n the Senate of the thirteenth legislature of the
State of Texas, Senator Dohoney, Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, made a report strongly advocating woman suffrage; and
in 1875, when a member of the Constitutional Convention, he
advocated the same doctrine, and was ably assisted by Hon. W. G.
L. Weaver. The governor of that State, in his message,
recommended that women school teachers should receive equal pay
for equal work. The word "male" does not occur in the new
constitution. In the territories of Wyoming and Utah, woman
suffrage still continues after five years' experiment, and we
have not learned that households have been broken up or that
babies have ceased to be rocked.

Women physicians, women journalists and women editors have come
to be a feature of our institutions. Laura De Force Gordon, a
member of our association, is editing a popular daily--the
_Leader_--in Sacramento, Cal. Women are now admitted to the bar
in Kansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Utah, Wyoming and
the District of Columbia. They are eligible and are serving as
school superintendents in Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa and
Wisconsin. Illinois allows them to be notaries public. As
postmasters they have proved competent, and one woman, Miss Ada
Sweet, is pension agent at Chicago. Julia K. Sutherland has been
appointed commissioner of deeds for the State of California. In
England women vote on the same terms as men on municipal,
parochial and educational matters. In Holland, Austria and
Sweden, women vote on a property qualification. The Peruvian
Minister of Justice has declared that Peru places women on the
same footing as men. Thus all over the world is the idea of human
rights taking root and cropping out in a healthful rather than a
spasmodic outgrowth.

The grand-daughter of Paley, true to her ancestral blood, has
excelled all the young men in Cambridge in moral science. Julia
J. Thomas, of Cornell University, daughter of Dr. Mary F. Thomas,
of Indiana, in the recent inter-collegiate contest, took the
first prize of $300, over eight male competitors, in Greek. The
recent decision in the United States Supreme Court, of Minor
_vs._ Happersett, will have as much force in suppressing the
individuality and self-assertion of women as had the opini