CONCERNING WOMEN.

White Ribbon, Volume 14, Issue 152, 15 January 1908, Page 9

CONCERNING WOMEN.

Six women were chosen as municipal councillors at the recent elections in England, and all were elected bv handsome majorities. One is Dr. K. Garrett Anderson, of Aldehurgh, one of the early and distinguished women physicians ot England. She is a sister ot Mrs Millicent Garrett Fawcett. It is a little singular that conservative old Oxford should be one of the first cities to elect a woman on its municipal council. “El Feminai is a new Spanish monthly, published in Barcelona, which aims to improve the position of women in * atalonia.

A monthly review, called “Vita bYmminile Italiana ” is to be started iii Milan, having for its object the

improvement of the moral, social, educational, and economic conditions of Italian women. in the I'nitcd States there is an Indian woman lawyer. Julia St. Cyr. She is a woman of considerable intellectual attainments, has great influence, and belongs to the Winnebago tribe.

In a private letter. Mrs Frances Swincy remarks: “I certainly think the crusade against drink is gathering in force all over the world. But here in England, the drinking among the women of the lower class is on the increase, owing entirely to their miserable ill-nourished lives. So down-trodden is th <- women worker in wage status and positii n. She is tin* lowest grade of competition tor bread, and what with overcrowding, sweating, and enforced motherhood, her life is really a hell upon earth. No wonder she takes to drink to forget more particularly as the love <d‘ drink is bred in her hones from her drunken father.”

Mrs liaahford, wife of Bishop Bashford, savs in an exchange :

“ Seven years ago there were no schools for girls in China, save those established by Christian missions. Now there are I*2 in Shanghai, lb in Tsientsing. 20 in Peking, 25 in Canton, and others in various parts, all under Native direction. They teach modern branches in the modern way. There is in them no heathen worship, and Sunday is observed as a day of rest. Mrs J. Bancroft Robinson was elected by the Methodists of Detroit. Michigan, to head the lay delegation from that city to the Methodist General Conference meeting in Baltimore. This is the first time the distinction has been conferred on a woman, but it was done at the first ballot. Mrs Robinson is the founder of the Deaconess movement in America. Miss Aina Johansson has been sent by the city of Helsingfors, Finland. to America, to study tin* educational system. “ Xenske Eisty” is the name of a woman’s paper published in Chicago in the Bohemian tongue All tlie work on the paper is done by women—editing, printing, and publishing. ‘Zenske Eisty deals

specially with the condition of women who are wage-earners. Florida has raised the age of protection for girls from ten to eighteen vears.

Miss Alice M. Power, probation officer of the Superior Court in Boston. showed by her annual report that she had collected 2,1 Id dollars from men placed on probation, for the support of their families, and has brought about the reconciliation between 18 out of 23 couples where the husband had become alienated from his wife, and had been put on probat ion.