ecame more than ever
convinced of the necessity of full suffrage. The annual meetings
of the State Union[438] have ever since been spoken of by the
press as "suffrage conventions," because they always pass
resolutions making the demand.

Mr. L. Bixby, editor of the _State Temperance Review_, gives
several columns to the temperance and suffrage societies. Mrs.
Helen E. Gallinger, the editor of these departments, is a lady of
great ability and earnestness. Mr. Charles H. Dubois, editor of
_The Spectator_, gives ample space in his columns to notes of
women. Miss Mary C. Le Duc is connected with _The Spectator_.
Other journals have aided our cause, though not in so pronounced
a way. Mrs. C. F. Bancroft, editor of the _Mantorville Express_,
and Mrs. Bella French, of a county paper at Spring Valley, Mrs.
Annie Mitchell, the wife of one editor and the mother of another,
for many years their business associate, have all given valuable
services to our cause, while pecuniarily benefiting themselves.
The necessity of finding a voice when something needed to be
said, and of using a pen when something needed to be written, has
developed considerable talent for public speaking and writing
among the women of this State.[439]

All our State institutions are favorable to coeducation, and give
equal privileges to all. The Minnesota University has been open
to women since its foundation, and from 1875 to 1885 fifty-six
young women were graduated with high honor to themselves and
their sex.[440] Miss Maria L. Sanford has been professor of
rhetoric and elocution for many years. The faculties of the State
Normal Schools are largely composed of women. Hamline University
and Carlton College are conducted on principles of true equality.
At Carlton Miss Margaret Evans is preceptress and teacher of
modern languages. Of the Rochester High School, Miss Josephine
Hegeman is principal; of Wasioga, Miss C. T. Atwood; of Eyota
Union School, Miss Adell M'Kinley.[441]

For many years Mrs. M. R. Smith was employed as State Librarian.
Mrs. H. J. M'Caine for the past ten years has been librarian at
St. Paul, with Miss Grace A. Spaulding as assistant. Among the
engrossing and enrolling clerks of our legislature, Miss Alice
Weber is the only lady's name we find, though the m