f directors, consisting of three women
and two men, has charge of all the prisons of the State. Mrs.
Johnson, one of the directors, a noble, benevolent woman,
interested in the great charities of Boston, was designated by
Governor Long--through whose desire the Association visited the
prison--to do the honors and accompany the party from Boston. The
officers, matron and physician of the Sherborn prison, are all
women. Dr. Mosher, the superintendent, formerly the physician, is
a fair, noble-looking woman about thirty-five years of age. She
has her own separate house connected with the building. The
present physician, a delicate, cultured woman, with sympathy for
her suffering charges, is a recent graduate of Ann Arbor.

The entire work is done by the women sent there for restraint,
and the prison is nearly self-supporting; it is expected that
within another year it will be entirely so. Laundry work is done
for the city of Boston, shirts are manufactured, mittens knit,
etc. The manufacturing machinery will be increased the coming
year. The graded system of reward has been found successful in
the development of better traits. It has four divisions, and
through it the inmates are enabled to work up by good behavior
toward more pleasant surroundings, better clothes and food and
greater liberty. From the last grade they reach the freedom of
being bound out; of seventy-eight thus bound during the past year
but seven were returned. The whole prison, chapel, school-room,
dining-room, etc., possesses a sweet, clean, pure atmosphere. The
rooms are light, well-ventilated, vines trailing in the windows
from which glimpses of green trees and blue sky can be seen.

Added to all the other courtesies, there came the invitation to a
few of the representatives of the movement to dine with the Bird
Club at the Parker House, in the same cozy room where these
astute politicians have held their councils for so many years,
and whose walls have echoed to the brave words of many of New
England's greatest sons. The only woman who had ever been thus
honored before was Mrs. Stanton, who, "escorted by Warrington,"
dined with these honorable gentlemen in 1871. On this occasion
Susan B. Anthony and Harriet H. Robinson accompanied her. Around
the table sat several well-known