Show f WOMANS A PROGRESSIVE AND k + GRESSIVE WO MANS CLySnT CHICAGO Will Appoint Women Tho Quocn at Manchester Man-chester Dr Flora A Brtivstcr att onal Council of Women Women Affairs In I EnglandA Successful Business Woman The most progressive and aggressive body of women in tlwia7nited States is probably Chicago Womans club It would be no easy task to enumerate all tho worthy reforms which have originated origi-nated in this club and have been successfully success-fully carried out by committees of energetic ener-getic women The Chicago university is the only one in the history of the world that included in its ery conception the equal educational rights and privileges privi-leges of women Two dormitory halls presided over by women provide respectively I re-spectively a home for 500 girls One af i these was erected by women for women and is as far as known the only one of the kind It is the gift cf the women of Chicago at a cost of 280000 The fund was raised largely through the editorial efforts of Mrs Margaret F Sullivan of the Chicago Herald who showed in able articles what large sums women in all ages had given to help support mens colleges while womens colleges were often badly crippled for need of money The club was responsive to Mrs Sullivans appeals the president heading head-ing the list with 1000 and in less than two weeks the frids were raised for the erection and equipment of the splendid structure Oneof the most important im-portant steps achieved by the Chicago club is the appointment of women on the Chicago school board Mrs Lucy L Flowers term is not yet expired but she has done such satisfactory work that i another woman Mrs Caroline EL Sherman I Sher-man has been appointed lately Mrs Flower is considered the best representative represent-ative of the working element for tho club having been for many years at the head of the reform committee Being a teacher before she will married and coming from the east here women on the school boards are t en as a matter of fact Mrs Mbjger vJyyell equipped for her work in tHH > aviiuj35hools7 = Brooklyn Eagle Will Appoint Women Mayor Schieren announced the other day that ho would appoint several women wo-men as members of the Brooklyn board of education next year but that he could not make such appointments this year because he had selected 15 men to fill tho vacancies which occurred on July 1 before he received tho petition of the women to have their sex represented represent-ed He said I am sorry to say that I am so placed now that I cannot comply with the request re-quest of the ladies I would like to do so but p the list of 16 members of the board is selected I think women should be represented in the board of education Questions arise there which a woman seems to have a natural intuition to judge as to their practicability or impracticability im-practicability This is especially true as to the studies of children I believe that some of these studies are entirely too severe for the age of childhood I believe that women mothers are more apt to judge tho capacity of children dren Men are apt to overcrowd the children They expect too much from them I have conversed with several of the women teachers and they are heartily heart-ily in favor of the change The constitutional convention should be petitioned by the women < to pass a resolution making it mandatory upon mayors or commissioners as the case may be to appoint at least onethird women on any board of education For some reason which I cannot understand the impression has gone out that I have been opposed to the appointment of women Such an impression could not have had its origin from anything I have said on the subject I have always held the ideas I now proclaim Brooklyn Times The Queen at Manchester Imagine a short only a little over 5 feet rather stout woman with a face while not possessing She least sign of what wo should call beauty but still showing a degree of determination and will power apparent to all her body incased in-cased in a plain dress of black silk and her head surmounted with a bonnet very plain in appearance and you have as correct a description as it lies in my power to give of the lady whose power stretches over thousands of miles and whose word is law to millions The first appearance of the queen in the open street was tho signal for a remarkable re-markable demonstration of affection and enthusiasm on the part of the assembled multitude Loud cheers rent the air hats and handkerchiefs were waved and from everywhere came cries of welcome Her majesty appeared greatly touched by the heartiness of the reception accorded ac-corded her and which she acknowledged by frequent bows to the right and left each one of these being the signal fop anothpr outburst of cheering At this point I could not fail to mark the healthy appearance that her majesty presented She seemed entirely recovered recover-ed from her long and dusty ride in the close railway carriage and her cheeks showed a color that many a younger woman would have envied As the oar riage ride increased in distance her affability af-fability was more plainly shown by numerous nu-merous bows right and left Manchester Manches-ter Letter I tor > 14rA 4 Prltt + f I 31x Flora A Brgwater qf aUimori 1 I 1 < has won an nonoraole ana successim j place in the profession by persistent hard work For nearly 10 years she taught school in Pennsylvania contributing contrib-uting to the support of near relatives and pursuing studies which enabled her to graduate from the state normal school at Mansfield In 1878 she went to Chicago and took the editorial management man-agement of The Newsboys Appeal an illustrated journal published in the interests in-terests of tho Newsboys home The next year she began to study medicine with |