The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-07
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

THE suffrage section of the Wyoming
constitution requires electors to read
English, and permits women to vote.
HERMAN J. SCHMITZ, who teaches
German at Chautauqua, says American
wo men are more apt at learning than
the men.
LADILLA AMBROSE, librarian of the
Northwestern University, is the first
woman who has held that position. She
has just completed her second year Of
service.
Mrs. CATHERINE L. WORDING, who
did much for Colby University during
her life, has left bequest to erect q
building for the young ladies of the
university.
The women Of Boston have named a
committee of fifty to carry out the plans
for taking the city schools out of politics
and sectarian interference and manag-
ing them for the public interest alone.
Miss KATE COREY, NJ. D., graduate
of the University of Michigan. has re-
Gently been admitted to honorary men,
bership in the Indiana Medical Society,
the first time, it is stated, this recogni-
ton has been extended there to woman.
A WOMAN gets at conclusion all of
sudden, and a man thinks that no con-
clusion arrived in that way is likely to
be sound. But the woman's conclusions
are right quite as often as the mans are.
A wife or sister or mother is a pretty
good counselor, friend.-Western Rural.
DR.. JENNIE MCGOWAN, Of Davenport,
Iowa, a practicing physician, member
of the various medical societies, and a
practical friend to the working girls of
her city, has been elected president OF
the Davenport Academy of Natural
Science.
SENTIMENT in favor of woman suffrage
is growing at the South. Mrs. Joseph
inc X. Henry says in the Southern
Journal: Southern women are rapidly
learning the influence, power and
weight Of a slip Of white paper, cast into
the scale of public opinion"
Miss PHOEBE CoUZINs, of st. Louis,
Mo-. has been appointed as special agent
of the eleventh census for the collection
of statistics of recorded Indebtedness
for the city Of st. Louis. This is proba-
bly, the first instance of woman's being
appointed to such position.
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPs-WARD has
established at Gloucester, Mass,
"Fisherman's Reading-room," with
newspapers and games. She has also
founded several coffee-rooms. She is
said to be much beloved by the people
of the city where she has made her sum-
mer home for so many years.
Mrs. LENoRA NJ. BARRY, organizer
for the knights of Labor, has instituted
the WorkingWomens' National Benef-
cial Fund, which gives to women in sick
ness not less than So, nor more than S.
per week, and in case of death, not less
than SIS, nor more than S1OO.-Indian-
apolis Sentinel.
AN Incorporated Stock Company, COM
posed entirely of women, has been FORM
ed for the purpose of opening resort
in Diana Park, about forty miles south
of Denver, Col. 1t is intended to oe eS-
pecially for the comfort and pleasure of
women, children and families, and il is
said to be veritable paradise for chil-
dren.
IT has been proved beforeothe Guber-
Material Contest Committee of the West
Virginia Legislature that twenty paa-
pers and idiots, inmates of the kanawaa
County Infirmary, were voted at the
last election. Probably every one OF tie
politicians who '-voted" these paupeis
and idiots, would declare that intelt-
gent, tax-paying women are not fit 20
yote.-Woman's journal.