The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-20


Three of the seven trustees of the state indus
trial school are women.
New Hampshire employs women to some
extent in her charitable aud reformatory insti-
tutions One of the trustees of the state in
dustFial school is woman. Women are
among the members OF the boards of the
orphans' home. state normal school. and other
state istitutions. Women teach in these
places aad supervise In the woman's depart
ment in county and state insane asylums and
are employed as police matrons.
Vermont reports q matron employed in the
state prison, reform school and house OF cor
rection. and numbers Of women in places of
trust in insane hospitals and home for children.
Massachusetts, has women on its state board
of charities. The law also permits them TO
hold positions in various institutions of the
state. AS early es 1858 an Industrial school for
girls was established with women as managers.
There are about seventy different organizations
established by women in Boston. They are of
every kind-from the 90 cents per week sewing
society TO tho Society for the Encouragement
of Home Studies. During the past twelve
years q most remarkable development of char
ity work has taken place in Boston in many
directions in which women have taken lead.
ing part The Associated charities was founded
in 1879 and has found Its most earnest helpers
in women. The reformatory prison for women
was opened in 1877 and has been entirely in
charge of women from the first In 1884 two
women were added TO the board of trustees OF
the lunatic asylum. The recommendation of
the state is to appoint police mRtrons.
Rhode Island reports a prisoners aid asso-
citation othcered by women for the care OF
women. There is also a woman's board of
visitors for charitable and penal institutions
in which women and children are protected
aud restrained. Providence has inaugurated q
polio matron system. The appointment is an
official one. The local charities. day nur-
series, orphanages. ETC., aud temperance work,
are efficiently carried by women.
(.ounpntlpnI has her state hoard of
charities, and one woman on the boards OF
management of each of the eight county
homes. A matron Is at the states prison. and
each Jail has a woman as well as men connected
with il. The state insane asylum also has its
matron, while its orphan asylums and many OF
its local charities entirely managed by
women. The first free kindergarten was es-
tablished by a woman, who afterward carried q
bill to the legislature making Ii q part of the
public school system. The plan of homes for
neglected children was instituted and practiced
for years by q woman, who afterward helped
to secure its working throughout the state by
a state law removing children from almshouses
and bad homes.
New York state swarms with charities, and
many Of them are largely carried on by women.
Women are reported in the state board OF
charity, on school boards; they also doing
good work as police matrons. The Women's
educational and industrial union of Buffalo
has nearly one thousand members, and catho-
lies, Hebrews and protestants work most har-
moniOusly together New York state has q
law requiring the appointment of women in
state hospitals for the insane: and FIVE out Of
eight hospitals have complied with the law.
Mr.. w. b. Letchworth OF the New York state
board OF charities says: Il think that women
should cooperate with men in every branch of
charitable and reform work" Mr.. Kellogg of
New York says: "My estimate OF womenS
work is easily judged from the fact that nine
tenths OF our district visitors women"
New Jersey has kind words and generous
communication for the work of women. They
officials in the state prison and have proved
excellent counse0rs and workers In the care OF
industrial schools and institutions for feeble
| minded women and girls, but they not as
yet invited to places on state boards Of chari-
| ties.
Pennsylvania. In the hospitals a large pro-
portion of the physicians are women. In the
| Woman's medical college the dean and three
| professors are women and 90 per cent. OF the
| Instructors. A large number OF the charitab BILE
| homes are entirely Differed by women. One
of its state insane asyums 10 in entire charge OF
woman as superintendent
Delaware has largely relinquished actu al
work in philanthropy and turned much OF Its
| charity over to women. the men furnishing the
| sinews of war while women do the earnest
| pract cal work. The institutions of Delaware
are largely conducted by women.
In the District of Columbia women are
strongly represented in charitable work.
/ Maryland reports an unusually large number
| OF local charities in the management of which
women have recognized and special share.
No one will forget the institutions OF Baltimore,
her homes and away from the heat of the city
In q place of exquisite beauty her Thomas
| Wilson sanitarium for children.
Virginia gives a minor key to our report.
| The women Of Virginia have nothing 10 do or
| say in reform or charitable work. There is no
state board of charity, no women employed in
reformatories. work houses or police stations
| aud none appointed on school boards.
West Virginia admits the same state OF az
fairs, except that the w. &. T. u. is established,
| and gives evidence that woman has one avenue
! in which she can begin tha administrations of
| charity.
North Carolina reports no official work done
by women. but they are active in local chari-
! ties and church philanthropies.
South Carolina reports that women success
| fully manage private charities and fill import.
| ant places in the management of homes. hospi-
tails and orphan asylums; but nothing that may
be strictly called official work is yet given them
20 undertake. Women. however, in 1874.
| opened house OF rest or home for inourables.
In Georgia there are no women on boards OF
| trustees, and none on state institutions. Their
relations are entirely incidental, and in
official or entitled by law to any recognition.
| A Georgia womsn's letter is interesting: 81
| am southern born and southern raised, with oil
that both stand for; and verify believe our sec
tional disagreemenis we're owing in large meas
ure to our ignorance-not OF books, but OF peo-
| pie. The South has been very slow to appre-
| ciate the public efforts of women. Whatever
of prejudice northern women may have had to
overcome, il has been increased hundred
| fold below Mason and Dickson's line; and tn Q
very fact that certain brave women were per-
mitted to work on advanced ideas in the North
made our southern cities more intolerant au
unjust. feel q strong, burning desire to do
some good, some real work for those about me.
| IL is grand thing TO live-to be an earnest
worker for humanity; and ] awake in the
morning full OF earnest intentions to NIL my
| day with work that will be lasting
| Florida reports that women are engaged in
| hospital work, aud mingle helpfully, but not
officially, in all the charities, especially in sea-
| sons when epidemics have ragged.
Alabama returns the information that there
are many progressive women who are active in
| the schools for convicts, and who manage in
many local charities. None are officially con-
nected with charities. but some are employed
| in subordinate positions of public trust.
From Mississippi the report is exceedingly
meagre. The W. G. I. U. is there established I;
| hut otherwise women are not related to char
i liable work through any organization.
Louisiana reports in similar way-that very
| little, II any cooperative work exists.
| Texas reports very incomplete and frag-
mentary work done, with little cooperation of
women, except from the w. c. I. u.
! In Tennessee the women earnestly CO.
| operating in every way in which they per-
mitted They are now making an etfor. to es-
tablish d reformatory prison for women. Con-
/ Wet women at present sent to the men 3
work house. and work on the roads: and a