The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-04
Items for the Ladies.

new prll-back dress looks from distance She
puts 1t over pair Of tengs.
lady IS wears Ole spelled down omahe
few nights ago. and went home all by herser
in an omnibus, with head up high.
PHILADELPHIA gives employment 10 no less
than sixty thousand women-chieny In e1niOlt-
inc their spring bonuets on Chestnut street,
Brooklyn Argus
An Iowa paper tells OF a smart wife who
helped her husband to raise seventy acres or
wheat She stcod in the door and shook
broom at him when he sat down to rest.
Two sweet gih graduates, from the Michigan
University. have commenced doctorinS the citi-
zens of Poughkeepsie N. Y and there is an
endemic Of disease among the mer OF that
town. -Exehange
Literary women in Nevada also take hand
in business. Misses Clapp and BaDccck, princ-
pals of the Sierra Seminary, have taken con-
tract TO furnish iron fencing for Capitol square
at Carson, for So, 500 in gold.
We believe in co-education. 1zncerely and
without stlnt. We could not take our dear
daughter for four years out Of Gods world OF
men and women to place her n an artificial
world of women alone.-I Julia Ward Howe.
Female printers are no novelty. Charlotte
Guillard carried on the printing business for
SO years from 1906 to 1559-and was ceebrat-
ed for the correctness Of her books Women
were employed and commended as compostors
III Italy as early as the 18th century.
Its well enough for you 10 name your boy
Elias, said Aunt Hepzibah but for gracious
goodness sake don't name him Alias cause
the Aliases is always a-cuttn' up bad. Here's
Alias Jones, Alias Brown, Alias Thompson,
Alias One-eyed Jack, all been took up for
Robin an stealin'."
The Edinburg University sdll closes its doors
against women, but there is significance In the
fact that the British Parliament has entertained
bill for breaking down their bars and that in
the memorials In favor OF the bill there was
petition signed by twenty-six Professors OF
Scotch Universities, aud by 10000 women. The
growing agitation throughout Great Britain OF
the subject OF a higher education for women
indicates that it will not cease until the same
opportunities for learning are accorded to girls
that are enjoyed by their brothers.
One of the editors ofrtho south Bend Tribune
is,a woman, and this is what the Elkhart Re-
view says Of her: The South Bend Daily
Tribune has been exceedingly fortunate in Sc
curing the services OF Miss Emma Burnett on
it's editorial staff She IL young lady from
the adjoining State Of Michigan, Of about 1S
years of age, and formerly taught in the schools
at South Bend, where her rare literary ability
attracted the attention of the enterprising
Tribune propnetors. She manfests unusual
aptitude for the newspaper profession, and we
predict for her brilliant future"
Commenting on the item going the rounds OF
the press, :" There are fifty-seven women edit
ing newspapers IN this country" the Logans-
port Pharos says they are, or ought to be-
happy. No man will so far forget what is due
to the sex as to find fault with them. No long
haired poet Will stop his paper because lady
refuses to publish his senseless twaddle. No
ward politician, with more CAB than brains, will
Of her paper. No well dressed loafer will ap-
proach her with an obscene joke and tell her
she is - more nice than wise" when she refuses
to insult her readers by the publication OF the
filthy trash. A woman who edits newspaper
escapes ? world Of petty annoyances that fall
to the lot OF man who occupies the editorial
chair.
Mr. 7. ". Higginson commends Mr.
Bowdtchs pamphlet on the Taxation of Wo-
men in Massachusetts, and adds-he lives in
Newport" Whenever so the polls / see two
printed list OF voters-one list of qualified
electors who are entitled to vote on general
questions and another less than half as long.
comprising only those who by paying property
tax, are qualified to vote on questions involv-
ing the expenditure OF money. On the one
list, people appear simply as human beings
on the other, they appear by virtue of their
property. But there Is not the name OF
woman in either list; che may be punished as
human being, but she cannot vote as one -
she may be taxed as a property holder, but she
can have no voice in levying the tax or In spend
ing the money. A hundred years hence, these
things will not look as they look now