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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12
women to look to it that women less fortunate than

women to look to it that women less fortunate than
themselves receive protection:
In the lovely City of Geneva, one of the most
beautiful in Europe there are, we are informed by
a resident there, twenty houses OF immortality,
whose women inmates are under government SUI
pervision and control. Inscribed upon the public
register, they are held virtually as slaves to minis
ter to the demands of sensual men. These gov
eminent regulated brothels are designated by a
red light to those who may seek them, as places
where vice may be INDUCED in with the sanction OF
the State.
What the life means to some of the young girl
inmates who are held therein was striklngly Illus
trated few months ago by one who resolved to
risk death itself rather than continue longer in it,
and therefore threw herself from fourth story
window to the stone pavement below, in order to
effect her escape. Though seriously injured, for
tunately her life was spared. This young girl,
who was sold when very young by her own mother
to life of vice in Berlin, and subsequently
brought to Geneva by traflckers in girlhood, said
to kind-hearted Christian woman of Geneva,
whom we know and honor as personal friend, and
who went to her relief, that when she thought of
God, she could not bear to stay in that place an
other hour The incident awakened deep feeling
against the regulation system in Geneva, and a
petition bearing "a 900 signatures, 1900 women
and 1000 men, was subsequently presented to the
government authorities for its abolition, but as yet
no action has been taken thereon. So many Amer
leans visit Geneva as tourists, so many students
seek there its superior educational facilities, that
these regulated centers of immortality may not be
regarded with indifference even on our side of the
Atlantic.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12

Arbor during the time her son is pursuing his
studies at the university, quite futter Of enthu-
siasm passed around, and she was very handsomely
eulogized.
Resolutions congratuating the women of Wyo-
ming for their last signal victory, in that the Con-
stitutional Convention of September 10 had in
serted clause into draft of the State Constitu-
tion declaring that all right shall not be abridged
on account of SEX we're proposed and accepted.
A gentle-faced little woman with smooth hair and
soft brown eyes, rose and said she had voted three
times in Wyoming. The eyes of all present were
directed toward her. and even the reporters
seemed not to disapproye of her. Al
am invited to attend the Detroit Woman's
Club next week. This organization meets Monday
afternoon of each week and is similar to our own
Esthetic and Round Robin, and is in its eighteenth
year.
They plunge deeply into the Pierian spring, they
search and research they travel, and then they
meet and talk it over.
1t was this club that invited the Woman's Con-
gress to meet in Detroit last year, the same Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Women as is to
meet in Denver, October Is, 10 and 20, and which
does so much good wherever it annually unfolds
its tents. H. H. C.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12
Detroit E. S. A.
DETROIT, October s, 1889.

DETROIT, october s, 1885,
EDITOR OF WoMAN's CHRONICLE: 1t was the
pleasure of your correspondent to be present at
the first of the fall series of meetings held by the
EQUAL Suffrage Association Of Detroit last week.
Thursday afternoon. The parlors of the Young
Woman's Home one of the most notable of De-
troit's charitable institutions, were thrown open
for the reception of the association, and between
thirty and forty members were present.
One side of the room was tastefully decorated
with the American flag, and a banner hastily i'm
provised, bearing the inscription, "Three Cheers
for Wyoming" hung against it. Four reporters
took notes for the prominent dailies, and the meet
ing was conducted with dignity which could not
have been improved upon, though delightful air
of informality pervaded, and put to flight all tim
dty on the part Of the gentle assembly.
A paper was read by Mrs. E. c. Skinner, en-
titled 1.-THE Influence of Home Upon the State"
and take pleasure in sending it to you for the
columns of The CHRONICLE.
The question was then discussed by members of
the club in an extemporaneous manner, and was
followed by an able talk by Mrs. Martha Strick-
lanu plomlHohU laWyel VI Oulo oiuy, vi Vic 'Neeu
of Woman in Government"
Mrs Strickland carried her point, which was,
that heart in government could only be supplied
by woman. Mrs. Strickland is very bright, wom-
anly and sef-relant, and her logic was as clear as
the tones of her voice, whose articulation was dis
tinct and meodious withal.
The president, Mrs. Helen Jenkins, called for
report of the progress of the woman's cause in
Arkansas, and had you been there you would have
heard your associate editor assert that among all
women, Arkansas women were the most loyal and
intense, and when aroused to proper appreciation
eof the benefit to the world of the advancement OF
women, they would in no wise be left behind.
There were many more things which cannot re-
call and will leave to your imagination.
: The president called for any facts regarding
women worthy of mention, and when they heard
of the intention of one of your townswomen, Mrs.
Clara McDarmid, to enter the law class at Ann
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12
What a Wise Maiden Will Keep On Her
Toilet Table. =s.,a=,a

The Family Doctor says: A sensible girl will
not keep lot of cosmetics or drugs on her..toilet
table, but there are a few articles she should al
ways have ina convenient place. She should have
an array of glass stopped bottles, containing aco-
hol, alum, camphor borax, ammonia, and gycer-
inc or vaseline. A little camphor and water may
be used as wash for the mouth and throat If the
breath is not sweet. Powdered alum applied to a
fever sore will prevent it from becoming very un-
slightly and noticeable Insect stings or eruptions
on the skin are removed by alcohol. A few grains
of alum in tepid water will relieve people whose
hands perspite very freely rendering them nm
pleasantly moist. A few drops of sulphurc acid
in the water are also beneficial for this purpose,
and are also desirable for those whose feet perspre
freely.
We should always recommend care in the use Of
scented soap; in many cases the perfume is simply
disguise for poor quality. A good glycerine or
honey soap is always preferable. OF course, one
may rely on scented from high-class manufac-
turer, but it costs more than it is worth In addi-
ton to the soap for bathing, white CASTLE should
be kept for washing the hair. Occasionally little
borax or ammonia may be used for this purpose,
but it is usually too harsh in its effects.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12

One-fourth of the married women in Uruguay
are found to be unable even 10 sign their names.
Uruguay is the place for the editor of the Boston
Courier, who says that in this country the mar
rage rate has declined among men of the better
class, owing to the higher. education of women.
Men OF the better class who want uneducated
wives, and cannot find in America women ignorant
enough to suit them, might do we'll to emierate to
Uruguay This country could spare them.-Wom-
ans journal.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12

The Wichita New Republic speaks of Miss Susan
B. Anthony as the most logical speaker, and Mrs.
Clara B. Colby the most interesting speaker at the
Kansas Equal Suffrage Convention.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12
LITTLE ROCK, SATURDAY, OCT. p, 1889

Mrs HELEN Campbell has taken editorial
charge of new department in Good Housekeep-
ing, entitled, "Woman's Work and Wages. y
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12

Miss FRANCIS WILLARD received many congratu-
latory letters and kilograms upon the occasion OF
her 50th birthday, among others letter frem the
venerable poet and woman's friend, JohnG Whit
tier.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12

A NAMEsAKE of Miss Willard is reported to have
captured prize of fifty dollars at baby show in
Walla Walla. The little fellows full name is
Francis Willard Bond, and his home is in Pendle-
ton, Oregon.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12

Mrs JENKINS, of Detroit, Mich, relates an incl
dent illustrative of the prevailing ignorance among
some classes of women upon the subject of the
various women's movements of the day. Two
young ladies approached the W. G. T. U. booth,
where the Equal Suffrage Society also made its
headquarters, and held out their hands for some of
the circulars which Mrs. jenkins was distributing.
81 don't think you want any of these" said
Mrs Jenkins the supply Of circulars having run
short.
eyes, we do" replied the girls
"But do you know what woman suffrage is?'
inquired Mrs. Jenkins.
ooh, yes It's some kind of a disease" was
the confident reply.
MARRIAGE is on the decline in Uruguay, owing,
it is supposed, to the higher education of women,
the men of Uruguay preferring ignorant wives 1t
is estimated that only about one-fourth of the
married woman of that country can write their
own names. If either party to the marriage con-
tract is ignorant, it should not be the mother, for
she leaves a more lndellble impress upon the Off
spring; and it may be owing to this fact that few
ilustrious men have left behind them children dis
tinguished in manner worthy of theft sire. 1t is
said that the remarkable traits which characterized
the Adams familyfor generations, was due to the
great care with which they selected their wives.
Higher education certainly never units a woman
in any sense of the word for the holy duties that
devolve upon her as mother.
The following from The Philanthropist needs no
comment. 1t should speak in no uncertain tone,
but in clarion notes to every Christian woman Of
every land. 1t should say to them that it is time
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12

The following from The Philanthropist needs no
comment. 1t should speak in no uncertain tone,
but in clarion notes to every Christian woman Of
every land. 1t should say to them that it is time
to arise and work for humanity-high time for
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-12

LaVater-A great woman not imperious, fair
woman not vain, woman of common talents NOT
jealous, an accomplished woman not eager to shine
are four wonders great enough and rare enough to
be divided among the four quarters of the globe.
ohakespeare-The hand that hath made you fair,
hath made you good; the goodness that IS cbeap
In beauty, makes beauty brief in goodness but
grace the soul OF your complexion should keep
its body ever fair. A'VP
Maud-So you are going to marry your fathers
cashier? '0N- -"'n0i
lSaoella-Ies. Pa says that if he runs awav
WIN tne banks funds, the money will still be in
the family,-MunSey's Weekly.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15

no man should recover damages in libel
suit unless he is morally entitled to re-
covery. 1t will be observed that no feat
ure of the bill hampers or touches the rem
edies of plaintiff who is so entitled. Their
end is to defeat speculative suits begun in
cases where the provocation consists in
rendering a public service, without NAL
ice toward the complaining party.
The journalist of to-day is a quasi pub
lie functionary; if ne knows of fraud or
wrong practiced upon the public and fails
TO expose it, he is held TO have committed
grave breach of duty. What he is re-
quired to do by the popular voice and by
his own sense of duty, he ought to sbe
permitted to do, in a conscientious way,
without the hazard of serious loss.
The provisions of Mr.. Wilson'S bill
authorize sincere publication, morally
justified by the circumstances. The
law can do no less than this in justice to
Que of its most efficient agencies, and the
most powerful agency in the establish
ment and maintenance of a correct
system of morals in official and in bust
ness life.
Other features might properly be added
to the measure, such as division or
exemplary damages with the state, the
requirement of bond to cover costs and
attorneys fees, the limitation of suits
upon one publication to one action, and
the limitation of venue to the county of
either the plaintiff or defendant. So far
as it goes, the bill embraces just and
equitable proposals, which should be in
corporated in legislation upon this sub
iect
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
Asphalt and Stone Pavements.
Philadelphia Record.

There is an unsettled condition of the
public mind in regard to the durability of
asphalt pavements. The Boston Tran
script says:
The advocates of asphalt pavements refer. 70
Washington as a city where that pavement has
been successfully used. But the capital of the
country does not afford safe example for cities
which have a very large amount of heavy team
ing This subject has been examined by sue
cessive city governments OF Boston, and strips or
asphalt have been laid down In some business
sections to be subsequently taken up as united
for those localities. The blocks OF stone, II
properly placed, and not too often Disturbed by
DIGGING up the streets, have been shown by ex-
perience to form paving more serylceable and
enduring besides being less expensive, than any
other when subjected 70 the wear ana tear OF
some of our streets.
Asphalt paving in the United States has
been condemned mainly on account of
imDerfect construction. 1t is the best
paryement known, when laid with pro-
ner foundation, and the worst paYements
when laid on faulty underpinning. For
a street on which there is heavy traffic,
there should be bed of broken stone and
concrete to a depth of twelve inches,
properly compacted, on which the asphalt
surface is spread. Such a roadway
is almost indestructible. After ten
years. use in Cheapside Lon
don-where the traffic is constant
and trying-asphalt paving, thus con-
structed remained as good as new. But
it will not sustain the weight of heavily
loaded vehicles if laid upon five or six
inches of stone foundations; a solid sup
port is necessary.
The eobbIes already in Philadelphia
streets when broken up would furnish
part of the necessary groundwork for an
asphalt covering. The asphalt, properly
constructed, is an Incompatible paving.
It is smooth, clean, noiseless, and easy
kept swept and in repair. 1t will out
wear the granite.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
THE ROAD QUESTION.

The Texas legislature meets to-day. 1t would
be hard to convince the average statesman that
there is no question likely to come before that
body more important than the solution OF the
road problem-not the railroad problem, but the
wagon road problem. The first step might be
the total abolition of the present system. 1t is
relic of another day and time, back in the re-
mote past when conditions must have been very
unlike those of the present, and when there was
a misconception of the relative duties and obli-
cations of the rich and poor. We conduct no
other public business now we do the work on
our roads All other expenses of government are
paid by taxation, levied pro rata on property,
but by some ancient fiction the poor man bears
an equal burden with the rich in keeping
the roads in order-or rather, as matter of
fact, he bears larger share of the burden be-
cause he has, as a rule, the best muscle and the
best skill with spade, hoe or pillow, and is not
quite so expert in lodging his duty. An intn-
itesimaI tax on property would accomplish much
more than is done under the present system,
while the revenue derived from tax not at all
onerous would no doubt, after a series of years,
nut our roads in very fair condition in every
county in the state. local option law author
ling the issue of bonds for road purposes might
be well enough for those who wish to adopt that
plan, but special taxation would be better, be-
cause it avoids burdening posterity with debt
and follows the good and simple old rule of pay
ing as we go.-[Waco Day.
AS the posterity of McLennan county
cannot suffer by any plan of improving
roads in Johnson or Parker county, why
not enact a local option road law that
will empower the people of each county
to say whether they will construct good
roads for posterity or let posterity aid in
the construction of such roads? If pos
terity in McLennan county is dearer to
the hearts of taxpayers than are people
who now live on the earth, by all means
give McLennan the chance to provide for
its posterity. But, by the same token,
If Johnson or Parker would now like to
have passable roadways, why should Nc
Lehman s solicitude for its posterIty stand
in the way of the comfort and progress of
people now living in other counties!
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
ABOUT MEN And WOMEN.

A gentleman bearing the appropriate
name of Gum has opened factory for
the manufacture of chewing tobacco in
Frankfort.
An influential business man of Boston,
Sam Wah Kee, gave a dinner to 700 of
his countrymen Sunday in honor of the
birth of an heir.
G. S. Berry IS traction engine plows and
seeds seventy acres every twenty-four
hours at his ranch in Tulare county Cal.
| The machine runs day and night.
"Don It talk to me about my voice, -
said Mr.. Gladstone the other day. 81
hate it, Once 1 had a voice with which
could do what wanted; but 1 have that
no more. -
Frederick A. Sawyer, once a United
States senator, and subsequently, assist
| ant secretary of the treasury is said to be
now holding second-class elerkship in
| the war department at Washington.
The duke of Newcastle, recently re-
ported to be engaged to a belle from Bal
| timore, is engaged to a Miss Candy, the
sister of Capt. Candy, who was the
| hero of such disgraceful exploits in New
port several years ago.
| Mr.. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan,
| whose - BPa0tlnSnaIU6 HAL WAS 50 Sc
yerelv criticised, has written to Clement
| Scott, the critic, TO say that rather than
| submit to the latter's ''insolent jibes
he will write no more plays.
Senator Don Cameron of Pennsylvania,
| who is spending the winter in Beaufort
| county, s. c., is so delighted with the
| climate and the hunting and fishing that
| he is said to be negotiating for the pur-
| chase of a sea-island plantation for a
| winter home.
ssDoes Religion Pay?" is the subject
of T. De Witt Talmage's last sermon
| He receives a salary of S12 200 per an
mum. Accommodates as much more from
| lectures and book royalties, has an as
sistant pastor and breaches about one
third of the year.
The greatest private detective agency
| in existence is controlled by the Pink
erton boys, - as they are knoWn-Wil-
| liam A. and Robert A. They have 5000
men and have arsenals at Chicago and
| vicinity stocked with rifles and muEi-
| tions sufficient for half dozen regiments
Their business has doubled in the last ten
/ years until their respective incomes are
estimated at from $50, 900 to $500 900 a
year.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is using her pen
| as a cudgel in behalf of her literary sis
ter, Mrs. Amelie Riyes- Chanler, and just
| see how she does it,: The day is not far
! distant when the only claim 10 notice
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15

Allegheny City is the only enc whieI L
under the full control of competent cleo
trical engineers.
As to the different systems in use, an
other writer in the same periodical says
that while the overhead system may tind
a field upon suburban lines, and while
experiments viii Undoubtedly continue to
be made With storage batteries, the cor
duIt system is the one best adapted for
work upon city streets. This system IS
the one which has been in successful op-
Grafton in Allegheny City for over year
and II is being introduced IN Boston and
New York. 1t is claimed for it that II IS
superior in regard to safety, durability
and non interference with street traffic.
The rapid advance of electricity IS a
motor is remarkable, but it is not likely
that the system ROW in use embodieS any
thing like the perfection that VIII even-
tuaIly be attained New Haven street
railroads viii probably be equipped with
electricity before long and the public IS
interested in tho style of system that
shall be adopted. 1t would seem that
the couquit system would be far the best
for our crowded city streets unless some
SYSTEM of storage batteries shall be de-
veloped with sufficient power to overcome
the natural difficulties that exist here.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15

On THE proposals to put cotton bagglng
on the free list, and to reduce the tariff
upon it below the rate named in the SEN
ate bill, Brown of Georgia voted with the
Republicans in the negative. The next
Georgia legislature viii choose a success
sor to Senator Brown, and we venture
the advice that the first requisite of each
candidate should be his opposition
TO the filling up of Democratic pair OF
senatorial trousers with composition
seven-eighths Republican and one-eighth
Democratic.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
MONTAGUE.
A Young Lady School Teacher Meets With a
Serious Mishap-G iIcrease's New Bond.

Young Lady School Teacher Meets With a
Serious Mishap-G iIereases New Bond.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
MONTAGUE, TEX, Jan. u.-Miss
Malissa Fox. who is teaching school about
four miles southeast of here, met with
rather a serious accident yesterday even
ing. Just after dismissing school she got
on her horse to return to her boarding
place when the horse became unmanag-
able. rearing up and fell backward, fall
inc on Miss Fox. For a time she was ap-
parentIy dead, but in a short while she
came to and was carried to a house near
nv. There are no external bruises and
IL was thought that she was injured in
ternally, but she is doing very well and
the injuries are not as bad as was at first
expected. She has been brought to her
uncle s, W J. Brown, here in town.
The parties who were on r. W. Gill
crease's bond made new bond for him,
which has been approved, and the bonds
men will in a short time settle up the
amount that Mr.. Glcrease is short,
which if the credit is allowed, viii amount
to about $500.
The new school building is nearing
completion, and will be an imposing
structure when finished. The school i5
progressing finely under the management
of Professor Vaughn and Timberlake, and
when they get moved into their new
quarters they will be prepared TO teach
as good a school as anywhere in the state,
and Montague being the healthiest To-
calitv TO be found makes it very desir-
able place for high school.