Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-07
Items about Women.

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| A French writer saws so woman
throws away her best arm when she
laughs, and uses her most effective
weapon when she weeps.a
The New England Female Medical
College Of Boston, was onened - T.
lS4S, and since then has graduated
seventy-four women.
| OF the 400 ladies who have cradu.
ated at Oberlin College, l72 have
married gentlemen who were gradu-
ates Of the same institution.
| In suffrage speech at San Fran
cisco, Mrs. IL. F. M. Brown insinuat-
ed that when she was allowed to
vote, if any man insulted her at the
polls she should shoot him.
Some girls are mot worth shucks, >"
but this could not be said of that
Ohio girl who has laid by the sum of
5000, all gained by making corn-husk
door mats at ten cents each.
Mrs. Barnum speaking of crossing
the Plains, mentions Che fact Of
strong, muscular men becoming ex-
hausted, and nervous women driving
the teams to the end of the Journey.
Miss Laura G. Redden ("Howard
Glyndon'') is only twenty-five years
old, and is said to be very handsome !;
but she is deaf and almoss mute.
| She seldom attempts conversation.
| except with intimate friends.
A Boston lady complains that a
sweet-tempered dyspeptic, a little
too spiritual for this world and a
little too material for the next, and
who, therefore, seems lowering be-
tween tho two, is the highest type of
female loveliness.
A Boston lady declares that women
don't gossip, not much-that in a
country grocery store, among barrels
of molasses and piles of salt fish.
more gossip is talked by the men in
one evening than is heard in all the
farm houses Of the town.
The Woman's Advocate, in com
batting objections to female Jurors.
says that girls whose thoughts have
never scared above the ribbon tving
their tresses, or Owed deeper than
the rosette on their CATERS, are not
likely to be chosen as arbiters of the
fate of a criminal.
Instigatod by female eloquence.
some of the San Francisco journals
have commenced the work of sham
ing men out Of dry goods stores
restaurants and kitchens, as work
altogether beneath the dignity of
the muscular and superior half of
creation.
The Hospital Of the Invalids, in
Paris, has sheltered for fifty years
female soldier, Lieutenant Madame
Bulan," now SO years Old decorated
by Napoleon's own hand with the
Cross Of the Legion of Honor, and
credited with "seven years service,
three wounds, several times distin-
guished, especially in Corsica, in de-
tending fort against the English. "
Mrs. Stanton, in letter to the Rev
oJution from Iowa, describes o shrewd
invention of hers for making an
audience of women vote the right
way. Nobody but woman would
have thought of it,
| have new way of putting the
vote: "Let all those who are in favor
keep their seats, and those opposed
rise" In this way one gets the most
favorable response, because women.
like inanimate objects, generally need
some external force to put them in
motion, and the mass of them would
net rise up 20 save the nation. Thus,
you perceive, the odium and fatigue
of rising is thrown on the enemy,
and on the principle above stated.
natural inertia" the opposition is
far less in any audience than ono
might anticipate. Some carping per-
sons have criticized this way of
putting the vote, but see no reason
why we should vote Just as men do,
but every reason why we should do
all things quite differently. If you
call for the ayes few deep-voiced
men could drown ont hundreds of
women. Seeing, then, that women
will not raise their voices and stand
up, it is fair and wise to take their
approval OF everything by silence
and the sitting posture.
A MAIDEN's psalm OF LIFE."--
Tell us not in idle Jingle marriage
is an idle dream" for the girl is dead
that's single, and things are not what
they seem. Life is real, life is earn
est, single blessedness a fb ; "Man
thou art, to man returnest, has been
spoken Of the rib. Not enjoyment,
and not sorrow, is our destined end
or way, but to act that each to-mor-
row finds US nearer marriage day.
Life is long and youth is heetine,
and our hearts, though light and gay,
still like pleasant drums are beating
wedding marches all the way. In
the worlds broad field Of battle, in
the bivouac of life, BIO not like dumb
driven eattle-be q heroine--a wife.
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant.
Let the dead past bury its dead
Act, act to the living present; heart
within and hope ahead. Lives OF
married folks remind us we can live
ourllives as well, and, departing, leave
behind Us such examples as shall
"tell." Such examples that another,
wasting time in idle sports, forIorn,
unmarried brother, seeing, shall take
heart and court. Let US, then, be
up and doing. with heart on tri-
umph set still continuing, still pur-
suing, and each one husband get.
Social PHASES OF WALL STREET
Perhaps no where in the world are
the lines which separate men social
Ixy SD coDa,lofa1xy lovoIod - .