Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-12-06

at the State Normal school In Athens
on Nov. l. The building Is called the
Winnie Davis Memorial Hall. and the
total cost will be something like S2l, 0QO
After its completion. the hall will prob
ably be furnished throughout by DIFF
ferent chapters Of the Daughters of the
Confederacy.
The West End Woman's club Of Chi
oago Is doing good service in helping
to organize night commercial school.
The club will pay for the rent of type
writer's for the four months course, and
will place sewing machines al. the dis
posal Of the domestic SCIENCE classes.
Entertainments will also be provided
for the pupils.
Chicago club women are much inter-
ested In the new magazine, Expansion,
which has Just been started by the
Woman's Athletic club. The first num-
Der was issued week or two ago. and
the magazine claims TO have eifeady a
subscription list Of over $4,000. The OBJ
ject Of the publication Is to spread the
interest In athletics among women, with
a view of founding women's athletic
clubs In the larger cities of the country.
The editor-in-chlef, Mrs. PaulIna II.
Lyon, expects to establish clubs mod
eled after the Chicago Athletic club in
Baltimore and Washington. within the
next month, and she has had requests
for advice and cooperation in founding
similar clubs in Paris and in Melbourne.
Wisconsin club-w0men are very much
In earnest In their campaign of educa-
ton among the newly enfranchised wo-
men voters at school elections. They
are putting forth every effort TO arouse
general interest In the coming election,
and to impress upon women that the
time has come TO show whether or not
they are interested in the proper adj
ministration OF educational affairs. In
Milwaukee @ Woman's. Republican
league has been organized TO take an
active part in the campaign. The or
ganization was ultimately named THE
Wisconsin Educational association"
and though II is made up OF Republican
women II was voted to keep II strictly
non-partisan. II was further resolved.
THAT this organization consider tho |
question OF the election OF the state
superintendent OF schools from the |
viewpoint of the character, the scholar |
ship, the efficiency Of the respective |
candidates" The old idea that women !
would, If given the franchise vote
blindly according to the directions of |
the male members of the family, seems
to be erroneous. A Republican or
Democratic club where the party can
didate is supported only upon his mer-
It's, Is somewhat puzzling 10 male vot-
ers.
Alice Stone Blackwell. writing In the
Woman's Journal, answers the demand
so often made TO name a single law
aimed at human betterment, which has
been passed as a consequence Of equal
suffrage"
In Wyoming and Utah laws have been
passed that women teachers In the pub
lie schools shall receive the same pay
as the men teachers for equal work; In
Wyoming, Utah, Idaho. and Colorado
the age Of protection has been made Is
years; child labor has been forbidden In
Utah and Colorado fathers and moth
ers have been made equal guardians Of
their children; the laws against gam
bling have been made more stringent;
property rights have been en-
arged: libraries have almost doubled
In number; and school appropriations
are much larger In all the enfranchised
states The primaries are said to have
Improved. and elections have become
more orderly.
Throughout Australia" concludes
Miss Blackwell, before the granting OF
EQUAL suffrage. married man could
will all his property away from his
wife, leaving her penniless. She had
no right of dover unless he died In
testate. Tn those Australian colonies
where women have had a vote. and in
those only. the law has now been
so that part Of a mans prop
srty must go 10 HIS wife and family.
The divorce laws Of Australia and New
Zealand were modelled upon those Of
England, by which Inhdellty on the
part Of the wife entities the husband 10
, divorce, but lnfdelity on the part Of
he husband does not entltle the wife TO
me Sir e woman suffrage was grant
"a. the divorce laws have been equal,
zed and a number OF other benefcent
,hanges have been made"
The Federated Women's clubs OF Jo-
lei. H.. sent committee 10 study the
Of Hull House, Chicago with
I view 20 establishing a similar settle
nent among the foreign population OF
Toilet workers In the steel and wire
mills Of the PLACE. A free kindergarten
has already yaen started In the quar-
er. and u IL the intention OF the Fed
ration 10 expand into fully equipped
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