Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-01-13
Ladies' and Gentleman.

Thad. Meighan, of the New York
Courier, touches upon the question,
''woman and ladies" with delicacy and
wit He says that he is pleased to hear
that the Saleswomen's Early Closing AS
sociation had highly harmonious meet
ing at the Plimpton Buildings, on Thurs
day evening. He is also delighted to be
told by the reporter, that Miss Jennie
Bliven is an accomplished secretary, and
read the minutes of the last meeting III
fascinating manner. II he had called
her "Jane," instead of "Jennie," how
ever, our satisfaction would have been
greater. But when the gushing reporter
goes on to talk of stores where LADY
clerks" are employed, we are compelled
to tell him that he is humbug. There
is no such things as 'lady clerks" A
lady may be a clerk, but q clerk Is a lady
professionally. Ladies are popularity
supposed to be wealthy and idle persons
of the female sect, who spend their time
in the vanities of life and die for want
of something to do. Our shop-girls and
women are worthy, hard-working per-
sons highly deserving of sympathy and
support. AS working-girls and women,
we can't understand the claim upon us;
as ''ladies" we can't. This word Gladly
is, in strict propriety, only applicable to
the wife of British ''lord.' Its Yankee
use, by which it has been made to usurp
the place of the honest Saxon word
woman" is particularly nauseous. The
advertisements under the head ''situa-
tion wanted in the papers are full OF
this disgusting twaddle: " A sales lady"
wishes place ''young lady wants to
learn "the dress making;" and so on ad
infnitum. The servant girls have also
taken it up, and now announce to you
that the "wash lady is below" and that
the GENTLEMAN that clanes the front is
wanting his money" etc., etc. Dickens
related that when he visited Chicago,
the hackman stepped up and said, "Are
you the man that goes to the depot?"
Upon an affirmative reply, he said,
"Then I'm the gentleman that drives
YOU"
KEEP THE SMALL POTATOES UNTIL
SPRING-Farmers frequently feed their
small potatoes to fattening pigs IN the
fall 1t would be much better to keep
them until spring, and then cook them,
mix with little meal and feed them to
sucking sows and young pigs. In the
spring, before the clover is ready to turn
into, we are generally short OF succulent
food, whereas in the autumn we have
apples, pumpkins, cabbage leaves, and
variety of vegetables that will not keep
until spring The value of potatoes as
food for stock does not lie SO much in
the mere nutriment they contain as in
their giving tone to the stomach and
they will prove much more useful when
fed out to young pigs and breeding sows
in the spring, as is usual, then when fed
to fattening pigs in the fall.
DR. Stillman Spooner, of Oneida,
N. Y, homeopathic surgeon, has been
struck from the list of examining pen
sion surgeons by Commissioner FL. Van
Aarnum on the ground that all examin-
ing surgeons for the bureau should be-
long to one school and adopt but one
theory of medicine recognized by the
bureau. DIR. Spooner protests i'll long
letter to the Commissioner against the
insult thus offered the large and infiuen-
tial body of homeopathic practitioners
in the United States.