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regard to her will not be insppropriste m this onnection. It is her purpose to enter the lec turing field, like Mrs. Stanton, in the two departments of literature and reform. in both of which she is eminently fitted to stand in the front rank. She is a graduate of Ontario Seminary at Canandaigus and has had such experience as teacher in the higher branchesof literary culture, including langusges, muse and art, 2 fully prepered her large circle of acqusintances and friends to expect just the envisble suooess she achieved in Watkins at ber first appesrance on the literary platform. The friends of the Suffrage cause are certainly to be congratuisted on so valusble an sccession to thewr ranks : and the lyceum too will no doubt receive at the mext season a mew pillar and most graceful ormament in Mrs. Louise Holden Dent. P. p.

SAN FRANCISCO AND 118 SUFFRAGA MERTINGS.

CALFoRNLA is setting the nation the good example of esrnest, constant, untiring work with such mesns as it bas at hand. And resily it 1 helping itsolf better than it oould possibly be belped by any foreign md. San Francisco has a grand weekly Suffrage meeting, the discussions of which are worthy any state convention, for earnestners, eloquence snd ability. And the reports of them miske much of the matter that constitutes the Pioneer ome ot the very best Woman Suffrage papers in the world. The following are a part of the remarks of Lirs. Hartvie at the last wee ly meeting in Dushaway Hall of which account has been received:

How strange that one balf of maukind objects to give quslity of rights to the other half. to whom they are indebted for birth, bome and happiness There is opposition to our cause in all quarters of the giobe. Some are (vo selfisb to aid us, otners too ignorant to comprehend; and thus we meet with ridicule, stubborne and indifferevce. Mrs. Stenton, grest woman of Amer. ica, I pray for thee and thy suocess Good, genils. noble, brave, thou sandest 1ike a rook, defying tom pests of mature and human effortstSisers of Oslior mia, let us be lke this eroine—mmovable on one ub ject, but quick as lightning in thoughts, and sharp as stoel in speech, Men willmot fall in love with us t thi important period—tor ther taste is so degraded but we can make up for this by employing ourselves use fully. Housebold duties are sadly meglected, and 1 propose that every femsle adult, betore she ties the mar Tiage bond. spal e tr bow to pr , pro perly and to the best advantage, kitchon and nursery A grest desl of time and money is wasted on the for meor, and nothing secomplished but dyspepsis and con wumption, thuse two evils that aerange stomach snd brain. Men bave suffered when imtants. Look! there is wot one who is fimely shaped ither they are oroone in body and soul, or debased in spirit An! we did not teach them respect mor love for our sex ; they were pe slectod when chilaren, or too much imdolged Mind and body are diseasnd; they are jesioua. smal, and re fuse their partmers in lie, Hberts,1 When 1 go to privete rmiien. aing te to ign or petion for Woman Sufrage. the Fronchmen smilingly retuses. f 00 potite to o the e out , fabionsble for warmest oecupations the Spanisrs jooks sstonishedbe doe mot undertand imepen a the 1talan judges bis wife and all othors to be too wio nt o . p , his wings ie a roostor, looks down on us wilth ai. osin, baraly ompre how women van dere to rechher hand out for Presidenthin—Quesn on throne she may be. but not the heed of Repu ethe Ameriian born yielas. for geli our plesdings siowly. and with reproschinl loohs. signing our paper retuctantis, a he wonld lone money and ropuistion he promises us his asietane tht eonsists in ropesting over snd over in publie. whether pres women o0 of. AD we w t plese for him i Sisters, 1st ue help curssives: Ne

more begeing for Sufrage Tane $t1 Oo to Wasbingon, .0 Gow i e omte Gin penoenoe me t t ar ord a na, brsve it. and roosive the deth wound for good cause ———————————— MR. TILTON S NOVEMENT

W have conscientioustly enre rer 1.mpooi o o To w coming solemnity. But in spite of ourei. our sem of the ri0oio ovro , of his volunteer mission tmpress themsives upon m more powerfully than any otbers. Men of such oulibre, aoquirements and xpr By Ward Beecher, Goorge W. Curtis. 7 W Bigginson, Wm. L. Garrison, Geo W Juisan, Moses Cott Tyier, and others, are sum moned betors him, with women who, for pearly as many years as Mr. Tilton bas Wved. have toned ie Titans. amid sbuse and oslumny. to a0vance the camse of the own sex. Then, in the vol of grest pacinestor, be prooseds to tmorm them that be camnot allow any more quarreiing. snd interrogutes them as to the reasone why they cannot, then and there, be jomed in boly matr mony with another organizstion, whose repreptives stand also in the royai presence. sssured thet nows the day and now's the bour.”

Then. finding that be csunot make one orgeminstion from two, o ta Heller, who. by soms trick of legerde- , y one, he proceeds to remedy the ev of te matio cieties by tak ing trom bis pocket the constitution and hist of ofr r— $4 on priip —a wit is perons in atte organizes apother Nations! Woman Soffrage Socsety Like Young America, who "won't play if be can't be cap'en," be is put at the bead, borrows the name" of Anns Dickinson for its figure besd." and boisting bis fiag, bests Joud rub-2-ou-ub, summoning all peopies to surrender to the mew kins, to fall imto me, d mrch with him to the Heavenly Canasn" just abeed. It ie altogether too ftunny—enp cially in the light of the aisclsim ors which we give below The best 1833 schemes of mice snd men Gang ot agie.— and our go-abesd. gemial and altogethor agreesble brother Tilton is mo exception to the rule.

But while, snugly ensoonced in our editorial senctum, we bear the challenge, Under whicn bing, Bensonian speak or die!"we can't feel scared, and only leugh 1ittle in our sieeve. irrevorent though it may be. There is s time to lugh, and s tme to weep," says the Good Book—nd we sre sure by the tekle thers 1 in s, thet pow is the Gme to gh. Forgive s, brother Tton we are gid you are bended in right direction, even while we are amused at your tac es. We shall all come together, as the Miorite hym bas it— When we march imto the ots. RBye and bye.

The above is the response of the Boston Woman's Journal to the astempt of such persons as Lucretis Mott, Gornt Smith, Sarsh Pugh, Senator Pomeroy. Phebe, Cary and oters, to the number of more than s thousand. many. if mot most of them well-known and long known as faithtul, devoted workers in the osuse of Woman Suffrage, to the proposition to unite the friends of the onuse under one mationsl banper. tor the more wigorous and uoel proetion of thew work. 1f the Journal oan sfford such trifiing and ribaldry towards an honest, carnest. well-imtontioned undertaking, for moble, derle praineworthy ot, ely cannot harm those towsrds whom it is directed but it may be well to understand its animus, and what the cause will gein or lose by the ponconcurrenoe in that undertaking of those capeble of wch westment such porsons s proposed it . T

Srroep.Rev. T. K. Borcber sva. 1 hostility to Woman Suffrage. "TYou osn't sottie muady cofe by inoring tyT which the Boston estigetor repondsTres. ome p o y to be strred up as another

18E WORKING WONAN Bos Oro— very good 4 kind women h tales of thounds of starmg women. toM by sensetion lecturers, and senstion pewspapers, 'andto the coie w y would besr stories of real dtrons. of which 1 mye coit “My desr." they would ssy. when my sioquence was exhsusted. 1 am paging twoivs. fourteon, or fifteen dotiar per month. case might be, “to one, two, thrwe, or more girla, and i 1 want snything Sone 1 baws got to do ot mysedf. If 1 am ever rednoed t the condition you speak of. 1 shall bire out to ome unhappy family. snd prove s blessing to them"

I am not st 1l surprined mow the wteof feeling at which those women whe have hed lorne exporience bad srrved. I. mysel, beve y heve s5en business opportun ities at whioh men woud rejoine, witing, waiting. snd still weing tor the women with capscity enough to take bod of them. And yet t is mot onpacity thet Amerion women Inck, i is want of hobi and aining.

Within three weks 1 have seen three e business epportanites for women go begms One, as partner m s fancy wtore, requiring fve bundred collars capitsl. businens established, and suooo, woth the mght porson, gusranted Second, as agent and part proprietor n s pew advertising agency. stsrted by women, snd which has the control of s leree inteorest, ou cient to emsure smooes im the hands of induetrious and enterprismg persons. Thud, the superimiendeonoe and management of a ore making busimess siresdy estabibed, and which requires simply competont sbility

Now. I hope that I bawe pot arewn upor Tas REvoLo or mywel an wslmoe of le from sspiring young 1sios who wish in some hght and airy way to sobieve tme and fortune or from weak and mdiigent wiaows. with a chudren. who mortgage thomsives. knowingly. to a rolentiens dosting, snd find themselven. when the tme comes, wholly wneble to pay cvon the or The leson thet the women of to-ay bave to learn is one of sefliamee Theaovery they bave to make of the kimgion within themselves, the claim they have to ontabli that of their bwn proprestorsips over t

Think of . wobpert born Thok of the giory of coming inte posseon ot your ow of shaping your own destiny by your own will. of findmg mint in the wnspoken thougbt wnd wmother wit which bae heretotore only td itneto eop ome man hend ho Think of hoing quoen mstnd of t. vin the, an yo w ente upon the work of aong

Weay Womsn n. WeDuns the houdays. s fow months back 1 bad oo won. i purt of Nosh' Arks venile rog 1n ome. o prietor, oun She had bee hnan. o bt whe iooked draed o mig e r rng 1 ontre me o