The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-11-12
Woman Has Made Great
Progress Everywhere.
All Parts of the World Have
Witnessed Achievements.
Earnest and Faithful Work Credit
to The Genller Sex.

ST. Louis. Nov. 12-Afiss Frances y
willard has arrived here. 10 pres,de ovs,
apbi'aching sessions of the second
.hnuai convention OF the National wo.
men Christian Temperance union
-uueu py Louise c. Purngton, M. D. q,
DorcAsier' Mass. she has prepared >
sS VI the progress or woman I'm al,
par.s oi the world, chiefly In 1896. but
uuilhs protracted periods In djf-
.',, fensious denominations and in
rehelous societies The com
pn ns, oi iacts includes religious and
r'niopici educational, political.
'esai' literary and artistic cir
49,. :, SHOWS that the women In the
episcopal church have, In the
-, sedIs'coiiected for foreign mis-
oes 800, 's'' Tor home missions, $7SG.-
nave ol deaconess' homes,
as "nich are In foreign lands. These
ha ',iesses work without salary, and
90 rone ne'o lVoV meetings, and have cared
Tor 5000 sick people. Mrs Maggis "
~. Is the most noted evangelist
III the Methodist denoptnatiorT ,oaa,,
For 30 years she has been nreacbins, ~,
gospel. and IL is estimated that ,,ora
man 10000 people have been convsr,ad
through her. There are AZ women .,
regularly acknowledgements
sters and pastors in the United s,a,es
Ihe Methodist church voted AT i,s ,as,
general conference to admit women seIs-
gates. and the question is virtualIv sa,.
tied. There are 500 women nreacbor.
among the Society of Friends
NO woman has rendered mora a,s-
uhguished service the past wear ,han
Cara Barton, who. at 10 wears ., O.
uareu an unfriendly climate. and ven.
iureu To an unhospitable capital or
Grace kimball. Van, Turkey has dopa
an eminent work in the Industrial burea,
tIf the relief OF the Armenians. Thean-
proNimate number helped at the centrs,
bureau Is 1890 The herolsm M Mis.
Shattuck. missionary at Oorfa Glove
ana defenseless, is UNSURPASSED in mis-
sionary annals. 24o people and II bouses
D'lhs covered by the shadow" of thar
DraVe woman during the fearful mas
sdcre at oocrfa- Mrs. Anson +. Stokes
mas done blessed work for the Italians
OF New York city
IN INDIA, native women are rnakinv
cohationa to the hospitals. libraries and |
other public enterprises.
young woman endeavorer IN SantI-
aFo. onih. last year raised more than \
Si.VJ' py ner own efforts, for missionary
ana benevolent purposes. Mrs. Hannah }
- BAILEY president OF the Maine Woman
SuHraSe association, has made a gift
oi s%oVO TO the Temperance Temple In
Chicago.
Mrs. LILLIAN Hollister OF Detroit is the
supreme commander OF the Ladies of the
Mdtcaoes, woman's Organization ex-
ciuslNeiy, numbering 52,4J5. At is A fra
terhal Dehehclary society, said TO be the
iirst, society or women In the world to
organize upon the basis of cooperative
effort
curing the 20 years that Mrs. c. II.
Spurge0n has had charge of the book
luhd and the pastors aid fund, she has
dis pursed nearly ESe, 900. About 300 600
volumes of books have been given away.
Ihere are now about 500 women stu
cents In Michigan university. Rockville
,lls.) college enjoys the distinction %
psils the trst among the western wono-
sn scolleeesto give Greek play. and the
irst In the United States, with the ex-
;eption OF Vassar, To give play In the
original tongue. Mrs. Ida J. Hyde of
-hicago has taken the degree OF Ph. ID.
magma cum laude. at the University OF
Heidelberg. Miss Alice Luce. who has
ecently received the degree of Ph. d..
magma cum laude. from the University
Il Heidelberg, is Maine girl. ]
cut or iol colleges and universities I'm 4
he United States. only Al dre closed TO '
women. All the others are now edu- {
ational; and, besides. women have l43 a
chools of the higher education, with 90 I
% studerts. or 40o. 900 teachers In the b
'nited Estates. 43 per cent are women: G
England the proportion is even greater. q
sussian glris are thirsty for knowledge e
IWehty-iva states have given the edu- c
atlonal ballot to women; one. Kansas. Il
he municipal; and Wyoming. Colorado h
nd Utah have made them fun citizens. te
Dr. Mary H. Green, with the help of II
ther Michigan women. has secured n O
wv requiring the teaching In all schools a
the modes by which dangerous COM y,
lunicable diseases are spread, and the g,
est methods for the prevention of such y
seaSes." :,
The unfavorable action last November q,
the Royal College Of Surgeons. Lon .,
IN, on petition from the London School a,
Medicine for Women, pra ying for the
lmssion OF medical women TO its ex-
ninations, has been reversed at meet
& Of the fellows W
The Queen OF Portugal has recently T.
Issed the medical students second es
ars examination In Lisbon. Miss M
drich- Blake il the first woman to take so
degree OF master OF surgery of the ho