The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-03
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Miss Kate Field has an article in the current North
American Review on Mormon Blood Atonement."
new employment for women is the inlaying of
furniture with ivory and other forms of marquetry.
The annual meeting of the Indiana Woman Suffrage
Association will be held at Richmond Nov 8, 10
and H.
The womens Auxiliary Conference" has con
tributed 500 900 to the American Unitarian Associa-
ton in six years
Mrs. Simpson, widow of the late Bishop Simpson, of
the Methodist Episcopal Church is editing her hus-
bands memoirs and letters for publication
Miss Ada Kelly is an independent candidate for
county, Kansas She is speaking from educational
standpoint in every school district in the county with
good prospect of being elected.
Miss Ellen Gillian is the Republican candidate for
county superintendent of schools in Walla Walla
county Washington Territory. She is an able and
experienced teacher, and one of the Massachusetts
"superfuous women" who have gone West to grow up
with the country.
The American Woman Suffrage Association will
hold it's eighteenth annual meeting in Topeka Kan
on Oct. rs, 81 and %. Mrs Julia Ward Howe Lucy
Stone, Henry B. Blackwell Hon. William Dudley
Foulke and other eminent advocates will address the
meeting. Mr.. Foulke is president of the association
Miss Cons is the successful manager of the Royal
Victoria Coffee Hall, in London, England and to her
music hall of the viest character to wholesome place
of entertainment for the working people. Here they
can enjoy warmth light and varied easements such
as lectures and concerts at small expense, and be
free from the evil influences of the ordinary music
hail. During the last year not less than 170 600 per-
sons have availed themselves of its advantages.
Frances E. Willard says: To thousands of young
women bound to be journalists would like to say as
I wish some one had said to in my childhood
learn the printers trade and meanwhile try your
hand at writing" You will thus hold one bread win
ming implement while you reach out for another
Never wait for something up take hold of the
types-they move the world-and turn them right side
up and If you faithful and have the gift predicted
by your preference you will surely win foothod in
the splendid realm of journalism.
The Republican convention of Washington Terrific
ry adopted the following plank as part of its plat
FORM I'VE heartily ndorse present law confer
ring suffrage upon women, and strenuously OPP
posed to its repeal or mobilization" Three ladies
were received as delegates-Mrs. Reeves Ayres of
Waa Walla Miss Ella Whipplc, of Vancouver, and
Mrs B. w. Johns, of Olympia. Miss Whipple was
elected chairman of the committee on platform, and
Mrs Johns rules and order of business. Several
other ladies were elected delegates who sent their
proxies. The Democratic convention ignored the
question of woman suffrage and the fact is likely to
be made prominent during the campaign.
The annual meeting of the Association for the
Advancement of Women, Familiarity known as the
"W9mans Congress" will be accessible this year to
1t will be held in Louisville Oct. 20, 81 and 30
The following topics announced for discussion:
THE Freedom of Fate" Mrs. Ellen NJ. Mitchell, Col
French, NJ d. New York: What Agencies I Should
Women Employ for tho Uplifting of Society,"" Mrs J.
Z sun Sun. Michigan The Mind Cure" Sarah
Divorce Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Rhode Island; 'rThe
Old and New South" Mrs Jennie Caldwell Nixon.
Louisiana; "Womsn's Industrial Position Rev. An.
toinette Brown Blackwell New Jersey Mrs Irnogene
G. Fales (New York; Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby Ne
braska), Rev. Augusta @. Chaplin Qllinois); THE AS
ISOLATION of Collegiate Alumn@ " Miss Ellen M. Fol-
som, Massachusetts Women Land holders in the
West Mrs. Emma Handbook Iowa; symposium
Woman Suffrage" Prof. Maria Mitchell (New York;
Mrs Ednah D: Cheney tMassachusetts), Miss Laura
Clay kentucky, '"The Effect of Stimulants and
Narcotics Upon the Health and Morals of Women"
Mary j. Stafford. M. D., Massachusetts; 1.-THE Gov
ernment's Duties In View of the Mingng of Races in
America, Miss Mary f. Eastman, Massachusetts,.