Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-26

milton as yet accorded TO but few OF the
women barristers. Miss Hutchinson is a
graduate OF the law department of the
/ University Of Wisconsin and is now prac-
ticlng in Washington. D. G.
An association formed IN Illinois ~
women opposed to the extension Of sui
rage TO women, has just issued bulletins
TO the effect that it proposes to engage in
more active local campaign than has
hitherto been decmed necessary 1t in
tends to furnish to legislatures, the press.
and the public generally. summaries Of
the arguments which have been used dur
ing the last twelve years in meeting the ar
guments Of the suffragists
According TO the heads Of this organiza-
ton. woman suffrage is part and parcel
OF the world wide movement for the over
throw of the present order of civilized So
eiety, and the establishment in its place of
a revolutionary scheme based upon princi-
Piles which have been tried and found want
ing in past centuries"
The association is doing considerable
active work in Illinois, but it's leaders
seem TO believe that the work done
throughout the middle west recently by
the suffrage workers demands still greater
efforts upon the part of those opposed to
suffrage, in order to curb the sentiment
which their more aggressive sisters have
aroused. Mrs Caroline p. Corbn is presi-
dent OF the association.
The Ladies' Literary society of Oberln
college has completed a scholarship fund
to provide a graduate member with years
foreign study. The organization is said
to be the oldest womens literary society
in the world Lucy Stone and Antoinette
Brown were among its members sixty
years ago.
Prof Frances Squire Potter. formerly of
the University of Minnesota, has accepted
the office of general lecturer for the Ma
tonal Woman's Trade Union league. Prof.
Potter will make a tour of this country
and perhaps go abroad in the interest of
the league.
DR. Mary Person Eddy was the only
woman to speak at the foreign missionary
gathering of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church. held in Atlantic City.
DIR. Eddy is a granddaughter of Rev. w.
w. Eddy. ID. D., one of the first American
missionaries in Syria She was born at
Ottoman empire except the time devoted
to study in the United States, Germany
and England. She has practiced in al
most every part of the Ottoman empire,
has established the only sanitarium for
tuberculosis in Palestine, and on her re-
turn will organize Red Cross societies in
various cities in Syria and Palestine.
Mrs Philip Snowden, the eloquent Eng
lish suffragist is to give a series OF adj
dresses at the New York Chautau1ua as
sembly during the week of July $3.50. Her
lectures will relate to English affairs. in
Guiding the social conditions, the educa-
tional questions, the child problems, the
administration of law, and 1.-THE Progress
Of the Woman Movement"
Elizabeth Hirsch has been elected vice
president of the city council of Liegnitz,
Germany. She is the first woman to oc-
cupy that office and was chosen because
of her ability as a business woman. Sew
eral years ago her husband died and she
inherited his large manufacturing business
She assumed the charge of the business
stepping at once into her husbands place
Under her management the business has
prospered.