The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-22

Mna. Julia De Wolf Addison mas Just COM
plsted designs for he communion Elv
for the diocese OF HankOw in China The
requirement was that the design should
combine the Christian feeling with the
Chinese. II was far from an Easy task.
but the result has been approved Ootn ny
the Chinese authorities at Hankow and ny
h critics in America.
A royal decree has just been issued IN
Holland abOlishing the rule ~Promulgated
three years ago which forbade women
offices TO marry.
DR.. Julia Bang-Klinck 10 the first woman
physician TO attempt to pass "A winter AZ
Advent Bay. Spit2berRen. The place hds
been u~ninhabited in winter until ms year,
when two companies decided TO work the
rich coal mines there and advertised Tor
two physicians to 20 with the expedition.
DIR. r.. KIinck and DIR. Julia BanE-klinck,
husband and wife. applied for the JOBS
and got them.
DR.. Julia BanR-KIinck ia a graduate
OF Christiania University. She. came 10
America as assistant to Drs. christensen
and Gunderson of La Crosse. Wis. Later
she returned to Norway. where she married
DIR. KIinck. They took their wedding trip
TO S~pitzbergen and will complete their
honeymoon ut Advent Bay on the Arctic
Ocean.
The winter colony at Advent consists
OF something more than 100 persons. about
seven OF whom are women
Tn Young Liberal party Of Bavaria at
it's recent national convention voted unani-
mOusly to invite women to Join all branches
or its society as soon as they could do so
legally. There il now a movement to have
the old law prohibiting women from be-
coming members Of political associations
repealed. When this il accomplished 1t is
expected that the women OF Bavaria will
avail themselves Of the invitation from the
Young Liberals and also that other political
parties will open their doors to them.
The Rev Marie Jenney Howe. president
! OF the Consumers League Of Ohio, was born
at Syracuse, n. Y. Her father. her brothers
and her only sister we're all lawyers. She
| chose 20 be a minister and became pastor
Of the First Unitarian Church at Des Moines.
where she built up a large and fourishing
congregation.
After ten years in the ministry she mar
ried Frederick c. Howe Of Cleveland, a
lawyer. nov a state Senator. and the
author OF The City the Hone of Democ-
racy.' IL is said by friends that DR.. Howe
will in the future devote her time 10 the
Consumers League and the Child Zoe
League OF Ohio.
The new woman suffrage association OF
Lausanne. Switzerland. in meeting with pro-
nOunced success. IL is the first association
advocating equal suffrage formed in that
part OF Switzerland and even the most ardent
advocates Of the cause have been surprised
| at the cordial support given il by the people,
both men and women.
It IL called the Association Vaudois pour le
Suffrage Femiuin. The number of member
already enrolled Is larger than was ex-
pected.
At the last annual meeting OF the Few
England Teachers Association in Boston all
the speakers were men and all the officers
elected for the association, with the excep-
tiOn Of three or four assistant secretaries.
we're also men. This was lone In spite of
the fact that more than three-fourths Of the
members Of the association are women.
Over In Stark county. Ohio. they do things
rather differently. There the women teach
ers. being excluded from the banquet of the
association, became indignant and when time
came for the election of officers only women
were elected to serve on the board for the
coming year. The women teachers declared
that they believed that n mixed board was
best. but they were determined that the
men teachers should feel what il meant TO
be weaker vessels. They formed a majority
Of the association and they wanted the men
to see what they could no.