The sun., 1908-05-03

Tex, and Mrs, Z. p, Turner and Mrs. P. P
Tucker have been chosen as members Of
the Dallas Board of Education The elec-
ion OF these three women ia tho result'of
the opinion given out recently by the
Attorney General that under the Constit-
tion OF Texas women are eligible 10 muniC-
ipal Offices
According to the latest report of the
Census Bureau there are 1881 women
employed in the executive civil service Of
the United States In the District of
Columbia three women are employed 10
every seven men: in the country at large,
one woman TO every twenty-five men. In
the national capital the average pay for
men is Ills, for women tIoc.
The Board Of Education Of Tuckerton,
n. j.. is having trouble because at a recent
election women were not allowed 10 vote.
II seems that the women Of New Jersey
have had the right TO vote on school appro-
priations ever since 1857, but at the election
referred 10 James f. Otis, director of the
Board Of Freehoders, who acted as chair
man Of the meeting, ruled that women
should not vote. An issue OF bonds was
voted. but when the matter was brought
10 the attention Of Attorney General McCar-
ter he refused 10 approve the bonds, so
the Board Of Education was forced TO call
another election,
A number OF Jewish women, most OF them
poor, are working to raise 5000 TO found
a scholarship for poor and deserving Jewish
girls. There are 260 scholarships at Har-
ward for young men. but only twenty at
Radcliffe for young women, and only one
Of these has as yet been awarded 20 q
Hebrew girl. OF the amount needed about
81 600 has already been raised, with the
promise Of $3.50 more provided a like sum
IL raised by the first Of next month. The
aim Of the women In raising this fund Is
threefold--to awaken the Jewish Oom-
nnunity 90 the need o. higher education for
its women. to hold up the highest ideals TO
those who need II and TO help those who
crave II.
Aunty Becky Young said TO be the first
woman TO offer her services as a nurse
when the civil war broke out, died re-
Gently at her home 10 Indiana on the for
tieth anniversary Of her marriage. She
was a school teacher Of 20 when the war
began. Her service for her country began
by making bandASes and picking lint after
school hours.
After few months she decided TO 20 10
the feld as a nurse for the sick and wounded.
II was something new 10 this country,
although Florence Nightingale had done
it during the Crimean war in the middle
60s. Aunt Beoky's friends did all In their
power 70 discourage her, but without avail.
She went direct to Gen. Grant, who ao-
cepted her services.
Other women followed quickly In her
footsteps. and at the close OF the war, both
in the North and In the South, remained at
their woEk until the last soldier was able
20 be sent home and the doors Of the emer-
gency hospitals closed forever.
Her Son. group representing mother
and child by Miss Nellie V. Walker, has
just won the first prize in sculpture offered
by the Municipal Art League OF Chicago.
Miss Walker is one Of the pupils Of dorado
Taft and has for several years acted as his
first assistant in the work OF his studio.
When a child she is said 70 have spent
much Of her time In marble yard with
her father, where she learned 10 cut marble.
At the dinner given by Mrs John 8.
Crosby on the last anniversary Of the birth
Of Thomas Jefferson 10 the Woman's Demo-
cratic Club OF New York city . movement
was Get on foot By Comptroller Meta 10