Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-05-30
CONCERNING WOMEN.

~ ID cAPecteu tnat INC uoVto VI INC
Kentucky School Of Medicine will be OPP
ened to women very soon.
Mr.. Darwin was one of the very first
to sign petitions in favor of woman suf-
frage in England.
Adsline Wildes, M. D., graduate Of
Boston University. has opened free dis
pesary for women and children, at Meet
ing House Hill, Dorchester.
A daughter of the late President John.
SON manages farm near Albany. Texas,
with such economy and success that
prosperous future is already insured to
the Presidents two grandsons
Miss Nettie H. McKelvey, Miss NJ. ].
Howes and Miss A. w. Cowles have
been chosen essayists by the Oberlin stu
dents for the oratorical contest next win
ter.
Mrs. Cynthia Hicks, who is seventy.
eight years old, is the President Of the
Humboldt Iowa Woman Suffrage So.
ciety. May she have increasing happi-
ness with revolving years, and live to
vote.
Woman suffrage was a marked feature
in the school election in West Denver,
COL, last week. Out Of seven hundred
and sixty-on ballots it is safe to say that
more than one. half the number were de-
posted by ladies.
Mrs. Charles Turner, widow lady Of
Liverpool, has given the munifcent sum
of 100000 for the erection Of home
for incurables in that city, and will make
ample arrangements in the shape Of en-
dowment for the maintenance Of the in
stitution.
Miss Belle Braden has Recently been
elected for the second time Treasurer Of
the Waynesburg and Washington Rail-
road in Pennsylvania. She is also Pay
master, making regular trips over the
road in the pay-car. She is probably the
only lady in the country who is rail
road officer.
Miss LizzieHoward has been appoint
cd Librarian of the Peabody Library by
by the Trustee of the Peabody institute,
in place of her father, A. S. Howard.
Miss Howard has been assistant in the
library for the past years, and is quite
familiar with the duties of the position.
The Senate Committee on Woman Suf-
frage have voted to recommend joint
resolution prepared by Senator Lapham,
proposing a Sixteenth Constitutional
amendment which declares that 1.-The
right Of citizens Of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or Abridged
by the United States or by any State on
account of SEX"
Sarah F. Nourse, of Moline, H., was
one of the pioneer workers of the West
for the advancement of women. She was
accidentally killed by the falling Of
windmill last August, and the Woman
Suffrage Association of Moline, of which
she was active member held a memorial
meeting to do honor to her memory.
Gov. Hoyt, of Wyoming Territory,
where women have all the rights Of citi-
zenship, says: Women don't want to
hold Office; they do not care for public
life. During all my experience in Wy
oming Territory, where women are citi-
zens and hold the same civil rights as
men, have not heard of one woman who
desired active public life"
DR.. William w. Draper of New York,
said at meeting of people Interested in
the higher education of women, on Sat-
urday night, that so far not the slightest
difference had been discovered in the ner-
vous anatomy Of man and woman, and it
was absurd to hold to the doctrine that
woman was by nature inferior in mental
capacity.
The Washington (Ind.) Democrat ad-
vocates the election of woman as school
trustee in that city, and says: Profess
sional and business men do not, as a rule,
have the time to make frequent visits to
the school room. The influence Of an in
telligent, refined, and educated woman
would make itself felt and prove pow
erful auxiliary in advancing the educa-
tional interests of our city"
The plaster cast of a statue of Harriet
Martineau has just been completed in
Boston, and is to be sent to Florence, to
be produced in marble. Miss Annie
is the sculptor, and the $751;
600 that it cost has been subscribed en-
tirely by women. 1t is somewhat larger
than life-size. end represents the subject
sitting with her hands crossed upon
manuscript which lies in her lap. The
statue is to be erected in Boston, but just
where is not stated.
A new society of women has lately