Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-03-24
WoMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
How sIiss anthony Laid Up Enough Money
For Her support.


How bliss anthony Laid Up Enough Money
For Her support.
'sThe bravest battle that ever was
fought" is that fought by the woman
suffragists. Susan B. Anthony declares
that if in the battle now going on for
suffrage in New York state the men do
not vote as they SHOULD, she will come
back as a spook and haunt them. Il
shall certainly return" she says, land
they will find me troublesome sister.
Hiss Anthonyis now IA years old, but
looks much the same as she did 20
years ago. In recent speech at Schen-
ectady she said she had been in the
| newspaper business once. In that
venture she lost all the money she
had saved at schoolteaehing and went
$4,000 in debt. The paper was The
Revolution, weekly published in New
/ York city to advocate woman's rights.
Miss Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton were editors, with Parker Pillsbury
as editorial contributor. 1t WAS able
and brilliant, but for some reason it
failed to be q go, and it was abandoned
when it had rolled up the $4,000 debt.
Susan Anthony, with the pluck and hon
esty characteristic of this great woman,
resolved that 10 creditors should suffer
loss through her. She undertook the
task of paying all the debt herself and
did SO. Women lecturers were more of
q rarity 25 years ago than they Ere now,
and Susan entered the general lecture
field. Lectures, too, were more popular
then than they are now, and in six
years she had paid every dollar of The
Revolution debt. Then / had jul
bilee," exclaimed Miss Anthony. She
lectured six years more. Il made enough
money to live on, and ain living on it
yet" she explained. AS soon as she had
laid up enough to support herself mod
estly she turned her back forever on the
general lecture field and devoted her life
henceforth to working for women. Il
can get $50to 800 night to lecture, but
feel that the cause needs me, and | am
devoting my time and energies to that
cause" One theme which she is putting
before her audiences this winter is the
powerlessness Of disfranchised classes to
make, shape and control their own con-
ditions-moral and industrial as well as
political.
The secretary OF the Nebraska State
Farmers Alliance is woman-Mrs. J.
NJ. Kelley.
Is it possible that there is any state
university so forlorn and so far behind
the times as not to admit women? If so,
it should change its ways at once or go
off and die. If there is state school
anywhere in which the word male" is
not especially specified. then women
students have the right, without any
further legislation, to attend that school
and can sue for damages anybody who
tries to keep them out.
Miss Emma C. Whitney is recording
clerk in the Ohio house of representa-
tives.
| met that grand friend of women,
Judge Noah Davis, at the reception of
the New York Woman's Press club the
other evening. He wished to impress on
all women III New York state the neces-
sity of their working for the suffrage
amendment this year. The constitu-
tional convention takes place in May. If
the word male" is not stricken from the
suffrage qualification this year, then
New York women will have to wait 90
years more before the subject comes up
again. Judge Davis wished all women
everywhere to remember this too: There
is nothing in any state constitution or in
the United States constitution to debar
woman from holding any city, county,
state or federal Office, from that of preci-
dent of the United States down, OF up,
as the case may be. Though women may
not vote, they can be voted for for any
office whatsoever. A woman, for in
stance, has a perfect right to be mayor of
New York or Chicago or representative
or senator. We could have women con-
gressmen now, so far as anything to le-
gally hinder them from holding the of
flee goes. Judge Noah Davis is one of
the most eminent jurists in America, and
his opinion may be taken as final. Wo-
men ought to avail themselves of their
right to be voted for and hold Office, par
ticularly school and municipal offices.
Mrs. Yates is mayor of Onehunga,
New Zealand
The Womens Educational and Indus
trial union of Boston has entered on a
fresh field of relief work. Realizing that
the women out of employment in Bos-
ton cannot be provided for in the city
itself, they have undertaken to find work
In the country for such as are willing to
engage i'll domestic service. They are
conducting correspondence with farm
ers' wives and other persons in the rural
districts, and as fast as place is found
on farm where help is needed in the
housework the young woman who win
go is sent thither. 1t is fact that the
girl who does homework is better treated
on the farm than anywhere else. Often
she is made one of the family and shares
the home as if she were daughter of
the house. Household help is more need
ed by the hardworked farm wives than
by almost any one else, and the girl who
would enter the rural domestic service
would be godsend to them. But it
will be interesting, it really will, to see
how many Of the unemployed women of
Boston will be willing to go to farm
and do homework.
ELIZA ARcHARD CONNER.