Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1891-02-07


away mice by her mere presence than well-baited
trap. Probably if the women could control some
of the factory votes, they would not be SO super
huous in Mr.. Connelly's mind
The Bellevue Training School for Nurses held
its eighteenth anniversary graduating exercises
last week. graduating twenty young women. One
Of these graduates will 60 to Turkey and another
to Japan, TO teach the native women the care OF
the sick Graduates of this school are holding
important positions in this and foreign lands. The
school accommodates 81.
A noticeable feature of the New York press is
the fairness with which, almost without exception,
the progress of woman into the professions and
various business walks Of life is treated. There
is not paper that does not employ women, who
do acknowledged efficient work, and the hue and
cry about her getting out of her sphere is rarely
heard This is an indication of the great progress
the woman's cause has made in the past forty
years-a fact well worthy of celebration in the
fortieth anniversary of the first suffrage meeting
held in Boston last week. The cloud of unpopu-
arty is fast rolling from over the suffrage woman
The other day little woman said to me, care
YOU for woman suffrage? would never dream it,
You don't look bit like it, 1t is much to say
that the day has come when suffrage women look
like other people-for am sure The CHRONICLE
correspondent looks very like other women. In
deed the day is about nigh when the woman who
is not suffrage woman will find herself unlike the
mass of her intelligent sisters Even now could
say to a woman who appeared to have mind
above millinery opening. ''Are you not suf-
frage woman?' and if she SAID "No," | would
say, 81 thought you were, you look like ii"
See what the suffrage wave has done in the past
forty years. Women vote at school elections in
many States, including New York, Massachusetts
and Michigan. In Kansx and other Weatern
States municipal suffrage Is exercised and munich
pal functions discharged by women. Women serve
on the Board of Factory Inspectors in New York.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union stands
committed to woman suffrage as the only means
of overthrowing the saloon. Various political
parties have expressed respect for the movement
Colleges are now open for women-a thing
looked on with horror and ridicue forty years ago.
In 1891 there were not as many colleges for men
as now stand with open doors for women A
woman journalist was then a rarity, and her voice
and vote was suppressed in the churches. Now
she speaks in the pupits and in many denomina-
lions is regularly ordained, and sits in conventions
There are women dentists, bankers, lawyers and
directors of corporations. An almost complete
change has resulted in the legal status of married
women The world has indeed opened up to
woman. There is work for her to do and she is
being prepared to do it. Her individuality will be
felt more and more as years roll on-and that
means purifying element which must ever cling
to the personality of good women. The influence
OF the home will be felt abroad, and if woman
advances in the next forty years as she has done
In the last forty, what race of intelligent beings
will be propagated on earth.
HARYOT Holt.