Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-11-16
MoodhuIl and CIallin's Weekly.

Victoria c.. Woodhull and Tennie c.
Clafin are the names of two ladies OF
New York, who are the editors and pro-
prietors of a weekly paper named after
them.elves, s,-named Woodhull & Claf-
Inns Weekly" Their names for mouths
have been familiar to us, but we had not
until last week seen their paper, and, be-
lieve it, reader, that when we opened the
wrapper and read at the head of the
paper the names Woodhull & Clafllm,
we exclaimed Ladies'" and involunta-
rily raised Our hat. 1t is fine large
paper, of the size of tho Hearth and
Home, though in the contents the papers
bear no resemblance to each other. 1t
has for its notices, Progress! Free
Thought! Untrammeled Lives . The
world moves, truly. and this day and
generation, that has far overreached the
progress of the days and generation Of
the past, ought to have an overshadowing
genius, like that of Shakespeare, to delin-
cate perfectly the great living ladies in
the roles of this day and generation.-
Shakspeare's Isabella, in MEASURE for
Measure; his Portia, in Julius Caesar;
his Cleopatra, in Anthony and Cleopa-
ira his Desdemona, in Othello, and his
Lady Macbeth, in Macbeth, embrace the
virtue, the devotion. the caprice, the holy
love, the unholy love, the aspirations,
and the wild and uugovernable ambition
of the women of the past. These quail
ilies, good and bad, are living qualities,
and at work to-day as strongly as in the
days of the past. Human nature has
not changed an iota since the days of
Shakespeare, but since the days of that
immortal man the barriers that obstruc
ted the advancement of persons of either
sex have been broken down, hence the
development of aspirations that were un.
known in the days of Shakespeare. The
liberality of the age developes character,
the like of which this great deineator of
human character had not dreamed of
If he were living now, the ladies' Wood.
hull & ClaAin would be numbered ,mono
his characters for delineation. Ash.t.
speare is needed for these times. Avast
field here lies open and free to genius
ike his. The Weekly is the advocate of
the Sixteenth hAmcndment-which means
woman at the polls and in Office. In its
columns may be found suudry articles on
religious and political subjects. The re-
ligious articles are far from being ortho.
dox, and if in the hands of some of the
hardy sons and daughters of our beauti.
full valleys up here among the mountains,
we fear the criticisms would reach sever.
ity. When we declare the articles not
orthodox in sentiment, we allow the dear
ladies the privilege to smile and say IN
nocent" The politics is, as we have
already intimated, of the most advanced
kind. 4
An article is devoted to the manage
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany. 1t has great deal that is caus-
tic to say about the management, and
nothing that tends to promote harmony
and good fellow feeling among the mem
bers. Dear ladies'. pardon us. 1t may
be ungallans to say it. but we can't help |
it. We must say that if Commodore
Vanderbilt. or Fisk had drafted an
article against the Pennsylvania Central.
it would not have been more thoroughly
done than it was in the article to which
we refer. Is not Commodore Vanderbilt
a patron of the Weekly