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Title: Centennial records of the women of Wisconsin
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's State Centennial Executive Committee, Wis Butler, Anna Bates, d. 1982 Bascom, Emma Curtiss, 1828- Kerr, Katharine Fuller Brown, d. 1890
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Charities -- Wisconsin
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : Atwood and Culver
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of its members and its wide spread andincreasino influence, sufficiently attest. As an evidence of whatcan be accomplished by earnest, united effort in a field that isopen to all, it is certainly a success, and to the young daughtersof wealth and fashion throughout this broad land of ours, whosehearts are pitiful, though they beat under velvet or seal-skin,and whose hands lying folded in their silken laps, are ready forthe gentle offices of sisterly love, an earnest invitation is extendedto follow its example, and earn for themselves the reward whichthe fifth Beatitude promises, when it says, Blessed are the mer-ciful, for they shall obtain mercy. LlCy M. Schley, Secretary. WISCOXSIX STATE HOSPITAL FOE THE INSANE. This most important, perhaps of all Wisconsins public hos-pitals, is one of the leading objects of interest in her beautifulcapital. Its success and prosperity has been greatly owing to the effi-ciency and fidelity of its matron.
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THt: NEW VOKKpublic LIBRARY ArtW, Lenox and Tiiden^Fo»ndations. CENTENNIAL KECOEDS. 57 Mrs. Maky C. Halliday, for sixteen years, wliich covers itsentire existence, lias devoted herself to tlie supervision of thevaried departments which constitute the life of a hospital,containing at this time three hundred and fortj-seven j)atients.Mrs. Halliday has seen, during her residence at the hospital,six changes in the superintendencj of the institution, butthrough them all, she has stood faithfully discharging herarduous duties, and giving entire satisfaction to all associatedwith her, as well as to the trustees and officers of the board. The sphere of a matron of an insane hospital is very wide,and often embraces enough to crush a woman of common cali-ber. To plan and provide for the best good of all, with ajudicious economy, and to dispense each day to the wants andcaprices of suffering humanity — to sympathize with the sick,and cheer the despondent has been the mission of this devotedwo

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