New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-31
BITTEN BY HER PET DOG.
MRS E. P. JOHNSON, OF ST LOUIS. BEING
TREATED AT PASTEUR INSTITUTE.
SHE is LOUD IN HER PRAISE OF THE MISSOURI
WOMEN. THOUGH THEY WILL HANG
BACK" on THE SUFFRAGE

QUESTION.
Mrs r. P. Johnson of ST. Louis one of the best
known women of hey State has been In the city for
the last two weeks at the Paseur Institute. She is
now staying with Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait at
Bensonhurst. and will remain there until August H.
by which date II will be determined whether or not
the treatment has taken Mrs johnson Is an ar
dent suffragist and has been spending nearly all
her leisure time in the office of the National
Woman Suffrage Association. in the Pulitzer Build
ing studying its workings and meeting its workers.
She there yesterday by a Tribune
porter. and talked most interestingly about women
in Missouri. as well as about the mishap that
brought her to New-York.
Il had the cleverest little dog in the whole West"
she asserted-"a Scotch collie that could do any
thing bat talk. 1t taken i'll with something
that we suppose rabies about dozen pets
of the West End had the disease that time.
Mine and several others died and several were
killed. l was the only person bitten. This was be-
cause insisted on my dog taking medicine. |
suppose he thought in his dog mind that 1t
the medicine that was making him sick. and so he
bit | dpprehensive of danger. but
thought 1t better not to any risks The Pasteur
people say there is such a disease rabies. and
they have most opportunities TO investigate the
subject who are specialists only be
guided by them"
PRAISES MISSOURI WOMEN
Speaking OF the women of Missouri Mrs. John
said that their status and interests were much
the in New-York. hut that they are in
clined to be a little conservative.
1--WE are neither far enough East ror far enough
West" she said. Ito be particularly advanced.
Women In all the professions just as they are
here, and active IN most reform and philan
thropic movements but in the m1tter of suffrage
they hang back little There is strong suffrage
sentiment I'm the State but 1t is not organized 1t
IS here We have a State association. however. and
hope to get 1t in good working order this fall
LAWS REGARDING WOMEN.
1.-THE laws regarding women are good az those
Of any other State yet. An important step taken
by the last Legislature was TO provide for a State
Board of Charities, of which two Of the members
must be women There are six members altogether.
and. as one OF the men is good as woman We
think things are about even. The women members
Miss Mary Perry. who Is vice-president. ana
Mrs. T. B ingalls,. The work Of this Board Is most
important, all recommendations H. regard TO
charitable and penal institutions must come from It,
! hope It will soon recommend the appointment Of
women physicians the STATS Of insane asylums.
We have never had women in these places. and II
there Is any place where womans work Is needed II
IS In the case of insane and feeble minded women.
When asked about her Impressions OF New 9rk
Mrs Johnson answers sa' t1 mos mo- peon Don't
seem TO know what a remarkable woman MIS-
She is the ablest woman In the ranks of The
woman sufragsts to-day says Mrs; Johnson a'
Mrs. Johnson is the wife of a prominent lawyer
OF ST. Louis and was sufragist in her cradle her
mother and her grandmother having espoused tn"
cause before her She Is a member OF the EXecu-
tive Committee of the National Woman Suffrage
Association and ex-president OF the Missouri Asso-
citation. She belongs TO many other organizations
as well but only because through them she can
work for suffrage. She is State superintendent o.
the suffrage department of the Missouri w; e. 4.
T. and was formerly secretary OF the Charity Or
ganzation Society She Is more interested III PM
lanthropy than In anything else except suffrage.
and has been particularly active In fresh-air WORK
for the last sixteen years
A "FREsH-AIR" WORKER.
II have been intensely interested she said. I'm
the fresh-air work here IN New-York, and think
the newspapers of the city deserve all the credit
that women ca give them for what they have done
for children"