Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-10
I have been to two meetings Of society

I have been to two meetings Of . society
called the
woMAN's CHRISTIAN SUFFRAGE SOCIETY,
Which is working to bring the petition for
the ballot for women before the next State
Legislature. fancy the word Christian is
thrown into the name as sort of protest
against the odium that often attaches to q
female suffrage association. The ladies
mean that they neither wish to wear trou.
sers nor yet be advocates Of free love,
and yet they do wish to be represented in
Government that taxes them, and wish
mans wages for a mans work. l see that
many of them are women who are sore
with burning sense Of injustice done
them in Courts of law, which they feel
could not have been so easily perpetrated
had they understood the law or commanded
that respect for their rights which voter
undoubtedly does command more than
person who does not vote. Many of them
are women sensitively in awe of ridioule.
and yet so filled with that working sense
of oppression that struggles in the breast
of the happiest woman sometimes, that
they will still give heart and hand to the
work of lifting up their sex to the dignity
Of free human beings. Others, again, are
calm and thoughtful, giving, in turbulent
moments, satisfactory evidence of their
possession of that Judicial mind of which
DIR. Hammond denies the existence among
women. Cool head and precise thought
and fluent speech has Miss Kate Kennedy,
one of the most active and interesting of
the members of the society and, after all,
it is not among hirts and fashion plates
that we shall look for our female lawyers
and Senators, any more than we find the
males among dudes and dancers. There
will always be enough hysterical danes
and damsels, and to spare, for DIR. Ham.
mond and his following.
THE TRUE INwARDNEss OF THINGS
Is always delightful to discover. When 1
wrote you about Mrs. Hearst's fair for the
benefit of the San Francisco Homeopathic
Hospital, and how much money they took
in, it certainly looked as if call was gas
and CATERS" as the daft gentleman in
small clothes sought to express serenity
in " Nicholas Nickleby ;" but how decep-
tive may not be surface appearance. The
whole Board of Directors and lady mana
gers of the institution wish to resign i'm
mediately, if not sooner. For why 1t
seems there is a College of Physicians
homeopathic D.. J. n Eckel at their
head, some of them visiting and consulting
physicians at the hospital, who have seen
fit 20 express themselves dissatisfied with
the ladies management of the hospital !;
yet when the ladies fastened to put the
hospital into the hands of the disaffected
Esculapians, they failed to rally and CO.
operate in such body as to let the ladies
feel that they had in fact accepted the
management. However, one doctor did
prepare a list of ladies from which he said
a new Board of Directors might be chosen
and every body conciliated, but at yester-
days duly advertised meeting for the ex-
press purpose of election,
NEITHER BALM, NOR PHI YsIcIAN,
Nor list, nor lady was forthcoming, and
the existing Board sat and looked at each
other rather rufully and appointed another
meeting, the interim to be employed in
earnest efforts to collect nominees for a
future Board. They also talked of disin-
cooperating and Incorporating as hos
pital for women and children only, and
leaving the homeopathic element to shift
for itself as it were. Fred Yates has made
a capital painting of Fred Sharon's bull
dog Tiger, the only genuine bulldog on the
coast, and ferocious-looking creature it
is, with an underjaw protruding nearly an
inch beyond the upper. Mr.. Yates is now
enthusiastically at work on a crayon por-
trait of a young man studying to be a
priest. The face pleased the artist, who
prevailed upon the young student to sit to
him, and the portrait promises to be one Of
Yates best things. PHILIP SHIRLEY.