Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-04-06
What Women Are Doing.

What Women Are Doing.
From School and Home
town governed entirely by women is in this
age novelty; yet the municipal government of
the town of Oskaloosa, in Kansas, is composed
entirely of women. Before the reign of females
began, the town was in a very demoraized eondi-
ton; its treasury was empty, its Indebtedness I'M
paid, its city government openly disregarding its
duties; the railroad that runs through the town
paid no attention whatever to the city ordinances,
but carried things with high hand generally as
all the officials were supplied with passes. This
came to such pass that something had to be
done; it was remarked, jestingly, that a woman's
ticket be run; to the surprise of everyone it was
run and elected. All the newly elected officials
are staids, comely matrons, and at once proceeded
to reform things generally. The result of the re-
form is that the city is free from debt, with sur
plus in the treasury the railroad obeys the ordi-
nances, after having offered to bride the women
officials by passes, which were Indignantly refused.
The city was never before in such good condition
morally and financially, and what was begun in
jest, promises to be permanent good, as all the
women will be reelected when their terms expire.
DR.. Kate Bushnell spent four months last Sum-
mer in the pineres of Northern Wisconsin. I'm
der cover of selling articles of female apparel she
made thorough investigation of the horrors of
the infamous traffic in young girls which is being
continually carried on. She found two stockaded
dens at Wausaw, Wisconsin, two at Marnette, and
two at Eagle River. Innocent girls were entrapped
under various pretences and confined in these
dens, and vigorously guarded to prevent escape, in
some cases by vicious bulldogs. From six or
eight to seventyfve were imprisoned in each house.
1t is marvellous that the State authorities do
nothing to prevent or remove this fearful curse
If the people are aware of what exists in their
midst, they are inexcusably negligent; if they do
not know it, it is time they were informed If the
laws of great commonwealth cannot protect the
persons who most need protection, it is time they
were repealed and new ones enacted If the
strong arm of justice, acting through courts, can
not reach the villains who imprson those innocent
young girls, the courts should be abolished and a
new system inaugurated. If a twentieth of the
stories told are true, it is vile blot on our civil
cation.
A European magistrate at Patnu has ordered
Hndoo widow under fourteen years OF age, who
had become a Christian and escaped from the man
to whom she had been sold, to be returned to the
man to whom it was claimed she had been married
missionary, Miss Abraham, was shielding her,
but the widow was torn from her arms. The Lon
don Sentinel and the Bombay Guardian are moving
earnestly for the girls release. This gives an idea
of how much worse than slavery is the condition
of the Hindoo women.
Mrs. S. M. Waite of Whitmore county, Wash
ington Territory, is building up temperance town
named 'Elberton,' which is growing in way that
promises to make the enterprise success. If
women can govern towns and build them, disquali-
cations on account of sex should be removed.
The emma Lazarus Working Girls Club is a