The Monitor-register., 1897-10-29
HI NEW WOMAN.
Heroic Battles She Has Won and Is Still
Fighting.

w. Ob6hO cAANA OO4A1S ON6hU ny UAAO
mothers of men. Yet always this quiet
warfare goes on. Early in the present
summer the warriors won a victory. 1t
was the opening of the Chicago College
of Physicians and Surgeons to lady stu
dents. Inch by inch the women fought
every step of the way till they gained
the day. They had to contend with an
opposition as brutal and ignorant as
was ever brought against women when
they first proposed to learn to read and
write The Chicago College of Ply
sicians and Surgeons had been made a
department Of the state university.
Among the trustees Of the university
there were two women. These labored
like heroes and obtained the ruling that
since the medical college was under the
jurisdiction of the state its faculty
could not forbid women students to at
tend. Thus, because they cannot help
themselves, certain of the u~ngracious
students and professors who opposed the
girls will have to submit and young
women will listen to the lectures and
be matriculated. Those who favored
their capse5are to be congratulated An
other similar fight is now on among
the brave women of Georgia. There is
a lamentable lack of higher institutions
OF learning for m in the south:
The women of Georgia are therefore
making earnest effort to have the state
university opened to girl students. At
every step they have been rebuffed. Old
~prejudices and superstitions have reared
their heads like serpents and Missed out
venom. AS yet the devoted women have
not won. While the southern man is
chlvalrous to women in some ways, in
other ways his soul is as hard and little
as the head of a black pin. He never
thinks of what women desire and need
for themselves. He only thinks of what
his own old fogy prejudices and the ira
ditions of a thousand years ago dictate.
But those Georgia girls are bound to
win their fight.
for Ia years on the editorial staff of the
New York Sun, has opened in New
York city her school of journalism.
None is better qualified by actual ex-
perience on the press for this work.
MI Charles A. Dana said of Mrs. Bat
tey that she made herself eminently
useful on his paper in whatever depart
ment she was called on to represent.
These departments included reporting,
corresponding and editorial writing.
She will conduct her teaching both by
correspondence and by private lessons.
She will fit young women and men not
only for newspaper work, but will de-
velop in them the talents which will
make them broadly useful. She does
not believe everybody can write for a
newspaper and will frankly say so when
she deems the applicant unsuited to the
work. She will not get places on news
papers for aspiring young candidates for
journalistic honors, but she will thor
oughly prepare them to get places for
themselves if their talents lie in that
direction. Possibilities of much good
are in her undertaking.
There is now a movement on foot to
establish a Roman Catholic college at
Washington for young women. 1t will
be conducted in connection with the
Roman Catholic university there, and
the same professors will lecture in both
institutions. This college will fill a
great want among Catholic young
women, who long, equally with their
Protestant sisters, for enlarged knowl-
edge and opportunity. Still, it would
be far better if a liberal Roman Catho-
lie sentiment would at once throw open
the doors Of the present university at
Washington to girl students on equal
terms with the men.
kisses are Gods sweetmeats, and
they are not appetizing when they
come to you soiled by the DEVILS
hands" says Ethel Davis in her story
i'll The New England Magazine.
In the newly laid out town of Lin
coin, N. j., women vote in municipal
elections, although they cannot do SO in
other Jersey towns. This is because
Lincoln is not an incorporated village.
At present it has a man mayor, Mr. ST
Drake, who goes in for woman's rights
heartily. 1t was this fact perhaps which
made him mayor in a town where wo-
men vote, and outnumber the men be-
sides. The common council numbers
six Miss Emma Egel is president. At
first the council stood two women to
four men, but for some reason two of
h men dropped out and would not at
tend meetings. Then tho mayor pro-
claimed their seats vacant, and an cleo
tion was ordered, which gave the ladies
another member of the council. Now
the men of the town are guyed about
the women freezing them out and run
ming the government. l do not know
whether this is SO or not, but men have |
been freezing women out of about ev- |
erything in this world for SO many
thousand years that it is about time
they had a taste of it themselves.
Boston has 70 women who ride the
cross saddle, man fashion, and Boston
bears it well. The fashion came from
Chicago.
Veterinary and animal surgery gen.
orally would be a good profession for
women to qualify themselves for. Miss
]. Revert, who owns and conducts a
farm on Long Island, Is now attending
the purse at the New York Veterinary |
college. She already doctors the animals
on her own place and always directs
the blacksmith how she will have her |
horses shod. 1t is now SO common to
keep animal pets-dogs, cats, birds,
rabbits, etc.-that a woman who had
o9rof111U cfI1din6 thair ona%onn- o,l |
diseases could make a good living.
l lately read i'll Eleanor Kinks Idea
the pathetic story of IA girl who thought |
she would rather die than be an old
maid" So she married a widower with
years enough on him to be her father, |
with children nearly as old as she was.
Her life became a purgatory. The chill |
dren defed her, and the boys wiped
their muddy shoes upon her carpets, |!
and when she demonstrated swore at |
her. Worst of all, the father, when the
novelty of possessing this girl wife
wore off, as it did quickly, took sides |
with the children against her. In de- |
spair now she thinks she would rather |
die than be a married woman Well, it |
serves her right. A girl who would
marry any old thing merely through
fear of being an old maid deserves ex-
actly such an experience.
One of the strangest books recently
written is "The Life of the Harp In
the Hand of the Harper" by Ada Nor
ley Jerett. 1t is the life of Schlatter,