The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28
Items for the Ladies.

Legislature to tax bachelors ten dollars year,
the money thus collected to become part OF
the county school fund.
Admitting that home is Woman's sphere,
an English paper asks what Is to become OF
more than half million OF women in that
coun try who have no sphere at all!
A young lady of Cuzco, the old capital OF the
the degree of Doctor OF Laws, and the Peruvian
Minister of Justice has replied favorably.
The more OF thinker man is, the hard or
he finds it to formulate any argument that will
satisfy him for excluding Woman from the
right of representing by her ballot herself and
her property.-N. Y. Independent.
Maria A. Charnay OF San Francisco Is I'M
mortalized by her husband, in the following
advertisement Notice. will not be re-
sponsible for any debts contracted by my wife,
Maria A. Charnay, she having put me out of
the house."
Three accomplished daughters of Professor
John Morgan, of Oberhn are now engaged in
the work OF instruction at Munich, Bavaria,
where they Lave family school for young
ladies' which offeIs excellent opportunities for
art studies, languages ana general culture
The Ladies' Library Association of Traverse
| City, Mich. was organized in October. 1869,
and incorporated in July, 1871. 1t has about
! 500 volumes OF carefully selected books in its
library. owns $500 worth OF real estate, and
will soon erect building OF its own for its ac-
commodaton.
Mrs. Jennie X Trout, of Toronto, has sue
cassfully passed her final examination at the
College OF Physicians and Surgeons OF Onta-
rio, and is about to commence practice in the
city. There are other women physicians prac-
ticing In the Dominion but Mrs. Trout is the
first one who has received license in Canada
The Canadians have received her very kindly
and the Professors and students Of the Onta-
rio Medical College have been uniformly friendly
and gentlemanly in their relations toward her.
One of the most celebrated lady physicians
of New York. who Is remarkable for the plain
manner IN which she dresses, but who lives in
grand and palatial house, has requested
number OF physicians who practice among the
poor, to send her word at once If they lind any
sick people who need food, and she will send
servant with supplies. Possibly she is enabled
to do this from what she may save by discarding
costly laces satins, diamonds and the thousand
and-one things which help to make fashionable
womans wardrobe.
Among the Inflated passengers in the steam
er Schiller, was DR.. Susan DImmock OF this
city. The New England Woman's hospital will
suffer an irreparable loss by her death, and
large circle OF families where she was the trust
ed family physician, will mourn for her as for
one of their own kindred. BY telegraph we
learn that her body has been recovered and
identified. She has left us in the prime OF her
life. aud career of remarkable usefulness and
promise has been brought to a close. Let us
hope that our loss is her Sain.-Woman's Jour
nal
Sarah Pierce, of Springfield, Mass, was
taught by her father, who was shoemaker,
to make women's and children's slippers. Six
years ago she married and went to Kansas with |
her husband, who had considerable property ,
there. The man became dissipated, lost all his |
property, and was finally sent to an asylum in
curably insane. And now comes the moral
The woman, having good trade, went to work
al it, and for year past has supported herself
and two children and saved money enough to
pay quarter OF the value of a comfort able /
house which she purchased on credit
AZ Venice in Italy there is now a woman .
paper published, called the La Donna. Wo-
mans education is scarcely begun there, yet
We find frail, delicate young lady OF twenty
three years, editing paper, for the improve
ment OF her sex. Risen from the people and
self-educated, she has alone unde rtaken some
thing enormous in Italy. She has met with
success, and her paper is widely circulated al
over Itay-and she also has lady contributors,
active in promoting the growth Of her idea.
Her great wish Is to establish an Industrial |
School for young women, who are poor and
will not labor, and are therefore driven to deg |
radiation an aversion to work seems inherent |
in the character Of Italian girls.
Victor Hugo has taken his md in favor of |
Woman's Rights. In a recent letter to the |
French Society for the Amelioration OF the |
Position Of Women he said that all the efforts
OF his life had been to secure better lot for
women, and added Man has been the prob
lem Of the eighteenth century, Woman is the
problem of the nineteenth and to say Woman
Is to say child, that is to say the future. The
question thus put appears IN all its gravity. 1t
is in its solution that lies the supreme social
appeasai. Woman can do all FOR lman-nothing
for herself. The laws are imprudent to make
her so feeble when she Is so powerful Let us
recognize that feebleness and protect it let us
recognize that power and direct it. There lies |
the duty OF man there lies also his interest |
l do not tire of saying the problem is put; It |
must be solved. Whoever bears part of the |
burden ought to have a part OF the privileges. |
Half Of the human race is outside equality; 1t |
must be made to re-enter. IL will be one of
the great glories of our great century to give |
the rights Of the woman as a counterbalance to
the rights of the man-that is to say, to put
the laws in equilibrium with the customs 4"
Since our last Issue there have been two |
bodies recovered from the wreck OF the d. G.. |