The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-04

franchise. a statute recently adopted pr Divides
| that.ln cooperative public works instituted for
the benefit of the unemp loyed mon the Gov.
ernment oficer shall remit one-hali Of the
>, II the hue band will not Voluntarily provide
for his family in sich cases one half Is not suf-
household. but It is much batter tnan othi Ing
,.h rs no such lay In the nited states. and
ploysd. it never includes women, no matter
how destitute they may be or how many are
ashpendsnt upon them; In addition to this.
lock him un. furnish him with bed and board.
keep him in idleness. and make no provision
-, In this connection IA New York Magistrate.
w., mentT worth 6y name. declares that wife beat
| cd: and put -uD. with as natter OF course :"
with this prospect ahead It Is no wonder so
many schools Of physical training for, women
suppement all ''incidents' of this kind with
the whipping post Women who ALREADY are
husband might cali the attention OF the.peace
Conference To- this mater. in the hope OF sub
stitutinR arbitration rs more modern meth
od oil settling domestic controversies.
Ia there ever day In the year when there is
not a woman's meeting OF some sort in Boston ?
And does the suffrage question ever fail to
make its appearance2 Banquo's ghost hadn t
half as much persistence. The Twentieth
Century Club Of that city was addressed few
days ago by Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson. presi-
dent OF the Civic Club Of 800 PHILADELPHIA wo-
men. on "Womans Work In the Municipality"
This. she declared. after five or ak years ex-
! psrieuce In hard practical effort. would be
much greater and more effective when women
had the ballot. The opposition of the anti
suffrage women. she said was as vehement as
that OF the Hindoo widows when the British
them on their husbands funeral pyre
Prof, Mary Jordan of Smith College came to
or n n al n Z IN
as member OF a committee was detriment
to woman's power for good and that her in
disemGodied spiritS shades Of our 2 5rS "
700 American women who pride themselves on
of "e'Ny IS L Sa ees
| lego professors. both male and female. and
atilicts them with such fatal conservatism? 1t
| retards progress as much as the contractors
diseases retnrd health and demands scientific
investigation through the department Of
| oacilli culture"
In Chicago. and also In New York. women
are acting as agents and managers of large
Office and tenement buildings AMI making a
conspicuous success. Hundreds OF women
look after their own property. rents. repairs.
&c. Why should they. not do the same In the
| capacity Of agents? And why have they not
been doing it all these past years.
| frage Association sent a humorous telegram
to the national convention: Look out ,dhr
course they viii. Women vii! vote in pata.
gonia and China and the Arctic circle before
| they do In old pride-incrusted. ancestor wor-
| that state Is quite so proud OF as its ancient
graves. but IL must have n good many mere
| before II Droadens out enough to recognize
the principle of equal rights to women.
The last issue OF the Boston Woman's Jour.
nal Is "A Julia Ward Howe number" being
published on that ladys eighteth birthday
II contains portraits of Mrs. Howe. her hus
| band aud five children. and tributes from hel
| grandchildren. Of whom she has ten. 1t has
also a full account OF the brilliant reception
and luncheon given at the Vendome in Boston
| by the New England Woman's Club. At the
celebration of Mrs. Howes SEVENTEEN birth.
Russell Lowell. John q. Whittier. Oliver Wen
dell Holiness George William Curtis and Lucy
stone. but In less than decade all of these
| have passed away.
Mrs. Howe has been distinguished for more
| than half a century as scholar writer. lecturer
philanthroplst. and above all for her efforts in
| the negro until his liberty was secured. and for
tho past forty wears she never has missed an
opportunity to speak Tor the entranchsemen'
| of woman.
At the age OF 80 her pen is still busy. and she
also Is lecturng severai timos week now al
| a great peace Jubilee. then at an anti-lynching
meeting: yesterday at n banquet on patriot,
lsm In literature. to-day before the students Of
Wellesley, on tho social experiment, AT Brook
What an age OF grand old women Eliza
to the press on ali the current topics Of the
hour, Mary A I.iyermore. well advanced in
the seventies. writing lectnring. presiding a,
Susan b. Anthony in her eightieth year. after
a winter OF lecturing in dozen diheren,
Statef starting for Iond0p to TAXI end tn
WAsHIsGToN. b. c. ia Hustled IiSRrER