl ti1,,r
women to the privileges of university cduca-
ton.
In {. $ Congress, Senator Lapham has re-
ported favorably from the committee on
woman suffrage, with statement of the
views of the minority in its favor, the bill
for an amendment to the constitution giving
the suffrage to women Senator George has
presented 4 minority report against it, and the
bill has been placed on the calendar.
Mrs. Emma Is. Knight canyaSsed lnavale
precinct, Webster county, Neb., for signers to
the petition asking men to vote for the impair
tlal suffrage amendment, and out of thirty
women seen i'll one day, tre0ty nine signed it,
notwithstanding this fact, we presume the
opponents Of woman suffrage in that precinct
will still maintain that "women do not want
to vote.
The ten thousand school maams, who 90
down the highways of Iowa every morning
with linen aprons on. and with the love of
liberty and truth in their hearts, who have
ni''" Iowa what IL IS more thal any other
dozen forces IN it, would take any state IN
the south and make its citizens liberal in
ttlllgcnt, progressive, refined and republican
in ten years, Iowa State Register.
Speaking of rowdyism and rutfianism in
colleges the Lynn Union says: IF, however,
their doors could be opened for the admission
Of lady students, all the barbarsm of college
life would give way before the restraining ana
tIevatlng influences which their presence would
bring. Woman is the factor that will yet solve
this troublesome problcm.
Mrs. Ada VI. Bittenbendcr. of OSce0a Ncb
president of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage
Association, was admitted to the baras practic-
ing attorney, May l.. The Judge in admitt-
ing Mrs. Bittenhcnder, at the close Of the
questioning. spoke in the highest terms of
the manner in which She had passed the
ordeal, stating it was far above the average
All the attorneys present freely admitted it
was the best examination they had ever
witnessed.
The lncbriate Woman, Home is now one
Of thlcagO'> Institutions A few weeks AGO
the property known as the Military Institute
Of Belle Plain, three or four miles north of the
city, was purchased by the trustees of the
NaShmgtonlan Home. for this purpose, placed
under the care and control of a board of lady
managers, among whom are Mrs, Thomas
Wilcc, Mrs. I. b. Carsc, Mrs NJ 4. Cum
mngN. and others, all prominent workers in
the Woman's Christian Temperance I'nion
Mrs. l.. NJ. Moore, female deputy sheriff
Of Brockt0n \. y. recently went to Philade-
phla and recovered a little girl that had been
abducted by its father from the mother. to
whom the courts had awarded it. She stopped
the child on the street and, by promising to
take her to see her mother, induced her to
accompany her. She took the child 10 her
hotel, cut her hair, dressed her in suit of
boys clothes. and remained there until Mon
day night, when She returned with her TO
BrOOklvn.
Hon. j. NJ. Dickinson, secretary of the
Massachusetts State Board of Education. SAYS
that when women are chosen as school super
vi>or-, they generally turn their attention ut
once to the internal life Of the schools
mentioning among numerous things that they
are sure to do, that they inquire for the extent
to which the attention of the children is turned
to the moral quality of their acts. He adds
that for this last reason. if for no other every
school-board should have 1T least one woman
among its members"
Mrs. Mary Beccher is forcwoman Of d
department containing 200 girls in the Nau-
Satuck Comm Rubber Shoe Co., with ful
power in reference to engaging and dischargng
help. Although all the other rooms Of this
large establishment are in charge of men, hers
is admitted to be the best conducted She
apparently does very little watching, having
work Of her own to do, such as looking over
the shoes before they are packed making
" samples, and getting up new designs
But many girl who gets behindhand is
quietly helped forward by the deft and trelcsS
hngcrs of the fOreWoman; and thus helped and
encouraged, the large number under her super
vision give entire satisfaction. Mrs. Bcecher
i said to have an interest in the firm