Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-10
Concerning Women.


Suffraeists of various states are opening
headquarters with the intention OF max
ing their campaign even more vigorous
than heretofore. At Sacramento the CAN
fornians and in Albany the suffragists of
New York are busy getting things ready
for an attack on the legislature. In Des
Moines and Chicago both money and time
are being given to making the headquar-
ters worthy OF the cause. In Boston the
suffragis lists are communicating themselves
on possessing the oldest sut1rasist head
quarters in the country. il not in the
world. the same having been in operation
without a break for nearly 40 years The
| national Headquarters have Just been
| moved from Warren; o.; TO washington,
ID. G. Victoria is the last of the AUS
tralian states to give women the right 10
vote for members of the state parliament
Fourteen times the woman suffrage blii
was thrown out by the legislative council
| after it had been passed by the lower
house. Each time the hostile majority
steadily diminished and the women KEPT pr
the house the bill went through by a
kSnla iority OF more than to /, the opposi-
| ton breaking like the giving way of ID
dam. For years the women IN o'ner
same footing with the men. The gaming
of the ballot by the women of Victoria
| has been the cause of great rejoicing
| among lie suffragistS both in England
and America They point to it as a proof
that had the predicted disasters betalien
the other Australian states the ballot
/ Wpilid
| OF Victoria even at this late date.
Nine Poppova is Russian woman
who has invented an airship and has
called it the Annotated Dragon, which
| gives one an idea of its shape. There
| is a system of hoops that serves to
steer it and the ship is said to adapt
itself to every sort of wind very
readily.
1 n nj
| ment as Lucas Malet' was that she
did not think it right to trade on the
Kingsley name" lest she should do it
! discredt She, therefore, chose the
'.surnames of her grandmother and
great grandmother both women OF re-
markabe intelligence and character"
| The Burmese believe that the days
of the week influence the temporal
ments of those born on them. Thus
| Mondays babies grow up jealous;
Tuesdays, honest; Wednesdays, quick
tempered; Thursdays, peace loving;
| Fridays, laxative: Saturdays, go I'M
pulsive and quarrelsome. and sundays
| children are lowered with parsimoni-
| Gus tendencies.
| 4 member of the aristOcratic Colony
club OF New York says that the first
| new woman" was Movelia dAndria.
| who was professor of jurisprudence at
| the University of Bologna in the
thirteenth century. Nine ManZollna
was professor of anatomy, Matilda
| TrombOni taught languages and Marie
| Magnesi held the chair of mathe-
MATES. and this university was by no
| means a second rate one, but was one
of the leading homes of learning in
Europe, with 10000 students.
ON Christmas day 1S40 the late
Queen Victoria received a gray parrot
as d present from the prince consort.
"Piliy" cost $40 and was vertable
| prodigy among parrots. 1t could repeat
| 500 words and sung various ballads,
one especially appropriately named for
Il bird vocalist, Jim Crow"
The Russians still believe in miracles
and think the birth of Alexis, the only
son OF the car. was due to the fact
that previous to it Seraphim, an old
priest of Saroff. was canonized. st.
seraphlm day is now one of the hottest
III the calendar and is celebrated
throus hout the empire. The saints
srecialty was helping women to bear
children.
| Hiss l.. Lind AT Hageby, the noted
| writer and antiviviSectiOniSt. author of
1.-THE book called! THE SHAMELESS of Sci
cnce." will soon come to this country
to try-tn int, st people In her crusade
against those who in the name OF sci
,nce would subject animals to pain.
| Some Of tie experiments are said to
last for months. the poor animal be
ing kept alive simply for the purpose.
and no doubt suffering very much.
| Quite number of women in differ ent
parts Of the country are interested in
this matter.