The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-27
WHtT WOMEN AHE DOyNs.

President Mary T.. Woolley Of Mount
Holyoke College is the first woman to he
elected o senator Of the united chapters Of
the Phi Beta KAPPA Society. Her election
took place at the last tricnn,al council, which
vas recently held at william and Mary
College. Williamsburg. Va. The senate con-
sists of five officers and twenty members,
ten OF whom are elected at each council.
Following The example of their English
sisters in London. on October 8 a great
procession OF Scotch women walked through
the streets Of Edinburgh 10 show their
desire and determination to get the ballot.
The Women represented all lasses-ladies
OF title. wives of professional men. uni
versity students. tradeswomen. laboring
women. old women, Young women. rich
women and poor women
Tn 1000, 900 women workers in the
United States are engaged in no less than
292 distinct occupations. Though there are
no street car drivers reported, there are two
motormen: no sailors. but five women
pilots. Ten are employed on steam rail
roads as baggage handlers. rorty-iivc as
engineers, thirty-one az br8kemen, two as
conductors. twenty-siX a. switChmen. yard
| men and hagn1en; forty-three as hack
drivers. two as roofers and skaters and six
as ship carpenters Strang' as H. may
seem. upward Of 1000 q still indulge ia the
unfashionable trade OF donIest service.
In Cleveland. Ohio. three women have
been invited to become "A visiting COM
mittee for all city institutions. Mrs. Marie
J. Howe. president Of the ohio Consumer
League; Miss Myrta Jones aud DIR. Minabel
Snow. They are to have no salaries. but
their expenses are to bc paid and they are
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recommendations.
Miss Mary l.. Stewart Of Denvcr has lust
been elected dean Of women at the Uni
versity of Montana and will begin her
duties at the opening of the next term.
She takes the place of Miss Alice Young.
who it is said resigned to get married. The
new dean Of women is a graduate of the
University of Colorado and was for four
years the principal of the preparatory
school of the same university.
To Miss -. p. Breckenridge. assistant
dean of women az Chicago University. il
due the credit of having originated the
latest remedy for race suicide. II takes the
form of 500 dowries for working women
who contemplate matrimony.
She explained her plans at a recent
gathering of wageearning women who met
at Bowen Hall. Hull House. Chicago. for
the purpose OF discussing the question
How May women's Unions be Best
Strengthened" Her suggestion was greeted
with ~ecstatic applause by the eighty
young women present and a careful canvass
Of her audience failed to reveal any one who
was not willing to get married If she could
be assured of a $500 dowry. The fact that
the plan of giving dowries to union women
when they marry is now in vogue in Roth
German and English unions was dwelt upon
by more than one speaker and encouraged
Miss Breckenridge in the belief that her
plan would favorably lie considered.
Mrs. W. 3. Peabody OF Colorado is called
the mother of Mesa Verde National Park
because of the interest she has taken in the
preservation of the relics of the mysterious
cliff dwellers of Colorado. For the same
reason Prof. Edgar L.. Hewett. director of
American archaeology of the Archaeological
Institute OF America. has named the most
recently discovered of the cliff dwellings
in her honor. The Peabody House.
This dwelling is described as being SIX
stories in height and constructed of stone
blocks more regularly cut than those found
In the average cliff dweller ruins. IL tx
built in a deep cave. is picturesque in ap-
pearance and commands a magnificent
view over the entire Spruce Tree Can Tor.
Prof. Hewett has pronounced tone of the
finest specimens that has SO far been dis
covered. He has suggested to the park
authorities that il be put in repair and a
custodian be appointed to take charge of il