The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-19
Items for the Ladies.

Miss Matte III. Strickland, Of st. Johns,
Mich, is delivering lectures in Iowa on the
suffrage question.
The grls at vassar College are not dropping
much this winter. That institution is said to
bake $500 batter-cakes at time.
At a recent railway festival, the following
striking sentimnet was given: sour Mothers
the only faithful tenders who never misp laced
a switch"
Mrs. Mary Livermore preached in one OF the
churches at Lansing, Sunday March 9TH, from
the text, "Bear We one another's burdens."-
The church was crowded, many being unable to
gain admittance.
Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter is trying
to find employment for herself and boy in
Washington. The daughters OF ex-Secretary
OF the Treasury Robert j. Walker and those of
Chief Justice fancy are doing copying as a
means of livelihood.
Miss Louise Meigs, who is visiting at Ad-
miral Porter's, IN Washington, this winter, is
declared to be one of the best lady strokes on
the Hudson. She is tall and muscular-lo looking,
with rosy cheeks and an abundance Of light
hair, which falls in braid below her waist.
A girl in Macoupin county, ILL.,, recently
sawed cord of hardwood in one hour and
forty-fve minutes. each stick being cut twice.
She Is described as pretty and not yet IS, and
performed the task because her mother told
her she was fit for nothing but to sit in the
parlor and read novels.
A young lady hurriedly entered the Postofice
the other morning, and breathlessly asked for
the letter she had dropped into the box only
half an hour before. The letter was written to
her dear friend Julia, describing the latest
sociable, and she had for once forgotten to
write "in haste" in the corner OF the envelope.
Sam Tllden felt and looked ten years older
directly after his interview with the girls OF
Vassar College. The saucy creatures made
fun Of him. One wanted list Of his wrinkles,
another a plaster cast of his left cheek, and
Still another lock Of his hair cut exactly from
the top of his venerable head. And all of them
kept inquiring, with the mo st charming inno-
cence, as to the health of Mrs. Tilden and the
babies.
Mr.. Holloway, OF London, England. has
purchased for $4,000 an estate, on which he
proposes to erect college to educate women,
to cost 100000. 1t wall accommodate 400
students and 20 professors. Mr.. Fawcett, NJ. p,
will probably have charge OF the institution
The building Will be erected in the quadrangle
lar form. with frontage OF $50 feet and
depth OF 400. The education will be almost
entirely secular.
The new Wellesley College for Women, stu
ated about fifty miles from Boston. will be
opened next September. Candidates for ad-
mission to the collegiate department must be
sixteen years Of age or over, and must pass
satisfactory examination in the following
studies or their equivalents: ancient and nod
ern geography, elements Of physical geography
arithmetic, algebra through simple equations
ancient and modern history, Latin grammar
two books each Of Cesar and Virgil, two ora
tons of Cicero, and the elements OF French or
German. There will be preparatory depart
ment connected with the college.
Lucy Stone, in her address before the COM
mittee OF the Massachusetts legislature, said,
"Abby Kelly Foster refused to pay her taxes
for the same reason, and in the same spirit
that the revolutionary fathers did; but in a
woman's way. The city of Worcester sold her
house and home, worth thousands OF dollars,
to pay tax OF less than hundred dollars
The city Of Worcester holds the deed, aud
Massachusetts, loud in its praise OF dead heroes,
holds its grip on her and on all women, as
George III. did on the colonlsts. What right
has such State to share IN the centennial
Massachusetts starts up with an eager enquiry
whether the citizens OF Louisiana may be SUBJ
jected to rulers whom they have not selected
But here, more than seven hundred thousand
women are governed by rulers whom they have
not selected; and Governor CASTOR, in his
message, takes no note of this great class OF
wronged citizens, except to propose that we
should be imprisoned properly