Items for Ladies.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2069, 18 May 1887, Page 2

Items for Ladies.

A lady correspondent sends us a few items which she believes will interest our readers—especially her own sex ; It is said that one thousand women own and manage farms in the state of lowa, while in Oregon there are so many women similarly situated as to occasion no remark. Women cast 15,000 of the 48,000 votes at the recent election in Washington Territory. Ten per cent of the students in the University of Zurich are women. Twenty-nine of them are studying medicine, fourteen philosophy, and two political economy. There are now forty-eight female students of medicine in London, and in Paris one hundred and three.

Mrs Ava Hilderbrand, who edit* and owns the Gretna Courier, write* her own editorials, fixes up most of her own local copy, does composition work on hor paper, solicit subscribers, is her own waiting clerk, keeps her house tidy, and is a devoted mother to three little children.

In Washington Territory recently a woman was elected justice of the peace by a large majority. After a bitter struggle the Women Suffragists have finally triumphed in the Senate of New York. So far the women have done well; they hare steadily battled for their rights and they have won their way, step by step, from darkness to daylight. The men who are so afraid of women’s voting ought to take a turn down through the lower wards of New York and Brooklyn. Look at the brutal, drunken material that decides our Municipal, State, and National Elections ! Look at the vile crew that sent Tim Campbell to Congress, and helped to make Fatty Walsh the guardian of the Tombs. The most respectable and intelligent club in New York today is a women's club. Some of the best work in journalism and art is done by women, in medicine there are dozens of women here who hold their own with the best of our medical faculty, and wherever an avenue has been opened for her she has improved it and done well. It is but a poor compliment to our mothers, our wives, our sisters, our daughter* to say that we are not willing to give the same privileges to them that we accord to the ignorant rabble who crowd our great cities and decide our elections.