The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01

Work. which opened few weeks ago, is
succeeding, and solicis consignments of
work.
edit q column entitled Woman 81 Home"
in the Fruit Growers Journal, of Golden.
TExAs.-The bill to require chiefs OF State
Departments TO employ ladies for one-hsn
their clerbships. passed the Senate Jan. q,
by vote OF nineteen TO ten.
ORseoS.-A bill to extend the elective
franchise to women was introduced in the
Senate, Jan. 81, on the ground that under
the State Constitution the LEGISLATURE has
power to enfranchise women.
VERNoST.-Tbe frat annual meeting OF the
State Woman Stuff age Society was held at
Barton's Landing with large attendance,
good addresses and resolutions Mr. C. w
Wynan, of Brattleboro, was elected Presi-
dent.
MASSACHUSETTS The annual meeting of
the State Woman Suffrage and the School
Suffrage associations were held at Boston
last week. The series Of meetings in differ
eDt Iarts of the State will be continued
through February. About sixty meetings
Jsques who by gift of S25. 200 established
the hospital in Newburyport which bear her
name. died at her home in that town q few
days ago.
New ORLEANS Miss Katie Blackman has
composed a musical moroccan called "Csrni
val Chimes" which will be played by the
Mexican Band at the Exposition Miss
sole OF her music TO the Womsn's Depart
ment of LOUISIANA department OF litera.
ture of the New Orleans Ex position has been
opened in the Womsn's Department and it
is daily increasing In interest and import.
ance., Contributions are desired from
female authors, their publishers and their
friends. Publications should be sent By
mail express, addressed to Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe, Woman's Department, Worlds
Exposition, New Orleans Mrs. Howe hopes
that the newspapers of the country will give
this announcement wide publication, as
there are many States from which no con-
tributions whatever have been received A
department of science, under Mrs. Ordway,
has been inaugurated, and for this simi ar
appeal is made.
KANsAs-The State Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation convened in Topeka, Jan. is. On
the following day Mrs Helen M. Cougar and
Mrs. Johns, OF Salins, Vice President OF the
state Association, addressed a large audience
in Re representatives. Hall. On Jan. %, Mrs.
Goueor addressed the House. giving them q
bret ketch of the progress of woman suf-
fIsge IN other States and "erritories, partic-
ularly in Wyoming add Washington Terri
tories. She explained that a bill would be
introduced later in the Kansa. Legislature
asking municipal suffrage for women in
the State, and she proceeded to give the
Bouse reasons for adopting the bill and
Why it was desirable TO have such q bill
usss. She claimed that the introduction
of female suffrage in municipal pQlitics
would have tendency to bapisb nolitical
IS well as moral coIrrr,ption, and wo lid
settle grea. many difficult and dangerous
Questions in the political econ omy OF this
State. Her addres: Was listened to attsn-
lively throughout by the members; and she
received frequent manifestations OF APPROX
al, though Z was noticed that but few men,
lefs were very ehtonrag-e smils when
she touched more directly upon tfc passage
of a won an suffrage bill. Intellectual efoIfs
have been made in both houses to secure
committe on woman suffrage. The House
however has given women some practical
recognition by employing four girls as pages,
Miss NJ. Lulu Slough as Docket Clerk aud
Miss Nora NJ. Shaffer, assistant postmaster.
Four of the pages ere boys.
FoBEIeN.-The following Act has received
the sanction of the King of Denmark, con-
ferripg the right to vote in municipal cleo
tions on women in Iceland widows and
other married women who are househoiders,
or in any other manner occupy an independ-
emit positions are invested with the vote for
the election of the magistrates for the 'sysler'
and 'hrappar' (districfs and sub-districts
into which Iceland is divided) town coun-
cillors, and at parochial meetings, If they
are twenty five years Of age, and, moreover,
have fulfilled all legal conditions for the ex-
ercse of the above rights."-Olga Fialka
was the first woman to receive an order
for interior decorations in competi-
ton with men. She decorated q theater in
Berlin in mastery manner. One of her
pictures has been secured for the New Or
leans Expcsitiop.-Mrs. Marshall, the wife
OF Mr. Alfred Marshall, who succeeds Mr..
Fawcett as professor OF political economy at
Cambridge, assisted her husband in writing
Economics of Industry" and has for sew
eral years taught political economy in con-
nection with the Cambridge correspondence
classes --Mme. Nilsson has been decorated
by King Alfonso with the cross of the Civil
Order of Bene6csnce, founded by his
mother.
Physlcal Training OF Girls.
Lucy NJ. Hall, in the last number of the
Popular Science Monthly, in the course of an
article on the Physical Training of Girls"
with the mother or grandmother. On the
general question OF training she says.
II the little girl is to be reared with view
to perfect physical development she should
be dressed in as substantial clothing as her
brother, and all trimmings and accessories
necess.tatiDg extra care and stimulating
tendency to circumstances and the inn.
preston of sex should be avoided. IL the
boy is provided with q bicycle, the girl
should be given q tricycle., and so with all
the inducements by which he Is stimulated
to seek recreation in the open air. She should
share them.
Ii, from the exhuberance of health and
vitality which this course engenders, the
girl should chance to make as much noise
as a bow che shOuld not be checked and re-
pressed, while he is cent out of doors to
have his frolic out. Above all, should the
following of that routine custom in the edu-
cation Of girls, piano.practice, be avoided.
The piano is tie family vampire which has
sapped the vitality of thousands of young
girls by keeping them from the healthful
recreatIon and exercise which they so much