The sun., 1908-10-11
WHAT WOMEN ARK DOiNG.


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DR.. Phoebe Dubois. the only woman
who was grad uated from the Cornell
Medical School this year, has received Ar
appointment on the staff at the Fluehinl
Hospital. She will enter upon her dute,
next january.
Mrs. W. W. Crannell Is the editor Of .
new quarterly, the organ Of the New York
! association Opposed to tho Further Ex.
tension Of Suffrage to Women. The new
pages. Miss Harriet May Mills edit,
the NeEs Letter. the official organ Of the
New York Woman's Suffrage Association
a magazine with twenty odd pages and
q subscription list said to be larger than
that OF many daily papers.
Mrs. Emily Treat Of Hannibal, Mo-,
! is said to be the first woman 10 he en-
ployed as an official court reporter In this
country. Some thirty-five years ago she
accomplished one OF the greatest feats
shorthand reporter had ever performed
up to that tine. She reported and made
the transcript. Of the testimony in q rail-
way lawsuit Involving a large sum- II
required something over six months for
her 10 complete the transcript but when
II was done she received high conmenda-
ton for the excellence Of her work and
the sum OF $4,000. Mrs. Treat Ia still In
active service.
There>were nineteen women in the last
Finnish Parliament; in the new Parlia-
ment there are twenty-five. Nine Of
them are married and sixteen are widows
OF single. Six were sent by the old En-
nish party, the young Films sent two the
Swedish party sent three, the Social
Democrats thirteen and the Agrarian
party one. One Is the wife Of d clergy
man, one the wife Of a doctor, six are
school teachers. two the editors Of wom-
EMS papers, one factory inspector
two dressn,akers. one the wife Of work
ingrnan, four organizers and speakers
for different political parties. two the
wives OF peasants and one a doctor Of
philosophy.
Miss Annie 8. Peck Of Providence.
r. l.. who has just succeeded in climbing
Mount Huascan in the Andes, is a grad
uate Of Michigan University. class Of 1879,
studied in Germany and Athens and
was for time professor OF Latin in Smith
College. She is q believer in woman
suffrage and declares that II one woman
has perseverance to climb to the top Of
a twenty-siS thousand foot mountain
the sex in general ought to be able to
BSh 'N0 iiSh' W No'V'
The William Smith College for Women
in connection with Hobart College has
inst been formally opened. The funds
Tor the new college we're given by William
Smith Of Geneva. n. Y. One Of the speak
ers on the occasion OF the opening said
that IL the new institution had been made
have been much opposition TO IL. but
as IL was coordinate he had not heard
a single word in objection. There were
several women among the speakers.
One OF the dormitories is named for DR..
Elizabeth Blackwell. the first woman to
graduate from a medical college In this
country, an alumns Of Hobart.
Miss Mary s. vickery. who organized
and built up the Chicago Latin School.
was born and reared In Parrsboro. Nova
Scotia. Some twenty years ago Miss
Vickery began her Chicago school with
two pupils. Last year she had an at
tendance OF two hundred and eighty odd
boys. The land upon which the school
Ii built cost $4,000 and the buildings
boOded OfHe deb. aseH os oe Se seaGol
CURED. The bonds paid 0 per cent. in
terest and were not to mature until the
y ear 1915. So successfully has Miss
Vickery managed the financial as we'll as
the educational affairs Of the school that
the last bond was taken up seven years
before maturity.
Miss F. Belle Moore OF New Hart rtford
Is announced as a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for School Commis-
sioner In the First district Of Oneida
Miss Moore has always lived In
the county. and has taught the district
aud graded schools for the last fifteen
years.
The, taxpayers OF South Nyack voted
the other dav on the proposition to bond
the village for permanent Improvement.
The resoM ton In favor Of Issuing bonds
streets was carried by vote OF rs to 10. !
Ten women voted In the affirmat tive and |
two In the negative.
The number Of women elected TO office |
In ireland during the present year is a |
source Of much satisfaction to the advo-
Mrs. L. A. Barr, Mrs. Grimm, Miss Hamil-
ton, Lady Doclkrell and Miss @. Leake
Grimm were elected as urban diatrict |
and town councillors Forty-three were
elected as rural district councillors and |
pool. law guardians. twenty OF them
there were no less than ios women elected
during the summer alone. The Irish
Women's Suffrage Association held a
brilliant meeting In the Mansion House
In Dublin by permission OF the Mayor
In the first week In September
DR.. Matilda Evans OF Columbia, IS. c.,
IL the first negro woman to practise
medicin in South Carolina. When i5
she entered the school for negro children
conducted by Miss Martha 5chofield at
Aiken. 9. @. From there she went TO
0berlin College and later 10 the Woman's
Medical College in Philadelphia, whers
she graduated, On returning to her ma
tive city she began practice among the
negroes and soon realizing the needs Of
her people for hospital rented the old
home OF white family for that purpose.
This was the first hospital opened In the
capital OF South Carolina. AT one time
during the past winter DIR. Evans had In
this hospital twent y-seven patients, al
though there were only suitable eocom-
modations for twelve. II 10 eaid that
Dvery dollar DIR. Evans earns In her pri-
N1te practice goes 70 Improve her hoe
pitAL which has been In operation about