The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12
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MISS WILLIARD'S REPORT
Survey of Woman S Alleged
Progress in All Parts
of the World.
FEMININE PREACHERS NUMEROUS
''~Fraternal' Beneficiary 0rganiza-
tions-Law and Legisla-
ton.
PREACHERS NUMEROUS

Snrlstfan temperance Union. Aided by
Louise G. burlington, ND, of Dorches-
ter. Mass, she has prepared a survey of
the progress of woman in all parts of the
world, chiefly in 1896, but partly during
lprotracted periods IN different religious
denominations and in various religious
| societies.
The compilation of facts includes re-
ligious and philanthropic, educational,
political, medical, legal, literary and ar
tistic circles. 1t shows tha the women
in the Methodist Episcopal Church have
IN the past four years collected for for
eign missions s1,153, 7s7, for home missions
SiS6,265. They have 81 deaconess' homes, is
Of which are in foreign lands. These dea-
conesses work without salary. and have
held 1000 meetings n have cared for
5000 sick people.
Mrs. Maggie N. Van Colt is the most
noted evangelist in the Methodist de-
nomination today. For 80 years she has
been preaching the Gospel, and it is esti-
mated that more than 10000 people nave
been converted through her.
There are ~ women, 81 regularly or
dained, Congregational ministers and pas
tors in the United States.
TIL Methodist Church, which numbers
nearly 100000 members and has 1s. 900
members and SIS, ooo,0 900 worth of propertv.
voted at its last general conference. by a
majority OF 42S, to admit women delegates.
Inc vote will be taken again, but the
question is virtually settled.
ihere are 300 women preachers among
the society of Friends.
Nc woman has rendered more distin-
guished service the past year than Clara
Barton, who, at 20 years of age, dared
an unfriendly climate and ventured to a
most ~inhospitable capital. It is the
poetic justice Of history that In the ma
ton where mans tyranny has crushed
woman into the very earth two tender
hearted Christian who never
had homes Of their own, nave carried
the hailowed home influence Of the gos-
pei to heal the wounded and to feed the
starving.
DR.. Grace Kimball, Van, Turkey. has
done an eminent work In the Industrial
bureau for the relief of the Armenians.
1,150 persons have been employed. sun
porting $500 persons. The approximate
number helped at the central bureau is
$3.50.
The heroism of Miss Shattuck, mis-
sionary at Oorfa, alone and ~defenceless.
is unsurpassed in missionary annals;
240 people and II houses were covered
by the shadow" of this brave woman
during the fearful massacre at Oorfa.
Mrs Lillian Hollister, Detroit, Mich. is
the supreme commander Of the Ladies
of the Maccabees. a woman's organiza-
ton exclusively, numbering So, Ass. 1t is
a fraternal beneficiary society, said to
be the first society of women in the
world to organize upon the basis of CO.
author of "A Modern Union" for the
W. c. T. u.
There are now about 500 women stu
dents in the Michigan University.
The American University, founded at
Washington, d. c., has three well known
women upon it's Board of Trustees. made
up OF representative educators, divines.
business men, etc. They are Mrs. Mat
Mrs. Elizabeth ]. Somers.
Miss Ida ]. Hyde of Chicago has taken
the degree of Phi. D., magma cum laude,
distinguishing herself Miss Hyde has also
gained an immense triumph for the cause
OF women students in the foreign univer-
stiles.
ceived the degree of Phi. D., magna cum
laude, from the University of Heidelberg.
is a Maine girl. BY special permission Of
the ministry of the Grand Duke of Baden.
Miss Luce was, during the summer of
1885, allowed to attend the lectures at the
University of Heidelberg. This was the
first time that a woman had been admit
ted for regular study.
out OF 451 colleges n universities In
the United States, only Al are closed to
women. All the others are now eoeduca-
tional, and, besides, women have 143
schools of the higher education with 10000
GfIIdante I'm attr+ 80 -
of the University of Chicago are held BY
women. Eleven State and fourteen coll
leges or universities are represented.
Three women fellows a given ~instruc-
teachers in the United States, forty-three
per cent. are women; in England the pro-
portion is even greater.
Twenty-Five States have given the edu-
caf1onal ballot to women one. Kansas.
the municipal, and Wyoming, Colorado
and Utah have made them full citizens
The first indian woman to be graduated
as a trained nurse Is Miss Nancy corne-
There are $3.50 women engaged In medi-
cal work, nursing, ETC.. in England.
A law recently enacted in New York
R RE- y ma 1naI SKY Ky m noIrs 2 week shall be
children, that chairs shall be provided
for women clerks and that ali places
s MhaTe se w SnSiect a9 I'd g sh hsa sen are EMPLOYED
the Boston, public library with i coilec-
tory Of Women Va The 'y Volumes e az sne q ms ne
kept together, and represent the results
Of fifty years of careful collection by
Colonel Higginson.
in business. There are insurance agents,
jewelers.. journalists, newspaper agents,
registers e. deeds, deputy registers, real
ers Of bees, market gardeners. Gcorn-
mission agents. bank cashiers, widow