ies' Journal_ says:

They tell us that women are not fit for politics. This may
be true; and as it is next to impossible to change the
nature of a woman, why wouldn't it be a good idea to so
change politics that it shall be fit for women?

In 1885, Arkansas formed its first woman suffrage society at
Eureka Springs through the efforts of Miss Phoebe Couzins, Mrs.
Lizzie D. Fyler, president. The association numbers some fine
speakers. The press is not in opposition, one or two papers favor
the cause.

Misses Pettigrew and Sims have been elected clerks of the
legislature. Several other ladies were candidates for the
positions, and the contest was quite exciting. Mrs. Simonson and
Miss Emily Thomas are members of the board of directors of a
lumber company at Batesville, and Miss Thomas is also bookkeeper
of the firm.

A very able report[522] of what has been done in Arkansas for the
elevation of woman was presented by Mrs. Lizzie D. Fyler at the
annual Washington convention in March, 1884.

IV.--MISSISSIPPI.

Mississippi secures to a married woman her own separate estate, and
enables her to contract with her husband, or others, and carry on
business in her own name. She may sue her husband, or others, and
be sued, and has practically most of her civil rights; but her
political rights are denied as in all other States.

In 1877 a law was passed by which henceforth no one can legally
sell liquor in Mississippi unless he can obtain the written
consent of a majority of the adult citizens of both sexes
resident in the township.

The Mississippi Industrial College for Women held its formal
opening October 22, 1885, at Columbus. Students had come from all
parts of the State. More than 300 had already entered. The
occasion was a brilliant one. Speeches were made by Senator E.
T. Sykes, Senator J. McMcartin of Claiborne county, Col. J. L.
Power of Jackson, Hon. James T. Harrison, Governor Lowry, and Dr.
Jones. Mrs. E. G. Peyton of Hazelhurst, to whose efforts the
founding of the Industrial College is largely due, was called
upon, and in a few well-chosen remarks expressed the pride she
felt in the State and in the college, feeling sure, she said,
that Mississippi's daughters were now in safe hands.

Miss Lilian Light, the eight-year-old daughter o