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Women and SLAM.

There is lengthy article in the Sat
t'ddy Review, comparing the women Of
England and those of other nations,
which promises to attract no little at
tention. In the outset, it hints at the
existence of q state of affairs in good
English society that has no parallel
here, simply because our best society is
at once neither so good or so bad. There
was time, and within the memory of
those who read this, when the English
patrician girl was the very type of mod
esty and sweetness, compared with
whom the French girl was forward
subtle ''thing;n but according to the
writer referred to above, all that has
been changed, and a comparison of the
the two ladies rebounds to the disad-
vantage of the fair young Briton. Slang,
it seems, is at the bottom of it. For the
last ten years the fairer half of English
patrician society seems to have been
cankered by the introduction
of slang phrases. According to the Sat
tTddy ReUiclc, the ladies of England
are breaking out into strange Oaths, and
adopting the used-up expletives of
roughs and rOwdies. This is n sufli-
ciently startling assertion, but the
writer evidently knows whereof he
withal. 1t is the characteristic of the
publication referred to that it is pre-
entitled to speak for and of
the higher classes of English society.
Among that society its circulation is
almost universal, and the plain infer
ence is that no significant statements
would appear in its columns whose
taisity could be speedily exposed. That
English society, therefore, has become
vitlated by the prevalence of fashionable
slang may be accepted as a fact; and Un-
fortunately this slang appears to be Of
the worst description. The writer even
goes so far as to charge the English
ladies with ''little ventures into the
region of blasphemy,n an accusation
which clearly indicates that slang is al
lied to irreverence, and that its effects
may not be expected to stop at the mere
corruption OF speech.
American society, too, it is feared, if
weighed in the balance, will be found
by no means free from this social weight
upon good breeding. Slang, in one form
or another is almost universal here, but
we are happy to believe that it is rs yet
a stranger to the bOudiOr. At all
events, if American wOmen-certainly
if Southern wOmen-Use slang at all, it
is innocuOus slang, and widely separated
from the sort to which the English
writer refers. The worst that they are
guilty of, and it is not a trivial fault, is
the assumption of nicknames, which
has changed all our Marys and Sarahs
and Harriets and Margarets into MOllies
and Sallies and Hatties and A1aggies.
But slang is Objectionable in any form,
and no one who has under his control
the morals of household should neglect
to suppress its first exhibition as a dan
gerous laXity, which brings immOdesty
and irraIipiOn in ite train
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MEDICAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN.

New York now offers all the mani
fold advantages of a medical advantage
for women, free Of ezpeISe; such an op-
portunity as is not offered elsewhere on
the continent. The first regular winter
session of the College proved a perfect
success, and the second regular session
commences on Tuesday, Oct. 18th, to
continue twenty weeks. Surgical and
medical cliniques will be given during
the whole session. Patients are pre-
scribed for in presence of the class. OBJ
stetrical cases are assigned to advanced
students, the regular Professor being
within call in all abnormal cases.
a room for practical anatomy will be
open during the session, New York sup
plying abundant material for dissection.
The conditions on which diplomas are
awarded are plain and reasonable, at
tendance on two full courses Of lectures
being required, the latter at this college.
Candidates must likewise have studied
medicine three years under the direc-
ton of n regular graduated physician,
including attendance upon lectures, and
also have attained the age of twenty
one years. They are expected to write
a thesis on some subject connected with
the science of medicine. This College
is located at No. 225 East Fifty-Thir,l
street, where applications may be made
after Oct. sth. We rejoice at the success
of project that opens a new career for
women in the field where she is most
nnodaJ
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A Lady Preacher.

went last Saturday to Brooklyn, to
lass Sunday with Rev. Celia Burleigh,
the paster OF the single Unitarian
church which Connecticut affords. 1t
is an old but comfortable building, this
church in which her little flock gather
together. They are few in number, but
are people of transformations refinement,
and more real culture than many q city
congregation can boast. They are quite
able to appreciate the fine discourse
which their elergywOman gave them
yesterday morning. Her text was from
Revelations, that suggestive text which
says: "The sea shall give up its dead.n
Mrs. BuTleigh dwelt briefly, but most
vividly, on what would be the fulfill
ment Of this passage, according to the
old, literal Interpretation. What a sight
1t would be TO witness, if the dead, small
and great, whom the sea had entOmbed,
should rise bodily. If limbs frozen for
ages among Polar ice should melt again
into human warmth-if the old Morse
man should rise from the waves they
had ridden in triumph-if the captains
OF sunken navies with their crews
should come to life-if the awful secrets
OF crime and wrong which the sea holds
were to float up to sight, and confront a
Il
awful scene truly. But is there for
those who have ceased to regard the
Scriptures letter, and who reject the
old notion Of the resurrection of fhe
body, no sea which shall Yield an its
dead-nO resurrection of all the honor
and dishonor, the madness and mystery
of life?
In the sea Of memory, the worlds
cOStliest freight has gone down; and for
every dead thought and word and deed
shall be its own resurrection. Nothing
is lost-nothing can be evaded. Our
deeds shall meet Us, every one, and
stand there with unveiled faces, sol
emnly accusing or else eXcusing US, in
the hour when our souls shiver, Unclad
and stripped of all earthly pomp and
circumstances, on the farther shore of
that sea which flows forever between
the living and the dead. 1t becomes us
to have a care that the long procession
shall be one in whose face we are not
afraid to look
Lshould like to tell you of the wom-
anly dignity, the unaffected earnestness
of Mrs. Burleighs delivery-Of the pic
turesque suitableness of her attire-a
heavy, handsomely made black silk,
with simple white necktie-of all the
pleasan. details which add to her work
the grace of womanhOod, while they
take from it nothing Of its strength or
effectiveness.
But photographs Of women, whether
pen-phOtogr1ph or other, are usually
failures. The impression L brought
away with me Of most interest to the
outside world, is that one woman, by
her absolute fitness of her calling, has
proved that woman's place is as much
in the pulpit as i'm the parlor. We are
human souls, and let US do each one the
work to which God calls rs, whether it
he with pen Of poet, or broom Of house
VIII.
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CHAPTER NXXYI.

THE CoLoNEL's STORY
"My children, the tale which I am
about to relate is one of my own life,
and true story.
az was born in Westmoreland, Vir-
ginia, and consequently have the honor
of boasting of the same State for my
birthplace rs the father of our country.
'AIy parents We're considered wealthy,
and owned a large plantation with quite
a number of slaves. My brother George,
who was Roberts father, and myself
were the only children, when a little
sister made her appearance in our
midst. Great was the joy at her birth,
and brilliant were the future prospects
in anticipation for the little stranger.
''My father, I am sorry to say, was
rather a cruel master and exacted the
most implicit obedience from his sub
jects, or inflicted rigid punishment.
This evil might have been averted had
my mother been a woman whose mild
and gentle influence excited a sway
over my father, but, on the contrary,
she was Of a very indolent disposition,
with little thought for those around her.
Though her disposition was very affec-
tionate, and she idolized her husband
and children, still she seemed TO hold
the poor slaves who We're utterly de-
pendent upon her in adherence, all but
Kizzy, who was house-keeper, and
whom she held in high esteem. Cleo
patra, or Patty, as she was always
called, young mulatto woman about
twenty, was appropriated as nurse to
our little sister, our old nurse having
died short time previous. Somehow
my mother and Patty could never agree,
the former continually reprimanding
the latter for some misdemeanor, and
the latter constantly doing something
to annoy her mistress, until a perfect
hatred seemed to exist between them.
At this crisis, Notwithstanding she was
an excellent nurse, my mother resolved
to part with her in that capacity and
place her where she would be less in her
sight At this time my sister was about
a year old, when one day my parents
had occasion to visit a neighboring town
on business and left her in the care oi
Patty until their return, which would
be in 4 few hours, telling my brother
and myself to remain at home, and
upon no cosnideration to leave our sis
ter alone with her nurse, seeming tC
have a presentiment Of coming evil.
They had been gone about an hOul
when neighbor's children came to
spend the day with us. So delighted
were we with our friends that we quite
forgot our parents injunctions and
thoughtlessly accompanied our friends
TO favorite spot quite distance from
the house, where We remained until tbe
return of our parents reminded Ms Of our
disobedience. Obeying their call. we
entered the house; but what was on,
fright and dismay when we bebeId ON,
darling little sister, whom We all fairl,
idolized, lying motionIess, and so nal,
and still that we felt sure we ,vera II
the presence Of the dead. Our fatbe,
and mother, nearly overwhelmed wifi
grief, were trying every means in tbai,
power to restore the little sufferer I,
consciousness, without any avail. unit
the arrival of our family physician, VIII,
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"a London newspaper says that the master
tailors pay only fifteen pence, or thirty cents.
for making a coat, and then the poor seam
stresses have TO find their own thread
o A Thousand stitches by night or dav;
Athousand stitches for bread:
A Thousand stitches-a penny the nav.
And out Of it ind the thread.
Itell or the poor white slave
For Freedoms mocking strain
To the worker from birth 10 grave
In poverty, hunger and pain
or the weary eyes and the fingers sore,
OF the wolf that lies at The pauper door,
Ofthe ceaseless sound OF the needles cliek.
Ofthe bright hopes crushed. and the faint heart
sick,
Where the sewers forever strain
Their thousand stitches by night or DAY:
thousand stitches for bread;
Athousand stitches-a penny the pay,
And out OFT ind The thread.
No fiction this, but hard truth.
a drama played to this day,
BY actors who never know youth,
But sew in "a brief decay.
At Lonesome attic or cellar bare,
Fighting with needles the spoiler spare;
or siclIening fast in some reeking shop,
Where the death-dews hang on the panes and
drop;
Woman, and girl, and boy, and man,
Crushed down an by poveriy's ban,
The young i'm years, and the gray,
With their thousand stitches by night OF
day:
thousand stitches for bread;
\ thousand stitches-a penny the pay,
And ont OF il ind the thread.
Shopworic had by the piece:
Shoddy, and cloth, and cord;
Cloth that makes in each brow a crease;
Cloth that the hand had scored;
Fustian dyed with a ruddy stain,
The thin heart-blood from the toiler's vein;
Shoddy made mp for the shoddy lord
Who fattens and feasts on his slave abhorred,
Drinks Of his sweat till the resf-,lays come,
And slave lac quits him the city's hum;
This for rest in the wOrz-house walls;
This in the clay for another calls;
One with bony and beck'ning hand,
Who gravely ever the workers scanned;
Elm now the tailors' board,
While others sew night and day
a thousand stitches for bread;
A thousand stitches-a penny the pay,
And out Of 10 find the thread.
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AWEsTERN JoKE.-The Peoria Tran
script tells this joke on one of the deni-
zens Of that place: Two gentlemen re-
Gently went across the river, several
miles, hunting snipe. One of them un-
derstOod the business; the other did not,
having only "herd tell of it," and
dreamed about it. The man who was
posted told the other that he must take
bag, hold its mouth open, and stand
quietly until the birds flew into the bag,
as they surely would do. So the until
ated chap took his post to wait for the
coming of the birds, while the other
went into the woods to scare them to-
wards the man with the bag. instead
of attempting to scare up any birds he ne
walked leisurely back to the city. ana
,'.ort 10 baJ THE victimized individual
came back about one o'clock at night,
complaining that he had not caught
bird, aud that his eomP;a[nlon IN IN hunt hunt
came ont somebody was mad, but had
to treat, nevertheless.
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4 very distinguished Paris physician
savs: al believe that, during the twenty
wears [ have practiced my profession,
twenty thousand children have been
carried to the cemetries, a sacrifice to
the absurd custom Of exposing their
arms. Put the bulb of a thermometer
into a baby's mouth, and the mercury
rises to ninety degrees. Now, carry the
same to its little hand; if the arm be
bare and even cool, the mercury will
sink to fifty degrees. OF course, all the
blood that flows through these arms
must fall ten to forty degrees below the
temperature of the heart. Need / say,
when these currents of the blood flow
back to the chest, the child's vitality
must be more or less compromised
And need | add that we ought not TO be
surprised at the frequently recurring al
fectious Of the tongue, throat or stohi-
ach? ~
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TIE LACE GITIS OF NOTTINGHAM.
Every lace machine employing two men
requires 20 to 80 women, to wind the
silk or cotton first, and to dress, finish,
clip and scCllop, and card or fold, and
pack up the goods at fast. The above is
a moderate estimate of the proportion
of girls over 16 years old required.
'Pattern girls,u who make up pattern
books, and post up and prepare, ticket
and number little packets of patterns to
20 abroad, and who therefore must have
some education, or at least write fairly,
get about 81 a week. From or to 80
or 40 of these smart girls are employed
in each warehouse. They must be
dressed well, and sometimes rather
smaTtly, because they are constantly in
and out the sale rooms, and seen by the
buyers. "Jenniers,n who wind the
lace on the cards, get about 81 4 week,
and finisherS generally 12s. to e1, IS.
These are warehouse hands," though
they do not get, on an average, higher
wages-if so much-tOr clever frame
clipper, or winder, in q factory can earn
from IS to % shillings a week. "Dress-
ing1 is dirty work, done in intensely
hot rooms, in enormously large build
ings, but the girls wages are very high.
This immense demand for female la
Dor the town, of course, cannot supply.
The work is so lucrative and so light
and agreeable, especially the warehouse
work, that young girls are attracted
from all the towns and villages around,
and even from a considerable distance
These girls live, remote from their
friends, in lodgings. Sometimes one or
two join and rent house, and live to-
gether.
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Miss Lousie NJ. Alcott, writing from
Brittany, says that before her first week
was over, she ceased to be surprised at
any demonstration of feminine strength,
skill, or independence, for everywhere
the women took the lead. They not
only kept house, reared children and
knit every imaginable garment the hu-
man frame can wear, but kept the shops,
titled the gardens, held the markets,
cleaned the streets, and bought and sold
cattle, leaving the men free to enjoy the
pursuits they seemed inclined to follow
breaking horses, mending roads, and
getting drunk. The market seemed en-
tirely in the hands of the women, and
lively scenes they presented to our un-
accustomed eyes, especially the pig
market held every week, in the square
before our house. At dawn the squeal-
ing begun and was kept up till sunset.
The carts came in from all the neigh
boring hamlets, with tubs full of infant
pigs, over which the women watched
with maternal care till they were safely
deposited among the rows of tubs that
stood along the walk facing Annie of
Bretaigne's grey old tower, and the
pleasant promenade which was once the
fOsse about the city walls. Here
madame would seat herself, and knit
briskly till a purchaser applied, when
she would drop her work, dive among
the pink innocents, and hold up one by
its unhappy leg, undisturbed by its
dOleful cries, while she settled its price
with a blue-gowned, white-capped
neighbor as sharp-witted and shrill-
tongued as herself. If the bargain was
sruck, they clapped their hands together
in a peculiar way, and the new owner
clapped her purchase into meal bag,
slung it over her shoulder, and departed
with her squirming, squealing treasure,
as calmly as a Boston lady with a
satchel full of ribbons and gloves.
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Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, in her
congratulatory letter TO Mrs. Hunting
ton, of NOrwalk, on the position she
took in the recent election, says;
Next winter we will beseige Con
gress, and win the day, and then we
will make Elizabeth Cady stanton
President in 1876. We must Degln tne
next century with Madam MaSnii,s' su,l.s -,
the Cabinet. and a good many III both
houses Of Congress. Don't you think
so?n
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Men are dying every day.
Widows are cropping about with tear
dimmed eyes in total ignorance of that
which is necessary to be done to settle
and arrange business matters upon
which the comfort Of their fatherless
children depends.
Still do tire majority Of women ignore
the importance Of understanding and
taking an interest in business matters,
sufficient to know what needs to be at
tended to, i'm case they are left alone to
battle with the world.
Many men are culpablc for the ignOr-
ance of their wives. "They do not ped
die their affairs to women. Let my
wife attend to her business and I'll at
tend to mine," is the motto of many
very good, but shOIt-sighted men.
From men, women are impressed that
knowledge of business matters makes
them appear ''strong-minded,n and to
be attractive they must not bother their
heads with the intricacies and peTpleXi-
ties with which men are daily brought
in contact.
1t is amusing to see these pretty crea-
lures toss their heads in disdain of hav-
ing anything to DO with disagreeable
subjects; all matteT-Of-fact practicali-
ties, and the routine of business per-
sued by the sharer Of joys and woes be-
ing included in the taboOed category.
She could not write bank check cor
rectly, even if to fail were the forfeit of
much desired acquisition to her already
elaborate wardrobe.
And Notwithstanding the "finish" OF
her education in q fashionable seminary
to the expense Of several thousands OF
dollars you might as well ask a dane
ing-jacl to compute the interest on a
note, as to imagine her dainty head
eq2ial to the task.
Poor thing, her power of strength and
ineXhaUstible eXchequer may die some
day, and leave a nice fortune to be used
up by the bad management of lawyers,
and she will find her revenue suddenly
cut off, and discover herself as helpless
as babe in the woods. Fools will only
l learn by eXperience.-EIHl OrLOU.
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Who SAYS a woman has no influence
in elections? \ woman appe3rc1 at
tLe sixth ward polls, recently, leading
her husband by the arm 1lcket dls-
tributors crowded around nm, 0ut she
waived them away, saying; Never
n,ind. vote this man, She pressed
through the crowd around the ballot
box and saw that her husband east his
ballot, after which she went out of the
building and led up two more men to
vote, making them vote as she said
CIcUcJdRd PidiHdc0lcr.
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MEN GossIPs.-A woman gossip, like
a man drunkaTd, is bad indeed, but of
all things n man gossip and drunken
woman are the worst. To see n man
shaking his head and twisting his
mouth over bits OF tattle and making
a great ado about nothing, IS disgnst-
ing.
Now and then one sees n regular old
man gossip, although they are not as
frequently met with as among women,
which is a thing to cause rejoicing, be-
cause one man gossip can do more harm
than ten women with each poisonous
sting on the end of her tongue. He sets
forth the things he tells as facts, ana
saving: 81 ought to know what | say
for being a man I see both sides OF liie,
and get at the truth when you women .L.s
caunot.u That settles it, ana the ma
iority accent the bugbears for gospel
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A Maine man who was addicted to
the vice Of intemperance, so disgusted
his wife that she, after repeated but vain
efforts to reform him, left him to his
fate. The deserted husband, however,
did not enjoy his loneliness, and thus
advertised:
"Lef By Bed and Bodri-One of the
best of wives. Whoever will give in
formation as to where may find her
shall be suitably rewarded, and all
charges paid"
The good wife returned, made another
effort, with the assistance of the culprit,
and he thoroughly reformed, aud, as the
novels say, "they lived happily together
for many years" The incident occurred
in 1881, before divorces and separations
were of everyday occurrence. And
certainly in these days, after lapse of
forty years, scores of husbands and
wives could do no better than to learn a
lesson from this couple, and "try again"
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This is what n Gloucester. paper
says: cone of the biggest doses ; OIL sfe1 I,lJseS
and water ever mixed in this harpor :lt
was yesterday forenoon, when eignIty
blooming damsels were Datlins Oh 'i'e
Pavilion beach at one time"
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Although brevity is the soul of wit,
did you ever know man more funny
when he was a little short?
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ENTERED, according % the Act Of Congress, in
the year 1872, by Mrs. Susie Wthercll, in the Of
fee Of the Librarian Of Congress at Washington
Cifv1
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Gbp as~ tiortBwpsf.

\ Journal for the People.
Devoted to the Interests Of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religiop.
Alive to all Live Issues, ana TboroB,,.,,.
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the wrones
of the Masses.
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Correspondents writing over assumed sIqna-
lures must make known their names TO the
Editor, or no attention viii be given to their
communications
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SONORA HEWITT.

by MRS. SUSIE wmuERELL.