The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-26
Items for the Ladies.


What Is the worth of woman ?-Double you,
o man.
OF the 221, O42 teachers In this country,
1877, 713 are women.
District OF Columbia
A Georgia Legislature has facetiousiy put
s25 tax on bachelors.
A Presbyterian church in Troy, Pa, has APP
pointed three deaconesses.
Miss Mary L. Booth editor OF Harpers'
Bazaar, Is suffering from a painful and pro-
longed attack of infammttory rheumatism.
Russell soggs, of Hooley's, Chicago, was re-
Gently married to Miss Florence Gillette, a
young actress who Is the daughter OF the Rev
Mrs. Eidelia w. Gillette, OF this State
A covey OF Murray Hill (New York; girls
won pair OF bracelets each by getting up
superb dinner, every dish Of which was OF their
own cooking, while they served it with inimt-
able grace.
Mrs. J. C. Croly has been elected president
of New ork Sorosis. Mr.. C.. II. Delamater is
treasurer, and Miss Maria Mitchell Is one OF the
vice-presidents Of the society.
The Woman Suffrage fssocatl on OF Missouri
has appoi nted committee to urge the consti-
tutional convention to incorporate in the con-
stitution the right OF Suffrage to women.
Ann Arbor has a woman's club, the object
being to arouse the thought OF women to the
necessity Of work in regard to practical re-
forms. At their last meeting, which was held
at the residence OF Mrs. Israel Hall, Mrs.
Luci nda Stone, Of kalamazoo, was present and
delivered an address on " The Higher Educa-
ton OF Women
Acc ordng to the Report of the State Board
o. Health Of Massachuse tts, 1874, large part
OF the four hundred and fifty analyses there
gwen were performed by lady, Miss Ellen H
Swallow. B. Sc, ID the laboratory OF the Massa =
chusetts Institute OF Technology.
We need not ask, then, whether the day is TO
come when woman's equality of power and in
fuence shall be recognized-in the growth Of
! human society that is sure-but we anxiously
watch for testimony as to how far IN this nine
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world, we have advanced on the way from bar
barism to truly Christian civilization-that is.
to what; extent we have transferred our trust
from brute forces to moral and spiritual ones.
1t Is not enough that each year there is some
mitigation OF the legal injustice to which We
have been subject. Since we are endowed by
our Creator with the governing faculties, judg-
ment, conscience and viii, we are virtually re-
/ sponsible, not merely for the acceptance OF the
best government somebody can give u, but
I for SELF -goyernmert.- Mary Z. Eastman.
The Golden Age referring to the struggle OF
the smith sisters against the tax collector says:
- No taxation without representation was a
valid argument and stirring appeal when repre-
sentatlon was based on property. and only those
who possessed an estate or it's equivalent were
permitted to vote. But the democratic princi-
pie, that Low obtains in every State Ia the
union, goes back OF property to persons. II is
not estates or dollars that are represented in
Office. but human beings, the poorest man hav-
ing an equal voice with the richest in the cleo
ton. Woman should make her appeal for the
ballot on the ground that she Is a person, free
as man and his peer, and not go back hundred
years to the days when manhood was OF Less
account than money