The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-06-01
CONCERNING WOMEN.

OuksObANAso SAADk'
IL is expected that the doors of the
Kentucky School of Medicine will be
opened to women very soon.
Mr.. Darwin was one of the very first
TO sign petitions in favor of woman suf-
frage in England.
Adeline Wildes, NJ. d., graduate of
Boston University, has opened a free
dispensary for women and children, Mt
Meeting House Hill, Dorchester.
A daughter of the late President
johnson manages farm near Albany,
Texas, with such economy and success
that prosperous future is already in
sured TO the presidents two grandsons.
Mrs. Cynthia Hicks, who is seventy
eight years old. is president of the
Humboldt Qowa) woman suffrage soci-
ETY.. May she have increasing happi-
hess with revolving years, and live to
vote.
Mrs. Charles Turner, widow lady of
Liverpool, has given the munificent
sum of 100000 for the erection of a
home for incurables in that city, and
will make ample arrangements in the
shape of endowment for the mainten-
ance of the institution.
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 a
railroad officer.
The Senate committee on woman suf-
frage have voted to recommend joint
resolution prepared by Senator lap
ham, proposing sixteenth constitu-
tional amendment, which declares that
"The right of citizens of the United
States TO vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or any
State on account of SEX"
Governor Hoyt, of Wyoming Terri
tory, where women have all the rights
of citizenship, says: "Women don't
want TO hold office; they do not care
for public life. During all my expert
ence in Wyoming Territory, where
women are citizens and hold the same
civil rights as men, have not heard of
one woman who desired active public
lifer
DIR. William w. Draper, of New York,
said at meeting of people interested
in the higher education of women that
so far not the slightest difference had
been discovered in the nervous anat-
omy of man and woman, and it was alb
surd 10 hold 10 the doctrine that wom-
an was by nature inferior in mental
capacity.
The Washington Qnd.) Democrat adj
vocates The election of a woman as
school trustee in that city, and says:
professional and business men do not,
as a rule, have the time to make fire.
quent visits to the school-room. The
influence of an intelligent, a refined and
an educated woman would make itself
felt, and prove a powerful auxiliary in
advancing the educational interests of
our city,
A new society of women has lately
been organized in Germantown, Penn,
called "The Political Education Soci-
ety." Its object is s'the education of
its members with view to increasing
their usefulness as citizens of the United
States, and the extending of the means
of such education as much as possible
TO Others" They meet once in two
weeks, "read aloud some work upon
government or politics, and discuss
what they read
Harvard has been regarded, among
our colleges, as one of the most decided
in opposition TO any kind of co-educa-
ton and her president as the forefront
of her opposition. Medical co-educa-
ton has been regarded as the most
doubtful and the most open to objec-
ton of any kind. And yet medical CO.
education is defeated by only single
vote, and the pugnacious president
votes with the minority. When such
vote is possible, the cause is won.
The brewers convention which met
in Chicago some time ago unanimously
resolved "that we oppose woman suf-
frage everywhere and always, for when
woman has the ballot she will vote solid
Tor prohibition, and the woman's vote
is the last hope of the prohibitionists."
The wcman's vote in Evansville, where
TWENTY-FIVE women voted for license
and 2,426 against, is taken by some as
evidence that the brewers were right.
-Adcdnce.
Probably no woman has held office
under this government for longer
period than did Mrs. Margaret Silly
man, postmistress of Pottsyille, Penn,
who died recently. She was appointed
by President Lincoln, and entered upon
the duties of her Office April Goth, 1861.
She was re-appointed successfully by
Presidents johnson, Grant (twice),
HAYES and Garfield, and, had she lived
another week, would have completed
twenty-one years of efficient and faith
ful official service.