The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-12
Items for the Ladies.

met her she was thin and old;
She stopped and trod with tottering feet;
The hair Was gray that orce Was gold,
The voice WAS harsh that once was sweet,
Her hands we're dwiniled and her eyes,
Robbed Of the girlish Light Of JOY,
We're dim! / felt . sad surprise,
That had loved her when boy,
But yet something in the Air
Restored to me the vanished time;
My heart grew young and seemed to wear
The brightness OF my youthful PRIME,
1 took her withered hand in mine
It's touch recalled ghost Of joy
kissed 1t with q reverent sigh,
For had loved her when boy.
Written invitations for marriages are becom'
ing very fashionable in New York.
Wedding journeys are, according to the latest
fashionable intelligence, out OF style
Edmonia Lewis the colored sculptress, is at
ST Paul. Mimi, where she will soon exhibit
several new works.
Young men are taught to believe they cannot
afford to marry, and 80 the widowers have an
opportunity to get all the best girls.
The Rev. Phoebe HanaRord is said to weigh
scarcely 100 pounds. But every word she
speaks" adds the writer, weighs ton"
She looked out of the window at the lowering
skies and flying leaves, and remarked, with
little shver of delight, Time to think about
the winter bonnet and new furs."
The fall term OF the Boston University school
Of medicine opened, recently, with las students
-46 more than at the end of tho last term
one-fourth of whom are young women.
girl OF ten. attending school at GAINESVILLE,
Wisconsin, in writing TO a relative in Eau Claire,
SAYS: ave are having examination now, and
it seems as though 1 never knew nothing 30
much as l do now"
Under the law making women eligible to
school Offices some dozen or fifteen ladies'
have been nominated for County Superintend-
ents III Wisconsin, about equally divided be-
tween the two parties.
1t is said by good authorities that the ladies
in the late Woman's Congress not only talked
sensibly and effectively, but one at time. Ii
this is really true, the future of women in this
country is bright indeed.-Buffalo Express.
Sixteen ladies' OF st. Petersburg have formed
a society whose members abjure silks and
costly raiment, and devote the money thus
saved to educate poor children. Already nine
teen Of these are maintained in various instl-
tutions.
An Iowa woman cured her husband Of stay
ing out late at night by going to the door and
whispering through the key-hole: :" Is that
YOU, Wilie?" Her husbands name Is John,
and he stops at home at night, and sleeps with
one Ne open, and q revolver under his pillow.
Women cab-drivers have arisen in England;
one was recently arrested IN Liverpool for
some MINOR offense, and 1t turned out she had
driven cab for years in male attire. Another
one who prosecutes her calling in her own at
tire, recently had male rival arrested and
fined for slandering her by representing to
customer that she could not drive.
At the State oratorcal contest in Des MONIES
recently the judges awarded the prize to the
representative of Simpson College, Miss Evelyn
NJ. Chapman, whose subject. "Open the Gates.
was q. discussion OF the social question, and
more especially of woman's relation to society
and State The award of the judges was en-
Enthusiastically aud repeatedly cheered by the
audience, showing Enthusiastically that it met
with popular approval. Eight colleges sent
representatives two of whom were ladies,
In answer to ex-senator Doolttle's theory
of " household suffrage" BY which he would
give every man having wife two votes, the
Maine State Press represents the unappeased
woman OF the nineteenth century as saying -
- How ID nv preference for hard money ade-
quately expressed by my husbands two votes
for imitation Shall / aud my sisters make
good speed in our crusade against rumselling
by our poor lnebriate fathers two votes for
the free-rum candidate? Shall / successfully
protect my property, which came to me from
a deceased husband, by my destitute, spend
Unfit brothers two votes for extravaganza ap-
preparations and the consequent high taxa
ion!"
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