The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-14
Items for the Ladies.

"Only lock OF golden liair.n
The lover wrote "Pefchance tonight
1t formeth on her pilio far,
A halo bright"
"Only lock Of golden hair"
The maiden, smili n.y. sweetiy said,
As she laid it over 'She back Of s char
And went to bed.
Costumes made of cloth, unless the color Is
Is more proper material.
Louisa Alcot used to feel that it was mis-
take that she was born gT4, because she did
not like girls and dad like boys.
The young lady who has not black velvet
underdress this winter may consider herself
"lost to sight and memory dear"
A Woodworking, eminenty pious woman
once said 81 don't want to go to Heaven ae
soon as die, bat rather to sleep in the grave
a thousand years or so, to get rested"
OF lordly man how humbling is the type
fleeting shadow, tobacco-pipe! his mind the
fire, his frame the tube of clay, his breath the
smoke so idly prrf1ed away, his food the herb
that fills the hollow bowl death is the stopper,
ashes end the whole.
A number OF women are appearing as revr7-
alst preachers IL different parts OF the country.
Mrs. Van Cot, Miss Townley, Miss Smiley and
Mrs. Lowry aFs notable ones among them
The fact Is deserving OF consideration. Some
of them draw large crowds. 1t is reported
that some of them preach with great JUNCTION
and have been remarkably successful with sin-
ners. 1t is a curious fact that until recently
most of the limited number OF female preach
ers in the country belonged to sects looked on
as heretical by Protestant orthodoxy. Thus.
Mrs. Olympia Brown is Universalist, Mrs.
Julia Ward Hewe q Free Rellgionist, and Mrs.
Cora Hatch Spirituslist.
Kate Coffin, character well known to New
buryport people, recently died at the aims house
where she had been thirty-seven years. Fer
father, Lemuel Coffin, was a revolutionary
soldier, and was IN the body-guard OF General
Washington. He was wealthy shoe-deeler
after the war; and his daughter was the belle of
the South end. But the parents died, the for
tune was lost, and the beautiful girl, not know
log how to work and holding DR.. Hollands
theory that every woman ought to be support
ed, made the arrange choice OF throwing her
SELF upon the charity OF the town. Thus che
Las lived until the age Of eiGhty-three, receiv-
Ing callers with the air OF lady, which charmed
all, even in her old age.
Daniel De Fee, the world-renowned autho r
Of Pol ~ tba
assert the rights OF women. and demand for
them in England educational privileges from
which they we're then debsrred. In one OF his
pamphlets he sad:
We reproach the sex every day with folly and
impertinence, while ] am confident that had
they tho advantages Of education equal to us,
they would be guilty Of less than ourselves
The soul is placed in the body like a rough
diamond. and must be polished, or the lustre
OF it Will never appear. And 1t is manifest
that, ~ the rational soul distinguishes us from
the brutes, 30 education carries on the distinc-
ton and makes some less british than others
Why, then, should women be denied the bene-
fits of instruction. II q woman be well-bred
and taught the proper management OF her
natural wit, she proves generally very sensible
and retentive and without partiality woman
OF sense and manners is the finest and mos,
delicate part OF Gods creation-tho glory OF
heI Maker-and the great instance OF singular
regard to man, to whom ke gave the best gift
either God could bestow or man receive and
It is the sordidest piece OF folly and ingrstitude
N the world to withhold from the sex the due
lGstre which the advantages give to the natural
beauty of their minds.