The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-03-24
Items for the Ladies.

New wells are OF cream-colored net dotted
with chenille.
The new polonaises are very long and but
very little draped.
Feather trimmings of all varieties will be
worn until midsummer.
Since the Chrishancy episode the treasury
girls are called the Pretty Possibilities.
The Massachusetts, Senate has passed the
women's suffrage amendmentto the constitu-
ton by IS to 10.
About 1900 teachers are employed in the
Boston public schools. OF these, more than
500 are women yet the less than 400 men are
stated TO receive more money in salaries than
the 500 women.
At recent business meeting OF the Unitarian
society OF Leominster, Mass, the parish con-
ferred the right Of voting in parish affairs upon
all female members over twenty-one years IF
age. A step in the right direction, and one
worthy of imitation.
Dress skirts are male extremely narrow and
allow of very little, if any, hustle. This fashion
brings the princess dress, or old-fashioned
Gabrielle skirt, back to us. Their plainness-
IL objected to-is sometimes relieved by a
Watteau plait in the back.
Mrs. Hough, who recently died in Alexandria,
Pa, aged ninety-seven, voted for Thomas JEFF
ferson for President, At that time she lived
in New Jersey, and the laws of that State Their
allowed any person. whether man or woman,
with q certain property qualification, to vote.
Wendell Phillips expresses the opinion that
woman suffrage will be carried within twelve
years as separate question: within three
years in union with temperance. He also be-
lieves that the united SURFACES of men and
women are needed to make moral reforms
politically effective.
Mrs. E. ID. Gillespie Of Philadelphia, who
is engaged in arousing interest in the exhibition
Of women's work at the Centennial Exposition,
says that q woman invented the celebrated
Mccormick reaper, and another woman the
bell-punch now used on the street cars, but the
inventors were too poor to obtain patents.
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employment OF women as operators, says that
their power is already felt in tho higher style Of
conversation between male operators over the
wires. Low jests and vulganty have grown
less frequent, and an animation that there is a
female operator on circuit puts quie,us on
blasphemers.
It is not true that the sin of extravaganza
lies always at the woman's door. Mems per-
scnal expenses are not commonly so evident as
women's are. A man spends money in hun
dred WAYS Of which his neighbors know nothing,
while the extravagance of woman is almost
certain to be ostentatious. Indulgence is his
object display hers and 80 his SINS are cover
cd. while hers advertise themselves.
Paris correspondent writes: q Overskirts.
whi,h have taken the place of polonaises for
some time past, are in turn now partly aban-
doned for polonaises. which are not by any
means destined to disappear as soon as was
thought. They are generally in the princesse
shape, very PLAN and long. so that II the next
season were winter, I should consider the end
of their reign certain, just because Of their
length and plainness which cause them to re-
semble long plain dresses"
Col. Higginson draws this moral from the
Belknap business: The moral is that women,
like men, need sufficient contact with actual
affairs and with large interests to accustom
them to understand what may be called the
commercial aspects Of politics. They should
aim to keep their husbands as clear from any
loss Of statesman-like honor AZ from any sensual
sin. All experience shows that there is nc
patriotism more heroic or self-devoted than
that OF women. wife will not readily sacri
fee her husbands rectltude for few PARIS
dresses II she can have opportunity to under
stand the matter. and see in what recutudt
practically consists. II is unfair TO debar he,
from, the whole world OF fuolic interests, ant
then &C ndemn her IL she goes sstray through
ignorance OF that world. II reports be true
this people has just been disgraced before the
nations in its centennial year by two women
Had these women ever been educated to know
the difference between public right and public
wrong
The following are the names OF the Jurors
drawn for the March Term of the Circuit Courts
Arlington-Bethuel Lobdell.
Almena-William Clark, Charles Goodwin.
Antwerp-John Smolk.
Bloomlngdale-David Smith, L. X. Holmes,
Harrison Post.
Decatur-Cbarles H. Morris
Hartford-HowlAndT Taylor, E. X. Craft.
HamiIton-Charles Osborn.
Keeler-Dennis Eagan, George Lyon.
Lawrence-Owen W. Marks, Sterling Cole
James B. Johnston.
Pine Grove-Hiram Cobb, Wilson Henry.
Porter-Theo. Chamberlain, Thomas Alex.
ander.
Paw Paw-John W. Free, M. J. Coy. Noble
ID. Richardson.
Waverly-Eli Bush.
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