St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-26
What women Are Doing.

What Women Are Doing.
Mrs l.. G. Coburn, lady of San
Antonio, Texas, has 10000 silk worms
at work in her yard.
The Illinois Woman Suffrage Con-
vention will convene in executive ses-
sion ut Moline Thursday and Friday,
May p and 26.
DR.. Anna Warren, of Emporia, Kas.,
has practice of 1000 il wear, besides
mining interests that will give her II
competence in old age.
Miss Eula Marsh is secretary of an
exchange for woman's work, recently
established in Detroit, which has met
with decided success.
A social festival to he held i'll Bos-
ton on the evening of May 81, is Il new
and attractive feature of the Woman
Suffrage work in New England.
Mrs. DIR. Tyler Wilcox presented Il
ballot at the polls of the West Joplin
Missouri school election, but the judges
declined to receive the vote.
The bill prohibiting the distranchiSe-
ment of women has passed the third
reading in the New York Assembly
by seventy-seven affirmative vote, and
it is believed that the senate will concur.
Miss Lizzie Sargent, the younger
daughter of the Minister to Germany,
intends to pursue her medical studies
ut a German university. She is al
ready IA qualified physician, having
been graduated at the Pacific Medical
College.
Mrs. II. F. Crocker and Mrs. II. A.
Johns were appointed April IL, as Po-
lice Matrons to look after women pris-
Oners i'll police stations and courts,
through the action of the First Brook
lyn WOman's Christian Temperance
Union, which furnishes the money fol
the purpose.
Several ladies are employed on the
staff of computers i'll the Astronomical
observatory of Harvard College. w,
believe that women have shown them
selves specially competent in the ordi-
nary reductions of observations in NOR,
than one European observatory.
At the last November election held
in the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming
Territory, I,434 votes We're polled
SO of which were voted by the women
This proportion confirms the recent
statement of Governor Hoyt that wO
men vote in proportion as largely "a
the men, in Wyoming.
The progress of women towards com
plete parity with men in all the rela-
tions of business is illustrated by til,
establishment of an advertising agen
cy at No. 40 fremont street, Boston
Blaisdell & Foster; and the prOprie
tors are Misses l.. A. Blaisdell and +
F. Foster.
Mr.. w. E. Kollock, of Madison
Wisconsin, has four daughters. Tn,
two oldest are well-educated physi
clans with large practice the third i
IA successful and popular minister of
church in Chicago suburb the fourtl
is il successful dentist at Chicago.
Judge Brady has common sense t.
support him, even if he lacks lega
precedent, i'll holding that wife has
right to sue her husband for damage
from assault and battery. The recOr,
of wife beating and wife murder il
this city has become intOlerably lon
and Offensive Christian Union.
1t is worthy of notice that the bil
which admits women to practice i
the courts of law, was passed withou
word of debate. Some voted for
WHO NOltu against SunIdSt- w l.
some one of these explain why it
more "unwomanly" to vote than it
: to practice at the law = Salem Oh
server.
The Connecticut state law has jus
been amended by the House of Repre-
sentatives so that women as well q
. men NAV vote on the election of trus
| tees of Methodist churches. Meeting
, for such elections are to be held
4 January instead of September hereat
i ter. The reason alleged is the insult
cient attendance of male voters.
: Five women, graduates in goo
t standing of several reputable medic;
a colleges, applied recently to be admit
I ted to membership in the PHILADELPHIA
5 County Medical society, and wei
e blackballed, although the society ha
n previously voted that women shOul
r. he eligible for membership on I'll
: same terms as men.
At the late debate in the Massachl
setts Senate on municipal suffrage f
It women, couple of Representative,
stood listening to the debate. Oh
/ was heard to say 4: ''They're all Ere
n Lovers, aren't they ?" The other I
u pneu, Wv ell, tney all Uenu Uldu wa
h Don't believe in the Bible. Don't b
e lieve in nothing" Enlightened legi
latOrs are they not?
l. Another lady lawyer, Miss Hall,
d Connecticut, has passed an examin
1t ton before a committee of the bar a
y sOciation, who have made favOrat
a report in her case to a full meeting
y the bar. The only difficulty now
At the way seems to he legal questi
he as to the admissibility of wome
E. This question, the Home journal I
he ports, is to be argued before the 5
e. preme COurt next month.
N A lady, Miss Z. L. Keely, is the pr
Il prietor of large establishment for t
manufacture of steam boilers, fixtuI
a. and machinery in WilliamspOrt, +
lie The receipts of her business exec
lg $1,000 per month, and she sells |
re goods in all parts of the country, e;
ch and west. She was once boOk-keeI
E. on the works, but it failed; the bu
Ir. ness was sold and she became the oW
,ff er.