Women's Record at Home [pp. 172-173]

THE LADIES' REPOSI7'ORY.
WOMEN'S RECORD AT HOME.
THE eleventh female county superintendent was recently elected in Iowa. Mr. Huff,
who was the defeated candidate, contested
the election of Miss Cook, the successful
one, on the ground that a woman was ineligible to the office. Judge Mitchell decided
that, under the constitutional test of citizenship, all women in Iowa were ineligible,
and therefore Miss Cook could not hold the
office, neither could Mr. Huff, as he had
not received a majority vote. So the office
must remain vacant until a new election.
The State Superintendent, the day after
Judge Mitchell's decision, drafted a bill
which said: " No person shall l)e (leemed
ineligible by reason of sex to any school
office in the State of Iowa." This was
presented to the Legislature and passed the
same day, takling effect upon its passage.
Mr. Huff has, therefore, the pleasure of
knowring that in contesting Mliss Coolk's right
to hold office in the schools of the State he
has been the means of forever after settling
the question )by legislative enactment. Are
there not tHuffy' men in other places that
will go and do likewise? Several of the
Western States have made fair tests of the
ability of women to fill these offices during
the past ten years. If the women had failed
in discharging the duty required of them,
the people would certainly not have elected
others to the same positions.
-Mrs. C. R. Lowell was nominated by
Governor Tilden, of New York, as a State
Commissioner of charities, and the nomination was promptly confirmed by the Senate.
This is said to be the first instance of a
woman receiving an office from the State of
New York. The appointment is for seven
years, and as there is no salary attached to
the office, there is little doubt that Mrs.
Lowell will be undisturbed in the possession
of it, and perhaps be allowed by the greedy
Lal)ans of our age to "serve " like Jacob,
other seven years also.
- At the anniversary meeting of the
Wonmen's Christian Temperance Union of
Cincinnati, the Secretary reported of the
work of the Union as follows: "We have
committees which regularly visit the jail,
the hospital, the wxork-hlouse, and the home
for the friendless, and hold religious services,
and converse individually with the inmates.
They also distribute tracts, religious reading,
Bibles and Testaments."
- At the annual meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church, it was stated that the receipts
for the year were seventy-seven thousand
five hundred and sixty-one dollars, all of
which had been applied to the use of the object for which it was raised.
- At the anniversary of the Cincinnati
Baptist Church Union, the work of Miss
Maggie Schlmucker, the female missionary
among the Germans, was reported thus:
During the past year she had made thirteen
hundred and thirty-five family visits thlirtyfour visits to the hospital, four visits to
the jail, and had distributed fifteen thotusand pages of reading-matter, four Bibles,
and eighteen Testaments.
-The State of Indiana had, in I875,
eight counties having no saloons; during the
current year the number has decreased to
three. The recent State convention memorialized the Legislature: " That a State asylum be established for inebriates, where such
shall be treated as diseased persons; where
such may place themselves voluntarily; or
vwhere persons who persist in lhablits of intoxication may be placed at the instance of
relatives and friends."
- During the last Winter the Young
Women's Christian Association of Phliladelphia furnished I3,539 meals and I,OO6 lodgings. The number of applications for employment received was 404; the number of
applications from employers, 685. During
the last quarter, 633 books were taken out
of the library, which now numbers 1,257
volumes. A resolution was passed by the
managers to the effect that the iuniocctIpied rooms of the Association should be arranged for the accommodation of women
during the Centennial Exhibition. The Seaside liouse of the Association opened for
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