New-York tribune., 1902-01-03
WANT THEM ON SCHOOL BOARD.
TO MAYOR LOW TO ASK FOR AP-
POINTMENT OF WOMEN


A memorial from the Woman's Legislative
League will reach Mayor Low to-day asking that
women be appointed the Board of Education.
similar document will be sent later to President
Cantor, Of this borough. requesting the appoint
ment of women school inspectors in the various
districts. The subject of Women Boards of
Education in the State of New-York' occupied the
meeting Of the league at the Tuxedo yesterday.
Mrs. Cynthia NJ. Little the speaker of the
day. She recalled the work of women on the Board
of Education under Mayor Schieren in 1895. and
said
LAS the second large city Of the world New
York should come TO the front and honor her edu-
Gated, up-to-date women by giving them places
on the Board of Education-places for which they
are not only eminently fitted. but which the good
of the schools demands"
The speaker related interesting conversations on
the subject which she had had with men Of various
professions. A prominent politician said when she
asked him If he thought needed
such boards: mo, indeed" Mrs. Little asked him
If he did consider women capable of performing
such duties
"Capable' he roared. Yes. capable of turning
the world upside down Just what they have
done in the last twenty years turning the men
of everything, You find them in business houses
law medicine. the pulpit Ghey welcome to
thaO and postof1ces They are registers of deeds.
perts engineers eiectrcians receivers Of bankrupt
SO eficient and so blamed honest that when they
are once in they cannot he got out and man has
Look at it right here In Brooklyn That Women's
Health Protective Association is a perfect curse
man can't have the privilege of shifting in a
pubic conveyance or on platform. Then there is
that Womans West End Club and the Legislative
League. Only last fall the president of the league
went up to Albany and got a bill passed giving a
widow the right 10 be buried beside her husband
taking a. mean advantage of man in that way.
Then another silver tongued woman got another
law passed giving the taxpaying women the right
to vote on certain improvements, and they a.
II already. What they don't know the classes in
political study will tel them. Then there is the
Consumers League. Honest men running sweat
shops have lost thousands of dollars by It, The clubs
about birds refuse to let folks wear birds wings
on their hats but they will sleep soundy on a bed
stead made out Of birds eve maple
NO. Keep the down. They have made
trouble enough. The Bible says that after God
made man He rested. but after He made woman
nothing more is said about resting"
In a brief discussion of the subject Mrs Char
I3ttE u Wilomr Mrs Mary Holmes Bates. Mrs. John
r TOW: Mrs. Wakeman and Mrs r. Benedict. Of
the Mothers Club. Of Crawford all expressed en-
pnatlc approval Of the need Of women in the work
of directing school matters
Mrs. Trow. in report Of the legislative commit
zee suggested that as an opening wedge improve
the laws regarding dover riFhts in this state the
soc;eiy present an amendment 10 the present Ia W
Whlch shalI provide for the widow 10 receive one
thrd or the entire estate Of her husband instead Of
one-third Of the inherited estate as at present