The Republican journal., 1888-01-19
The Woman's Column.

Miss c. Eibe has passed a successful eXami-
nation in dentistry in Sweden.
Twenty->ix new woman suffrage societies
have been organized III Kansas since Oct. lst.
DR.. Eva Harding has been appointed physi-
elan to the new soldiers Orphans Home at
Atchison, Kan.
Miss Bertha Piper has been elected journal
clerk Of the Washington Territory House of
Representatives.
Miss Pbabe Couzns has announced herself
as an independent Prohibition candidate for
Governor in Missouri.
Miss Laura Winkler, of Iowa, though total
ly blind is one of the most successful temper
ance workers in the State.
There are too many churches in Which wo-
men do all the work. and the mer hold the
offices. Christian Register.
There are about 25, 900 women in New York
already organized i'll trades unions and labor
organizations Of various kinds.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has been writing
series of prose articles for the newspapers,
which will he published later in book form.
There are twenty women students in the
medical department of the Buffalo On. W
Cniycr>ity-a larger number than ever before.
A lady in Saline County, Kan, came within
sixteen votes of defeating the most popular
man in the county for the office of Register It
Deeds.
A law has been passed in Waldeck, Ger
many, forbiddng the granting of marriage
license to a person addicted to the liquor habit.
There are one hundred women studying in
the Harvard Annex this year. There is an
endowment fund of 100000. But 100000 is
needed
Three hundred and tifty-hve members of the
British House of Commons are avoWed be-
levers in woman Sutlragc-a majority of forty
in the whole.
Darwin says, in his Autobiography. that he
can say of himself that he was, as a boy, hui
mane, but lie adds. IL owed this entirely to the
instruction and example Of my sisters"
Two young women of Iiammonton. y. j. who
had tried teaching and did not make it pay, in
vested fifty dollars in the poultry business, and
made one thousand dollars the first year and
three thousand dollars the second.
The Baroness Burdctt-Coutts and some 9TH
er philanthropic persons are about to establish
workshops in London furnished with sewing
machines. where poor SeamStreSseS can 70
and use the machines At very low charge.
The Womans Column. Il weekly paper de
voted to womeu's interests and especially to
woman suffrage, will be sent to subscribers
for twenty-five cents Il year. Address Wo-
mans Column, :: Park Street, Boston. Mass.
Anon, tie many greetings and lifts sent to
Whittier on this Cighteth birthday was Il tele-
gram from the y. +. Woman Suffrage Bazaar.
and pair of the finest blankets, manufactured
in the mills of Mrs. Ii. G.. Minot, at Fairfax,
Vt.
The memorial in favor of granting degrees to
women at Cambridge University, England, had
mi-tre>Se> of public schools, 2ll assistant mis-
tresses in public schools, and II professors and
lecturers.
The petition of the Worlds Womans Chris
tain Temperance Union, translated into Tamil
and SinghaleSe. has been circulated in Ceylon
by native pastors. catechi>ts, teachers and Bible
women. who have secured 5000 signatures in
six weeks.
Miss Wilkinson. of London, is successful
landscape gardener. She prepares plans for
the laying cut of recreation and play grounds
for the Public Gardens Association. which are
much admired for their beauty and economy,
and herself >upernteuds the manual labor.
The D,s Moines Ial school Board has man,
ed two schools the Howe" and the "AIcott,"
in honor OF Louisa Alcott and Julia Ward
Howe. Tho children are said to he pleased, as
they enjoyed Mrs lIowe's visit to the school.
and are all eager readers of Miss Acott's
books.
The ereat-"randdaugiter of Robert Morris,
Who furnished the 'sincW>" for the revolution
airy struggle. is wofuly poor, and is seeking
admission. At the h@e of >evonty-tour. to an old
ladies home in Washington. She asks for one
hundred dollars 70 pay her entrance fee into
the institution.
Louisa Alcott contributed number of her
books. with her autograph on the title page. to
the Woman Suffrage Bazaar. Mrs. Susanna
NJ. SaIter. Mayor Of Argonia. Kan, also con-
| trhutei autographs, and so did the five ladies
who compose the City Council of Syracuse,
Kan. They met with ready sale.
Mrs. Mary Iavcrty of New York. proposes
to send Mr.. Gladstone an Irish memorial con-
>i>ting of the music of three hundred Irish airs.
bound in Il morocco volume. some OF the Or-
amenta lcttering> in the titles are taken from
Celtic Classics. The Book Of keli>." The
| Four Masters" and The Book Of BaliN iNmGrc."
Augusta Evans W ilson, The author of ''Bcu-
| lat4" and other novels. is beloved in the South
| for the help she gave the sick and wounded
| during the war. Soon after the beginning of
the struggle. Augusta Evans rented 4 house
and established private hospital, and there
| with her OWN hands uurSed the sick of the
nei@hborin@ camp, which was called in her
| honor" Camp Bculah.'
Mr. Lewis Atkinson. a London ieweller, re-
cOmmends diam0na-cuttng and polishing an
| employment for Womcn. He says Il believe
| that a woman or girl with a good education and
| quick intelligence. who took IN interest in her
work. would be able 10 polish 4 diamond very
fairly i'll six months. The qualities necessary
| in this art are great honesty good education,
| quick intelligence. Great patience, and good dcyc-
| sight
"Catharne Cole" says that since she began to
write for the New Orleans Picaylne. six wears
/ ago, there ha, been a great change in the way
workngwomen are regarded iH the far south.
| At first, women who worked for a living Were
| thought to be ont of their sphere; then for a
| time they became the fashionable 'craze": and
now they have ceased to attract attention, and
their right to work is accepted As matter Of
| course.
Mrs. IL. Il. EIawci>, writing to the Pail Mall
| Gazette on "'lhc Best Books for Children"
| says AS 10 books for Girls and boy distinctly.
| consider that the more the sexes are brought
| up alike. if not together the better for both
| That which is bad for one is enpbaticaiy bad
| for the other. More freedom for gir@ and
more guidance for boys is what most heartily
| desire and enioin. and this would say at every
stage of education. Such a system would de
| velop better Young men and wiser and more
useful young women, and a far healthier social
one. as it seems to me it has undoubtedly done
| i'm Americas