The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-07-07


him fortune OF s750,000.
Alice Cary Was the first President OF the
woman's Club OF New York.
Gov. Hayes has been for many years an out
spoken advocate Of woman suffrage.
Henry Ward Beecher is going to lecture next
season, and will receive $4,000 for eighty
nights.
The American Medical Association in Phia-
delphia admitted DR.. Sarah Hackett Stevenson
OF Chicago as a member. Mrs. Stevenson is
the first lady member admitted to the associa-
ton.
| or the ZOO teachers employed in the Boston
public schools, SEQ are women, and yet the less
than 400 men receive more money in salaries
than the 500 women. In other words, the wo-
men do the work for less than half the money.
Sol Eytinge. the artist, and Charles Eytnge,
the reader are cousins OF Rose Eytinge, the
actress, Of whom the New York Graphic says
:" She is the most talented member Of talented
family" The Eytinges are OF Hebrew extrac-
ton, and are as much noted for their beauty as
for their talent.
The funeral OF George Sand had something
Of the character OF public pageant. Thou
sands Of people we're present, though heavy
rain prevailed. Prince Jerome Napoleon and
Alexander Dumas were among the pail bearers,
and Paul Meurice read q eulogy written by
Victor Hugor.
bright young lady gave her slow lover
delicate leap year hint the other evening. In
the course of conversation the gentleman asked
her what form OF marriage she thought the
most beautiful. Her quick reply was, I" l should
care little for form; the substance seems OF
more importance" The girl wears an engage
ment ring now.
Miss Frances Power Cobbe is warming up
John Bright's ears for his recent speech against
woman's suffrage. She Acknowledges that
juries usually award handsome verdicts for
breaches OF promise, but explains it by saying
that masculine judges and juries are cold
enough when woman loses her property, her
limbs, or even her life, but when she loses
man their sympathy and sense Of indignation
at her wrong Ii to the last degree affecting and
instructive"
Mrs.. Lena Morgenstern. OF Berlin, Prussia,
| in 1866, finding that the cost Of provisions was
enormous established several volk's-Kuechen
or peoples kitchens-restaurants where meals
could be had at the retail cost Of the materials
alone. In 1878 she organized society Of wo-
men, who determined to bring their charity into
their own homes by forming housekeepers'
IL. - al hu 49, ol..
ton Of the cost Of living, the promotion Of
plain and economical habits, and the improve
ment Of the condition OF servants. In 1874
there were $50 members.
The common-sense of Americans has long
ago perceived the necessity for some women to
be self-supporting. Feminine dignity and del
icscy, IS sung by poets and Wanted BY after
dinner orators, when the last toast is drunk
and the best gift to man, is gushingly il some
what incoherently cheered, is az pretty as
painted china. Until the State Is prepared to
furnish elegant shelving for such porcelain, in
other words. shelter and maintenance, BETTING
its extreme fragility aud precousness. the
financial crash, with its complicated problem OF
wreck, constantly repeats itself and the ques-
ton arises, what Is 70 be done with china, for
which there is no place in the world ?-l New
Century for Women.
The approval Of men is not the basis upon
which the feminine character should be reared
in its symmetrical, stately beauty. 1t has been
so, in day fast waning it Its death. Then
women we're toys, playthings, satellites Of men.
instead Of grand equal intelligences, to be
trained for an equal destiny. We should laugh
at the teaching BE manly becauss women
admire you" No true manliness could emsnate
from such starting point. This motive held
up to women is equally absurd. Be womanly
because It is your blrthright. Failing, you ere
only . carcature Of the grand ideal Of your
Creator. Be womaniy because thereby YOU
whole complex nature will become enlarged
ennobled intensified. You will be fitted tc
worthily act your part In the social sphere
where you hold by right not subordinate, but
q primary position. You will be worthy co
workers with noblest men Of the race, in tho
interests OF humanity. We do not underrat,
the mutual respect and admiration Of the sexes
in their upward struggle. 1t is powerful in
centivs. But let 1t not be our starting point
Let It be one Of the fair flowers that bloom In
: our pathway Golden Rule.