The evening times., 1895-12-11

The Civil Service Commission lately pas
ed a crisis. The new woman lonmcd por-
tentiously ON its horizon. A damsel in Iowa
looking for new worlds tn Conquer decided
that women had been denied their just
rights in the railway mail service Women
are excluded from the right and privilege
OF lancing before a railway postal case
and distributing Uncle Sans mail, while
o brilliant landscape or the stars of night
hurry by.
In busncss-like manner she called at
tention to this, and curtly informed the
commission that she proposed to hie her
self to Washington, submit her lafty am
bitions to a civil service eXaminat ton and
secure a place in the railway mail service.
Incidentally she told the commission that
her height was five feet ten inches, her
weight $50 pounds and that she was las
strong as any two men, that worked the
mail into shape.
NO PLACE FOR THE AMAZON.
Now. what would poor man do if com
PEELED To administer Uncle Sans civil serv-
ice examinations? The commits siouers
counted noses. and as the ballot showed
three more or less BILE bodied men they con-
Guided to stand off the Amazon. Couse-
quently. it will be remembered that the re-
cent advertisements OF the railway mail ex-
aminations stated that men only were eligi
BILE.
This iraie citizen of the feminine gender
may take some pleasure in the fact that
more than 6,000 of her sisters act as post
mistresses and have better chance to read
the postal cards than railway postal clerk
Tbema jority ofthese officesare urthclass,
at salaries less than 81 900 per annum; but
Mrs. kenna. the widow of Senator Kenna,
atx-e sFrats
Wheeling. This is the highest salary paid
any woman by the government.
Phoebe Cousins career as United
states marshal might also assuage the fair
Iowan's grief, and then she might remem-
Der that a woman acted as pension agent
at Chicago; but if she is just yearning to
distinguish herself among her sex, The
Times has a quiet pointer. The State De-
partment hates women. 1t abominates
them; and there is a lusty tradition COM
iDant over its customs that no woman
shall he allowed TO see OF handle any docu-
meDt intended for the signature of that
august functionary, the Secretary of State;
and that woman should have access to
the diplomatic correspondence would sim
ply astouBd a State Department official.
Here is this woman's opportunity. Just
let her roll up her hloomers and wade in.
Immortal fame awaits the female who
will indiie in round chrography an ulti-
matum or an apology or even letter
OF congratUlation on the birth of Queen
Fictoria's great grandchildren. Bes ides
that, State Department crowds are mostly
dudes, and her avoniupois of / 80 pounds
would probably overa we them.
Ofcourse, in the library. the translating of
foreign letters and such insignificant places
few ladies earn their daily bread. but IL
this Iowa champion, who is as '.strong as
any two men," will only invade and rattle
the dry bones of the diplomatic divisions,
She may be proud of herself and assert that
she can keep q secret better than any man
IN the whole lot.
IN THE DEPARTMENTS.
The National Government employs : 25S
persons in Washington; of these 3.752 are
women. Only three OF this number receive
81 800 per year. The rest are scattered
through the various grades. Speaking of
them. Mr.. Lochren. Commissioner of Pen
0i0nB, says:
The lady clerks in my office are among