The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-01-05
CORRESPONDENCE.

This department of the NEW NORTH
WEST is to be a general vehicle for ex-
change of ideas concerning any and all
matters that may be legitimately dis
cussed in our columns. Finding it practi-
cally impossible to answer each cores
pondent by private letter, we adopt this
mode of communication to save our
friends the disappointment that would
otherwise accrue from our inability to an
swer their queries We cordially invite
everybody that has question to ask, a
suggestion to make, or scolding to give
to contribute to the Correspondents
Column.
Mrs. S. +. NJ, NJ. D., CINCINNATI: If |
you are 'doing well pecuniarily" where
you are, we would not advise you to pull |
up stakes and emigrate for the purpose
of bettering your condition. There are
more professional men and women in
Oregon, according to population, than
in any other part OF the Union. Yet we
welcome all new comers who wish to
cast their lot with us and help to build
up or develop our resources. There is
one lady physician in Portland of your
school who is doing a thriving business.
If you wish to correspond with her, you
can find her address in our advertising
columns.
Mrs. +. c. F., Grand Mound, w. T.:
Your letter was last week inadvertently
mislaid; therefore we could not answer
it as we wished, although we gave our
opinion of the poems. The letter has
been resurrected since, and We are able
to notice it further. You say: "YOu
have doubtless read of Mr. Thornton
and his two little boys who were killed
recently by the falling of a large tree
This happened in the morning, and the
following night, rs the wife and mother
lay beside the mangled body with her
eyes closed, her husband came and stood
beside her, trembling and silent. She
asked him if he felt pain. He answered
no, but his spirit was not yet free from
the body, and from the effects of the
sudden and terrible shock" There GER
tainly is something wonderful in this
manifestation, yet you must admit that,
though the theory that spirits may re-
turn is beautiful, it was quite possible
in this case for the mind of the ago
nized widow to be so thoroughly excited
by her sudden and terrible bereavement
that her brain could easily form such
visions and dream such dreams. We
are honestly and earnestly endeavoring
} to gain light upon any and all subjects
) that are Of vital interest to humanity;
: therefore We hope whenever matters
! worth recording, which are properly au-
thenticated, come under the observation
of our subscribers, they will write us as
, you have done. We cannot return the
: Ms. Paid ten cents postage to get il
from the office.
Mrs. NJ. o. b., Seattle: Your copy OF
= WOodhuU d CIdfm, containing the
l whole of the article on Chastity u
z about which so much has been said in
the papers, has been received. 1t was
e just as we expected. The piece was gar
e bled shamefully by the press, yet there
: is no denying that Mrs. Woodhulri
J. theories upon the social question ar,
$ Utopian. If humanity ever arises t.
a such moral plane as will require n,
!. laws or restrictions in any sense, theI
e her idea of "free marriage" may safel,
g prevail. Her assertion that she has
g right to take a new husband every day
e she chooses, we deny in toto. Nohumal
If being has u right to become debdUchee
y and certainly new husband every da,
Of would level a woman TO the lowest rank
lie of prostitution. While her journal is il
l. many respects the ablest in America, W
N must pronounce its head as a being VIII
N is theoretically if not practically insan
N upon the marriage question. Yet, whe
Of we consider what her Woodruff marriag
$, was to a mind like hers, it is little wor
IN dea if she is crazy.
M Mrs. 5. +. w, San Francisco: We hav
z, received q letter from you, includin
a. many ''notices of the press" for whie
.ir we gratefully return thanks. AS yo
nd say, "the 5. f. papers are indeed yer
id respectful toward the woman NOV
ment now" You speak of havir
I'll written us four days previous to yol
at last, which letter we have not v
81 received.