The true northerner., 1875-04-30
Items for the Ladies.

| May next.
The Princess OF Wales .s said TO be Ritual
istic in her tendencies.
"Theving in the outskirts" is the latest for
''picking ladies' pockets"
In Paris GIL women get their living by serv-
ing as models for painters and sculptors.
Julia Ward Howe is President OF new
Woman's Suffrage Club, just organized at
Boston.
dressmakers apprentice speaks Of her
cross-eyed lover as the fellow whose looks are
cut bias.
Miss Harriet Hosmer is making, at her own
expense, statue OF Emancipation" for Fair
mount Park.
Why are country girls cheeks like good
calico dress Because they are warranted to
wash and retain their color.
Mrs. Mary Sellers and Mrs. Barbara Babb of
Milltown, Me-. are probably the oldest twins In
New England, being s5 years old.
Woman Suffrage came very near securing a
majority in the English House OF Commons
recently, and Disraeli voted sor it.
Miss Emma Beecher, of Flint, has been ap-
pointed local agent of the Equitable Life As
surance Society Of the United States.
Mr.. Forsyth, NJ. P, says the prospects of
the Woman Suffrage movement in England
were never brighter than they are now.
Lots OF young ladies don't know the names
OF their beet friends some do not even know
what their own names may be year hence.
There are $50 students in the Philadelphia
School Of Design for women. The general
average OF the work done is said to be very
good
A girl OF l6, who has been for three years
the wife OF a man OF 40 summers is receiving
instruction in the public schools in Grand
Rapids.
Mrs. Harriet A. Tenney has been rsnominat-
ed as State Librarian OF Michigan for two years
by Gov. Bagley, and the Senate have confirmed
her appointment
Mrs. Rebecca Beck, OF Fulton, Gratiot county
this State, has nearly finished bed-quilt which
will contain 14,05O diamond-shaped pieces.
great waste OF time.
Two young married ladies dragged a ouggy q
half mile through the village Of Dowagiac on
S5 wager one day last week. They won the
bet and were happy.
There is theater in Paris where the actress
es pay for the privilege of appearing on the
stage. When the manager wants to get rid Of
any member OF his company he raises her salary.
- Nowet US talk about your business affairs, "
said sharp Connecticut girl to young fellow
after he had proposed marriage to her in q long
address filed with expressions Of passionate
love.
Rev. Augusta j. Chaplin, who has been pastor
of the Universalist Church at Lansing during
the past winter has accepted call to preach
in the pulpit OF the Universalist Church at
Pittsburgh Pa.
| Miss Laura White, the famous mathemati-
clan, who solved the problem so long insoluble
| by students, s now studying Architecture and
art. She graduated from Michigan University
last summer, with high honor.
An Iowa minister paused IN his sermon and
said: Girls, you may laf and sggle, and
giggle and laf, but when you are or your iyin
beds you'll remember this afternoon and wish
you'd have cut your right hands off first"
Mrs. NJ. Z. Norton, Instructor in History ID
Ripon College. Wisconsin, has been delivering
course Of lectures to the ladies' OF Evanston,
ILL.,, and to DR.. GoodwIns church, II Chicago
| lvvb oh,
Orthodox religious circles.
Solano Cal, farmer advertises for wife
in this style: " Money nc object. She must
be we'll recommended by responsible parties
and as slight guarantee that the lady is what
they represent her to be, L shall require the
parties to deposit In my hands 81, 500.
The women OF Colorado town got up
suffrage meeting the other day, no men being
admitted. No business Of Importance was
transacted, however, because some invisible
miscreant let down a live rat through the sky-
light, and, amid shrieks and screams the as
semblage suddenly adjourned
Mrs Dean, the wife Of the Rev. DR.. Dean
of Siam, has the satisfaction OF knowing that
her petition signed by most Of the European
ladies at Bangkok, praying for the abrogation
of the law which allows man to pawn his wife
and children into slavery in payment Of a debt
contracted by opium smoking or gambling, has
been favorably received by the young king, and
this unnatural privilege will probably be taken
from the Siamese gentry.
Mrs. Myra Bradwell, OF tie Chicago Legal
Neoos has just issued compendium Of all the
laws passed by the last. General Assembly. with
head-notes and references to the revised stat
utes of 1874. The first copies are just out, and
are bound in paper, bat the regular volumes
Will be eather-bound. The work is a very
creditable one, especially in view Of the fac.
that it is issued within week after the ad.
journment Of the Legislature, while several
weeks will eapse before the regular reports will
be out.-Chcago Post and Mail.
Woman suffrage wants nothing but time to
work itself into public favor and there lie time
enough in the future for patience and discus
sion to achieve the result. 1t has to-day ten