The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06
Items for the Ladies.

Mrs. Lille Deversux Bake will lecture next
season on The Women Of the Revolution. She
is . pleasant and pointed speaker, and her
topic is appropriate and timely.
MADAM" said gentleman to his wife, ''let
me tell you, facts are very stubborn things."-
"Dearie me, you don't say sol" quoth the
lady; "what fact you must be "
But few women are 80 handsome that they
can bear to hear another woman's charms ex-
toled, without looking around for mirror to
see il their crimps are right Brooklyn Argus.
Mrs. Virginia F. RUSSELL OF Santa Barbara,
California, one OF the editors Of the Santa
Barbara Index, has been nominated by acclama-
ton for County Super ut endent OF schools by
the Democratic convention.
When we look around and see the large
number Of able-bodied men who spend their
money and their time at the beer saloons while
their wives are stitching at home, or go out
washing to earn money to keep themselves and
their children from starving, we naturally
wonder why more young men don't get mar
| Ireland marvel more that 30 many young
| ladies do YOUNGSTOWN Herald.
A Cincinnati woman says: Z" never knew
but one woman in my life who chose to make
her husbands shirts, and confessed she liked
to do 1t and she had nothing else to do; could
leave them at any minute; had some one else
to make all the button-holes had ready-made
/ he a., hall
was presented by her delighted spouse with
twenty dollars in greenbacks. No wonder she
likes it,"
Says Rev. VIM. I. Clark: 1.-The woman suf-
frage movement has made such Roadway in
England that its opponents have organized to
arrest its progress. And in the House OF Com
mons too And the thoroughly frightened
masculine members call on all who believe in
masculine superiority to rally at once for the
defence OF the prescriptiye rights and privi-
leges Of their sex against the beautiful but
captivating enemy. We were not prepared for
such confession of the strength of the suf-
frage movement In England. But 1t is hard TO
rec what it's opponents expect to gain by max
ing fools of themselves. To fight against the
women is like splitting in the face OF the wind,
which is a feat that calls for an extra use OF a
pocket handkerchief and Is seldom repeated
save by an IDIOT"
Let them stick to the plough and yard-stick
for which tn ey were born, and not NEEDLE with
politics. Of which they know nothing, " was the
language OF the lords who in parliament, a
century ago, heard with indignation of the pro-
ceedngs OF the colorists in America. do
you not see that he has thick lips, woody head
and black skin, and is therefore not to be
considered man and brother was the sen.
tence Of exclusion which the colored man me-
from white men who boosted Of our free in
stitutions. The old spirit OF presumption ano
monopoly Of power is not dead, but failing
larger opportunity to dominate these classes
it now finds it's only exercise against the ella ST
which through a combination of circumstances
or perhaps throug h native Power of endur
an CO. has long resisted the spirit of revolt
But to support its claim all the old arguments
are marshalled into line, " 1t ls all very vel
to reason on principles as applied to men, bu
women are otherwise say our male oppo-
nents. Mary F. Eastman.