Of Interest To Women

Miss Murfree (Charles Egbert Graddouk} wiil spend most of the winter íd Boston. Mrs. Henry Ward Boecher has for many yeara edited a departmeut in the Doniestiu Monthly. Mrs. John Luca?, of Philadelphia, ia president of the Woman's Silk Culture Assooiation of the United States. The uumber of vromen wbo walk for exercise regularly in New York is said to be increasing so fast that the doctors begin to complain. Mrs. Beuben Gaylord, of Omaha, has (riven $1,000 to the Ladies' Boarding Hall of Gates College, Neb. It will be called the Gaylord Memorial Hall. A woman's gymnasium and a free cooking class for girls are amoug the good things maintained by the Woman's Kduoational and Industrial Union of Buffalo, N. Y. Miss Bradly, a nieoe of Bishop Neely of Portland, Me., has won a diploma from the famous Paris School of Medicine, passing a brilliant exammation and receiving the maximum mark. Señorita Matilde Montoya is the first Mexican girl to beoome a doctor. A committee of young men of the city of Mexico gol up a bull-fight in her honor, and devoted the proceeds to the purchase of books and Instruments for her. A country that is civilizad enough to have women doctors ought to abandon buil h'ghts. A bnght Iowa wonian, noting the ioveution of a ballot-box that cannot be stuffed, remarka: "Now, if some one will invent a voter that cannot be stuffed with beer, brag or bribery, we shall have made a long utride toward better goverument." It is eafe to predict that women, though the weaker vessela, will be less asily induced to fill themselves with beer ihan some of our present voters. The average sobriety of the electora wil! undoubtedly be raised by woman auffrage; and that in itself will be a step loward better government.