The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-08
CONCERNING WOMEN.

The system of the associated charities was sug
gested by Miss Octavia Hill of England
The Young Women's Christian Temperance
Union has membership of nearly $4,000.
Women's exchanges for the sale of articles
manufactured by women have been opened in
nearly thirty cities.
The platform of the Idaho Republicans this
year declared in favor of ''eoual pay for equal
work, regardless of sex"
Ninety-six thousand women are on the pen
sion rolls widows. dependents or relatives of
deceased soldiers of the late War.
Miss Libbie Penny, for years the editor of the
Youths Temperance Banner, has made it the
acknowledged head of juvenile temperance pa
pers.
Miss Hirata, Japanese lady, has just en-
tered Western Maryland College for a three
years course, before beginning mission work in
Japan.
Mrs. s. T. ingalls,, of San Jose, Cal has three
fruit farms which she manages; one of these is
among the largest, oldest and most profitable in
that region.
DR.. Lucy NJ Hall, assistant professor of phys
iology in Vassar College, is contributing to the
Christian Union series of papers on Health
and Ill-Health in Women"
Since 1880 the system of co-education has
been gradually introduced into the national
schools of Norway, and girls are now admitted
to the higD+schools and university.
Ingersoll says when he sees men trust their
hearts and their honor, but not their pocket
books, to their wives, he always knows which of
these articles the men think the most valuable
A bill giving women the right to vote at school
meetings and to hold school Offices has been in
troduced in the Vermont House of Representa-
tives, and the House judiciary committee has
reported bill to extend municipal suffrage to
all tax paying women.
DR.. Anandiba Joshee, the Brahmin lady who
graduated from the Woman's Medical College of
Pennsylvania, left recently for her native land
to accept an important position at the solicitation
of the local government of Kolhapore, in the
Bombay presidency, India.
Mrs. Farr, of Minneapolis, has devoted her
self for several years to the newsboys and boot
blacks of that city. Five years ago she organ
lied among them savings club of ten members.
1t now numbers 337 boys and their savings
amount to large sums, while the habits of econo-
MIXING thus formed are invaluable.
The Indiana Woman Suffrage Association will
meet in annual session at Richmond next Tues
day and Wednesday. This society is the oldest
State organization in the woman suffrage re-
form. 1t was organized at Dublin, Wayne
county, October, 1851, and, except during the
war, has held annual meetings regularly.
The Secretary of the Interior has rendered
decision of Importance to women. In the case
of Maria Good, nee Wilcox, of Kirwin, Kan,
on appeal from the decision of the Commissioners
of the General Land Office, the Secretary ruled
made her homestead entry will not defeat her
right to make final proof and receive title to the
land under the homestead law. This reverses
the decision of the Commissioner of the General
Land Office who held that woman who mar
ried before completing her homestead entry for
feited her right thereby to acquire rltle to the
land.
Dr. Mary F. Thomas of Richmond, Ind, was
seventy years old Oct. % She was engaged
during the day with professional duties and
with benevolent and reformatory work for
women. To this unselfsh and unassuming
pioneer the women of this State under last
ing obligations. In every movement for wom-
ans advancement she has taken an active inter
est and has, in numerous instances, opened the
way for the employment of women in new and
untried positions. The recognition and oppor
tunities women enjoy in the medical societies
and schools In Indiana are largely due to her in
fiuenee and labors, and the appointment of
woman physician IN the woman's department OF
the Insane Hospital was urged by Mrs. Thomas
for many years.
Miss Frances E. Willard, in her annual ad-
dress before the National Womans Christian
Temperance Union, said: ITO my mind here lies
the core OF the woman question: Teach girls to
work, and you diminish by one-half their
temptation to a life of sin. Mrs. j. B. Hobbs
tells US that of $40 girls arrested in one month
and brought to one police station in Chicago,
only l3O knew how to sew or to do housework,
and none had learned trade. Put money
value upon wife's industry in helping to build
up and maintain home; let this be hers out of
the common income, and collectable by law.
Give wife half and not one-third OF the estate,
| and let her last will and testament cover that
amount Give women the ballot, that such rep
resentatives of the people may be put into
| power as shall make these equitable laws and
| punish, oy penalty as avaing as death would
| be, the betrayer and criminal whose strong arm
| is employed for her outrage rather than for her
protection. Every true man will bid us God
| speed in all of these endeavors, for such arms
| 'antaeonize not men, but brutes."
The noted 'Bofins Bower conducted by
Jennie Collins in Boston, was established If
| teen years ago Miss Collins was Their tailor
ess, working for her daily bread The pitiable
|. condition of working women who live in lodging
rooms and boarding houses, and who have no
/ friends in sickness and trouble, moved her to
make an effort in their behalf. She holds . Gaie
] every fall, to'obtain means for free dinners