Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-10
WOMANS REALM.
Under God The People Rule" Motto
ofSouth Dakota.
ARE WOMEN PEOpLE??


ARE WOMEN PEOPLEa?
Conducted by LoEllaH. Blank associate editor
Fourteen women are elected county
school supelintendentsln Iowa for 1870
9s. Fonr of these have served be-
fore.
Wyoming has ratified her Woman
Suffrage State Constitution by Il vote
OF eight toone. This is the browning
gain and glory of the year 1889.
Pundita Ramabai has TWENTY-FIVE
pupils il her school in India, and has
now organized a branch of the Kings
Daughters among them.
The Massachusetts w. $. 4. voted a
donation of $4,000 tracts and leaflets to
South Dakota at the last meeting of
the executive committee.
VI the tWenty-one young women
now at the Brussels University. 10
study pharmacy, 1 physical sciences. 3
general medicine. and ono philosophy.
Miss Bertha Willard Brown, Of 2ox
bury, has woE a State scholarship at
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nolcgy. She is the first woman. who
has done so.
Or. David Swing testl!ies to the value
OF the Chautauqua reading course.
lie says, among other things, that
Chautauqua teaches tie woman OF
thirty-fve, who used to think herself
tit only to sink back Into the chimney
corner, that her life may be just begin
ming.
Good women of Lansing. Mich, con-
duct an industrial school--now in its
ninth year Of successful operation
where fifty children, daughters Of poor
parents, are taught to sew BY dill
gence and punctlallty each little work
er may earn her dress and learn to
make it.
a woman does not give up her Wife
hood or her motherhood, her graces or
her sensibilitles, when She becomes
voter. But suffrage will increase
Won1an's self-resPect. When she con
siders these higher questions OF gener-
al interest, she will become a larger
and nchler woman. Rev. Samuel 3.
Stewart
The woman city council Of Cotton
wood Falls, Kan, by a system of rigid
economy, has so conducted the Affairs
II that municipality that there will he
40 tax levy this year for city purposes.
improvements have been made. and
he affairs OF thai little burg put in
most excellent shape. Here is a prac-
lcal illustration Of the wisdom of the
aw comforting the right Of suffrage
lpon women. -Atchison Champion.
In another decade women will stand
m the threshold Ct the twentieth
entury. Serfdonl of sex will lie abol-
shed. Woman's hand will be on all
evers. her feet on the steps to every
hrone. Conferences, conventions. Or
ers, officers, honors, emosuments,
rlme and penalties will be Indifferent
o sex, and that equality established
etween man and woman which, de-
rading neither. exalts both. Western
christian Advocate.
The women who is able to dc the
ame work as man, no matter what.
nd to do it as we'll, should receive
quail wages as well as equal respect.
\ woman who earns her own living
eed loose nothing OF he's wornanly
ignity may be just as gentle, refined.
5 her sisters who can stay au home
'ithout q care as regards their sup
ort. '.Womans Work" is doing
rayely and faithfully whatever fails
lef lou 10 UO.--RUral y eW- Orker.
The only colored man in the Georgia 5
legislature votei, for the bill to estab- 0
sh State Industrial School fer Girls, L
though the benefits of the school are il
} be for white girls only Re is de- o
ribbed as an elderly man, popular p
no1g the white members, and having +,
le gentle courteous manners acnulred
7 many house servants under the old
gime In giving his vote lie showed n
nself at once more progressive and
ore lnagnanimous than many
,unger men .-Woman's Journal.
just think what d woMaA'S paradise >,
le wind swept state OF Kansas must =,
,! The women have put Prohibition -;
the constitution; they have full y.
unicipal and school ballot, and CO. =,
lucation in the State University.
omen are school commissioners and
easurers Of school boards. superin- es
rdents Of schools, registers of deeds, di