The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-24
CONCERNING WOMEN.


CONCERNING WOMEN.
The New York City Woman Suffrage League has
declared for Henry George.
The American Woman Suffrage Association will be
m session at Topeka. Kar., this week.
new paper. known as the Staatsburgerin. has been
started in Germany in the interests of working women.
The Illinois Industrial School for Girls has given
145 girls the benefit of it's training during the past
year.
An exchange estimates that the wealth of fifteen of
$126 900 600
Mrs. Elizabeth Avery Meriwether of ST. Louis has
written TEMPERANCE drama for the stage entitled
1.-THE Devils Dance"
The factory girls in the Lowell Mass, mills con
trieuted over $500 to the Charleston relief fund
mostly In quarters and half dollars.
A Woman's Christian Temperance Union has been
organized at kioto, Japan of seventytwo members,
and with all its officers Japanese women.
Mrs: Laura DeForce Gordon. lady lawyer of San
Francisco was recently nominated for Attorney gen
eral OF California by the United Labor party conven-
ton.
The threevolumed Woman Suffrage History, edited
by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Susan B.
Anthony, Is now complete and in the market. Miss
Anthony is the publisher and sole owner of the his
tory.
Frances E. Wizards series of papers for girls In the
Chautauquan have been issued in attractive book
form under the title How to VIM" The motto of
the book BE Not Simply Good, but Good for Some
cn1ilS is impressed IN every chapter.
The death of Miss Lueretia Croker of the Boston
Board of Supervisors is felt as great public loss in
that city She devoted herself the best interests of
the schools and to both teachers and pupils she
beloved friend and counselor. AS supervisor, from
the very institution of the Office she served for ten
and a half active years.
The Republicans of Adams county Washington
Territory. nominated Mrs. F. H. Feniht for probate
Judge Despite the general impression that as soon
women allowed to vote they will cianoT for all
the Offices in sight Mrs. Feniht declined the nomina-
ton, and Mr.. +. H. Fenht plaehed upon the tick
ct by the county committee in her stead
Ia an English town, some time ago. woman, in re-
ply TO the inquiries of q magistrate, informed him
that she had been married forty years. and had been
whipped by her husband every day since thus having
been chastised Ia. 600 times. John Stuart Mill was
about right In saying that the only legazed form of
slavery left on earth was that of married women.
With the October issue the Woman's Tribune
published at Beatrice Neb., Mrs. Clara b. Colby
editor, completes it's third year. Although some
what limited in it's scope being exclusively devoted to
the interests of women, the Tribune is of the
best edited newspapers m the country. It's eoulen-
sations could be initiated to their advantage by many
more pretentious journals. t:'
Mrs. Mary w. Westcott. of Swanton, Neb is the
editor of a novelty in books making 1t is volume of
nearly two hundred pages entitled Footballs of 10y
atty and consists of personal letters from the Union
soldiers during the civil giving glmpses of camp
and hospital life, and their individual experiences and
opinions with the freedom of friendly correspondence
The object of the book, Mrs. Westeott says is ito
save TO history the purest sentiments of loyalty
uttered"
The investigation by the Womens Educational and
Industrial Union, of Boston, of the advertisements
and circulars promising women work at home" on
receipt Of money for materials, has shown the exist
ence of cruel and widespread fraud. In the long
list of parties thus advertising not has been found
which does the business it advertses The union is
sued a warning circular last summer which wide
ly copied by the press. In response numerous per-
sonal calls have been received aud 200 letters
of inquiry many of them giving sad experiences of
disappointment and loss by the homework fraud
Women making progress in the profession of
pharmacy. Mrs. Eliza Rudolph is the proprietor of a
drug store m New Orleans and has for several years
carried on profitable business. She is at present
the corresponding secretary of the Louisiana State
Pharmaceutical Association and presented the best
report made at its last meeting. Mrs. Rosa Martin
Epson Is the proprietor of a retail drug store in
Marshalltown. Ia and is the secretary of the Iowa
State Pharmaceutical Association. That society sent
her as delegate TO the annual meetings of the Amer
Pharmaceutical Association and of the National
Retail Druggists Association, recently held in Prov-
dence, r. l. Mrs. Ida H. Roby, skilled pharma-
cist who has been for long time with Chicago firm
has lately opened homeopathic pharmacy in that
city.
Judge Pittnan, in the North American Review thus
defines the results of womanly influence and compan-
onship: Modern life has availed itself largely
OF the companonship of woman and has been better
for it. In nature in addition to all she has pro-
duced woman has been the confessed aid and nspra-
ton of the noblest souls. She has infused into theo
ogy the spirit of religion, and has softened
and rounded it's old creeds. Her iniu-
ence has been alike potential in shap-
ing and administering systems of educa
panionship in action and we have broken down. many
walls of partition, and we have removed many bars
Hand in hand, women now walk with men in many
once-torbidden paths v Hers would be the
soprano voice in politics las necessary as the bass
the voice of inspiration. 1t was dreamer, NO mere
sentmentalist, but the profoundest poet of modern
Europe, who gave as the closing prophecy of his
Faust, THE woman soul leadeth US upward and