The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-05

Literary club urges women to act we'll their
part. 1t asks for just laws, and is valua-
BILE auxiliary to the great movement for
women.
OUR Canadian sisters are not to be out
done by those of England, who are fast
pressing forward into all reforms.
THERE is scarcely leading paper in
Chicago without lady editorial writer.
The Chicrgo Times, Inter. Ocean and News,
always employ one or more lady editors
The Chicago Signal, the western organ of
the w. c. T. u, is edited with marked
ability to Mrs. Mary B. Willard; Our
Union at New York, by Mrs. Winsowi
Our Herald at Lafayette, Ind, by Mrs
Helen NJ. Cougar; Our State Union, at
Flint, Mich by Miss S. A. Rullison, and
there are many others.
The paper given at the Literary room
on Wednesday, upon the scenery OF the
st. Lawrence and the White Mountains
was illustrated by q number of fine views
and illustrations Of scenes, the most lovely
and picturesque in America. 1t was the
unanimous wish of all who heard the inter
esting paper that it should be repeated,
and published. 1t would make an enter
tanning and instructive magazine article.
PROFESSOR RACHAEL BoDLEY, dean of
the Woman's Medical College of Philadel-
phia, is giving a course of lectures on
"Chemistry as Applied to Cooking" at
Franklin Institute Hall. She has large
audience, and throws much light on the
reason of the processes of cooking, and
explains how the cooking of some dishes
is done.
DR.. G. A. BUCKET has not only established
herself in medical practice in Oakland, CAL,
but is q practical teacherof natural history
She also has organized a society OF aides
who meet weekly at her own house to
study biology. The class began in January
1878, with studies in microscopic forms OF
animal life, and went on Systematically
through the successive classes until they
reached birds. They then spent one sea-
son in the study of California birds. Be
ginning next with the microscopic forms OF
vegetable life, they proceeded through
algg fungi, lichens, and MOSES, to ferns
which they are now studying. Dr. Buckle
has also organized class for young peo
pie of both sexes in natural history, which
has had besides regular lessons in geology
occasional lessons in minerology, chemistry
, and microscopic botany. This class ha
met bi-monthly, and is now in a prosper
GUS condition. DR.. Buckle hopes soon t
be able to erect building, where practices
instruction in drawing, chemistry, an
cooking, can be given, also popular lesson
in all the natural sciences. Woman
Journal.
The eminent success of so many
Cairo's most worthy and prominent youn
ladies in various business vocations may b
i accounted for by the following pertiner
remarks
1.-THE desire of our women and girls &c
h wider experience, for business and PR
Il
d fessional life, their entrance into law, med
cine, journalism, their taking upon then
h selves the duties of pulpit and PLATFORM
It all this is but the out-working of fnherel
Il and inherited energy. One of the laws
heredity is that the characteristics of Il
father are usually transmitted to the daug
II ter, and the men of America who ha
been living with such eager rapidity, bull
Or ing railroads and manufactures and tel
81 graph lines, founding cities and creatiI
y,s states, have fathered daughters like un
nj themselves. For our women and girls
" be content now in the circles formerly {
nc lotted to them is psychological impos
- bility. Boston Times.
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