The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26


Mrs. Sylvester, who takes charge of our
limited supply of baggage, and we walk
to our place of destination, feasting
eyes and mind on the spring-time
glories around Us, and noting with sat-
isfaction the many evidences of taste,
thrift, and prosperity that abound on
astir and expecting us, and soon the
greetings are over and we all sit down
to a capital breakfast, prepared by the
hands of one of the best cooks, tidiest
house-keepers, deepest thinkers, finest
takers, and greatest readers on the Pa
cit1c Coast. Don't tell us that intel
lectual culture units woman for the
duties of home. If you think so, visit
Mrs. Sylvester and partake of her bis
cult and coffee and other good things,
and go to her well-kept kitchen and
hear her unfold Bible mysteries while
broiling steak and making lemon pies,
and you'll acknowledge yourself mis-
taken.
The lectures were given on Thursday
and Saturday evenings at Olympia
Hall, the audiences being large, and
the leading people, as ever, genial, ap-
preciative, and fully imbued with the
spirit of freedom.
Mrs. A. H. H. Stuart, who, as
Chairman of the Board of Immi-
grafton, has her hands and brain
we'll occupied by work that we'll SUBJ
serves Territorial interests, drove us
over the suburbs of the town and gave
us many sparkling thought, as, in
her quaint, terse way she chatted Of
things past, present, and prospective
relative to public and private interests
On Sunday we awoke seriously ILL.,
with lecture appointment out for the
evening which We were unable to fill
Went in the afternoon to "Swantown,' D
to the pleasant abode of good Mr.. anC
Mrs. Dobbins, where, as we were fol
several days an invalid, we were com.
PEELED to lie by, that time might have
chance to repair the damages which
constant mental and physical effort haC
wrought in an overburdened constitu
tion. Our genial friends spared NJ
pains to make our visit profitable anC
pleasant. Good nursing and plenty o
rest sufficiently restored us to enable III
to make few calls on Wednesday, anC
a visit on Thursday at Marshal Moss
mans, where we found good Mrs. NJ. VI
to her eyes in work of every imaginabl,
descriptiOn-a help-naeet in fact ant
deed to worthy husband who full,
appreciates her. This woman does til,
housework, including washing ant
ironing, for a family of nine, teache
wax and feather-work, does stamping
embroidery, braiding, ETC., for Gus
toners, and makes speciality of visit
ing cards, which she sells at very low
prices, stamped to order in any. kind o
type, upon tinted, plain, marbled
white, enameled, sensitive, or rep cards
Yet, with all her capabiIity, the mas
culine ignoramus who grades her door
yard for a dollar per day, and VIII
couldn't be made to pay poll-tax or rea,
the Constitution, is her political sover
eigh, while she is denied a voice in
government which she is taxed t.
support.
Brother Murphy, of the Standard, i
getting along famously, as every goo,
suffragist ought. He has bought
steam power-press, with engine an
fixtures complete, and, in connection
with Brother Bagley, of the Courier, i
printing the Otynpian, sparkling
daily, we'll filled with choice readables
Brother Cook is also busy with tn
Echo, which he says is progressing
finely. The Transcript also flourishe
here, making three weekly and tw
daily papers in a town scarcely larg
enOugh-judged by ordinary standard
to support one weekly. But tn
Olympians are great readers, and the
fully understand the power of printer:
ink.
Owing to severe illness, we wer
wholly unable to canvass for subscrib
ers, and were glad indeed when W
were so far recovered as to be able t
take stage for Tenino, and there tax
train for Kalama, at which place W
went aboard the elegant steamer "Bo
nita," bound for Portland and home.
A. J. d.
May %, 1876.
YAMHILL COUNTY W. S. A.