woman as dean, and, although but a year old, has
made an auspicious beginning. A number of young ladies,
graduates of the State University and other literary
schools, have gone to the School of Domestic Economy to
finish their education.

Iowa has many women engaged as journalists. Prominent among these
is Miss Maggie VanPelt, city editor of the Dubuque _Times_. She
conducts her department very ably, and acceptably to her readers.
Whether an advocate for suffrage or not, she is certainly a
practical woman's rights woman. Independent and fearless, she
goes about day and night where she pleases, and wherever her
business calls her. A revolver, which she is known to carry,
makes it safe for her to walk the street at all hours. Mrs. Will
Hollingsworth, of the Sigourney _Review_, does a large part of
the writing for that paper, and assists in the management of the
establishment. _Woman's Hour_, edited by Mary J. Coggeshall, was
published by women at Des Moines two seasons, during the
exposition. Ten thousand copies were printed for free
distribution, and a handsomely decorated department granted the
society in the exposition for their work. Mrs. E. H. Hunter and
Mrs. Woods represented the society. Mrs. Pauline Swaim is noted
for her journalistic ability. Besides working on her husband's
paper, the Oskaloosa _Herald_, she has done much for the _State
Register_, reporting for it the proceedings of the Senate. In
October, 1875, Nettie Sanford started a paper at Marshalltown,
called _The Woman's Bureau_, which she published for two years.
During 1878 she published the _San Gabriel Valley News_, in
California. Mrs. L. M. Latham for many years conducted a suffrage
column in the Cedar Rapids _Times_; since 1884 she has been
associated with Mrs. J. L. Wilson on the _Transcript_, an eight
column paper devoted to general news, temperance and woman
suffrage. The paper is owned by Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Nettie P. Fox
edits the _Spiritual Offering_ at Ottumwa; Mrs. Hattie Campbell,
a suffrage department in _The Advance_, at Des Moines; Mary
Osborne edits the _Osceola Sentinel_, and is superintendent of
the public schools of Clark county; Mrs. Lafayette Young is
engaged on the _Atlantic Telegraph_. Very many papers in the
State have women in