The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-21
Items for the Ladies.

AN UNsPoKEE QUESTION.
thought must be dreaming
The day you whispered low,
And told me the sweet secret
That alone must know.
listened quite in silence,
Perhaps you thought me cold;
Ny heart was OVERLOOKING
With tenderness untold.
Just for one fleetlng moment
One only, did you say
We're you and both dreaming
That happy summers day
Charlotte Cushran is writing her recollec
tons OF the stage.
good book and good woman are excellent
things for those who know how 10 appreciate
their values. There are men, however, who
Judge of both from the beauty Of the covering.
Lucy Stone writes letter recalling the his
torical fact that Bunker Hill monument was
unfinished till Boston women raised the money,
and that Fanny Ellsler gave the proceeds OF an
exhibition for the capstone.
In the second oratorical contest OF the In
tercolegiate association, which took place in
New York Jan. 4, the first prize in the Gree;
examination was awarded to MISS Julia Thomas
of Cornell, the only young woman who entered
the lists.
No other human pursuit is 30 hostile to the
influence OF the female sex as the pursuit OF
athletic sports. No men are 80 entirely beyond
the reach Of women as the men whose lives are
passed in the cultivation Of their own physical
strength Wilkie Collins.
Miss Lucy Evans, of the Senior Academic
class Iowa State University, resident Of West
Liberty, is prominently mentioned as candi-
date for the position OF engrossing clerk in the
lower branch Of the Legislature, which meets
at Des MONIES next month.
The Minnesota Legislature recently made a
formal declaration of the adoption Of various
constitutional amendments, among them one
giving women the RICH. to exercise the suffrage
upon all questions relating to public school af-
fairs, and making them eligible for school
Offices.
Chill leads off among the nations for woman
suffrage, the question OF the registration of
women for voting at the coming presidential
election having been decided fsvorably and a
large number of the gentler sex, it is said, will
avail themselves of the opportunity to exercise
their right.
In the Booth Hall of Gloucester, England,
in the time OF Henry VIII, Lady Anne Berke-
ley once held criminal court a. presiding
Judge She held a commission to do so from
Henry VIII, not an extremist, by any means,
on the woman question, and Fosbiooke, the
historian Of Gloucester, says: " She came and
sat on the bench in the publique sessions hall
impanneled a jury, received evidence, found
Nick Poynz and Maurice Berkely and their fol
lowers guilty of divers riots and disorders and
fined them.
Judge Kirgman, Of Wyoming Territory
was before the Woman Suffrage Committee OF
the Massachusetts Legislature, last Friday, and
: bore enthusiastic testimony to the practical re-
suits of woman suffrage in Wyoming Territory
The Judge said that, while at the first election
before the women voted, it was hardly safe tc
venture into the streets. subsequently the vot
ing places had been as quiet as any religious
meeting. The women rarely took any active
part in distributing votes, but arranged theil
political action at social meetings Of their owl
or by the usual social calls upon each other
Few women held offices other than those upor
the school boards or as clerks Of the various
officials. The advocates Of woman suffrag,
feel considerably elated over the Judges pre-
sentatlon OF their cause.
7 The proposed suffrage amendment to tn,
Constitution OF Iowa, adopted by the last Legis
lature, requires the sanction Of the presen
Legislature before 1t can be submitted to thu
{ people OF the State for action. Governo
Carpenter makes no secret of his views on thu
] question. In his message he says: "As tn
} uniform expression IN Wyoming Territory
where woman suffrage is fact is favorable Il
its continuance, and that wherever In Europ'
, and America women have voted for school o
minor offices the influence of their suffrag
) has been beneicent, and in view OF the peculia
3 appropriateness Of submitting this question il
this year, 1876, when all America is celebratin,
D achievements which were INSPIRED by the doc
I trine that taxation and representation are o
4 right inseparable, that it would seem to m,
a proper to give the people of Iowa an oppor
4 tunity to expess their judgment upon the pro
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