has proved a boon to women, enabling them to
keep any private papers they may wish to preserve. In 1880, we find
the following in the _National Citizen_:

A ladies' exchange for railroad and mining stocks has been
started at 71 Broadway, New York. The rooms are provided with an
indicator, desks and such other conveniences as are required for
business. Messenger boys drop in and out, and a telephone
connects with the office of a prominent Wall-street brokerage
firm. Miss Mary E. Gage, daughter of Frances Dana Gage, is the
manager and proprietor of the business. In reply to the inquiries
of a _Graphic_ reporter, Miss Gage said she had found so much
inconvenience and annoyance in transacting her own operations in
stocks that she concluded to establish an office. After Miss Gage
was fairly settled, other women who labored under the same
disadvantages, began to drop in, their number increasing daily. A
ladies' stock exchange also exists at No. 40 Fourth street, under
charge of Mrs. Favor. The banking houses of Henry Clews and the
wealthy Russell Sage are said to be working in union with this
exchange. In January we chronicled the formation of a woman's
mining company and this month of a woman's stock exchange, each
of them an evidence of the wide range of business women are
entering.

In _The Revolution_ of May 14, 1868, we find the following:

SOROSIS.--This is the name of a new club of literary women, who
meet once a month and lunch at Delmonico's, to discuss questions
of art, science, literature and government. Alice Carey, who is
president, in her opening speech states the object of the club,
which is summed up in this brief extract:

We have proposed the inculcation of deeper and broader ideas
among women, proposed to teach them to think for themselves
and get their opinions at first hand, not so much because it
is their right as because it is their duty. We have also
proposed to open new avenues of employment to women--to make
them less dependent and less burdensome--to lift them out of
unwomanly self-distrust and disqualifying diffidence into
womanly self-respect and self-knowledge. To teach them to
make all work honorable, by each doing the share that falls
to her, or that she may work out to hers