ladelphia who were studying medicine, and were insulted day
after day by the male medical students, the sphere they wanted?
Our American girls have been to Europe for the sake of pursuing
their studies in medicine, and have met with kindness and
courtesy, while in this land, where they are called "queens,"
they received only hisses. Last winter Governor Claflin of
Massachusetts--one of those "irreligious and immoral" advocates
of woman suffrage--reminded the gentlemen of that State who claim
to be woman's representatives in the legislature, "that a wife in
that State is deprived of the free control of property that was
her own before marriage, and is denied an equal right in the
property accumulated during the marriage partnership; that a
married mother has no legal right to her child; and that a widow
has not equal rights with a widower." When woman has the sphere
she wants, these things will be changed.

As a majority of the men in this community are opposed to woman
suffrage, I will relate one circumstance that will do to "point a
moral or adorn a tale." Of course, the voters in this or any
other place always elect their best men to hold office, and the
board of selectmen would naturally be the very wisest and best,
the "_creme de la creme_." Now it so happens that one selectman
being away from home, there was not enough arithmetic left with
the other two to make out the tax-bills for the town, and they
hired a woman, the mother of two children, to do it for them. It
certainly took more of her time than it would for her to have
walked across the street and voted for men who could make out
their own tax-bills. Then arithmetic is not a womanly
accomplishment, like tatting, crocheting, etc. These things sink
into our hearts, and will bear fruit in due season.

SARAH A. GIBBS.

In 1877, July 21, Miss Thyrza F. Pangborn, for the last six years
the capable and efficient recorder in the probate office of
Burlington, was appointed and sworn as a notary public. In a letter
of December 7, 1872, our correspondent says:

In the year 1870, the world was somewhat startled by the fact
that in the constitutional convention, held that year in Vermont,
but one vote was cast for the enfranchisement of woman; and no
one wonders tha