Chapter 29

LOUISIANA--TEXAS--ARKANSAS--MISSISSIPPI.

St. Anna's Asylum, Managed by Women--Constitutional Convention, 1879--Women Petition--Clara Merrick Guthrie--Petition Referred to Committee on Suffrage--A Hearing Granted--Mrs. Keating--Mrs. Saxon--Mrs. Merrick--Col. John M. Sandige--Efforts of the Women all in Vain--Action in 1885--Gov. McEnery--The _Daily Picayune_--Women as Members of the School Board--Physiology in the Schools--Miss Eliza Rudolph--Mrs. E. J. Nicholson--Judge Merrick's Digest of Laws--Texas--Arkansas--Mississippi--Sarah A. Dorsey 789