own as _The Wasp_. This was
the continuation of a paper formerly published by her in
Pittsburg, Pa., and in St. Cloud, Minn., called _The Visitor_.
Many other papers by women have been since published in the
District. Perhaps the most voluminous author in this country is
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, who has written a volume for each
year of her life, and is now sixty-five years of age. Her
authorship has been confined to romances, which have been very
popular. A large proportion of the teachers of the public schools
in the District are women, some of them of very marked culture.
Many of the most noted and successful private schools, some with
collegiate courses, are conducted by women. Among these, Mrs.
Margaret Harover who taught in the District during the war, is
worthy of mention, also Mrs. Ellen M. O'Connor, president of the
Miner school. Mrs. Sarah J. Spencer, as associate principal of
the Spencerian business college whence large classes of young
women have been graduated for many years past, is deservedly
popular. She was at one time prominent in the woman suffrage
movement, acting as corresponding secretary of the National
Association. She is now engaged in one of the large charity
organizations of the city. Many colored women who have been
graduated from Howard University, have become quite successful as
teachers, and some have studied medicine. All of the copyists in
the office of registrar of deeds are women. A goodly number are
short-hand reporters for the courts, among whom Miss Camp,
daughter of the assistant clerk, is notably skillful.

The number of women who hold property in the District is large
and rapidly increasing. A woman may now enter into almost any
honorable profession that she chooses, and maintain her
respectability. All of the professions are open to her, and the
sphere of trades is rapidly widening. The progress made in this
regard in the last quarter of a century amounts almost to a
revolution. The first women ever admitted to the reporter's
gallery of the Senate and House were Abigail Dodge (Gail
Hamilton), and Helen M. Barnard, both political writers of great
power; the former as a reporter for the New York _Times_, and the
latter for the New York _Herald_. Mrs. Barnard, during Grant's
administration, was