Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-02
NO. %.
tai doctrines of religion were eternally true
the fundamental doctrines of science were
eternally true.
CONCERNING WOMEN. .

Miss Eula Marsh is secretary of an exchange
for womans work recently established in De-
troit, which has met with decided success
A new and attractive feature of the woman
suffrage work in New England was the social
festival held in Boston on the evening Of May
81.
The bill prohibiting the disfranchisement
Of women has passed the third reading in the
New York assembly by an affirmative vote of
~ and it is believed the senate will concur.
Miss Lizzie Sargent, daughter of the minis
lister to Germany, intends to pursue her stu
dies at q German university. She is already
qualified physician, having graduated at tho
Pacific medical college.
Mrs. H. F. Crocker and Mrs. H. A. Johns
have been appointed police matrons TO look
after women prisoners in police stations and
courts, through the action of the First Brook
lyn Womans Temperance Union, which fur
nishes the money for the purpose.
Adeline Wildes, M. D., graduate of Bos-
ton university, has opened free dispensary
for women and children at Meeting House
Hill, Dorchester Mass.
Mrs. Chas. Turner, a widow lady of Liver
pool, has given the munifcent sum of $780,,
900 for the erection of a home for incurables
in that city, and will make ample arrange
ments in the shape of endowment for the
maintenance of the institution
Several ladies are employed on the staff of
computers in the astronomical observatory of
Harvard college. We believe that women
have shown themselves specially competent
in the ordinary reductions of observations in
more than one European observatory.
At the last November election held in Chey-
enne, W. T., 1,434 votes were polled, $40 of
which were deposited by women. This con-
firms the recent statement of Gov. Hoyt that
uunf -, A
men in Wyoming.
The progress of women towards complete
parity with men in all the relations of bust
ness is illustrated by the establishment of an
advertising agency at No. ITO fremont street,
Boston, by Misses L. A. Blaisdell and Z. +.
Foster, under the firm name of Blasdell &
Foster.
W. E. Kollock of Madison, Wis, has four
daughters. The two oldest are well-educated
physicians with large practice; the third is O
successful and popular minister Of a church
in Chicago suburb; the fourth is a success
full dentist in Chicago.
DR.. VIM. W. Draper of New York said in a
late meeting in the interest of higher education
of women, that 80 far not the slightest differ
ence had been discovered in the nervous anat-
omy of man and woman, aud it was absurd
to hold the doctrine that woman was by ma
ture inferior in mental capacity.
The senate committee on woman suffrage
have voted to recommend a joint resolution,
| prepared by Senator Lapham, proposing a
sixteenth constitutional amendment which de-
clares that 1.-THE right of citizens of the Unit
ed States TO vote shall not be denied or abridg-
ed by the United States or by any state on &C.
| count of SEX"
The Rhode Island senate, by special com
| mittee on women's relation to the laws and
the constitution, have made report recon-
mending no action at this time, in view of
the fact that the question of constitutional
convention is to be submitted to the electors.
Judge Brady has common sense to support
him, even if he lacks legal precedent, in hold
| ing that wife has a right to sue her husband
for damages from assault and battery. The
record of wife beating and wife murder in
this city has become intolerably long and Of
fensive.- Christian Union.
In Wisconsin committee of women con-
sisting of Mrs. Emma O. Bascom, wife of
President Bascom of Wisconsin university,
Mrs. B. L. Delaplaine, and Mrs. Helen r.
Olin, have undertaken to introduce suffrage
literature into the newspapers of that state as
far as possible.
1t is worthy of notice that the bill admitting
women to practice in the courts of law was
passed without q word of debate Some vot-
ed for it who voted against suffrage. Will
some one of these explain why it is more ''un-
womanly" to vote than to practice law ?-iSd-
lem Observer.
Miss Lizzie Howard has been appointed IL
brarian of the Peabody library by tho trustees
of Peabody Institute, in place of her father,
A. S. Howard. Miss Howard has been assis.
tant in the library for the past ten years, and
is quite familiar with the duties of the posi-
ton.
| Nan-aot;a,,k o. ~ Ia H.,
amended by the House of Representatives SO
that women as we'll as men may vote on the
election of trustees of Methodist churches.
Meetings for such elections are to be held in
January instead of September hereafter. The
reason alleged is the insufficient attendance oi
male voters.
Five women, graduates in good standing OF
several reputable medical colleges, recently
applied to be admitted to membership in the
Philadelphia county medical society, and were
blackbslled, although the society had previ
ously voted that women should be eligible tc
membership on the same terms as men.
The officers of the women's silk culture as
sociation, 1928 Chestnut street, Philadelphia
state that they have more orders for white
mulberry trees, upon which silk-worms feed
than can be filed for some time to come. Or
ders for trees for spring planting, they say
should not be given later than the last o.
March, and for fall planting not later thai
the first of October.
For the advancement of the cause OF WON
an suffrage in Indiana, and for the purpose o
submitting and discussing plans and methods
. for securing the ratification of the woman suf
rage amendment by the next legislature, and
its ultimate approval by the voters at th
, polls, it is proposed to hold a mass meeting
, in Indianapolis of the women of the state whC
want to vote.
Another lady lawyer, Miss Hall of Connect
( | lieut. has passed an examination before O com
mttee of the bar association, who have mad
a favorable report in her case to q full meet
J ing of the bar. The only difficulty in tn
/ way now seems to be a legal question as to tn
admissibility of women. This question, tn
/ Home Journal reports, is to be argued befor
8 the supreme court next month.
Miss E. U. Keely is the proprietor of a larg
d establishment for the manufacture OF steaI
: boilers, fixtures and machinery in Williams
: port, Pa. The receipts from her bushes
: reach $4,000 per month, and she sells he
/ goods in all parts of the country, east an
: west. She was once bookkeeper for the firI
= which carried on the works, but it failed; tn
! business was sold, and she became the pun
t chaser
: Miss Alice Fletcher spoke to a distinguishe
! and very much interested audience, recently
: in the parlors of the foundry church at Wasl
t ington, on her life emong the Indians and IL
r measures which a regard for their welfare an
J, the general public interests require in the
= treatment. The meeting was held under tn
J. auspices of an association of ladies intereste
in the Indian question, of which Mrs. Genert
+ Hawley is president.
:. The New Century club of Philadelphia, OIL
D. of the largest, is also one of the most Col
It servative OF women's organizations. One {
n its standing rules has heretofore been that u
/" question of woman suffrage could not
l. broached in its meetings. BY general eonsel
10 this rule has now been set aside, and the tai
70 oed topic was the formal title of paper lat
p ly read by Mrs. Turner, one of the ioundo
of of the club. A second innovation was mao
ID by having gentlemen discuss the paper, II