Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-09-05
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Mrs. FLETCHER WEBSTER, now owner OF
the Webster farm at Marshfsld, has
kindly offered to give the Webster His
torical Society enough of the furniture Of
the great statesman still in her posses
sion to furnish a suitable room for the
society, whenever they may decide upon
one for future use in Boston.
A convention of the friends Of woman
suffrage in Wisconsin will be held in
Madison, Wisconsin, September 7th and
sth. Lucy Stone and Henry B. Black
well, Of Massachusetts,, Mrs. Mary f.
Haggart, of Indiana, and other well
known friends of the cause are expected
to be present.
The managers of the Pennsylvania
Woman's Hospital are having erected a
new building, with a seating capacity for
about $50 persons, to be used for clinical
instruction. Ii adJolns the hospital on
the east, and will COS, about $4,000.
1t may be the duty Of sincere oppo-
nen,s of woman suffrage to speak, and
vote, and work against it. But it is
equally the duty of suiIragists to speak,
and vote, and work against the nomina-
ton of such opponents to position where
they can make their opposition effective.
The executive committee of the Iowa
Woman Suffrage Association are writing
TO all the editors in the State asking the
following questions "Will you advo-
cate or allow others TO advocate woman
suffrage in your paper y Most Of the
responses, so far, arc favorable.
Mrs. Mary Wright, wife of eS-S na;Or
George S. Wright, OF Des MONIES, Ia,
and Mrs. A. G. Leweliing, matron Of
the Girls Reform School, were commits
stoned by Governor Sherman. of Iowa. as
delegates to the National Conference Of
Charities, which met at Saratoga Au-
gust I.
The Indiana Methodist Conference
which will meet at the Central Avenue
church in Indianapolis this week, has
cautiously granted the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union one afternoon Of
the session, when Mrs. H. Ct. Wallace,
Mrs. NJ. l.. Well and Mrs. J. X. Nichols
will present the methods and work of
the Union, which is making arrange
ments for a series Of parlor meetings in
different sections of the city, the discus
sions to be led by Mrs. Wallace, Wells
and Nichols.
In the whole United States, as We
learn by the United States census, there
are l2,57t,4 27 males over twenty one
years of age. In 1880, 9,204, 42S voted,
or 70 per cent. Of the entire voting pop
ulation. This was in a Presidential
election. At the State and local cleo
tons a much smaller vote is polled. 1t
is fair to say that not more than one half
the qualified voters vote on an average.
Yet we are told that women don't want
10 vote.
There is every prospect OF an excellent
meeting of the American Woman Suf
frage Association, at Omaha, on the 18th
and 18th Of September. Among the
speakers are Judge kingman of Chey'
enne, whose testimony Of what he has
seen of the practical results OF woman
suffrage in Wyoming is invaluable; the
sisters Muller of England, who are ac-
tive suffragists at home and excellent
speakers Hon. Erasmus NJ. Correll,
Mrs. Rebecca y. Hazard, Mrs. Senator
Henderson and Rev John Snyder of Mis-
souri,, DR.. Mary f. Thomas. Mrs. Mary
+. Haggart and Florence Atkinson OF
Indiana, William d. Foulke probably.
Mrs Margaret w. Combell, Miss Kate J..
Kelsey of Ohio, Mrs. Mary b. Clay Of
Kentucky, Mr.. II. b. Blackwell and
Lucy Stone.
The board of musical studies in Cam
bridge England University recommend
that the examination for musical degrees
be open to such women as can produce
the required certificate of literary and
scientific attainment. The fees are to be
the same as in the case of men. The
names Of women satisfying the examin-
ers are to be published in a separate list.
These musical examinations are virtually
honor examinations, and the board call
attention to the fact that their recon-
mendation is simply carrying out the
principle of the decision of the senate in
February, 1881, which admitted women
to honor examinations on the same con-
ditions, as far as possible, as men.
At the meeting of the Democratic
State Central Committee, in Boston,
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