The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-18
Items for the Ladies.

The Duchessof Edinburg insists On wesfine
strings TO her bonnet, and the fashion maker'
don't know what to do about 1t.
Schenectady girl, at q spelling school, 81
down ON "pantaloons." This happens OFTEN
and vet il never gets into the papers,
Gratitude. A bach elor made will leaving
his prop erty to the girls who had refused him
"For to them owe all my earthly happiness.
How woman can keep on talking while
she ia twisting up her back hair and has her
mouth full OF hairpins, is mystery not yet
Q Explained.
One of the carriers OF the Boston TrduelJer
is Mrs. Griffin, widow aged eighty-nine years.
who still delivers papers personally to her
customers.
The lady. manager of the Presbyterian hos
pital OF New York city dismissed some doctors
who disputed her authority. One wrote a
newspaper letter in which he says, 1t is ques-
ton of right, of power, Of jurisdiction, OF
tyranny. Woman, the tyrant and usurper at
last.
Let girls education be such that she will
not consider it degrading to have to work but
rather feel pride in being able to earn the
bread OF independence. Girls who are 80
taught seldom make the miserable forced mar
riages that dependence generally entails. Truth
for the People.
care the young ladies OF the present day
fit for wives? ," asked a Boston lecturer OF his
audience. "They are fit for husbands" re-
sponded female voice, "but the trouble is
that you men are not cit for wives The ap-
plause was great and so was the discontinue
Of the lecturer.
An American lady physician, Dr. Mary Put
nam Jacobi has received from Paris the bronze
medal awarded three years ago by the Academy
OF Medicine for her graduating thesis. This
gives her rank Of from fifth to eighth III class
OF $780, for of that number Of theses four were
awarded gold and four bronze medals, and
seven more received honorable mention
No girl should be indiife rent to her personal
appearance. God meant woman to be attract
i've, and 1t is one of their duties to carry out
this design. But that dress is to be all is more
than we can believe. Just because we love to
see girls look well, as we'll as to live TO some
purpose, we would urge on them such course
Of reading and study az will confer qualities
which no modiste can supply.-Boston Tran
script.
vessel which arrived at this port last Fri
day brought the intelligence that the bark
Rebecca Crowell, which left New York on March
G, for Buenos Ayres, became disabled during a
severe gale, three days after leaving here
Several OF the spars and sails were carried
away, and the captain and first mate were in
jured to such an extent that they were confined
to their births throughout the rest of the voy-
age, and rendered incapable of managing the
vessel There was no other person on board
except the captains wife, who understood nav
igation, and she undertook the task OF con-
Quoting the bark to it's point OF destination
The second mate was young man twenty
years old, able to take the helm, but ignorant
OF the process OF making observations. The
woman then assumed the command OF the
vessel, boxed the compass, took observations,
ascertained the latitude and longitude, and di-
rected the course of the vessel. After exer-
clsing control for fifty-eight days, during which
the vessel encountered violent gales and shipped
heavy seas, the captains wife, worn out and
exhausted with her labors, conducted the YES
sci, with its valuable cargo, safely into the port
OF Buenos Ayres. a purse was made up for
her on her ARRIVAL New ork Tribune.