The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-17
Items for the Ladies.

Germany has nearly 1000, 900 more women
than men.
Married women are not permitted to teach
school in Buffalo.
The Massachusetts Agricultural College has
one feminine pupil.
Shakespeare SAYS "a lion among ladies is a
dreadful thing" So is mouse.
Philadelphia girl has broken her engage
ment because her lover made fun of the Cen
tennlal.
4 girl in Berks County, Pennsylvania, only II
years Old rises daily at a. M. milks thirteen
COWS. and prepares breakfast for the family.
some of the female school teachers in Wis
consln are paid 81 20 per week. 1t us womans
mission to teach and mans mission to be paid.
Nlnety-three young ladies' out OF a class OF
125 passed successful examination IN the
Academy of Medicine and Surgery at st. Peters
burgh, recently.
Inc latest discovery at Pompeii is the figure
Of woman lighting fire in the cook-stove,
while her husband Is asleep in bed. Nothing
Of the lost arts about that.
dishwashing machine is the latest inven-
ton. They will continue TO invent washers,
Uringers, ironers, sewers aud one thing and
another till women won't be worth fifteen cents
g. dozen.-St Louis Times.
Women printers were known half century
before the Revolution. a woman, Margaret
Draper OF Boston, conducted the first news
paper in Nmeri,a. The original Declaration OF
independence was printed by Mary Catharine
Goddard
IT tual not long since, one of the witness
es. an old lady OF some eghty.years, was closely
questioned by the opening counsel relative to
the clearness of her eye sight. "Can you see
zoe 2" said he. /" Yes," was the answer How
well can you see me 2" persisted the lawyer
Well enough" responded the lady, Ito see
that you are neither a negro, an Indian, nor a
gentleman"
The Smith sisters, Julia and Abby, have con-
tracted with the American Publishing Company
to PRINT their translation Of the Bible, and it is
low going through the press. Julia has writ
ten out the Bible i've times, twice from the
Greek, twice from the Hebrew and once from
the Latin. She wrote 1t out word for word,
generally putting the same English word for
the same Greek and Hebrew word, not giving
her own sense OF it, but letting it speak for
tself, without addition or satisfaction.
Says the Louisville Courier-Journal IAN
exchange says The Sandwich Islander believes
that Beelzebub walks the earth in the form Of
woman. And now and then you will find
man in this country who believes 30 too, and
that he has married the woman" To which
The Woman's Journal makes answer The
women, who constitute nearly three-fourths Of
all the church members ID II fica. usually
think OF Beelzebub as OF = .scune gender,
and have Scripture war for 80 DOING
There Is no way by which provision can be
made for superhuous women, except to train
:nem intellectually, morally and ndustrially,
20 that they can make their own way in life
whether married or single. A very large minor
lty OF women do not marry. OF those who do
marry large proportion are obliged still to
earn their own living entirely or IN part, The
majority of widows have the burden OF their
maintenance thrown upon them, and that of
then children. 1t Is therefore an absolute neces-
sity OF our present social condition that women
should have as free admission to professional
and industrial training as men, that there should
oe no monopoly OF sex, and no protective duty
on either sde.-Mary A. Lyermore.
II is said that women cannot rule No man
dare say that, alone to his wife. Not rule look
through history Where are Cleopatra and
>emnamls, aud Zenobla and Catharine, and
Elizabeth and Victoria Not rule {? Did not
Joan OF Arc save France when the king had
cowardly lied, and the armies were scattered.
and English soldiers did their will in all that
and; Well did England burn her as a witch,
Tor she bewitched her nation into hope, unity,
zeal, courage and mastery, un it had expelled
every triumphant Englishma from its shores,
30 Elizabeth picked up PROSTATE nation, low
est OF the low. desplsed of emperor, king and
pope, and made it the sovereign power OF Eu-
rope. 30 Victoria held back Palmerston and
Russell and Gladstone and Derby, who would
have plunged England INTO war with us, and
eft us tree to subdue our enemy. Had not a
woman ruled England we should have had a
harder task than we did by far Bishop Gil
bert Haven.