Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-06-30
Woman Items

It is getting TO he quite the fashion 80 the
Western States to e!ect women for school super
intenients
Some people ssy that dsrk-bairei women
marry soonest. We differ 1t is the lght-held-
ed ones.
The woman who attends to her neighbors 5usi-
ness makes her bed just before retiring.
Why is woman tying her corset like a msu
drinking to drown care? Besslse N s0-lacag
hersef she becomes tight.
A Wyoming women-w0man complains that
hundreds Of the sex refuse 70 vote in the ferri-
tory unless coaxei to do so by good looking
meu.
4 woman suffrage lecturer in Iowa calls upon
all women who want 90 become voters 10 forget
there is such thing As m0delty. "Pu 10 of, 30
shs says. ''snd become ike men.
There Is young lady ia Camiea studying
/ Latin. She has beau. lie asked her shst sac
| transit gloria munai meant. She translated it
"Come and see me on Monday"
4 Wisconsin paper tells shot, girl who hat
ed her suitor to such an extent that when be
came 70 see her on Sunday evening she threw
her arms about his neck and squeezed him Al
most to death.
Enthusiastic MaiGen-"Oh. Mr Lowell, ia
D
Wouldn't your
Modest Youth -"wen II you were the
violiaist, think Td-a- sooner be the VIC
lin"
Henry Ward Beecher says: 1T will scarce
ly be denied that men are superior 70 women.
as men and that women r.Te immessursbly supe
ri0r to men, n women rhile both OF them t.
ge;her are more than q m ltch for either Of them
separately"
Miss Beecher says: at is the side issues Of
the woman question th2t ave caused ne and
others, who once fsvora bly, regarded it. 70
change our opinions" Mss 3 is right. Free
love as expounded by han, lsone but VIGOROUSLY
bad women, and by virtuous but Fhsrp-nosei
women with broomstick inns, hiss ga Gmped the
cause.
4 little girl not yet 10 years of age was
brought before n New Oresns maeis rste re-
Gently for st-eet-walking- She told her history
in Just these words; 81 was pushed IN to the
street by my aunt J sne three yesrs ago. snt
have been forced to look out FOR myself ever
since" Who can blame the child Hesyea will
certainly be opened for such ss her when the
end comes.
In a town in Ohio, aot long ago. the W msr
went in bands Of two and three with their nit-
ting and sewing into she dram-shops Of the
place, and spent the whole day with their work,
and talking politely upon various topics. Hus-
bands and friends came in, saw how things
looked, and had no. the courage 10 step 20 the
bar and drink This was kept up for several
days, and the result was every shop in the place
was closed.
A motherless young lady in New York, beau
tiful and splendidly educated at the Georgetown
convent, has been for some time the sole mistress
Of her fathers elegant house on Murray Hill.
Some time ago he employed n Chinese butler,
and the young woman became strangely iascnat-
ed with the smile that was" chil1like and bland.
Several weeks ago the old gentleman found it ou t
and posted the heather off to China with money
enough to keep him there, and meanwhile keeps
good watch of the girl bereft of her Mongolian
lover.
al c.. " in letter from Wesiern seminary,
declares if young man could only live for a
month at the school among the grown-up girls
there, and witness their daily quarrels, their
many email vices Of character, their dirty per
sonal habits, sc, he would never marry or be-
lieve in q woman so long as he lived. Il. {.
saws she has been a teacher IN several schools
for young ladies, and that the one she writes
from is q fair sample of all. al. c. may &C
right, but it is always unsafe to accept woraan's
testimony sgsinst woman.
A drug clerk in Newark recently put up
prescription for young lady friend, Of = dose
Of castor oil. She innocently inquired how it
could be taken without tasting. He promised to
explain to her, and in the meantime proposed to
drink glsss of soda water with her. When he
had finished. he said 8" My friend, you have
taken your oil and did not know it The young
lady was nearly crazy, and cried ''Oh, dear, it
wss MT for myself wanted the oil it was for
my mother"
II IS startling fact, and we almost doubt the
prudence of telling it, that young ladies do eat.
If this is not the case, why do the records Of
VSssar College show that two barrels Of hour,
five barrels of potatoes, one barrel Of coffee, one
barrel of soup, two hundred and sixty pounds
of poultry, one hundred and eighty pounds Of
Toast beef, two hundred quarts Of milk, one
hundred and sixty quarts of ice-cresm eight
hundred eggs are consumed daily in that institu-
tion, to say nothing of pork and beansl All Of
this goes to show that young ladies'. even os the
better class, cannot keep in good order on am
bross, better than other people. And they show
their good sense in this, that the more they are
educated the closer they stick to their hash.
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