Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-06-30
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Notes for the Women

Notes for the Women.
A HfNDoo PRovRRB SAYS: s'Strike not.
even with a flower, a wife. though she has
a thousand faults. ae
MRS. STANTON, wife of the late Secretary
of War. has rented a mansion at German
town, Pa. Her health is somewhat i'm
paired. m
MILE. PUsrowoJTow. who during the last
Polish insurrection was adiutant to General
Langiewicz, died recently at Constantine.
pie.
The women of Japan are the most iaye-
terate iortune-seekers, having their fortunes
told many times in day, or until they get
an answer to suit themselves.
HE industrial school for GIRLS at Water
bury, Conn.,, established about six years
ago. has been very successful in doing
good to the poorer class of girls.
IHEoPHILE GAUTIER says of Mile. Nilsson
IN Hamlet "She is inimitable; she is
Ophella herself tue very vision of the
poet! Upon her pale brow Shakespeare
has pressed kIss'-which is very pretty
but rather shiveiy thing for NJ Gautier to
say.
AN accomplished young lady, for severa
years leading clerk in the Middlesex
Mass, } Registry of Deeds office, has op-
ened an office in Boston for the purpose N
carrying on the business of conveyance oi
real estate.
FIVE English magazines are edited by
women -Belgravla, by Miss Braddon; st.
James, by Mrs. Riddle; Englishwoman's \
Domestic Magazine, by Mrs. Beeton; aud
the Argosy, 10y Mrs. Henry Wood.
Miss MARY F. HovEY, Professor of Ger
man Languages and Literature in the Ae-
rlcultural College, Kansas. is mastering
the Swedish, with the intention of bring.
ing into the institution tho Swedish ele-
ment in the state.
Mas. s. w. DoDDs, NJ. D., says this, and
size is right: 1 -
And yet, we very well know that woman
is at present physically incompetent to earn
equal wages, inasmuch as she IN not ,aily
sick, but she Is in the fetters of fashion
Look at that lady clerk in this store; huge
bundle OF imported kair Qrom some old
hospital, they say on her head, or vile cor
set around her vital organs, swinging
crinoine over her climbs of locomation, .
and trail at her feet , Watch her for a
moment, and see how she mannvres; she is
trying TO get down box OF gloves from q
shelf a little above her head; can't reach il;
waist too tight. and dress too low ON the
shoulders tries again, on tip-toe; fails
calls a brother clerk; no comes In haste,
but steps on her trail, aud comes near fall
ing; he says, Excuse me;" but he thinks,
'Confound 1t You are nuisance"
MOTHER AND l.
Mrs. Willis and her daughter have locat.
ed themselves, for the present, in one cor
ner OF the shabbiest, dirtiest, smoliest old
depot in Boston, the Hartford and Erie, on
Federal street, at the loot of Summer st.
The delightful surprise Of coming from the
cars upon this beautiful display of choicest
flowers is almost startling And the bril-
liant colors, and sweet fragrance are made
doubly effective by the dingy surroundings
and unpleasant odors There is need in
that busy and unattractive part of the city
OF some elevating and cheering influence,
and no doubt this bright little corner Will
he often visited by adn,iring groups of
children, If not by other residents of that
foreign quarter, whose sense of beauty will
be quIckened and developed by the sight
ui - 30 icvoiy. - G~.- flowers l think
these women have started an Influence for
the good and elevation of the hard work
ing people of that vicinity, whose nCmes
cannot rossess much thai il reh.ing aud
attractive, but cannot he easily estini.tec,
and should not loo underv,ilued. L was
anxious TO know if the stand was owned
and supplied with flowers by some of our
established florists. or If it and the flowers
were the property of the pale young wo
man who sat there to sell them. So ven
tured to ask If tho flowers were hers, or il
she was hired to sell them for some one
else. ''Oh, no" she replied, "they belong
TO mother and 1; it is our enterprise. We
are alone III the world. and have no one 10
depend upsn. Mother and spaded up the
garden ourselves this spring. and mother il,
sixty years old We have raked ana
picked off the stones. and put them in "a
wheelbarrow. and / wheeled them away
myself" further learned that the daugh-
ter had taught school until her health
broke down; then, having partially recov-
cred, she began To teach music, when her
health again failed, aud she could not go
on. By the advice OF her physician she
commenced, as soon as convalescent, to
cultivate their garden, and the health and
strength OF both her mother and herself
has been very much improved by their
beneficial labor. Boston Transcript