Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-04
NO. 81.
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the
Woman's Home Missionary Society Of the NJ.
T.. church, presided at meetings held at
Chautauqua, July 2s, in the interest Of that
Association.
II is not generally known but is neverthe-
less true, that by a law passed in 1869, women
are entitled to vote and hold Office in parish
and religious societies in Massachusetts, on the
same terms asmen.
The Woman's Silk Culture Association has
during the past year established an auxiliary
association in Alabama, and steps are being
taken for the formation of one in New York
and another in Florida.
The Misses Littell who carry on the Living
Age left them by their father, are highly in
tellectual women, whose critical acumen is
evidenced by tho value Of the selections which
make up the magazine.
Miss Agnes Harris, of st. Clair County,
Missouri, for two years teacher of music in
the Fayetteville College, carried of the first
prize at the commencement exercises of the
Cincinnati College of Music last week.
Miss Kate Upson Clark is associate editor
of Good Cheer, o family monthly published
in Greenfield, Mass. The paper Is edited
wholly by woman, has a woman's depart
ment, and will help along the woman's cause
whenever opportunity offers.
Sarah Radcliffe lectured at the vestry of the
Second Baptist church, in Springfield Mass,
last week, on 'The Education of the Blind"
Miss Radcliffe is graduate Of the Perkins In
stitute for the blind, and her lecture is said
to be very interesting.
Miss Annie NJ. Kittredge, so long and IA
vorably known in connection with the West
Newton English and Classical School, has
been appointed teacher of Latin and German
OF tha gtofa NorrnaI cchOol of Famine chm,
Mass, position for which she is admirably
qualified.
DR.. Anita E. Tying, of Providence, R. t.,
has accepted the position of Chief Physician
of the Philadelphia Woman's Hospital The
position involves great responsibilities, hav-
ing under its direction four physicians, q
large maternity, dispensary, clinics, and a
training school for nurses. DR.. Tying has sail
ed from Boston on the steamer Palmyra, in
tending to spend two months in inspecting
some of the hospitals OF Europe. She will re-
turn the first of September, to enter on her
new work in Philadelphia.
A society to promote Irrational dress" has
been formed in England. The Viscountess
Habberton is president They announce their
object to be first, to promote the adoption,
according TO individual taste and convenience,
of a style of dress based upon considerations
of health, comfort and beauty, and to depre-
cate constant changes of fashion, which can
not be recommended on any Of these grounds;
aud second, to promote their objects by means
of drawing room meetings, advertisements,
circulating pamphlets, leaflets ETC., and also
by issuing patterns which meet the approval
of the committee.
Some years ago, when the newspapers an
nounced that an eminent woman suffrage
speaker was about to prepare for the bar, an
indignant young lawyer remarked that he
should never be able to listen to a woman's
argument without being led to think of mince
pies. 'You had better not take up the side
opposed to her." said an older lawyer, "or
you will be led to think of mince meat" 1t
is from the mince-meat critics, from those
who cannot themselves do q given thing so
well as great many women could do it, that
the sharpest criticism of women's alleged in
competency comes.
Miss Fanny Parnell, whose sudden death
last week, at Bordentown, N. j., aged 26, will
be lamented by Irish men and women every
where, was young woman of decided genius,
in whose heart love for Ireland was an all
consuming passion. Henry George aptly re-
ferred to her as the Joan of Arc of the Land
League movement. She had all the French girls
enthusiasm certainly, was no less self-deny-
ing, and though good deal more reasonable,
was perhaps as courageous. Her poetry,
though not of high order in point of imag-
ination, is charged with fire, often exhibits
great tenderness, and at all times breathes the
spirit of the movement with which the name
Of her brother is so conspicuously identified.
1t is the literal truth to say that she laid down
her life for Ireland. Her vitality was as COM
pletely exhausted by her labors with her pen
and in the work of organization as though her
blood had been shed on the field of battle.
She was a delicately formed, refined looking
and naturally retiring lady.