NAWSA Subject File The Woman's Column Feb. 11-92 Statement Week ending Feb 11th 1892 Debit ___________ Cash Account _______________ _________________ Contra __________________ Credit 1892 1892 Feb 9 To Subscriptions 30.37 Feb 9 By Corres. Hattie M Webb 570 57 names " 10 " " 19.00 " " " " Florence Waddington 100 10 names " 11 " 2.45 " " " " Mrs Bicknell 80 8 names " " " " Mrs Witherill 10 1 name " " " " Mary L Swift 150 15 names " 10 " " Emma Sparks 80 8 names " " " " S H Sawyer 230 23 names " " " " Mailing deposit 500 " 11 " Corres Carrie L Learch ____30___ Total Expenditures 1750 Balance 34.32 forwarded to you. ________________ ______________ 51.82 51.82 __________________ _______________ Mar. 10-92 Statement Cash Account Week Ending March 10 1892 [*] attended to by L. S. Debt Cash Account Contra Credit 1892 1892 March 5 To Subscriptions 12 00 Mch T By Com? ?? Mrs Hopkins 15 ????? 1 50 " 8 " " 25 54 " " " " " Mrs Keeney 20 " 2 00 " 9 " " 6 77 " " " amt short sent by Miss Mo??? 04 " 10 " " 1 00 " " " " ?5 on 39 ??? names 3 90 " " " " ?5 " 10 Mrs Billings 1 00 " " " " " " 1 Mrs A?? Thomas 10 " 9 Labor Isabel Allen 3 days 4 50 " 10 " Miss Turner for Feb. 3 00 " " H. Turner Services to Feb 25 12 00 " " Mailing deposit Feb 25 1 00 " " " " Feb 27 5 00 " " " " this day 5 00 11 00 Balance Forward 6 27 45 31 45 31 The Woman's Column A.S.B. to Kitty Barry, May 28, 1882 Papa has struck out another brilliant idea. He wrote a letter in mother's name and sent it to almost every newspaper in New England, offering to furnish them weekly with a column of news-items about women, if they would publish it. Between 100 and 200 papers have accepted the offer, including some influential weeklies; so we get out the column weekly - a printed slip made up from our Notes & News & Concerning Women - and have it sent to them. Florence Finch takes charge of it. Mar. 18 Statement Receipts & Expenditures week Ending March 18th A.D. 1892 $30 66 Cash Mch 19 / 92 Debit Cash Account 1892 March 14 To subscriptions 13 04 " 15 " " 25 25 " 16 " " 3 04 " 17 " " 1 25 ________ 42.58 1892 Contra Credit March 14 By Coms. pd M K Alspaugh. 40 " " " " " L T Cowles. 2 00 " " " " " [????] Emma Sparks 1 00 " 15 " " " by Mrs Hoffman 8 00 " " " " " to Mrs Johns. 80 names " " " amt short on Money orders 05 " " " x sent by Maudelle Allen " 16 " amt short Mary E Mumford 07 " " " Cons. Abbie E Hill 40 _________ " " Total Coms. and amt short 11. 92 " 18 Balance Forwarded 30.66 x Mary E Mumford sent 10 cents in stamps instead of 25 __________ 42 58 March 92 Column Mar. 25 Statement Receipts and Expenditures for the Week Ending March 25 A D 1892 Debit Cash 1892 March 19 For amt rec from subscriptions 4 75 " 21 " " " " " 20 26 " 22 " " " " " 25 76 " 23 " " " " " 15 75 " 24 " " " " " 7 75 " 25 " " " " " 2 50 ________ $76 77 1892 Contra Credit March 19 Coms. pd Mrs. Kellogg. Mich 8 names 80 " 21 " " Mrs J F Tracy Worcester 1 " 10 " " " " Kansas 28 " 2 80 " " " " Napa. Cal. 50 " 5 00 " 22 " " Kansas 41 " 4 10 " " F E Benedict N.Y. sent 100 instead of 125 5 " 25 " " Coms. pd on 2 Lowell Subs. 2 " 20 " " " Mary C Jones. Parkley, Va 50 " 5 00 " 23 " Mrs. Hoffman Kan 50 " 5 00 " " " Vickery, Dorchester 4 " 40 " 24 " Mrs H C Shumate. Ga 1 " 10 " " " Mrs G H Lawyer, Ky. 25 " 2 50 __________ 26 25 Balance forwarded 50 52 __________ $76 77 [*Apr 2 92*] Statement Receipts & Expenditures week Ending April 2 1892 Debit ________ Cash ________ 1892 March 28 For Subscriptions 1 75 " 29 " " 5 75 " 30 " " 3 00 " 31 " " 1 75 Apr 2 " " 14 75 __________ 27 00 1892 ________ Contra ________ Credit March 29 By Coms. of Mrs Dwisrell 70 " " " " " Mrs Avery 30 April 2 " " " Mrs Johns 20 " " " " " [Mrs Corey] 5 00 " " Blank Book subs names 1 75 " " " Balance forwarded 19 05 above Coms 5 00 was paid to Henrietta Briggs Wall Hutchinson Kan. ______________ 27 00 Apr 9 Statement Cash Receipts of Expenses for the Week Ending April 9 A D 1892 Debit _____________ Cash _____________ 1892 April 4 For Subscriptions 3 75 " " " Carrie E Fascon " " " 100 Sample copies 25 " 5 " Subscriptions 19 75 " 6 " " 3 50 " 8 " " 4 00 " 9 " " 4 26 " " " Mrs D R Stewart " " " 400 Sample Copies 1 00 _________ 36 51 __________-- Contra ___________ Credit 1892 Apr 4 By Coms pd J F Tracy 30 " 5 " " " Mrs Hoffman 3 70 " " " " " Mrs Laura Pear 10 " " " " " Mrs Hanchett 60 " " " " " Sarah W Tucker 80 " 8 " " " Agnes M Johnson 20 " " " " " Mailing Deposit per bill 5 00 " " " " " Henry Turner services 12 00 " " " " " Miss H E Turner 3 00 _____________ Total Expenses 25 70 Balance Forwarded 10 81 36 51 92 Column week ending Apl 15. 1892 $ Statement Week Ending Saturday Apl 16 1892 Debit _______ Cash ___________ 1892 Apr 12 To Subscriptions 5 50 " " " extra copies Mrs Marble 26 " 13 " Subscriptions 70 " 14 " " 4 00 " 15 " " 13 00 _________ 23 51 ______ Contra _________ Credit 1892 Apr 12 By Coms. Theresa Pike 50 " " " " Mrs Obed Nickerson 70 " 15 " " Clara B Colby 10 " " " " Ella L Pringle 5 00 _________ 6 30 Balance Forwarded 17 21 23 51 Woman's Column Cash April 4/92 Cheques 7.50 " 1.80 9.30 Bills. 7.00 Silver. .75 Scrip. .25 Stamps 1.75 __________ $ 19.05 Woman's Column Apr. 4 acct. Items of cash of The Woman's Column for week ending April 15 /92 Bank bills 14.00 Cheque 1.05 Postage Stamps 1.66 Silver .50 __________ $ 17.21 15.55 __________ $ 1.66 Woman's Column account week ending April 9/92 Bill $5.00 Stamps 4.96 Silver .60 Scrip .25 ___________ $10.81 Apr 22 Statement Receipts & Disbursements for the Week Ending April 22 d 1892. Debit Cash Accounts 1892 April 18 For Subscriptions 30 01 " 20 " " 1 91 " 21 " " 18 51 " 22 " " 13 00 63 43 Contra Credit 1892 April 18 By Corres. pd. N E Caskin 5 00 " " " " " L W Rumney 2 50 " " " " " Mrs Hoffman 1 50 " " " " " A E Brown 20 " 20 Mailing Deposit per bill 5 00 " " Corres pd Mrs York 10 " 21 " " Mrs A Kesmasn 5 00 " 22 " " " " 5 00 Balance Forwarded 39 13 63 43 April Womans Column /92 April 30 Statement of Receipts & Disbursements for the week Ending April 30 1892 Debit Cash 1892 Apr 25 To Subscriptions 23 25 " 26 " " 6 52 " 27 " " 6 50 " 28 " " 7.30 " 29 " " 3 01 " 30 " " 15 10 61 68 Contra Credit 1892 April 25 By Coms. pd Mrs Akerman 7 80 " " " " " " " for " " " " giving away 10 [pads?] 1 00 " " " Coms. Mrs A H Damon 30 " 27 " " Miss Hosmer 1 20 " 28 " " Mrs [S J?]Merrick 90 " " " " Mrs Langdon 40 " 29 " " Mrs C E Davis 40 " 30 " " Mrs C F Lutz 40 " " " " Mrs F M White 20 " " " Miss H E Turner [fumer sunday & wak?] 375 " " " Henry Turner " 5 " 15 00 " " " Balance Forwarded 30 33 61 68 May 7/92 Statement of Cash Account Week ending May 7th 1892. Debit Cash 1892 May 2d To Subscriptions 15 50 " 3d " " 28 01 " 4th " " 4 00 " 5th " " 75 " 7th " 7 00 Excess Postage Stamps 03 55 29 Contra Credit 1892 May 2d By Coms. pd Mrs Judy. 50 names 5 00 " 3 " " " R T Blakesley 69 " 6 90 " 4 " " " Carrie A Lerch 2 " 20 " " " " " Ellen A Bartlett 5 " 50 " " " Mailing deposit 5 00 " 7 " Coms. pd Mrs Niekerson 10 " " " " on 5 names for Reading 50 _____________ " " " Total Expenses 18. 20 " " " Balance Forwarded 37 09 55 29 Woman's Column $55.90 Week ending May 14/ 92 $37 90 cash pd in May 14 - 92 Statement Cash Week Ending May 13 1892 Debit Cash 1892 May 9 To Subscriptions 20 38 " 11 " " 18 78 " 12 " " 16 74 55 90 Contra Credit 1892 May 9 By Coms pd Miss Hosmer 1 name 10 " " " " " Mrs Ackerman 33 " 3 30 " " " " " Mrs De Luce 4 " 40 " " " " " Mrs Judy 40 " 4 00 " " " " " Mrs Largent 4 " 40 " " " " " M H Dunham 18 " 1 80 " " " " " Mrs Russell 30 " 3 00 " " " " " P W Browning 50 " 5 00 ____________ 18 00 Balance forwarded 37 90 55 90 Statement Cash Account from May 16 to May 31st AD 1892 Debt Cash 1892 May 16 To Subscriptions 2 25 " 23 " " 27 50 " 24 " " 4 50 " 25 " Sample Copies Miss Allen 50 " " " Subscriptions 3 75 " 31 " " 11 75 " " " Sample Copies, Mrs Bowen 25 50 50 Contra Credit 1892 May 20 By Mailing Deposit per bill 5 00 " 24 " Coms. pd Mrs Spooner 70 " " " " " Mrs Dayton 4 00 " " " " " Mrs Rumery 1 20 " " " " " Mrs Bathrick 1 20 " " " " " on 50 Laco names 5 00 " " " " " Mrs Akerman 90 " 31 " " " Mrs Wheeler 10 " " " " " Mrs C H Farr 50 13 60 ____________ " " " Services Miss M E Turner 4 wks 3 00 " " " " H Turner 4 weeks to 28th 12 00 Balance Forwarded to Mrs Stone 16 90 50 50 92 June 1 - to June 9th $ 39.05 Statement Cash Account from June 1 to June 9th inclusive 1892 Debit Cash 1892 June 1 for Subscriptions 150 " 2 " " 2250 " 8 " " 2175 " 8 Sample Copies 20 " 9 to Subscriptions 625 _______ 52 20 __ Cash ___Credit 1892 From 1 by Coms pd Mrs Chubb 20 " 2 " " " Mrs Barney 2 80 " " " " Mrs Brehem 80 " " " " Mrs Judy 2 10 " " " " Mrs Bathrick 2 20 " 8 " " " Mabel Sisson 160 " " " " Sarah Brooks 1 50 " " " " AJ Griffin 10 " " " " EP Kerney 50 " " " " Celia E Bean 25 " 9 " " " Laura Johns 30 " " " " Emma Schofield 120 " " " " Mrs Judy 20 ______ 1315 " " Balance Forward to Mrs Stone 39 05 _______ 52 20 Cash Items -- July 12 1892 Bills 400 300 Silver 60 110 10 Postal Notes(375 100 100_ 50 45_ 25 25 25 25) 7. 45 7 95 4 Checks (750 135 100 120) 11 05 I. Money order 240 Postage Stamps ck 7.17 7 17 ___________ 3267 Less due Journal 1000 " " HJ 1500 25 00 Net Balance 767 Money Order 2. 40 Postals 25 25 25 25 25 3 75 // 45 _______ 7 45 $9. 85 Postage Stamps 6 54 } Bills 500 } Mrs S. Monday Silver 980 } 1 eihmn order + 700 3 checks 125 } 450 } 925 350 } 10 Postal notes 350 } 165 } 100 } 75 } 50 } + 50 } 25 } 25 } 25 } 25 } 890 7 Money orders 350 } 180 } 180 } 375 } X 195 } 150 } 125 } 1555 ____________ 62 04 Mrs. Stone takes June 27 Silver 9. 80 Stamps 6. 54 Bills 5. 00 _______ 21.34 1625 24 45 62. 04 37 99. 04 40 70 Woman's Column 16 79 gives recpts 6 20 Expenses $1059 Nett Week ending June 30/92 [*Statement for the Week Ending June 30 --1892--*] Dr Cash 1892 Contra Credit 1892 June 28 To Subscriptions 450 June 28 By Coms pd Mrs Judy 20 " 29 " " 226 " " " " " Ellen A Bartlett 70 " 30 " " 10 00 " 30 " " " Sarah Brooke 20 Excess Postage Stamps 03 " " " Miss H E Turner 3 00 " " " Coms Carrie E. Leech 10 " " " Mailing Deposit 2 00 6 20 Balance Forwarded 10 59 Express money order .50 ck nat BK . . . 1.25 " " " . . . 2.50 " " " . . . .75 Silver . . . . . .45 Postage stamps 5.14 $10.59 16 79 16 79 Column acct t June 13th 92 $62.04 [*Statement --Cash Account-- June 13th to June 23rd 1892 Debit ___ Cash ___ 1892 June 13 To Subscriptions 21 45 " 15 " " 11 50 " 22 " " 24 25 " " " " 11 50 " 23 " " 17 25 ________ 85 95 1892 Contra Credit June 3 By Mailing seh June 10 5 00 " " " Coms on 3 Allstin names 30 " " " " Mrs. Akerman 80 " " " " Mrs C F Lutz 1 10 " " " " Ellen A Rose 05 " " " " Mrs Lill Stewart 40 " " " " Hiram Corson 90 " " " " " " 10 " " " " on a/c of pad of 13 names 40 " 15 " " Laura Johns 51 " 22 " " Adda C Arnold 20 " " " " Maud Davis 10 " " " " M H Dunham 1 20 " " " " Elvia H Bartlett 50 " " " " Maud M Allen 1 20 " 23 46 on Pad of 51 names J. E. Gobeith 4 60 " 23 E U Yates 25 " " Mrs Wm Lyman 1 30 " " James Hickman 5 00 ________ 23 91 Balance forwarded 62 04 _________ 85 95 ___ Contra ____ Credit 1892 June 13 By Mailing Dep. June 10 5 00 " " " Coms on 3 Allston names 30 " " " " Mrs A Kerman 80 " " " " Mrs C H Lutz 1 10 " " " " Ellen A Rose 05 " " " " Mr [?] Stewart 40 " " " " Hiram Carson 90 " " " " " " 10 " " " " on a/c of [?] and of 13 names 40 " 15 " " Laura Johns 51 " 22 " " [?dda] C Arnold 20 " " " " Maud Davis 10 " " " " M H Dunham 1 20 " " " " Eliza A Bartlett 50 " " " " Maud M Allen 1 20 23 46 on [?] of 51 names J. E. Gobeith 4 60 " 23 E U Yates 25 " " Mrs [?] Lyman 1 30 " " James [Hie???an] 5 00 23 91 Balance forwarded 62 04 85 95 Column to July 12 Statement Cash Account from July 6 to July 12th 1892 Debit ___ Cash Accounts ____ 1892 July 6 To Subscriptions 3 25 " 8 " " 22 41 " 11 " " 9 75 " " " Sample Copies MEC Orne 10 " 12 " Subscriptions 4 75 " " " Adv. Florida W.C.T.U. Sanitarian 1 00 " " Excess Postage Stamps 01 41 27 1892 ___ Contra ____ Credit July 8 By Coms on 16 Wis.& Kans. names 1 60 " " " " " 3 names M H Dunham 30 " " " " " 9 " S H Sawyer 90 " " " " " 50 " A C Bowles 5 00 " 11 " " " 16 " Mrs F W Perry 25 " 12 " " " 3 " Mrs Geo. Turner 30 " " " " 25 postal cards 25 " " " H. Turner 5 weeks to July 1 15 00 " " " Mailing Deposit 10 00 Total Expenditures 33 60 Balance forwarded by Miss T. 7 67 41 27 Column July 19 $16.32 Statement Cash Account July 19th to July 21 (inclusive) 1892 Debit Cash Accounts 1892 July 19 To Subscriptions 5 51 " 20 " " 5 76 " 21 " " 7 75 19 02 Contra Credit 1892 July 19 By amt short Mrs. [Atev] 10 " 20 " [Cuves pellen Mr. H U Allen 5 " " " " " " W H Benedict 5 " " " " " Ellen A [Barthelt 1 00 " 21 " " " Laura llo Johns 1 20 [Can dive Bathrick 30 2 70 Balance forwarded 16 32 19 02 Column July 25 8.81 Statement Cash Account from July 25 to July 30th inclusive 1892 Debit Cash 1892 July 25 to Subscription 4 25 " 26 " " 3 35 " 28 " " 5 73 " 30 " " 6 25 ———— Total Receipts 19 58 ———— Contrer Credit 1892 July 28 By Coms. Pell H Dunham 30 " " " " I W Tudor 1 20 " 30 " " Mrs. Alma Shaw 1 20 " " " Amb Shortelliss Bell Craig 07 " " " Miss H E Turner 3 00 " " " Mailing Dep (July 22) 5 00 " " Balance forward 8 81 ———— 19 58 ———— Items Cash Account Bills 200 Silver 125 1 Express Order 100 1 Check 25 240 4 Money " 240 150 6 Portal Notes 550 100 6 Post Stamps 392 ck HRB 50 Net 1632 180 25 45 550 Woman's Column Miss Hattie E. Turner office Woman's Journal 3 Park St Boston Week $16.32 to July 22/92 Items of Cash July 30 1892 Bills 2 00 liter 25 4 Postal Notes 50 45 25 25 1 45 3 Checks 18 01 12 51 85 3 90 1 Money Order 50 Postage Stamps 5 71 ________ 13 81 Less Bill Mail Dep 5 _______________ Net Amt 8.81 July 30th 92 cash 1381 less 500 net $8.81 July 12 1892 Fatal Eneloud 32 by for due Journal " " 2500 Net amount $7.67 Silver & Coffers ------225 14 Pastals ------ 960 4 Money O. ------ 550 3 Checks ------ 590 Postage Stamps ------ 992 Amount due HJ 3317 Balance 12 $21.17 Woman's Column items of Cash May 9. Bank bills 30.00 Silver 3.75 Stamps- 3.34 ------------------------ 37.09 4061 9 out 336 13 Ma 500 hearing Ba[??] _______ G 13th inc 4897 Bills Silver [Pot??] MO 100 235 200 250 100 50 50 75 100 115 --Proof Bills Silver Checks JOB SAMPLE OF 40 X 48 -- 200 MANILLA. 2½c. per. lb. Carter, Rice & Co. Corp. Manilla Department Boston,Mass. JOB LOTS. Toilet Papers. Wax Papers. Folding Suit Boxes, Millinery Bags and Boxes. PARCHMENT, TISSUES, CUTTERS TWINES, PATTERN PAPERS, WRAPPING PAPERS English, New England and Yankee Handmade. Cutter Rolls. Column acct to Aug. 1 -- 1892 Statement Cash Account from Aug 1 to Aug 13 (inclusive) 1892 ck $1.25 ck 3.15 ck 1.50 Postal order 3.00 silver 7.35 stamp 9.92 ____________________ 21.17 Debit - Cash 1892 Aug 1 To Subs & sample copies 9.26 " 2 " " 3.25 " 3 " " 2.50 " 10 " " 18.35 " 12 " " 7.50 " 13 " " 8.36 ___________ 49.22 Contra Credit 1892 Aug 1 By Coms for Mrs. Akerman 40 " " " " " Mrs. Elle Dwinnell 10 " 2 " " " Geneive L. Hawley 50 " 3 " " " Caroline Bathrick 10 " 10 " " " A C Bowles 2.10 " " " " " Mrs. Helen B. Warford 10 " " " " " L.E.L. Barney 80 " " " " " Anna W. Williams 20 " 13 " Mailing Deposit 6th 5 00 " " " Miss H.E. Turner (omitted June 30 75 " " " H. Turner to July 28th 12 00 " " " " " " " Aug 14 6 00 18 00 " 15 Balance Forwarded 21 17 ______________ 49 22 Ms Turner's acct Cash Account -- from -- August 17 to 31st -- 1892 -- In Cash 1892 Aug 17 To Subscriptions 7.53 " 24 & 27 " " 12.47 " " " 11.50 " 31 " " 14.53 " " " " 10.60 " " " " 1.50 " " " " 11.25 ______________ 69.38 O.K.H.B.B. 1892 Contra Credit Aug 17 By Coms. Laura H. John 09 " " " " Anna G. Wheeler 20 " 31 " " E.E. Cope 40 " " " " Caroline Bathick 1.10 " " " " Mrs Damon 5.00 " " " " Anna W. Williams 20 " " " " L T Cowles 70 " " " " to Agent 1.30 " " " " F M White 10 " " " " Famir Battle 5.00 " " Hattie E Turner to Aug 27 3.00 " " Henry Turner 2 weeks to Aug 28 6.00 ____________ 23.09 " " Balance to Mrs. Stone 46.29 ______________ 69.38 $96 46 nett Cash Account For the Month of September AD 1892 Debit ___________Cash Account_________ 1892 Sept 12 To Subscriptions to sold 1723 " 15 " " 1581 " 17 " " 1327 " 20 " " 522 " " " 2000 sample copies 600 " 21 " " 1049 " 23 " " 2467 " " " " sample copies 50 " 24 " " 3417 " 26 " " 850 " 27 " " 523 " 30 " " 1742 " " " sample copies 25 _________Contra _______________________Credit 1892 Sept 12 By Coms Pd lhs Templeton 30 & Hannesman 20 50 " 15 " " " " " 20 & Barney 70 90 " 17 " " " " Hood 25 & Barney 20 45 " 21 " " " " Keenan 40 Carnes & Crayton 10 50 " 23 " " " " Bathrick 90 & Damon 10 100 " 24 " " " " Judy 110 Mrs. Shaw 60 170 " " " " " " " 180 - Young 20 200 " 26 " " " " Waddington 80 H E lyounl 100 180 " 27 " " " agent at Kenyonville 30 " 30 " " " Mrs. Phillips 500 Bathrick 30 530 -- ----- ----- ---- Mrs. Garnon 20 Mrs. Tudor 15 35 " " 3 mailing deposits as per bills vend 1500 " " Mrs. H E Turner 8 weeks 375 " " H Turner any 28 to Sept 25 (4 wks) 1200 " " Mary Isabel Allen 300 375 as per receipts 450 Fullers Express 525 1650 x 25 6230 Balance to Mrs. Stone 9646 Cash Account for the Month of October 1892 Debits _________Cash__________ 1892 Oct 8. To Subscriptions 15 66 " " " Sample Copies 50 " 12 " Subscriptions 14 27 " 18 " " 9 89 " 22 " " 11 62 " " " Sample Copies 30 " 25 " Subscriptions 21 00 " 1 " " 20 17 " " " Surplus Cash 87 for which there was no vouchers or letters. Contra Credit 1892 Oct 8 By Coms. to Mrs. Houseman 30 " " " " " Florence Waddington 50 " " " " " Mrs. Judy 09 50 59 " 12 " " " Kalamazoo names 25 " 18 " " " " " 70 " 22d " " " Miss Clague 30 " " " " " Miss Davis 20 F M White 20 40 " " " " " Mrs. Lyman 10 Mrs Shaco 10 20 " " " " " Clarisa Clark 10 Miss Carleton 10 20 " 25 " " " Miss Cynthia K Starr 45 " " " " " on amt short on 18 names 50 " 31 " " " Lynn Pad of 50 " 5 00 " " " " " Nancy Nash 35 " " " " " Miss Isabel Allen per bill 3 75 " " " " " H E Turner 3 00 " " " " " H. Turner to Oct 23 12 00 " " " " " 3 Mailing Deposits 15 00 ________ Total Expense 43 49 Balance forwared by 49 92 Miss H E Turner [*50 79*] _____________ [*94 28*] 93.41 Personal Office Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association 5 Park St. Boston, 1883 Dear Friend Will you please circulate the enclosed petition? If possible, secure the help of others and thoroughly canvass your town or ward, Statement W. Column Week ending Dec 19/93 Rec on 21 Subscriptions - 25.75 Paid Mailing Dep 5.00 Cavnussini 1.50 _______ 6.50 On hand - 19.25 _______ " 25.75 Deposited in Bank Dec 21/9 $19.25 LS. Debits Cash —— 1892. To Subscriptions for week ending Dec10, $53.67 Total Receipts. $53.67 Money Orders. 18.20 Postal Notes. 5 75 Stamps 4 57 Express Orders 2.00 Check. 1.25 Bills 2 00 Silver 1 25 ——— $35.02 —— Contra —— By Coms. Mrs. Wood # (on pad of 50 names) 5.00 " Coms. Mrs. G. Parkin (Pad of 50 names) 5.00 " Coms. Mrs. W.W. Thomas (1 Subscriber) 0.10 " Money Order for Mrs. Ellen Anderson 0.05 " M.M. Gilbert (2 days work) 3.00 " P.O. Deposit for (mailing) 5.00 ————— " Coms. Mrs. H.M. Judy (5 Subscribers) 0.50 ————— $18.65 " Balance given to Mrs. Stone 35.02 ————— $53.67 WOMAN'S COLUMN Cross Reference: Blackwell papers - see notebook of accounts for 1896-1898 in envelope sent separately to Library of Congress, June 1961 Personal Office Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association 5 Park St. Boston, 1883 Dear Friend Will you please circulate the enclosed petition? If possible, secure the help of others and thoroughly canvass your town or ward, so that every man and woman may be asked to sign. If you wish, we will supply you with Woman Suffrage Leaflets for distribution among persons who refuse to sign. In this way many converts may be made. The remonstrants are already circulating their petitions against suffrage; therefore it is important that we should secure as many names as possible on our side. Please reply, & oblige, Yours Respy. Lucy Stone Julia W howe Mary A. Livermore Feb. 8 - Received amt W Col- 40.20 " 10 Paid for mailing 13.66 " " " To Mrs. Stone 26.54 _______________________________ 40.20 40.20 Rec'd in Feb. for subs- 11.20 Paid- Mailing 5.00 Stamps 1.50 Com. Bus. Wom Jour - .05 ________ 6.55 on hand March 1 4.65 ______________________________ 11.20 11.20 Rec'd in March subs 4.65 27.51 Paid C.H. Allen Washington 7.10 ? Stamps 3.99 Mailing Deposit 5.00 Mailing Co. 5.00 ? Extra Edition 2.50 ? Express 2.05 Stamps .56 ____________________________ 26.20 On hand April 1 5.96 ______________________________ 32.16 32.16 Received in April Subs 5.96 21.25 Paid in April Stamps 1.50 Com .05 Mailing Deposit 5.00 Boston Mailing Co 5.00 ? ___________________ 11.55 on hand 15.66 ___________________ May 1 27.21 27.21 OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal No. 3 PARK STREET. Boston, .... 188 A Miss I. T. Hall, 266 Lamartine St. Jamaica Plain Mass. Pd. 25 cents (silver) for Woman's Column 1 year from THE WOMAN'S COLUMN. Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D., was confirmed as Bishop of Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Oct. 15. This places at the head of the Protestant Episcopal Church of this State a friend of the equal rights of women. THE PRINCESS OF MONACO, who has at last prevailed upon her husband to close the gambling establishments in his principality so soon as the leases expire, is said to have decided to convert the magnificent building and grounds at Monte Carlo, where so many lives have been wrecked, into a hospital for consumptives. The Hartford Equal Rights Club, at its first meeting for the season, reported the gratifying news that the expenses of the very successful "Woman's Day" at the State Fair (about $275) were covered, or very nearly so, by the receipts from the refreshment tables. Here is a hint for other clubs. MISS CLARA BARTON was tendered a reception by Lincoln Woman's Relief Corps, San Francisco, on the evening of Oct. 2, and was installed National Chaplain by the president of the Lincoln Corps, Mrs. Kinne. The Occidental parlors were crowded with veterans and their families, some of whom had grateful remembrances of kindness received at the hands of the heroine of the Red Cross. Oakland, Cal., has, through the school board, requested the resignation of every teacher with an able-bodied husband. There may be an open question whether it is wise for a school board to elect a married woman with home duties, as a teacher, when just as good unmarried teachers are to be found, but to dismiss without discrimination all married teachers "with able-bodied husbands," is quite another matter. - New England Journal of Education. The Handel and Haydn Society began work this season last Sunday, taking up the Mass by Mrs. H.H. A. Beach. The concert will not be given until Feb. 7, but as it is a new work much time will be given to its rehearsal early in the season. Col. A. Parker Brown, president of the society, made a brief address of welcome to the chorus, and said, concerning this work: "You have occasion for pride that our society is the first to give this new work, that its author is a Bostonian, but most of all that she is a woman. For a woman to essay the treatment of this highest theme, and to succeed so well as competent critics concede she has, is a noteworthy musical event." "Woman's Day" at the Coal Palace exposition in Ottumwa, Iowa, was a great success. Rev. Mrs. Melissa Ferrell, of Forest Home, conducted the opening services; Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman gave the address; two ladies sang solos; Miss Seevers, of Oskaloose, spoke on "Woman's Work," and there was a closing song by a quartette of ladies. The Ottumwa Daily Courier praises highly both music and adresses. It says that as the women had largely helped to make the Coal Palace a success, it was in every way fitting that they should have one day for themselves, and that they made good use of it. IN THE COLLEGES. A scholarship of $200 is offered as a loan by the Vassar Students' Aid Society to a student who passes without conditions all the requirements for admission to the Freshman class at Vassar College, at the examinations to be held in June, 1892. Examinations will be held in Chicago, Denver, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Washington, Louisville, Detroit, Omaha, San Francisco, and may be made in other localities. Applications for this scholarship, which covers one-half of all charges made by Vassar College for one' year's board and tuition, must be made before April 1, 1892, to Miss Jessie F. Smith, South Weymouth, Mass. On Oct. 2, all the students of Bryn Mawr, graduates, undergraduates, non-residents, residents, and hearers, met and organized themselves into a general association for the management of all matters affecting the life of the students. This was the more necessary because the number of students in the graduate department is double that of last year, one-seventh of the 160 students now on the lists being graduates of this and other colleges. Work has been begun on Clark Hall, the main college building for the Cleveland College for women, a department of Western Reserve University. Last year the whole number of students was forty-five, of whom seventeen were candidates for degrees. The course of study is equivalent to that in Adelbert College, and the degrees are conferred by the university. Vassar College opens this fall with more applicants for addition than she can accommodate. This, too, is in spite of the fact that some twenty-five additional rooms for students were provided during the summer. Barnard College for women will receive $90,000 from the Fayerweather bequest, and its other donations amount to $25,000. The scholarship fund, $650, and a free scholarship are offered for the best entrance examination. Two Greek letter societies are flourishing, and the nucleus of a library has been established. It opened this year with about sixty-five students. Miss Elizabeth O. Abbott, who did such good work for the college last year in simplifying the detail of organization, has retired from the position of Registrar, and Mrs. Liggett has been elected to fill the vacancy. Miss Lenora Herron, of Dedham, has been appointed to the position of librarian of Hampton College, Virginia. F.M.A OUR NEW YORK LETTER NEW YORK, OCT. 14, 1891. This city is made lively with perpetual political meetings, processions, picnics, clambakes, and all the various devices by which voters may be enticed to cast their ballots for one party or the other. At a recent Democratic gathering Mr. Cleveland, who, as every one knows, has lately become the father of a girl baby, made the following significant remark: I have been especially interested in a young person during the last few days who will never be able to help the Democratic party until the prohibition against woman suffrage is removed. Both as governor and as president, Mr. Cleveland showed much sympathy with the woman suffrage movement; perhaps hereafter the personal interest he will have in the question may make him more active in its support. The police matrons have settled down to the regular performance of their duties. How important these duties are in the interests of morality and humanity, the very description of them proves. Every woman who is brought in under the influence of liquor is searched to see if she has a bottle concealed on her person. Heretofore this search has been performed by policemen, now the matron makes the needed examination. She also visits the cells where women are confined, every half hour, so that any service they need can be rendered by her instead of as formerly by a man. The annual convention of the W.C.T.U. of this State, was held during three days of last week, in the Presbyterian church. Their proceedings were interesting, and conducted with so much dignity as to call forth many complimentary comments from the leading papers. Mrs. Mary C. Bart was re-elected to the office of president which she has so long efficiently filled. Mrs. Emily Kempin, LL.D., has returned from her successful trip to Europe and will resume the courses of law lectures for the winter. It will be remembered that the University of the City of New York gives equal opportunities to women and men in its Law School. The law lectures will begin about the first of November, and the following important announcement is made: There are ten entirely free and twenty half-free scholarships which may be obtained from the Woman's Legal Education Society by applicants who attend the four courses, and cannot afford to pay the fee. Applications for such may be addressed to the president, Mrs. Leonard Weber, 25 West 46th Street; to the treasurer, Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, 110 West 34h Street; and to the secretary, Mrs. Alex. Forman, 116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. Young women throughout the country who desire to study law should note this opportunity to obtain instruction free. LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE. 149 E. 44th Street. MRS. W.W. JEFFERIES, of Fort Edward, N.Y. lately presented a handsome silken banner to the John R. Durkee Hose Co., of that place. The gratified Hose Co. tendered her a complimentary exhibition drill, and made her an honorary member of their company. She is the first woman in Fort Edward to hold such a position. It has been said to me: "It is just that women should have the suffrage, and we are quite ready to give it to them when the majority ask for it." To this I would say that the noblest men and women do not wait till they are asked to be just. Directly they perceive a duty they are ill at ease till they have fulfilled it: and the burden of the injustice actually weighs more heavily upon them than it does upon the person to whom they owe the justice. -Miss R. Scott. The Woman's Column. VOL. IV. BOSTON, MASS., OCTOBER 17, 1891. NO. 42. The Woman's Column. Published Weekly at 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. EDITOR ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. Subscription, 25 cents per annum. Advertising Rates, 10 cents per line. Entered as second-class matter, at the Boston, Mass., Post-Office. Jan. 18th, 1888.1 ILLINOIS ANNUAL MEETING. The twenty-second annual meeting of the Equal Suffrage Association of Illinois will be held in Kewanee, beginning on the evening of Oct. 28, and continuing Thursday and Friday. Noted workers will be present and take part in the exercises. All local societies are requested to send three delegates. Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace, having recovered from her recent illness, will address the meeting at the opening session on Tuesday evening, Oct. 28. A cordial invitation is extended to men and women, interested in equal suffrage, to be present. Delegates and visitors desiring entertainment are requested to send their names early to Mrs. E. V. Eddy, Kewanee, Ill. MARY E. HOLMES, Pres. CARRIE ASHTON JOHNSON, Sec. Galva, Ill., Sept. 23, 1891. MRS. WINSLOW'S READING. Mrs. Irving Winslow will give a reading at Miller Hall, Boston, Thursday evening, October 29, under the auspices of the Boston League. Mrs. Winslow's name alone promises a rich treat. She will read "Nance Oldfield," by Charles Read; "Women in General," two poems by Randolph; "The Solid Muldoon," by Rudyard Kipling, and "A Church Mouse," by Mary E. Wilkins. Tickets, at the low price of 50 cents, are for sale, and should be secured at once, at this office, 3 Park Street, Room 7. PAN-REPUBLIC CONGRESS AND HUMAN FREEDOM LEAGUE The Pan-Republican Congress, which it is proposed to hold in Chicago, during the the time of the Columbian Fair, received a fresh impetus from the meeting held under the roof of Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, on the 12th and 13th insts. The republics of South American and Switzerland were represented. Able and progressive men spoke well. Mrs. Teofila Kraemer spoke for Poland. Yung Wing, LL.D., for China, and still others for their special section or race. But the chief interest to our readers is in the fact that the "Address to the Peoples of the World" was made right for women. A committee of five was appointed to prepare the address. I was appointed as the one woman on the committee. By previous inquiry it had been ascertained that there was the largest good will, and "no doubt" that there would be full recognition of women in "the Human Freedom League," and this proved to be so. The closing words of the address to the peoples of the world, as presented by the committee and adopted without dissent by the convention, are as follows: "We urge you to hear and to accept our friendly call, to the end that society in the Old World and in the New may be lifted to a higher plane; that a more generous spirit may prevail; that political discriminations on account of race, sex, or creed may be abolished; that the barbarities and horrors of war may cease; that the fraternity of men may be recognized, and that the reign of intelligence and virtue may prevail." LUCY STONE. A NEW PLAN OF WORK. I desire to call your attention to the new plan of work inaugurated by the Charlestown Woman Suffrage League. It is thought that this plan, by giving every suffragist something to do, something which can be done without interfering with other work and other plans, may find a wide sphere of usefulness; and it is hoped that it may be presented at suffrage meetings, and that suffrage leagues and associations everywhere will adopt it. Col. H.H. Hadley, of New York, who is in charge of the St. Bartholomew Mission to drunkards, a mission largely supported by the Vanderbilts, is the originator of the plan. Three years ago he conceived the idea of asking as many as would, among the various audiences which he addressed from time to time outside of his mission work, to pledge themselves to select one person who was a drunkard, and for one year to do all in their power to reclaim the person chosen. The first time the invitation was given out, fifty-two persons responded. In the three years that followed, so popular has the idea been that 8,000 people have pledged themselves in this way. Last summer, the order of the King's Daughters, recognizing the value of this method in their work, organized a new chapter, called the "Win One" Chapter. Members of this chapter pledge themselves to select one unconverted person, and for one year to do all in their power to win that person to Christ. It will be readily seen how the idea applies to suffrage work. The pledge proposed by the Charlestown League is as follows: In the name of Justice to women, I agree to select one person who does not believe in woman suffrage, and for one year to do all in my power to win him or her to that belief. Every member of the Charlestown League present at the meeting at which this plan was proposed, signed this pledge, and all agreed in thinking it a useful and promising field of labor. The person to be won should be chosen immediately. When the year closes, if he or she has not become a convert to woman suffrage, do not choose that same person for the second year, but leave that one with the seed which has been sown, and choose another for the succeeding year. Ways of working will suggest themselves to all, and different people will wish to work in different ways. The Charlestown League suggests the following: 1. See that the person chosen is supplied with suffrage literature. 2. Induce him or her to attend suffrage meetings. 3. As opportunity offers, speak with him or her upon the subject, remembering, however, that to win is not to tease, worry or annoy. 4. Keep the matter before you daily, as a subject of earnest thought. 5. Pray daily for our success, and for the success of all others engaged in this work. There is no patent upon this plan. It is in line with many of the popular methods of the day. It is simple and definite. It gives each one something to do, and in its reflex action must result in making more ardent suffragists of the workers themselves. Will not suffragists everywhere set it in operation? WILLIAM L. HASKEL. Boston, Oct 6, 1891. THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. The great Ecumenical Council of the Methodist Church, which has been in session in Washington, D.C., the past week, had one field day for women. The question was on the power and place of the laity, and this brought up the place of women in the church. There were a host of able defenders who followed one another until it seemed that all were on one side. But Dr. Buckley was there, raised the enemy on the other side, and gave it courage. One clergyman, who opposed women as ministers, said that "if any man there thought more of women than he did, he should like him to show his face," whereupon "a large proportion of the delegates stood up amid applause." So, once more, the great Methodist Church is a debating society for the rights of women, with the world to listen, and with an army of defenders on our side. L.S. REV. CAROLINE J. BARTLETT, at the recent Unitarian Conference at Saratoga, conducted the prayer-meeting with much acceptance. Rev. S. J. Barrows, in his address, called attention to the fact that while the Harvard Divinity School welcomes men of all colors and nationalities, Miss Bartlett cannot be admitted to complete her studies there. Robert Collyer invited Miss Bartlett to preach for him on her way home from the Conference, and she accepted; but an urgent letter from her church at Kalamazoo, begging her to come back to them without further delay, (she has just returned from Europe) caused her to seek out Mr. Collier and ask to be excused. Mr. Collier said, "I like you all the better; and if you will come on from Kalamazoo any time this year and preach for me, I will bear all the expenses." THE WOMAN'S COLUMN. SUFFRAGE STRAWS. The New York Voice, in its issue of Oct. 1, published a notable symposium on the question of ballot reform. Six of the eleven articles contributed have more or less bearing on woman suffrage. Michael Davitt, writing from London on Household Suffrage, refers but briefly to woman suffrage, because, he says, "democrats are divided on the question, though probably a majority favor it." George Jacob Holyoake, of Brighton, Eng., writes of "Qualified Woman Suffrage," and says: "The qualification of women for franchise is very simple; it is womanhood. There can be no higher, and there ought be no other. He goes on to show how the franchise has been extended from time to time in England, and that "now there is a strong feeling in favor of conceding the suffrage to women." Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes advocating suffrage for men and women with an educational qualification. Newton Prentice writes from Newton, Kan., of the efforts that have been made to secure woman suffrage in that State, and gives some facts regarding municipal suffrage for women. In 1887 the vote of the women was 25,589; the vote of men 76,629. In 1888 the vote of women was 15,228; that of the men 49,090. Since then no figures have been compiled. In the meantime there has risen a new party in which women have taken a prominent part. He concludes: The activity of women in the country will be followed by an increase of interest in the towns, and the vote of women at the municipal elections will be largely increased. There is no party in Kansas arrayed against woman suffrage, except the Democratic party, which is in the minority and always will be. J.B. Hayford, editor of The Sentinel, Laramie City, Wyoming, an old resident, briefly reviews the working of woman suffrage there for twenty-two years, and sums up the matter as follows: The women of Wyoming prize as highly and as generally exercise the right to suffrage as the men do. Their numbers, and political power and influence, are steadily increasing, and they are now prominently taken into account by the politicians in conventions and in making up the tickets. Women are rather less bound by partisan ties than men, and are more influenced by moral and personal considerations. F.M.A. BALLOTS AND BAYONETS. One of the most frequent arguments against the enfranchisement of women is that women cannot help to enforce the law, and, therefore, should not help to make it. The objection is thus stated by Dr. Edward Everett Hale in the Cosmopolitan: A board of naval commissioners, who are in no case to be exposed to action, shall order the seamen of a fleet to dangerous service; and a governor or president, who is never herself in battle, is to direct the movements of men who are to lead and follow in forlorn hopes, and to win victories for the administration at the loss of their own lives. Or in a simpler illustration, presenting itself every day, the woman of Cranberry Centre shall vote for "no license," and, when a liquor shop is to be closed, against the sentiment of the men who drink there, these women, themselves sitting in the office of the town council, shall direct the policemen whose heads are to be broken in the inevitable shiny. It is inevitable wherever the people to be suppressed believe that the physical force is in their hands. Of course, the election of a woman as President of the United States would not probably be a very speedy result of giving suffrage to women. But suppose, for argument's sake, that a woman were chosen, and that she conducted herself exactly as Dr. Hale suggests. What would this imaginary woman president be doing, except what President Lincoln actually did? Did he ever got to the war? Is it customary for the President to take part in the hand-to-hand fighting? He is officially commander-in-chief; but the real direction of the fighting is committed to the generals. Thus Queen Victoria is the official head of the British army and navy, but she is not expected to go to war or to sea, nor will it be expected of her son when he comes to the throne. As for the police, they are not drafted men, but men who offer their services to perform certain duties, and who are paid out of tax money levied equally upon the property of men and women. It does not seem so very unreasonable that women as well as men should have a voice in choosing the town councillors who are to direct the police, since women as well as men will be affected by their efficient or inefficient discharge of their duties, and since women as well as men will have to pay the bills. It is purely imaginary bugbear, that theoretical dilemma of anarchy resulting from women's votes turning the scale in favor of a lady they could not help to enforce. In dozens of Kansas cities the votes of women, added to those of the better class of men, have defeated city governments that winked at violations of the liquor law, and put in city governments which have enforced the law. There has never been any attempt to overturn the city government by violence, not even in Elk Falls, where two years ago the election was decided in favor of the law and order party by one vote, that of a lady 85 years old, Mrs. Prudence Crandall Philleo. In like manner, in one or two Southern States, practical prohibition has prevailed for years over a considerable part of the State, because no liquor saloon can be licensed within some miles of a church or a schoolhouse unless a majority of the men and women in the district petition for it. In Arkansas, the saloon-keepers claimed that the law was unconstitutional. Their attorney, in his "brief" before the Supreme Court, pointed out that it was virtually letting women vote on the liquor question. He said: None but male persons of sound mind can vote; but their rights are destroyed, and the idiots, aliens and females step in and usurp their rights in popular government. Since females, idiots and aliens cannot vote, they should not be permitted to accomplish the same purpose by signing a petition; for (under this law) the signature of an adult to a petition is the substance of a ballot in taking the popular sense of the community. It merely changes the form, and is identical in effect. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court sustained the law, and in consequence practical "no license" prevails throughout a large part of the State. There has been much grumbling by the liquor men, but no armed uprising. Experience thus far has borne out Colonel Higginson's prediction that "when any community is civilized up to the point of enfranchising women, it will be civilized up to the point of sustaining their votes, as it now sustains their property rights, by the whole material force of the community." If this has been found true in communities not particularly law-abiding, and in the case of the liquor question, which is perhaps of all others the most irritating to the lawless classes, we need not have much fear of what will happen elsewhere. - ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, in Boston Traveller. MASSACHUSETTS SUFFRAGE MEETINGS. On Thursday afternoon and evening, Oct. 8, a woman suffrage meeting was held in Athol, at the Opera House. The attendance was not large, but among those present an earnest interest was manifested. A number of ladies gave their names as members of a woman suffrage league, and a club of subscribers was secured for the Women's Column. The speakers, Mrs. Lucy Stone, Henry B. Blackwell, Mrs. Adelaide A. Claflin, and Mrs. Anna C. Fall, were hospitably entertained before the afternoon meeting by Mrs. Doane an Mrs. Curtis, and Judge Field and his lady welcomed Mrs. Stone and Mr. Blackwell at their beautiful home. The editor of the Transcript, Mr. Hill, is a friend of municipal woman suffrage, and gave kind notice of the meeting. Rev. Mr. Perkins also expressed his sympathy with the movement. On Friday morning, Oct. 9, the four speakers above named left Athol by the early morning train. At Hoosac Tunnel they left the cars and secured a conveyance from Mr. Rice who, a few years ago, as representative in the Legislature, voted for woman suffrage. The day was beautiful and the ascent of the Hoosac mountain was glorious. A vast panorama of hills and mountains, and the Deerfield and Connecticut valleys lay behind. When the summit of 1,450 feet in altitude was reached, a magnificent westward prospect was unrolled. The speakers were hospitably welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Darby and by Miss Clara Barlow. The beautiful Baptist chapel was generously opened for the meeting, and the pastor, Rev. Francis H. Rowley, gave his cordial cooperation. Here, as at Athol, the want of sufficient notice limited the attendance. But suffragists from Blackinton and adjacent towns were present in the afternoon, and in the evening the chapel was fairly filled. Here too, names were enrolled for a Suffrage League; and a club of subscribers was made up for the Woman's Column. One gentleman and his daughter subscribed for eight copies, intending to make them do missionary work among their neighbors. H.B. BLACKWELL. THE WOMAN'S COLUMN FAIR NOTES. The Fair Committee for the Massachusetts W.S.A. are Mrs. Ellen B. Dietrick, Mrs. Abby E. Davis, Mrs. S.E.B. Currier, Miss Amanda M. Lougee, Mrs. Ellie A. Hilt, Mrs. M.A. Dean, Miss Catharine Wilde, Henry B. Blackwell, Wm. Lloyd Garrison and John L. Whiting. Mrs. Dietrick is at work in Boston for the Fair, and has already obtained the promise of a number of valuable contributions. Mrs. E.A. Hilt is devoting a fortnight to work among the outlying Leagues, and both she and Mrs. Dietrick report much encouragement. A lady in Champaign, Ill., sends a beautifully embroidered silk handkerchief as a gift to the Fair soon to be held for the benefit of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. She writes: "This handkerchief was given to me by a gentleman from Massachusetts, who is not a woman suffragis.t Under the circumstances, I take extraordinary pleasure in sending it to the Suffrage Fair, where I hope it may help on the cause of "Woman, Justice, and Truth." Milford will do something for the Fair, and will perhaps give an entertainment between now and then, to raise funds. Concord is determined to do better this year than ever before. In Salem, a number of friends have promised contributions and will take season tickets. Dr. Sherman has charge of the work for the Fair in Salem, and has herself made a liberal contribution of beautiful things left over from the Homeopathic Fair. The Salem table at the Fair cleared $500, and the historic city promises to make a good showing at the Suffrage Fair also. The Warren League is quite enthusiastic over the work for the Fair. The last meeting of the league was well attended. All present pledged themselves to do some work. Brookfield unites with them, so they will make quite a display. A variety of useful articles have already been pledged. Two or three persons will fill baskets with ferns and vines suitable for ferneries, and the gentlemen plan to help with Christmas wreaths, etc. League 73 of Foxboro' decides to send a sum of money. The Natick League, besides being busily at work for its table of children's articles, will furnish all the evergreens needed for the decorations at the Fair. The president of the League is the mother of two boys who are strong believers in equal rights for women, and who will gather the evergreens themselves. The Belmont League will not furnish a table, but will make a cash contribution of $50 to the State treasury instead. The Charlestown League thinks it may unite with some other League in a table. Any League that cannot furnish a whole talk this year, but can furnish half of one, might do well to communicate with Charlestown. The president of the Holliston League has sent out letters asking every member to make one article for the Fair herself, and to obtain one more from somebody else. "The Falls Heater" collects and distributes the hot air generated by the flame of an ordinary lamp to such a degree that a comfortable temperature is soon established without the aid of any other heating apparatus. It is an even, healthful heat, with no odor. It is sufficient to heat chambers, sitting-rooms, offices, bath rooms, and small workshops in cold weather. Many thousands are now in use. Its success has been established. For sale for the benefit of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Fair. Price, only $1.25. COLLEGE WOMEN. Miss Levina Halverson, M.D., graduate of the Iowa State Medical College, who has been successful practice for six years in Mitchell, S.D., will go next month to China as a medical missionary. Miss Rose D. Howe, graduate of Wellesley College, '86, is resident physician of the Northwestern Hospital for women and children at Minneapolis, Minnesota. Miss Mary Damon , of the same class, is to be the resident physician t the College Settlement in New York this year. Dr. Seraph Frissell, having completed her engagement at Mount Holyoke College, has resumed her practice in Springfield, Mass. Miss E.H. Lothrop, a graduate of Havard Annex, and for two years past a teacher in the Oxford, O., College for women, takes the instructorship in mathematics at Oberlin College left vacant by the death of Professor Stanley. Miss Cora Harrison, a graduate of the Harvard Annex, class of '91, is teaching in Mrs. Hemenway's school in Norfolk, Va. The Cornell School of Law has enrolled Mrs. Mary Kennedy Brown, a graduate of Wellesley and a young widow, as one of its students. F.M.A. People who can patiently bear all their small trials will never break down under their great ones. - The Christian Neighbor. Every human soul has the germs of some flowers within, and they would open if they could only find sunshine and pure air to expand in. I always told you that not having enough sunshine was what ailed the world. Make people happy, and there will not be half the quarrelling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. - Lydia Maria Child. The Rock Valley (Is.) Register publishes a weekly "Ladies' Column," which is strongly spiced with equal rights. A recent number says: Heathen Japan can give her missionary sister, orthodox America, some valuable hints upon conducting elections. At such times, contrasting the picture of poor, wicked, dark, benighted Japan with that of our country, the former appears quite civilized. Upon election day, in Japan, the voters don their best garments, and, without any talk or noise, proceed to the voting-place and deposit their ballots as soon after eight o'clock in the morning as they can. As soon as the ballot is cast, they make a low bow to the assemblage, and retire as silently as they came. There are no shrewd ward politicians to button-hold, argue and worry the voters; and Japan's voting counters could hardly be objectionable to women. And the writer suggests that if Japan could get some of America's religion, and America some of Japan's quiet courtesy, both counties might be gainers. Men do not disbelieve their Christ, but they sell Him. - Ruskin Gen. Booth's encouragement to back-sliders is: "Its a pity you fell, but it's no use lying there. Get up!" A single active woman can do a great deal for equal rights. Caroline Prince, of Shelbyville, Ill., has during the last few months, given thirty-three addresses on woman suffrage, in connection with her W.C.T.U. work. Fourteen of these were given in Shelby County alone. Probably most people would be surprised to learn that there is a spot in Africa where women have even limited suffrage, but under the Government of the Cape of Good Hope, which rules several hundred thousand square miles of territory, women have municipal suffrage. - Boston Daily Journal. The Woman's Journal. A WEEKLY PAPER, Founded 1870, devoted to Women's Interests, and especially to Woman Suffrage. EDITORS: LUCY STONE, HENRY B. BLACKWELL, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. "It is the very best paper for women." Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman. "The best woman's paper in the United States, or in the world." - Englishwoman's Review "The best source of information upon the woman question that I know." - Clara Barton. "It is so much the best of the woman suffrage papers that no comparison is possible." - Rev. Anna H. Shaw. "It is able, genial, and irreproachable - an armory or weapons to all who are battling for the rights of humanity." - Mary A. Livermore. "I never forget to recommend the WOMAN'S JOURNAL. I deem it the best journal published for our work in this line (the woman question)." - Mrs. Helen M. Gouger "The WOMAN'S JOURNAL has long been my outlook upon the great and widening world of woman's work, worth and victory. It has no peer in this noble office and ministry. Its style is pure and its spirit exalted." - Frances E. Willard. "It is the most reliable and extensive source of information regarding what women are doing, what they can do, and what they should do. It is the oldest of the women's papers now in existence, and has built up for itself a solid and unblemished reputation." - Julia Ward Howe. "If any one wishes to be informed on the woman question, the WOMAN'S JOURNAL is the very best means. It is pure, healthful and interesting - a paper that any one ought to be glad to introduce into his family for its literary merit alone, even if he did not believe in suffrage. I subscribe for it for my own grand-daughters. " - Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace. TWENTY DOLLAR PREMIUM. To any Suffrage Association, W.C.T.U., or individual, getting up a club of 25 new subscribers to the WOMAN'S JOURNAL at $1.50 each, the WOMAN'S JOURNAL will pay a cash premium of Twenty Dollars. Sample copies FREE. One year on trial to new subscribers, $1.50. Regular price per year, $2.50. To Libraries and Reading Rooms, $1.25. Address WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, Mass. WOMAN SUFFRGE TRACTS. A full set of Woman Suffrage Tracts, forty different kinds, post-paid for 10 cts. Address C. WILDE, WOMAN'S JOURNAL OFFICE Boston, Mass. C.H. Simonds & Co., Printers, 47 Franklin Street 4 THE WOMAN'S COLUMN The Philadelphia Woman's Health Protective Association has adopted a badge composed of a tiny silver broom pinned on two ends of scarlet and gray ribbon, the colors of the club. The Michigan Federation of Women's Clubs has just issued a carefully prepared directory of the women's clubs of the State. The next annual meeting of the Federation will be held in Saginaw, Nov. 9, 10 and 11. Little Clorinda Bedessa, of the Italian settlement, recently rescued a man from drowning, in the North End Park, Boston. She showed great coolness of mind, courage, and skill in swimming in making the rescue, and deserves some expression of commendation from the city authorities. An effort is being made to have one or two women on the Vermont State Board of Charities. The subject is to be brought before the State Federation of Women's Clubs. Surely Vermont, which always stands for what is good for the public, will not hesitate to appoint women for this most important and suitable work. The Evening News, of Waltham, Mass., recently published by request an anti- woman suffrage article and supplemented it by an editorial in which it pronounced the anti-suffrage movement "a mistake and a stumbling block in the march of ages." The News believes that woman suffrage "is a right as inherent as man suffrage." The woman's department is the coming Food Fair, to be held in this city during October, is being planned to contribute to the interests of housekeepers and homemakers. The science of nutrition: plain, elaborate and invalid cookery; garnishing and serving; marketing and buying supplies; cleaning and sanitation - will be treated by experts. Miss Beatrix Hoyt, of the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, has again won the women's golf championship of the United States, defeating Miss N.C. Sargent, of the Essex Country Club, five up and four to play. The match was witnessed by nearly eight hundred people, fully a thousand being at the clubhouse when the playing was ended. The Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Labor, in session recently in Boston, recommended that additional women inspectors be appointed by the Governor for the purpose of securing a better enforcement of the factory laws, and that these women be selected from those who have had actual experience in factories or workshops, and depend upon their own efforts for their support. The Woman's Journal of this week republishes the attractive story "How Peggy Held the Fort," from the N.Y. Independent. This story was in great request for public readings. It has a variety of interesting news about women, State Correspondence, Lady Somerset's Position, The Riflewoman, Home Hints and Helps, a paper on Expediency by Warren A. Rodman, Through the Subway, Beginning of an Anarchist, much educational matter, etc., and offers a remarkable opportunity to subscribers. DISENFRANCHISED WOMAN VS. DEMOCRACY. "The Growth of Caste in the United States" is the title of an article by Joseph Edgar Chamberlain in The Nineteenth Century, republished in Littell's Living Age. It calls attention to a survival, or rather to a revival, of the aristocratic idea in American society. This clear-eyed observer is struck by the contrast between our political ideal of equality and our social ideal of family exclusiveness. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who did not belong to what called itself "the best society" of Boston, said, in 1860, that class distinctions were more sharply drawn in America than in England. When Thackeray visited Boston a generation ago, he was the guest of an important gentleman of Beacon Street. Desiring to hear Theodore Parker, then in the zenith of his popularity, he expressed a wish to do so. The Beacon Street gentleman, greatly surprised at such a proposal to disregard the proprieties, made excuse, and took his guest to King's Chapel, where people of the highest social standing could always be found, remarking: "I beg of you to remember that Mr. Parker does not belong to our best society." This was more than the Englishman could stand, and he replied loud enough to be heard: "Upon my word I wish I hadn't got into good society when I came to Boston." This incident shows that social exclusiveness exists to-day as a "survival." Unfortunately it is growing everywhere. The line is sharply drawn to exclude people, even in some cases when the family left outside has better blood and breeding and more wealth than those inside. Mr. Chamberlain says: American social classes or castes are mainly in a state of formation, but the grade commonly recognized as the highest social set is probably nearer crystallization than any other. It has long possessed of certain aids towards the establishment of a peculiarly exclusive and self-renewing circle not possessed by the fashionable society of England, which is at once aristocratic, national, and distinguished. The British aristocracy is often reinforced by government appointment; the personal arrangements are in a sense overseen and sometimes upset by influence and authority above and beyond it, and it is compelled to recognize the public distinction which is always coming to new people. But in the United States there is nothing national about the upper grade of society. This social exclusiveness is beginning to manifest itself not only in New York and Boston, in Newport and Bar Harbor, but also in manufacturing towns like Fall River, and in rural communities like those of Vermont. Everywhere it is strongest among women. The social motive openly dominates the life of the people. Social rivalries, ambitions, and appearances absorb a great part of their energies and their time, and particularly the time and energies of the women. It has seemed to me everywhere that the women were engaged, all unconsciously, in an attempt to avenge their exclusion from the suffrage, in a republic where the suffrage is commonly spoken of as "universal," by neutralizing or nullifying, through their powerful influence in the family, the supposed equality of American institutions. If women could turn to a mockery the democratic or equal institutions in which they have no direct part, and at the same time greatly increase the influence and advantage, in the struggle for existence, of certain social elements in which they as individuals are powerful, at the expense of the mass, they might be held to have accomplished a very neat piece of retribution in political affairs, as well as to have proved the unwisdom of that exclusion. I hardly suppose that any woman, in her social struggles, was every animated by such a motive; but the effect is very much as if all women were. If to aggrandize the family is to take away something from democratic equality, then American women must be, whether they intend or know it or not, the enemies of the democratic idea; for they are mostly engaged in an attempt to push their particular families along into a position of greater relative importance in the community. This growth of social aristocracy seems to Mr. Chamberlain a serious menace to the perpetuity of democratic institutions. He says: Social details of the sort mentioned may not appear very important in themselves. They would be of importance however, if, taken with other facts, they pointed to an eventful triumph of a social arrangement founded on caste over a democratic impulse which had a highly favorable opportunity for its development. In America we concern ourselves much more with the "dangerous elements" with anarchistic sentiments supposed to have been imported into our large cities from Europe. We hear much about the division of society into two great camps of rich and poor, a division supposed to rest on legislation, which favors the rich, but we hear little about the perfectly voluntary growth of caste feeling. Yet I count this last as really a more important matter, because more inveterate in human thought, and much further beyond the reach of legislation. It is a thing which general prosperity does not check, but rather stimulates, by bringing a greater number of persons within the range of social ambitions. The accumulation of even a small amount of wealth in a family kindle to white heat the desire for progression towards the charmed "upper circle." And the very people whom we hear vaguely lamenting the social stratification as contrary to the principles of the Fourth of July ovations, are every day doing their utmost to assist it. This spirit of social exclusiveness and contempt for political rights and duties and responsibilities, which especially characterizes the remonstrants against woman suffrage, taken in connection with the growing disparity of wealth, will prove fatal to the republic unless women are brought into the government of State and nation. Only by republican families can a Republican State be perpetuated. It is a choice between an advance to impartial suffrage irrespective of sex, or a retrogression into class legislation and military despotism. HENRY B. BLACKWELL TEN STORIES FOR TEN CENTS. Every one enjoys a good short story. Ten sample copies of the Woman's Journal, each containing a good short story and a large variety of other interesting reading, will be sent to any address for ten cents in stamps. Address Woman's Journal, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. The Woman's Column. VOL. X. NEW YORK AND BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897 NO. 36. The Woman's Column. Published Weekly at 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. EDITOR: ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. Subscription 50 cents per annum Advertising Rates 25 cents per line. Entered as second class matter at the Boston, Mass. Post Office, Jan. 18, 1888. A SONG OF THE ROAD. BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauge played the flute: And what should Master Gauger play But Over the hills and far away? Whenever I buckle on my pack And foot it mainly in the track, O pleasant gauger, long since dead, I hear you flouting on ahead. You go with me the selfsame way - The selfsame air for me you play; For I do think and so do you, It is the tune to travel to. For who would gravely set his face To go to this or t'other place? There's nothing under Heaven so blue That's fairly worth the travelling to. On every hand the roads begin, And people walk with zeal therin; But wheresoe'er the highways tend, Be sure there's nothing at the end. Then follow you, wherever hie The travelling mountains of the sky. Or let the streams in civil mode Direct your choice upon a road; For one and all, or high or low, Will lead you where you wish to go; And one and all go night and day Over the hills and far away! NOT EQUAL CITIZENS. The Annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Buffalo, N.Y., Aug. 24, was a great affair. The presence of President McKinley, Commander-in-Chief Clarkson, General Howard, Gen. Lew Wallace, and other eminent men, and the unusual recognition, deference and respect shown by them to women, especially to their comrades of the Women's Relief Corps, were specially noteworthy. Yet, although most of these gentlemen are pronounced woman suffragists, they all fell short of the frank avowal which would have done so much to promote and popularize the ballot for women. President McKinley was present at the banquet, and responded eloquently to the toast, "The Nation and its Defenders." But he forgot to say anything about the women who comprise one-half of the nation. From the banquet he went to a "camp fire," at which he said: As a result of that great civil struggle, we have the greatest government because we have the freest government, and we have the finest government because we have an equal government, governed equally by equal citizens everywhere. And it is the business of living, it is the business of the men and women in every part of our common country to cultivate the highest and the best citizenship, for upon the highest and the best citizenship rests the highest and the best destiny for our government. "An equal government, governed equally by equal citizens everywhere," that is what we want. To-day one-half of all our citizens are disfranchised; governed despotically without representation and without consent! Mark Twain said: "It is better not to know so much than to know so much that is not so." We commend that sentiment to President McKinley. Yet we thank him none the less for his pointed affirmation that "it is the business of women," equally with men, "to cultivate the highest and best citizenship," with all the political activity that is therein implied. Commander-in-Chief Clarkson, in his opening address, paid a heart-felt tribute to woman. He said: Who can measure the length or the breadth or height or the depth of woman's love and devotion, or who can measure the value of the service rendered to us by our great auxiliaries, the Women's Relief Corps? Many a comrade and Post would have lost their membership but for the open hand of this organization. In season and out of season they minister to our wants, make our meetings enjoyable, sustain us in our work. They have started and maintained homes for the needy comrades, their wives or widows; they are constant and persistent supporters of patriotic teaching. We shall need their kindly services more and more as age and infirmity creep upon us. Every Post of the order should have its Woman's Relief Corps auxiliary. Speaking of the women's splendid inculcation of the sentiment of patriotism, Commander Clarkson said: There is a deep meaning in Memorial Day. It means not only a tribute and an honor to the dead, but a strong and lasting lesson in patriotism to the living. The assembling of the children upon these occasions, and their participation in the solemn exercises of the day, make impressions upon their young minds that time cannot effect. As a result of such participation, and of the lessons of patriotism taught in public schools, which the Woman's Relief Corps have so greatly encouraged, and of the part they take in demonstrations at our department encampments, our children growing up strengthened and imbued with love of country and the flag, with reverence for the veteran who imperiled his life for them. As they grow up they will be to our nation a great rock of defense, against which the waves of trouble may beat without avail. Gen. Lew Wallace, of Crawfordsville, Ind., author of "Ben Hur," and step-son of Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace, said: I am sure that no great reform will ever again be brought about in our country without the aid of the women. ROSA BONHEUR has been made an honorary associate of the Academy of St. Luke at Rome. MISS STELLA STRAIT, of Fort Scott, Kansas, has been nominated for County Register of Deeds by the Bourbon County Republican Convention. The office is one of the best paid in the county. MISS ELIZABETH P. WORMELEY has spent fifteen years in translating Balzac's "Comedie Humaine," and the publication of "The Deputy of Arcis," being the fortieth volume, completes her task. MISS LOTTA ELLIOTT, of Danforth, Me., was the driver of the winning horse at the recent horse race in Pittsfield, in which all the drivers were women. The women wore divided skirts, and acquitted themselves most creditably. MISS HULDA R. GRASSER, customs and tin-plate broker, is conducting a good business at Cincinnati, O. Her father who was a Swiss by birth, was one of the first brokers in Cincinnati. After his death the elder Miss Grasser conducted the business, but upon her marriage, Miss Hilda assumed it. She now represents some of the largest brokerage concerns of the Eastern cities. MISS JENNIE E. JONES, of Somerville, Mass., is title clerk of the assessor's office. For nine months of the year she works at the registry of deeds, East Cambridge, reading every title that is entered, and taking a copy of the gist of all pertaining to Somerville property, of which there are from 1,500 to 1,800 transfers every year. Miss Jones is considered a very efficient and accurate title clerk. MRS. ANGIE F. NEWMAN, Lincoln, Neb., who has been making an extended trip in Europe, Egypt, Asia Minor and the Holy Land, has returned home safely. She was a delegate to the International Purity Congress at Berne, form the National W.C.T.U., but severe illness prevented her presence at either. She has, nevertheless, gained much knowledge of women's work in Europe. MRS. CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON, of Pasadena, Cal., addressed a large audience Thursday afternoon at Greenacre, Me., upon "The Social Organism," dealing with the practical side of the science of sociology. Mrs. Stetson is well-known both here and in England by her volume of poems yclept "In This, Our World," wherein the bias of her mind toward viewing life in the active and not as a dreamer is well portrayed; but as a lecturer, also, she has appeared before many audiences in behalf of progress in its largest sense, unfettered by traditionalism, and by her frank and sincere directness has everywhere left a marked impression of confidence and conviction. 2 THE WOMAN'S COLUMN. A RETREAT. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER A place I know, the haunt of dreams, A quiet space, deep hidden away, Where softened fall the noonday gleams, Where one might go alone to pray. There little winds are whispering round; One sometimes hears the hermit-thrush; The passing foot awakes no sound In that sweet sanctuary's hush. I, who to-day must toil and spin, Near the great city's throbbing heart, Unto that white peace enter it, Of that pure silence am a part. - Harper's Magazine. GIRLS AT BASEBALL. It was an odd expression which the "settlement" idea found for itself one afternoon, at Osterville, Mass. Says the Boston Transcript: During the recent holiday time of some South End girls, a picked nine from the Lincoln House Club played against the accomplished and athletic young ladies form that beautiful Cape Cod resort, Wianno Beach. These Wianno girls go in for all sorts of sport, and they have made an enviable reputation at baseball. Miss Putnam is their captain, and under her coaching they make many a home run. Of course there was great excitement among the girls at the College Settlement House when it was learned that the Wiannos would play with them. "We mustn't let them 'whitewash' the Lincolns," they exclaimed. As the carriages form Wianno rolled up to the ball field on the afternoon of this exciting contest, little suppressed cries of delight came from behind the closed shutters of the cabin. "All the 'swells' form the beach have come over," burst from one excited girl, who was wriggling into her best clothes to do honor to the occasion. After the Wiannos and the Lincolns had begun the struggle on the diamond, there was no misunderstanding the sympathies of the various spectators. The Wiannos have beaten the young women nines in the other Cape resorts, and their friends were jealous of their reputation. To be sure, there was no need of anxiety, for they have been playing much this summer and were perfectly acquainted with the by no means inconsiderable powers of the players. Wianno hit the ball every time, and the Wianno pitcher was mistress of some almost impossible curves; yet on runs the Lincoln girls did admirable work, and so, in spite of lack of proper training, the score came out 18 to 10 - in favor, of course, of the better-trained team. Quick as a flash, however, when the game was over, the successful players rallied round their sunburned captain and gave nine hearty 'rahs for the Lincolns. The Lincolns returned the compliment and gave their club call. Then the Wianno players drove off, and the Lincolns returned to their cabin, talking excitedly and enthusiastically about the "lovely young ladies" who could make such fine home runs. CHINESE WOMEN SLAVES. In San Francisco, the effort to emancipate the Chinese women slaves continues. The petition to President McKinley to ask Congress to appoint a committee of investigation is meeting with great success. Not a single person to whom it has been presented has failed to affix his signature. Meanwhile placards threatening with death any one who attempts to rescue these unfortunates, are posted up in Chinatown. Here is a bill of sale upon which one of those women slaves, Tsau Fa, is claimed by her owner, Quong Sin. It purports to be made by her mother, Wang Shi, the consideration being $88: I write clearly to you that I give this girl to you because I am very poor. This girl I have borne myself. She is my own child. Her name is Tsau Fa. She is seven years old this year. She was born at 1 or 2 o'clock on the 4th day of July. I myself asked my relatives, but none were willing to care for her. Afterward one go-be-tween named Chung Shi took me to a woman named Wong Shi. Wong Shi saw my girl and promised to give me $88. Wong Shi gave the $88 to Chung Shi, and Chung Shi took it away. Wong Shi took her to her house to use. We three people talked the matter over very clearly; not because I owed her any money, nor did she steal the girl. The go-between did not compel me to do it; but I was willing. If there is any trouble afterward it is clearly understood by the go-between and the woman, this girl must follow this woman, who has bought her, and she is to take care of her until she is larger. The mother cannot ask any questions about her, and the woman is not answerable to the child or what happens to her, whether she lives or dies or where sh puts her. This paper is gotten up by the mother herself. Quong Sui, twelfth year. WANG SHI. The above paper is marked with an imprint of the thumb as a seal. It is written on red paper in deep, black ink, and bears the date of Quong Sui, twelfth year, which makes it about eleven years old. The document is one of four which were taken with the girl when she was rescued. The girl had been sold four times, and in each instance the bills of previous sales went with her. When she was rescued the owner exhibited these bills in order to prove that she belonged to him and they were snatched from his hand, and kept with the girl. The thumb mark was imprinted adjoining the signature, and indicated that the document was done in legal form. The other three bills of sale were of similar character, a nd a peculiarity in one of them is that the seller claims to be the mother of the girl also. These documents, together with many others, will be laid before the committee which comes form Washington, should the President take action upon the petition, which he undoubtedly will. A HOUSEKEEPING SCHOOL. The Boston Woman's Industrial and Educational Union, during the past year, has come in touch with an unusually large number of employers and employees, and never have the difficulties and complications of the "domestic problem" been more apparent. On the one hand, the unorganized, unrelated effort of the employer to secure domestic ease and comfort - and sometimes at the expense of ethics and economics; and, on the other hand, a tendency on the part of the employees, owing to the excessive demand, to control wages without regard to efficiency. As a first step in the right direction, in a matter which is of real moment to every woman both wage-earner and wage-giver the union asks the cooperation of employers toward promoting better relations between employers and employees. To this end the Domestic Reform League has been organized. Its objects are the scientific and careful consideration of present conditions; the awakening of the interest of women in the largest aspect of the problem; the recognition by the employer that fair conditions should be given for faithful service, and by the employee that interested and efficient service must be given in exchange for fair wages and just conditions; and the further recognition by both employer and employee that efficiency should be the standard of wages. Any woman who is in sympathy with its objects. As a second step the Union will open a "housekeeping school" on the first of November. Two houses have been leased, and are being arranged and equipped for this experiment in model home-making. The successful carrying out of the plans of the Union in regard to this school must depend largely upon the cooperation of women who recognize its need. Several thousand circulars have been sent out and subscriptions are received by Mrs. Harrington, the treasurer, by mail. VASSAR GRADUATES. It is reported in a New York newspaper that there is an "agitation" among graduate students of Vassar, on learning that a member of the class of '97 is of negro parentage. It is possible that young women of liberal culture and Christian training might be surprised at learning that one of their classmates had Italian, or Choctaw, or Spanish blood, when they supposed her to be like themselves - of New York, or Indiana, or Maine lineage. But a Vassar graduate will have a sufficiently broad outlook upon the rights of any girl to get an education, to make as her comment upon such a revelation, "Well, what of it?" THE ACCIDENT BOX When packing the satchel for a journey with children, a little "accident box" should not be forgotten. It is well to put into this a soft piece of old linen, castile soap, and sponge, a box of carbolic salve or cosmoline, a small bottle of arnica or witch hazel, scissors, and needle ready threaded. A child may fall and bruise face or hands while on the car or boat, and then there is ordinarily a confusion and worry, the little sufferer waiting while the nervous mother or nurse hunts among the fellow passengers for remedies. And on the first arrival in hte country, the eager children commonly rush out and get themselves into some difficulty for which this "accident box" will provide relief. A small vial of oil of peppermint may be added if there is any likelihood of toothache, and a bottle of blackberry cordial is a safe remedy in case of an attack of any phase of what mothers usually term "summer complaint." THE WOMAN'S COLUMN 3 N.Y. WOMEN'S WORK FOR PUBLIC HEALTH. Another noteworthy achievement of the New York Women's Association, was the investigation in 1886, of a district between East Eighty-ninth and East Ninety-third streets, called "Little Italy," where one lady reported eight families living in a single room, with their eight beds - such as they were - ranged against the walls. Three hundred cows, ill-fed and filthy, were confined in the vicinity, to provide "pure country milk" for the city. In two years this whole neighborhood was renovated. Some time ago the Association undertook the work of exposing the shocking condition of stable refuse in the city. The facts which Mrs. Fender, as chairman of the committee concerned, brought to light, seem almost too revolting to be possible in a land which holds that "cleanliness is next to godliness." The women met such fierce opposition from the stablemen that their bill was not admitted to the Legislature; but an ordinance secured from the Board of Health makes one step in advance. A story told by Mayor Strong at the Convention of the Ladies' Health Protective Association held last spring, amusingly illustrates some results of their efforts. The Mayor saw a man standing at the door of a livery stable, complaining of the dirty condition of the place. "If you don't have this cleaned right away," said the man, "I'll report you to the Ladies' Health Protective Association." "Oh, for God's sake, don't!" exclaimed the stable keeper. "Come again next week, and see if it isn't clean." - Edith Parker Thomson, in September Forum. GREEN CORN. Variety in serving green corn is often relished. For corn oysters, mix one pint of grated corn, the yolk of three eggs, a little cayenne pepper, three even table- spoonfuls of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, then add the well-beaten whites of the eggs. Put a tablespoonful of lard and one of butter in the frying pan, and when hot drop by spoonfuls the mixture into it. When brown on one side turn and brown on the other. A corn griddle cake may be made of corn too old to be enjoyed boiled on the cob. For two cups of grated corn allow two-thirds of a cup of flour blended very smoothly in a little sweet milk, one beaten egg, a piece of butter as large as a butternut, salt and pepper Bake in the oven or on the griddle over the fire. A WOMAN BOOTBLACK Miss Lu Verne Hall, one of the cleverest young girl's in the class of '97 of the East Denver (Col.) High School, and historian of her class, who is employed a part of her time in the reportorial department of the Times, has opened a bootblacking establishment on Sixteenth Street, in order to raise enough money to enter Vassar College. How she came to start in this business is thus told by the young woman: I was thinking hard how I could get enough money to go to Vassar. I looked down slowly at the foot that was keeping time to my thoughts. My shoe needed cleaning, and like a flash I saw a way to raise money. There is no place in the city where a lady may have her shoes polished except she sit up on a box in an alley as the men do. I never said a word to any one, but set to work. I had a circular printed and mailed it to every club and society woman I could think of. Then I took $70 of what I had saved from my newspaper work and bought all the equipments for my stand. Then I asked the salutatorian of our class if she would help me. She consented, and now she is cashier. Then I spoke to some boys, and they were all delighted to come and help me. I fixed up my room prettily, and there are fresh flowers on the table and papers and magazines. Now that I am started I have no expense, as even the store room is given to me free, and I hope to make $300 by September. I have risked my $70, to be sure, but I think I shall get it all back and more. I shall be the happiest girl in the world if I can go to Vassar this fall, and every minute I am not working in the office I spend soliciting trade and waiting on customers. Of course I shine shoes myself. NEW CENTURY CLUB. The New Century Club of Wilmington, Del., the first namesake of the great and famous New Century Guild of Philadelphia, has now three fine daughters of its own, one in Chester, one in West Chester, and the third, a young club in Kennett square. The New Century Club was organized nine years ago, and to-day its membership reaches nearly 500. It is especially fortunate in having a fine clubhouse, built after a beautiful old colonial design. Its standing committees are those on education, philanthropy, club classes, and club lectures. This first committee is working for compulsory education in Delaware, and for the establishment of a State normal school. The philanthropic department of the club is actively engaged in management of the Delaware Industrial School for Girls, and is also investigating the condition of wage-earning women. A FARMERS' PICNIC IN IOWA It was a perfect day in August when I drove nine miles through the richest farming land to attend this annual festival of farmers, in the commonwealth which, perhaps, above all others exercises its sovereignty through the tillers of the soil. It was a vast assembly that met in the beautiful grove to celebrate a bountiful harvest. I was not a little interested in studying this concourse of citizen rulers, their wives and children. They certainly did not compare unfavorably with the farmers of the East, or the ranchmen of the far West; but I had been long enough in the State which owes its prosperity to corn and hogs to observe that some of the wives of these farmers had added to the inevitable hardship and drudgery of their position the feeding of the numerous swine, the milking of cows, the planting and tending of the garden, to say nothing of the occasional calls to act as field-hand when an extra man was lacking. Consequently I attended this festival with the burden of a remonstrance on my mind. Imagine my delight when the orator of the day, a neighboring editor, pictured with power and pathos the unconscious selfishness of the farmer in accepting, let us say, this unfair division of labor in a life partnership, while he continues to talk of my farm, my stock, my grain, etc. Clapping my hands, a number joined in the applause; but while the women in my vicinity admitted the justice of the arraignment, it was evident that most of the farmers wives were too jealous of their husbands' reputation to make any public demonstration. Let us hope this speaker found virtue a sufficient reward for his noble gallantry. With all the concessions that have been made, nowhere have married women their just rights in property. Said an Iowa farmer to me: "My wife and I have been true yoke fellow, pulling evenly all the way." "Then," said I, "half the handsome property you have accumulated belongs to her." Of course the logical inference was not conceded. "She has her right of dower, and our laws are just," was the rejoinder. Not until the wife, like other partners, has equal voice in the disposition of jointly acquired property has she her rights. She cannot even use her earnings to educate her children. It is conceded that the farmer's wife, at least, has earned half of the joint accumulations. In return she has such food, clothing, and shelter as her partner sees fit to give her, and, if she die before she does, she has the use of one-third of the real estate, of which her husband dies possessed, in lieu of the independent ownership of one-half of all the property to which she is entitled. And yet the majority of men and women are actually deluded enough to believe that this "right of dower" makes the wife a privileged being. "Women is so shaller!" - Jane M. Slocumin Woman's Journal. The Woman's Journal. Founded by Lucy Stone. A Weekly Newspaper, published every Saturday in Boston, devoted to the interests of woman - to her educational, industrial, legal and political equality, and especially to her right of suffrage. EDITORS: HENRY B. BLACKWELL ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. ASSISTANT EDITORS: FLORENCE M. ADKINSON CATHERINE WILDE. Sample copies FREE. One year on trial to new subscribers, $1.50. Regular price per year, $2.50. To Libraries and Reading Rooms, $1.25. Address WOMAN'S JOURNAL, Boston, Mass. "The best woman's paper in the United State, or in the world." - Englishwoman's Review. "THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL has long been my outlook upon the great and widening world of woman's work, worth and victory. I has no peer in this noble office and ministry. Its style is pure and its spirit exalted. " - Frances E. Willard BOARD FOR TWO. A large sunny room, with hot and cold water, big closet, excellent home table and comforts in a private family. Apply 65 Sawyer Ave., Dorchester, Mass. 4 THE WOMAN'S COLUMN The Philadelphia Woman's Health Protective Association has adopted a badge composed of a tiny silver broom pinned on two ends of scarlet and gray ribbon, the colors of the club. The Michigan Federation of Women's Clubs has just issued a carefully prepared directory of women's clubs of the State. The next annual meeting of the Federation will be held in Saginaw, Nov. 9, 10 and 11. Little Corinda Bedessa, of the Italian settlement, recently rescued a man from drowning, in the North End Park, Boston. She showed great coolness of mind, courage, and skill in swimming in making the rescue, and deserves some expression of commendation from the city authorities. An effort is being made to have one or two women on the Vermont State Board of Charities. The subject is to be brought before the State Federation of Women's Clubs. Surely Vermont, which always stands for what is good for the public, will not hesitate to appoint women for this most important and suitable work. The Evening News, of Waltham, Mass., recently published by request an antiwoman suffrage article and supplemented it by an editorial in which it pronounced the anti-suffrage movement as "a mistake and a stumbling block in the March of ages." The News believes that woman suffrage "is a right as inherent as man suffrage." The woman's department in the coming Food Fair, to be held in this city during October, is being planned to contribute to the interests of housekeepers and home-makers. The science of nutrition: plain, elaborate and invalid cookery; garnishing and serving; marketing and buying supplies; cleaning and sanitation - will be treated by experts. Miss Beatrix Hoyt, of the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, has again won the women's golf championship of the United State, defeating Miss N.C. Sargent, of the Essex Country Club, five up and four to play. The match was witnessed by nearly eight hundred people, fully a thousand being at the clubhouse when the playing was ended. The Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Labor, in session recently in Boston, recommended that additional women inspectors be appointed by the Governor for the purpose of securing a better enforcement of the factory laws, and that these women be selected from those who have had actual experience in factories or workshops, and depend upon their own efforts for their support. The Woman's Journal of this week republishes the attractive story "How Peggy Held the Fort," from the N.Y. Independent. This story was in great request for public readings. It has a variety of interesting news about women, State Correspondence, Lady Somerset's Position, The Riflewoman, Home Hints and Helps, a paper on Expediency by Warren A. Rodman, Through the Subway, Beginning of an Anarchist, much educational matter, etc., and offers a remarkable opportunity to subscribers. DISFRANCHISED WOMAN VS. DEMOCRACY. "The Growth of Caste in the United States" is the title of an article by Joseph Edgar Chamberlain in The Nineteenth Century, republished in Littell's Living Age. It calls attention to a survival, or rather to a revival, of the aristocratic idea in American society. This clear-eyed observer is struck by the contrast between our political ideal of equality and our social ideal of family inclusiveness. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who did not belong to what called itself "the best society" of Boston, said, in 1860, that class distinctions were more sharply drawn in America than in England. When Thackeray visited Boston a generation ago, he was the guest of an important gentleman of Beacon Street. Desiring to hear Theodore Parker, then in the zenith of his popularity, he expressed a wish to do so. The Beacon Street gentleman, greatly surprised at such a proposal to disregard the proprieties, made excuse, and took his guest to King's Chapel, where people of the highest social standing could always be found, remarking: "I beg of you to remember that Mr. Parker does not belong to our best society." This was more than the Englishman could stand, and he replied loud enough to be heard: "Upon my word I wish I hadn't got into good society when I came to Boston." This incident shows that social exclusiveness exists to-day as a "survival." Unfortunately it is growing everywhere. The line is sharply drawn to exclude people, even in some cases when the family left outside has better blood and breeding and more wealth than those inside. Mr. Chamberlain says: American social classes or castes are mainly in a state of formation, but the grade commonly recognized as the highest social set is probably nearer crystallization than any other. It has long possessed certain aids towards the establishment of a peculiarly exclusive and self-renewing circle not possessed by the fashionable society of England, which is at once aristocratic, national, and distinguished. The British aristocracy is often reinforced by government appointment; the personal arrangements are in a sense overseen and sometimes upset by influence and authority above and beyond it, and it is compelled to recognize the public distinction which is always coming to new people. But in the United States there is nothing national about the upper grade of society. This social exclusiveness is beginning to manifest itself not only in New York and Boston, in Newport and Bar Harbor, but also in manufacturing towns like Fall River, and in rural communities like those of Vermont. Everywhere it is strongest among women. The social motive openly dominates the life of the people. Social rivalries, ambitions, and appearances absorb a great part of their energies and their time, and particularly the time and energies of the women. It has seemed to me everywhere that the women were engaged, all unconsciously, in an attempt to avenge their exclusion from the suffrage, in a republic where the suffrage is commonly spoken of as "universal," by neutralizing or nullifying, through their powerful influence in the family, the supposed equality of American institutions. If women could turn to a mockery the democratic or equal institutions in which they have no direct part, and at the same time greatly increase the influence and advantage, in the struggle for existence, of certain social elements in which they as individuals are powerful, at the expense of the mass, they might be held to have accomplished a very neat price of retribution for their exclusion from participation in political affairs, as well as to have proved the unwisdom of that exclusion. I hardly suppose that any woman, in her social struggles, was ever animated by such a motive; but the effect is very much as if all women were. If to aggrandize the family is to take away something from democratic equality, then American women must be, whether they intend or know it or not, the enemies of the democratic idea; for they are mostly engaged in an attempt to push their particular families along into a position of greater relative importance in the community. This growth of social aristocracy seems to Mr. Chamberlain a serious menace to the perpetuity of democratic institutions. He says: Social details of the sort mentioned may not appear very important in themselves. They would be of importance however, if, taken with other facts, they pointed to an eventful triumph of a social arrangement founded on caste over a democratic impulse which had a highly favorable opportunity for its development. In America we concern ourselves much more with the "dangerous elements" with anarchistic sentiments supposed to have been imported into our large cities from Europe. We hear much about the division of society into two great camps of rich and poor, a division supposed to rest on legislation which favors the rich, but we hear little about the perfectly voluntary growth of caste feeling. Yet I count this last as really a more important matter, because more inveterate in human thought, and much further beyond the reach of legislation. It is a thing which general prosperity does not check, but rather stimulates, by bringing a greater number of persons within the range of social ambitions. The accumulation of even a small amount of wealth in a family kindle a white heat the desire for progression towards the charmed "upper circle." And the very people whom we hear vaguely lamenting the social stratification as contrary to the principles of the Fourth of July ovations, are every day doing their utmost to assist it. This spirit of social exclusiveness and contempt for political rights and duties and responsibilities, which especially characterizes the remonstrants against woman suffrage, taken in connection with the growing disparity of wealth, will prove fatal to the republic unless women are brought into the government of State and nation. Only by republican families can a Republican State be perpetuated. It is a choice between the advance to impartial suffrage irrespective of sex, or a retrogressions into class legislation and military despotism. HENRY B. BLACKWELL TEN STORIES FOR TEN CENTS. Every one enjoys a good short story. Ten sample copies of Woman's Journal, each containing a good short story and a large variety of other interesting reading, will be sent to any address for ten cents in stamps. Address Woman's Journal, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. The Woman's Column VOL. X. NEW YORK AND BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897. NO. 36 The Woman's Column. Published Weekly at 3 Park Street, Boston, mass. EDITOR: ALICE STONE BLACKWELL Subscription 50 cents per annum Advertising Rates 25 cents per line. Entered as second class matter at the Boston, Mass. Post Office, Jan. 18, 1888. A SONG OF THE ROAD. BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauge played the flute: And what should Master Gauger play But Over the hills and far away? Whenever I buckle on my pack And foot it gaily in the track, O pleasant gauger, long since dead, I hear you fluting on ahead. You go with me the selfsame way - The selfsame air for me you play; For I do think and so do you, It is the tune to travel to. For who would gravely set his face To go to this or t'other place? There's nothing under Heaven so blue That's fairly worth the traveling to. On every hand the roads begin, And people walk with zeal therein; But wheresoe'er the highways tend, Be sure there's nothing at the end. Then follow you, wherever hie The travelling mountains of the sky. Or let the streams in civil mode Direct your choice upon a road; For one and all, or high or low, Will lead you where you wish to go; And on and all go night and day Over the hills and far away! NOT EQUAL CITIZENS. The Annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Buffalo, N.Y., Aug. 24, was a great affair. The presence of President McKinley, Commander-in-Chief Clarkson, General Howard, Gen. Lew Wallace, and other eminent men, and the unusual recognition, deference and respect shown by them to women, especially to their comrades of the Women's Relief Corps, were specially noteworth. Yet, although most of these gentlemen are pronounced woman suffragists, they all fell short of the frank avowal which would have done so much to promote and popularize the ballot for women. President McKinley was present at the banquet, and responded eloquently to the toast, "The Nation and its Defenders." But he forgot to say anything about the women who comprise one-half of the nation. From the banquet he went to a "camp fire," at which he said: As a result of that great civil struggle, we have the greatest government because we have the freest government, and we have the finest government because we have an equal government, governed equally by equal citizens everywhere. And it is the business of the living, it is the business of the citizen, it is the business of the men and women in every part of our common country to cultivate the highest and the best citizenship, for upon the highest and the best citizenship rests the highest and the best destiny for our government. "An equal government, governed equally by equal citizens everywhere," that is what we want. To-day one-half of all our citizens are disfranchised; governed despotically without representation and without consent! Mark Twain said: "It is better not to know so much than to know so much that is not so." We commend that sentiment to President McKinley. Yet we thank him none the less for his pointed affirmation that "it is the business of women," equally with men, "to cultivate the highest and best citizenship," with all the political activity that is therein implied. Commander-in-Chief Clarkson, in his opening address, paid a heart-felt tribute to woman. He said: Who can measure the length or the breadth or the height or the depth of woman's love and devotion, or who can measure the value of the service rendered to us by our great auxiliaries, the Women's Relief Corps? Many a comrade and Post would have lost their membership but for the open hand of this organization. In season and out of season they minister to our wants, make our meetings enjoyable, sustain us in our work. They have started and maintained homes for the needy comrades, their wives or widows; they are constant and persistent supporters of patriotic teaching. We shall need their kindly services more and more as age and infirmity creep upon us. Every Post of the order should have its Woman's Relief Corps auxiliary. Speaking of the women's splendid inculcation of the sentiment of patriotism, Commander Clarkson said: There is a deep meaning in Memorial Day. It means not only a tribute and an honor to the dead, but a strong and lasting lesson in patriotism to the living. The assembling of the children upon these occasions, and their participation in the solemn exercises of the day, make impressions upon their young minds that time cannot efface. As a result of such participation, and of the lessons of patriotism taught in the public schools, which the Woman's Relief Corps have so greatly encouraged, and of the part they take in demonstrations at our department encampments, our children are growing up strengthened and imbued with love of country and the flag, with reverence for the veteran who imperiled his life for them. As they grow up they will be to our nation a great rock of defense, against which the waves of trouble may beat without avail. Gen. Lew Wallace, of Crawfordsville, Ind., author of "Ben Hur," and step-son of Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace, said: I am sure that no great reform will ever again be brought about in our country without the aid of the women. ROSA BONHEUR has been made an honorary associate of the Academy of St. Luke at Rome. MISS STELLA STRAIT, of Fort Scott, Kansas, has been nominated for County Register of Deeds by the Bourbon County Republican Convention. The office is one of the best paid in the country. MISS ELIZABETH P. WORMELEY has spent fifteen years in translating Balzac's "Comedie Humaine," and the publication of "The Deputy of Arcis," being the fortieth volume, completes her task. MISS LOTTA ELLIOT, of Danforth, Me., was the driver of the winning horse at the recent horse race in Pittsfield, in which all the drivers were women. The women wore divided skirts, and acquitted themselves most creditably. MISS HULDA R. GRASSER, customs and tin-plate broker, is conducting a good business at Cincinatti, O. Her father who was a Swiss by birth, was one of the first brokers in Cincinnati. After his death the elder Miss Grasser conducted the business, but upon her marriage, Miss Hilda assumed it. She now represents some of the largest brokerage concerns of the Eastern cities. MISS JENNIE E. JONES, of Somerville, Mass., is title clerk of the assessor's office. For nine months of the year she works at the registry of deeds, East Cambridge, reading every title that is entered, and taking a copy of the gist of all pertaining to Somerville property, of which there are from 1,500 to 1,800 transfers every year. Miss Jones is considered a very efficient and accurate title clerk. MRS. ANGIE F. NEWMAN, Lincoln, Neb., who has been making an extended trip in Europe, ,Egypt, Asia Minor and the Holy Land, has returned home safely. She was a delegate to the International Council of Women at Berlin and the Social Purity Congress at Berne, from the National W.C.T.U., but severe illness prevented her presence at either. She has, nevertheless, gained much knowledge of women's work in Europe. MRS. CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON, of Pasadena, Cal., addressed a large audience Thursday afternoon at Greenacre, Me., upon "The Social Organism," dealing with a practical side of the science of sociology. Mrs. Stetson is well-known both here and in England by her volume of poems yclept "In This, Our World," wherein the bias of her mind toward viewing life in the active and not as a dreamer is well portrayed; but as a lecturer, also, she has appeared before many audiences in behalf of progress in its largest sense, unfettered by traditionalism, and by her frank and sincere directness has everywhere left a marked impression of confidence and conviction. 2 THE WOMAN'S COLUMN. A RETREAT. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER A place I know, the haunt of dreams, A quiet space, deep hidden away, Where softened fall the noonday gleams, Where one might go alone to pray. There little winds are whispering round; One sometimes hears the hermit-thrush; The passing foot awakes no sound In that sweet sanctuary's hush. I, who to-day must toil and spin, Near the great city's throbbing heart, Unto that white peace enter it, Of that pure silence am a part. - Harper's Magazine. GIRLS AT BASEBALL. It was an odd expression which the "settlement" idea found for itself one afternoon, at Osterville, Mass. Says the Boston Transcript: During the recent holiday time of some South End girls, a picked nine from the Lincoln House Club played against the accomplished and athletic young ladies form that beautiful Cape Cod resort, Wianno Beach. These Wianno girls go in for all sorts of sport, and they have made an enviable reputation at baseball. Miss Putnam is their captain, and under her coaching they make many a home run. Of course there was great excitement among the girls at the College Settlement House when it was learned that the Wiannos would play with them. "We mustn't let them 'whitewash' the Lincolns," they exclaimed. As the carriages form Wianno rolled up to the ball field on the afternoon of this exciting contest, little suppressed cries of delight came from behind the closed shutters of the cabin. "All the 'swells' form the beach have come over," burst from one excited girl, who was wriggling into her best clothes to do honor to the occasion. After the Wiannos and the Lincolns had begun the struggle on the diamond, there was no misunderstanding the sympathies of the various spectators. The Wiannos have beaten the young women nines in the other Cape resorts, and their friends were jealous of their reputation. To be sure, there was no need of anxiety, for they have been playing much this summer and were perfectly acquainted with the by no means inconsiderable powers of the players. Wianno hit the ball every time, and the Wianno pitcher was mistress of some almost impossible curves; yet on runs the Lincoln girls did admirable work, and so, in spite of lack of proper training, the score came out 18 to 10 - in favor, of course, of the better-trained team. Quick as a flash, however, when the game was over, the successful players rallied round their sunburned captain and gave nine hearty 'rahs for the Lincolns. The Lincolns returned the compliment and gave their club call. Then the Wianno players drove off, and the Lincolns returned to their cabin, talking excitedly and enthusiastically about the "lovely young ladies" who could make such fine home runs. CHINESE WOMEN SLAVES. In San Francisco, the effort to emancipate the Chinese women slaves continues. The petition to President McKinley to ask Congress to appoint a committee of investigation is meeting with great success. Not a single person to whom it has been presented has failed to affix his signature. Meanwhile placards threatening with death any one who attempts to rescue these unfortunates, are posted up in Chinatown. Here is a bill of sale upon which one of those women slaves, Tsau Fa, is claimed by her owner, Quong Sin. It purports to be made by her mother, Wang Shi, the consideration being $88: I write clearly to you that I give this girl to you because I am very poor. This girl I have borne myself. She is my own child. Her name is Tsau Fa. She is seven years old this year. She was born at 1 or 2 o'clock on the 4th day of July. I myself asked my relatives, but none were willing to care for her. Afterward one go-be-tween named Chung Shi took me to a woman named Wong Shi. Wong Shi saw my girl and promised to give me $88. Wong Shi gave the $88 to Chung Shi, and Chung Shi took it away. Wong Shi took her to her house to use. We three people talked the matter over very clearly; not because I owed her any money, nor did she steal the girl. The go-between did not compel me to do it; but I was willing. If there is any trouble afterward it is clearly understood by the go-between and the woman, this girl must follow this woman, who has bought her, and she is to take care of her until she is larger. The mother cannot ask any questions about her, and the woman is not answerable to the child or what happens to her, whether she lives or dies or where sh puts her. This paper is gotten up by the mother herself. Quong Sui, twelfth year. WANG SHI. The above paper is marked with an imprint of the thumb as a seal. It is written on red paper in deep, black ink, and bears the date of Quong Sui, twelfth year, which makes it about eleven years old. The document is one of four which were taken with the girl when she was rescued. The girl had been sold four times, and in each instance the bills of previous sales went with her. When she was rescued the owner exhibited these bills in order to prove that she belonged to him and they were snatched from his hand, and kept with the girl. The thumb mark was imprinted adjoining the signature, and indicated that the document was done in legal form. The other three bills of sale were of similar character, a nd a peculiarity in one of them is that the seller claims to be the mother of the girl also. These documents, together with many others, will be laid before the committee which comes form Washington, should the President take action upon the petition, which he undoubtedly will. A HOUSEKEEPING SCHOOL. The Boston Woman's Industrial and Educational Union, during the past year, has come in touch with an unusually large number of employers and employees, and never have the difficulties and complications of the "domestic problem" been more apparent. On the one hand, the unorganized, unrelated effort of the employer to secure domestic ease and comfort - and sometimes at the expense of ethics and economics; and, on the other hand, a tendency on the part of the employees, owing to the excessive demand, to control wages without regard to efficiency. As a first step in the right direction, in a matter which is of real moment to every woman both wage-earner and wage-giver the union asks the cooperation of employers toward promoting better relations between employers and employees. To this end the Domestic Reform League has been organized. Its objects are the scientific and careful consideration of present conditions; the awakening of the interest of women in the largest aspect of the problem; the recognition by the employer that fair conditions should be given for faithful service, and by the employee that interested and efficient service must be given in exchange for fair wages and just conditions; and the further recognition by both employer and employee that efficiency should be the standard of wages. Any woman who is in sympathy with its objects. As a second step the Union will open a "housekeeping school" on the first of November. Two houses have been leased, and are being arranged and equipped for this experiment in model home-making. The successful carrying out of the plans of the Union in regard to this school must depend largely upon the cooperation of women who recognize its need. Several thousand circulars have been sent out and subscriptions are received by Mrs. Harrington, the treasurer, by mail. VASSAR GRADUATES. It is reported in a New York newspaper that there is an "agitation" among graduate students of Vassar, on learning that a member of the class of '97 is of negro parentage. It is possible that young women of liberal culture and Christian training might be surprised at learning that one of their classmates had Italian, or Choctaw, or Spanish blood, when they supposed her to be like themselves - of New York, or Indiana, or Maine lineage. But a Vassar graduate will have a sufficiently broad outlook upon the rights of any girl to get an education, to make as her comment upon such a revelation, "Well, what of it?" THE ACCIDENT BOX When packing the satchel for a journey with children, a little "accident box" should not be forgotten. It is well to put into this a soft piece of old linen, castile soap, and sponge, a box of carbolic salve or cosmoline, a small bottle of arnica or witch hazel, scissors, and needle ready threaded. A child may fall and bruise face or hands while on the car or boat, and then there is ordinarily a confusion and worry, the little sufferer waiting while the nervous mother or nurse hunts among the fellow passengers for remedies. And on the first arrival in hte country, the eager children commonly rush out and get themselves into some difficulty for which this "accident box" will provide relief. A small vial of oil of peppermint may be added if there is any likelihood of toothache, and a bottle of blackberry cordial is a safe remedy in case of an attack of any phase of what mothers usually term "summer complaint." THE WOMAN'S COLUMN 3 N.Y. WOMEN'S WORK FOR PUBLIC HEALTH. Another noteworthy achievement of the New York Women's Association, was the investigation in 1886, of a district between East Eighty-ninth and East Ninety-third streets, called "Little Italy," where one lady reported eight families living in a single room, with their eight beds - such as they were - ranged against the walls. Three hundred cows, ill-fed and filthy, were confined in the vicinity, to provide "pure country milk" for the city. In two years this whole neighborhood was renovated. Some time ago the Association undertook the work of exposing the shocking condition of stable refuse in the city. The facts which Mrs. Fender, as chairman of the committee concerned, brought to light, seem almost too revolting to be possible in a land which holds that "cleanliness is next to godliness." The women met such fierce opposition from the stablemen that their bill was not admitted to the Legislature; but an ordinance secured from the Board of Health makes one step in advance. A story told by Mayor Strong at the Convention of the Ladies' Health Protective Association held last spring, amusingly illustrates some results of their efforts. The Mayor saw a man standing at the door of a livery stable, complaining of the dirty condition of the place. "If you don't have this cleaned right away," said the man, "I'll report you to the Ladies' Health Protective Association." "Oh, for God's sake, don't!" exclaimed the stable keeper. "Come again next week, and see if it isn't clean." - Edith Parker Thomson, in September Forum. GREEN CORN. Variety in serving green corn is often relished. For corn oysters, mix one pint of grated corn, the yolk of three eggs, a little cayenne pepper, three even table- spoonfuls of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, then add the well-beaten whites of the eggs. Put a tablespoonful of lard and one of butter in the frying pan, and when hot drop by spoonfuls the mixture into it. When brown on one side turn and brown on the other. A corn griddle cake may be made of corn too old to be enjoyed boiled on the cob. For two cups of grated corn allow two-thirds of a cup of flour blended very smoothly in a little sweet milk, one beaten egg, a piece of butter as large as a butternut, salt and pepper Bake in the oven or on the griddle over the fire. A WOMAN BOOTBLACK Miss Lu Verne Hall, one of the cleverest young girl's in the class of '97 of the East Denver (Col.) High School, and historian of her class, who is employed a part of her time in the reportorial department of the Times, has opened a bootblacking establishment on Sixteenth Street, in order to raise enough money to enter Vassar College. How she came to start in this business is thus told by the young woman: I was thinking hard how I could get enough money to go to Vassar. I looked down slowly at the foot that was keeping time to my thoughts. My shoe needed cleaning, and like a flash I saw a way to raise money. There is no place in the city where a lady may have her shoes polished except she sit up on a box in an alley as the men do. I never said a word to any one, but set to work. I had a circular printed and mailed it to every club and society woman I could think of. Then I took $70 of what I had saved from my newspaper work and bought all the equipments for my stand. Then I asked the salutatorian of our class if she would help me. She consented, and now she is cashier. Then I spoke to some boys, and they were all delighted to come and help me. I fixed up my room prettily, and there are fresh flowers on the table and papers and magazines. Now that I am started I have no expense, as even the store room is given to me free, and I hope to make $300 by September. I have risked my $70, to be sure, but I think I shall get it all back and more. I shall be the happiest girl in the world if I can go to Vassar this fall, and every minute I am not working in the office I spend soliciting trade and waiting on customers. Of course I shine shoes myself. NEW CENTURY CLUB. The New Century Club of Wilmington, Del., the first namesake of the great and famous New Century Guild of Philadelphia, has now three fine daughters of its own, one in Chester, one in West Chester, and the third, a young club in Kennett square. The New Century Club was organized nine years ago, and to-day its membership reaches nearly 500. It is especially fortunate in having a fine clubhouse, built after a beautiful old colonial design. Its standing committees are those on education, philanthropy, club classes, and club lectures. This first committee is working for compulsory education in Delaware, and for the establishment of a State normal school. The philanthropic department of the club is actively engaged in management of the Delaware Industrial School for Girls, and is also investigating the condition of wage-earning women. A FARMERS' PICNIC IN IOWA It was a perfect day in August when I drove nine miles through the richest farming land to attend this annual festival of farmers, in the commonwealth which, perhaps, above all others exercises its sovereignty through the tillers of the soil. It was a vast assembly that met in the beautiful grove to celebrate a bountiful harvest. I was not a little interested in studying this concourse of citizen rulers, their wives and children. They certainly did not compare unfavorably with the farmers of the East, or the ranchmen of the far West; but I had been long enough in the State which owes its prosperity to corn and hogs to observe that some of the wives of these farmers had added to the inevitable hardship and drudgery of their position the feeding of the numerous swine, the milking of cows, the planting and tending of the garden, to say nothing of the occasional calls to act as field-hand when an extra man was lacking. Consequently I attended this festival with the burden of a remonstrance on my mind. Imagine my delight when the orator of the day, a neighboring editor, pictured with power and pathos the unconscious selfishness of the farmer in accepting, let us say, this unfair division of labor in a life partnership, while he continues to talk of my farm, my stock, my grain, etc. Clapping my hands, a number joined in the applause; but while the women in my vicinity admitted the justice of the arraignment, it was evident that most of the farmers wives were too jealous of their husbands' reputation to make any public demonstration. Let us hope this speaker found virtue a sufficient reward for his noble gallantry. With all the concessions that have been made, nowhere have married women their just rights in property. Said an Iowa farmer to me: "My wife and I have been true yoke fellow, pulling evenly all the way." "Then," said I, "half the handsome property you have accumulated belongs to her." Of course the logical inference was not conceded. "She has her right of dower, and our laws are just," was the rejoinder. Not until the wife, like other partners, has equal voice in the disposition of jointly acquired property has she her rights. She cannot even use her earnings to educate her children. It is conceded that the farmer's wife, at least, has earned half of the joint accumulations. In return she has such food, clothing, and shelter as her partner sees fit to give her, and, if she die before she does, she has the use of one-third of the real estate, of which her husband dies possessed, in lieu of the independent ownership of one-half of all the property to which she is entitled. And yet the majority of men and women are actually deluded enough to believe that this "right of dower" makes the wife a privileged being. "Women is so shaller!" - Jane M. Slocumin Woman's Journal. The Woman's Journal. Founded by Lucy Stone. 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Esterbrook Street, 87 Chandler St. Town, Worcester State, Mass. Time one year. 25 cents paid. I subscribe for one year to the WOMAN'S COLUMN Name, Mrs. W.H. Eldred Street, 17 Hollywood St. Town, Worcester State, Mass. Time one year. 25 cents paid. I subscribe for one year to the WOMAN'S COLUMN Name, Mrs. E. Hall Street, 41 Kingsbury St. Town, Worcester State, Mass. Time one year. 25 cents paid. I subscribe for one year to the WOMAN'S COLUMN. Name, Mrs. E. F. Green Street, 41 Hollywood St. Town, Worcester State, Mass. Time one year. 25 cents paid. __________________________________ Name, Mrs. E.A. Todd Street, 10 Woodland St. Town, Worcester State, Mass. Time one year. 25 cents paid. ___________________________________ Name, Mrs. M. K. Hobbs Street, 898 Main St. Town, Worcester State, Mass. Time one year. 25 cents paid. I subscribe for one year to the WOMAN'S COLUMN. Name, Mrs. W. L. Guliver Street, 20 Maywood St. Town, Worcester State, Mass. Time one year. 25 cents paid. __________________________________ Name, Mrs. J. W. Gould Street, 9 Maywood St. Town, Worcester State, Mass. Time one year. 25 cents paid. __________________________________ Name, Mrs. J. B. Hunt Street, 6 Woodbine St. Town, Worcester State, Mass. Time one year. 25 cents paid. Cash 1893 To Subscriptions for week ending July 22" 93 $59.25 Bills $16.00 Silver 4.80 Check 1.10 Stamps 6.28 ______________ $28.18 Total Receipts $59.25 Contra 1893 By borns Mrs. Akerman $13.20 " " Jennie Hinds .10 " " Mrs. Wilber Cook .90 " " Mabel Peters 1.10 " " Camilla R. Mazelle 1.00 " " Parcher & Sacar .07 " " Kitty Pace .40 " " Esther B. Justice .20 ' " M.R. Judy .40 " " M.A. Stoddard .10 " " Maude M. Allen .20 " " Margaret B. Platt .40 " " P.O. Deposit 5.00 " " M. M. Gilbert 8.00 __________________ $31.07 " Bal. Forwarded Mrs. Stone 28.18 ______________ $ 59.25 $28.18 Bal W C Receipts to July 22 /93 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.