mplication, from which it may be argued
that if it required the insertion of the term "male" to
exclude female citizens of lawful age from the right of
suffrage, a similar limitation would be required to
disqualify them from holding office. Citizenship is a
condition or status and has no relation to age or sex. It
may be contended that it was left to the good sense of the
executive and to the electors to determine whether or not
they would select females to office, and that the power
being lodged in safe hands was beyond the danger of abuse.
If, on the other hand, it be seriously contended that the
constitution, by necessary implication, disqualifies females
from holding office, it must follow as a necessary
consequence that the act of the legislature permitting
females to serve as school officers, and all other
legislative enactments of like import removing such
disqualification, are unconstitutional and void. In this
same connection it may be argued that if the use of the
personal pronoun "he" in the constitution does not exclude
females from public office, its use in the statute can have
no greater effect. The statute, like the constitution, in
prescribing the qualifications for office, omits the word
"male," leaving the question whether female citizens of
lawful age are included or excluded, one of construction.

Miss Anna Ballard, a reporter on the staff of the New York _Sun_,
was elected a member of the Press Club, in 1877, by a vote of 24
to 10. Within the last ten years women contributors to the press
have become numerous. The book-reviewer of the _Herald_ is a
woman; one of the book-reviewers of the _Tribune_, one of its
most valued correspondents and several of its regular
contributors are women; the agricultural and market reporter of
the New York _Times_ is a woman; the New York _Sun's_ fashion
writer is a woman, and also one of its most industrious and
sagacious reporters. Female correspondents flood the evening
papers with news from Washington. We instance these not at all as
a complete catalogue; for there are, we doubt not, more than a
hundred women known and recognized in and about Printing-house
Square as r