The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15

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FLORENCE NJ Atkinson,
Indianapolis, Ind.
A capable young lady, Miss Roberts trans
acts the entire business of the Recorders of
fee at Greenfield, Hancock County this
State Miss Roberts father was elected
County Recorder and she was his principal
assistant At his death, man was ap-
pointed to fIl the unexpired term and gave
bond according to the requirement of the
law. He then appointed Miss Roberts
deputy and turned over the Office to her. So
that she is practically County Recorder, and
is regarded as a most efficient officer.
The three newspapers of Kokomo, Ind
are distinguished for their hbeIal recogni-
tion of woman's interests. The Dispatch
for some months has given space to a
column conducted by the Woman Suffrage
State Central Committee, AID hes recently
added department edited by tho ". c. T.
L. of RussiaviIle The Tribune for some
time has had department edited by Mrs.
III. e. Nj. Price IN the interest d woman
suffrage. Now. the Gazette, not % be be-
hind its cotempOrsries, has devoted col
Umn 10 the woman question under the man
agement Of Mrs. Frank Schofeld and Mrs
A. f. Armstrong.
An effort viii be made this spring TO
nominate AID elect at least two suitable
women or the citg School Board. 1t is
highly desirable that in all deliberations af-
fecting the 80 ministrstion and efficiency ofthe
oft hoo g. l.
and womznly counsel, experience and iudg-
ment. A Committee appointed by the
Equal Suffrage Society have consulted with
a large number of citizens, and and that the
suggestion is generally end cordially sp-
proved, and it is believed that if women
possessing the essential qualifications for
efficient members on the School Board are
brought up before the people as candidates
they will be elected.
The Boston University School of Medi-
cine has appointed Miss Nj. NJ. Dean house
physician Of the Massachusetts Homo
Opa.hic Hospital. Although this appoint
ment was made on the ground 0: pre-eminent
a large number of the male
Students Of the University are objecting to
tnis recognition of a woman's ability, and
lre endeavoring to prevent the confirmation
Of the appointment by the Hospital
Trustees. This selfish and illiberal action,
particularly in view of the co-educational
principles Of the University and of the fact
that the Hospital is largely indebted to tho
efforts of women, IL not Mt all creditable to
the superior sex.
In viewing the onward march Of woman
80 Toa 20 he. bot
numbers fell out by the way. The host of
ambitious women of this generation, striv-
lng and straining to achieve their ambitions
for education, culture, art, business or pro-
fessional success, social position and places
of honor and emolument, forget that 3 1.-THE
OF their possessions and opportunities would
be the salvation, spiritually and bodily, of
some of their sisters.
To large class of women the question OF
honorable, comfortable self-support is an
unsolved problem-a problem too, that they
are unable to solN e unless assisted by wiser
and more fortunate women. Those who
have opportunity 20 learn tie inexorable
laws of the industrial and business world,
and to watch the woreinks of the rules of
supply and demand, and of cause and effect,
may be able to see wherein these women
sense, efficiency, skill ability. Bat
those mos. interested can not see.
They are still under the influence OF
generations of ignorance, dependence
and seryitude. They are unable to see
what work the world wants and is willing
to pay for They do not even know what
kind of work they are best fitted for and an
ever present and pressing need will not
permit time for preparation or experiment.
The condition of large class of working
women in cities demands greater considera-
ton from more capable or more fortunate
women. The song of the shir: mas lost none
Of its ''dolorOus pitch" since Tom Hood put
Il into words, and is not likely to so long as
women make shirts for four cents apiece.
The writer has seen women in this city
making cheap calico shirts for stores at
from forty to fifty cents per dozen. Other
women there are whose food, fuel and
clothing depend on their earnings from
making Over-alls at from forty to seventy
ave cents per dozen. Not long since a
young girl, stranger in the city, without
food or fuel in her room, sought in vain for
plain sewing, and, as a last resort, made nine
pair Of overalls, very neatly and
nicely, but because she was new
hand the rates were reduced and she received
but twenty-one cents for her work. How