Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-08
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Six young southern girls are taking a
tramp across the mountains OF North Caro-
lima on foot, distance of elk or seven hun
dred miles, much of it through wild and un-
inhabited regions. They carry hammOcks in
their knapsacks and are ready to camp out
at night. Three are Vrginians and three are
Marylanders; the oldest is twenty and the
youngest is seventeen.
The sending of medical women from Eng.
land TO India is likely to be an established
custom. The Indian women are averse to
treatment by physicians not Of their own sex
The statistics Of the British medical service in
India show that the women have rarely avail.
ed themselves of prescriptions or attendance
A staff of trained women is proposed as part
of the public service in India, a department
coordinate and not subordinate to the exist
ing medical bureau.
The widow Of the hero of Harper's Ferry
visited Chicago the other day TO attend the
exercises of the "John Brown Monument
Association" at Ogden grove. Time and
trouble have left their marks upon her, but
she is yet strong and active. To a reporter
she said that the rumor of her being in a desti-
tute condition was almost entirely unfounded,
and that at present she is in comfortable cir
cumstances. She has not seen her husband s
grave for nearly nineteen years, but expects
to visit in few days, before returning to
California.
The Wisconsin industrial school for girls
visited and highly commended by the National
Conference of Charities and Reforms at its
late session in Milwaukee, is not only man
aged by board of women, but has had for
its superintendent for three years past Mrs.
NJ. E. Rockwell, who has been engaged over
twenty years in similar work, and has made
an excellent record in the Connecticut Indus
trial School for girls, and at the Women's
Prison in Massachusetts,. She has lately mar
ried Mr.. d. A. Cobb, tho steward of the
school at Milwaukee, and both will continue
in their former duties and position. Mrs.
Cobb is an earnest advocate Of the combina-
tion of kindergarten and industrial work with
literary training from the earliest years.
The British Womans Temperance Associa-
tion, which is the w. G. II. U. of Great
Britain, has presented to parliament petition
for Sunday closing that rivals in length our
famous Home Protection petition Of five years
ago. 1t enrolled 1900 signatures of Eng
lish women only-no Irish, Scotch, or Welsh
names being included. The last signature at
taehed was that of the Countess of Aberdeen.
The petition, which 10 about one mile long,
was in huge roll, and had to be carried into
the waiting room by two policemen. Mr..
Stevenson presented this noble expression
from the women of England TO the House Of
Commons. The usual method is for the mem.
Der to take the petition up to the table and
thrust it into large bag. This process was
impossible on the present occasion, as no bag
would hold the huge roll which lay at Mr.
Stevensons feet, fttingly tied up with blue
ribbons. Nor could any one member carry
it. Mr.. Stevenson, aided by another mem
ber of the House, each holding an end of the
n ~ I. n-.g. - n.
work of presentation by carrying ii up to the
table amid the cheers Of the House. This il
great step forward for women, as well al
for temperance.