North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-04-24
JOurna AIS for the LAdieD q.

Among tho new undertakings of tho
spring, it is reported that two new news
papers are to be started in this city. One,
u purely literary paper, edited by some of
our m Dst cultivated resident ladies. The
other is to he IN ultra, devoted to the adj
vancement of women's rights-if anybody
can agree upon what they are. AS 8 the
whole, the Doundl ,ss continent is ours"
the fair editors will have to fill their c,l-
umns with specifications Of their views, or
else begin by claiming everything. The
bsst of it is, that all the work-typc-set-
ting as we'll as editorials to be done by
women. Think what sanctum they will
have! One will choose for her share of
the labor to read all the exchanges-poor
thing! Another will say she can work
best if she huns q gentle tune another
will argue about space and the division of
paragraphs; while the most ultra, who
knows her rights, and, knowing, dare
maintain," will persist in whistling. Who
il going to sweep down the stairs and lobk
after the paste pail? It is said that not
one of the inferior sex will be admitted on
the premises, except as an ameteur, when
the staff editorial will amuse him with a
"German." 1t is also said that at a ball
in Washington lately, the young ladies'
they must have been re'y young-jumped
through hoops, during the progress of the
German" much as circus performers are
wont to do. This would be good way,
perhaps, to dispose of some of the new
issue. What if dancing does delay the
work and the paper does not come out on
the day advertised? Everybody will be SO
curious to see it when it does come out,
that delay will only stimulate curiosity
One would suppose that one Of the van
quished sex would be selected as the satan
crepresentative-not only because the sex
of said satanic was long ago determined,
but there ought to be an Office boy who
could bring the lunches up from belmont
co.'s, and wait on the literary corps gene
rally.
It might be we'll to have one page de-
voted to such wrongs Of women as are
0chronicled by the daily press, with a pithy
defence or defiance by the wronged, as the
case may be. For instance young man
in Norfolk was lately arrested for throwing
. brick at lady's waterfall. A corrupt
judiciary let him off with fine only,
whereas If a man had but pulled the judges
nose, not insulting it with brick, goodness
only knows how long he might have Ian
guished in prison. Is there anything no.
bier for woman's rights organ to do than
to place the whole court in n pillory of
adherence? At Boston, too, a court de-
cided that Mary Ford could not recover
damages against John Turner for shooting
off her nose with a rocket If Mary F..
knew her privileges, she might use the
columns of the new paper to argue about
the technicalitics of theology, land if that
failed to move Boston jury, nothing could
succeed y for if an eye is to be given for
an eye and tooth for tooth, surely,
automatically, as well as theologically, as
Mary Ford nose is to Mary Ford, so is
John Turner's nose to John Turner, though
of course the exchange value of nose
may sometimes be above par, on the prin-
ciple of demand exceeding supply.
Probably the editors of the forthcoming
paper think that women have never had
fair opportunities of self-defcnce, and that
the new journal shall be the medium
through which a longsulfering down-trod-
den sex shall begin new mission. Mon
taigne says that men are generally more
afraid of women than women are Of men y
and if that is true, won't there be some
quaking when the new paper gets bold and
strong and brave? Nous rerrons.-N. y.
Sunday Times.