Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-03-06
CONCERNING WOMEN


mo rent" was sentenced at Bir last
week to six months imprisonment on .
charge Of intimidation.
The Quiz, sprightly weekly PUBLISH
ed in Philadelphia, is entirely under the
control Of women. Mrs. Mary Hall Is
its business manager and Mrs. Florence
O. Ducan editor in-chief.
A London woman who fell when step.
ping on board a steamer and sued the
owners for personal damages. lost the
suit because she wore high heeled boots
and thus contributed to the accident.
At recent examination by the CAL
citta University. eight women passed
successfully, of whom six are natives OF
India, and at Bombay seven were sue
cessful. including four natives. AT the
First Arts examination at Calcutta fe-
male candidate obtained q scholarship oil
the first grade.
Miss Leona Call. NJ. A., professor Of
Greek in the University Of Des Moines,
has been elected to the same position in
the Central University Of Iowa, at Pella.
she is a graduate Of the Iowa State Uni
versiiy and a ripe Greek scholar.
For the first time in the history Of the
Unitarian denomination, a sermon was
preached by a woman. At the Western
Unitarian Conference, successfully held
at Cleveland, O., in May, Miss Mary f.
Eastman delivered the Sunday afternoon
discourse on Immortality" to q crowd
ed house.
Miss Ada l.. Howard. the first pres
ident of Wellesley College, who resigned
her place. some time since, on account OF
her health, has so far recovered as to feel
able to accep. the appointment of lady
principal Of the Foster Young Ladies
Seminary, a, Clifton Springs.
Kate Shelley, the Iowa girl who saved
railroad train from wrecking, contra.
diets the newspaper rumors that she was
engaged to be married. She says she
desires a good education. The Chicago
& Northwestern Railroad Company
should see that her desire be gratitied.
Miss Mary Rowland. President Of the
Ladies Branch of the Land League, has
written an earnest open letter to Bishop
Gilmour, in which she says the women
of the Parnell Branch Of the Land
League will continue in the work they
have undertaken. She sets the Bishop
threat Of accommodation at defiance.
The report of the U. S. Senate Com
mittee in favor Of woman suffrage shows
the advance in public sentiment on this
question. 1t will be hailed by the
friends Of the movement everywhere, as
a most hopeful sign OF the times. The
committee declare that this proposed
amendment is in direct line with the tf-
teenth amendment, and is in their Jndg-
ment the safe and direct way to final
settlement Of the question.
The women voted on school matters to
some purpose recently at West Denver,
Colorado. A Catholic or fusion ticket
was put into the field to Gust the regular
board. The ladies came to the rescue
lone old lady OF seventy walking nearly
a mile to deposit her maiden vo.e"-and
the old management was continued by a
good majority. At the last election in
Cheyenne, Wyo., out Of l,434 votes
polled, 4l0 were cast by women.
A society of women has lately been
formed in Germantown, Pa, called The
Political Education society" It's object is
1.-THE education of its members with a
view to increasing their usefulness as Cit
liens of the United States, and the ex-
tending Of the means of such education
as much as possible to others" They
meet once in two weeks, Tread aloud
some work upon government or politics,
and discuss what they read"
The Washing school Of Cookery clio sed
its session Of six months on the | 5th inst,
after winter of successful work, chiefly
under the direction of the associate Su.
perintendent. Miss NJ. l.. Clarke Of South
Natick. The Superintendent, Mrs. Hell
en- Cambell, became in January literary
and household editor Of Judge Toureee's
new paper, Or Continent. She retains
her interest in the school which will re.
open Nov. |, 1892.
The one hundred and first anniversary
meeting of Massachusetts, Medical Socie-
ty, held in Boston June Is and IA. was
of special interest because OF the action
taken in regard to the admission of wo-
men. A motion that it was the opinion