The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-03-31

, Feminine story writers are now most in de-
mand.
The standing collars Of dresses are higher
than ever.
scribner's Monthly gives its lady writers the
same pay as the men receive.
Mary J. Holmes has written 16 books, Of
which 50O,O 900 have been sold.
Bayard Taylor says that black-eyed women
can never love as fondly as those with blue
eyes.
Bloomington, ILL.,, the fifth city in size in the
State, has lady as superintendent of city
schools.
Anna Metz Byland, an industrious and clever
lady, edits the Fortschritt, German weekly
paper published in New York.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake edits woman
suffrage department in the New York New
Era. which is spirited and vigorous.
AT recent mass meeting OF the working
men in Indianapolis, it was resolved to Sin
dorse such legislation as will confer the elective
franchise on woman"
A young married. lady OF Fayette county,
Indiana, recently surprised some friends by
moulding the butter for her dinner-table into
a fine bust of Shakespeare.
Don't come to see me any more just yet,
John father has been having his boots half
soled, with two rows of nails around the toes"
wrote guileless girl to her adorer.
When a Massachusetts, clergyman recently
inquired OF a certain lady if she was - ready to
give up worldly pleasures" she answered by
asking if he was 'ready to give up chewing
tobacco in the presence of ladies
The Boston correspondent Of the Hartford
Courant himself an old member of the school
board. says it is doubtful if any four members
OF the board could be selected who equal the
lady members in ability and aptitude for their
work.
Young ladies who are seeking husbands
should learn something from the fact that Col.
Nicholas Smith says "he made up his mind to
marry Miss Ida Greeley, if he could get her,
before he ever saw her from the newspaper
accounts OF her goodness and devotion to her
parents. Newspaper accounts Of similar girls
will be inserted in our columns at regular adver =
Using rates usual discount to regular patrons.
Facts furnished to order in all styles. Our
selection Of adjectives is very fne.-Boston
News.
A club house for women only has been estab =
lished in London 1t is called the Victoria club,
and the building contains pleasant dining and
luncheon room, a drawing room, furnished with
papers and periodicals, writing room, and
above these dressing rooms and lavatorles, all
neatly fitted up. Ladies can avail themselves
OF the accommodations offered secure from any
possibilities OF annoyance, with all the conven-
fences OF private house, on the payment OF a
small annual subscription. Family tickets can
also be had admitting several members Of the
same circle. The club ID under very influential
patronage.
1t has been sagaciously remarked that wo-
mans only reason for anything is because. y
This theory is borne out by the way the girls
operate with counterfeit notes which come into
their hands in the treasury department. Gen.
Spinner, who has had twelve years experience
IN the work, says they are worth ten times as
much as the men for such business. g A man
always has a reason for thinking bill counter
felt, says the General, forty, may be, but he
10 wrong half the time. A woman never has a
reason. Sac says tits counterfeit because il il
a counterfeit, and she is always rfght-though
to be hung for IT,"
constitution is now being prepared under
which W. omiug Territory Will probably be adj
mitted to the Union as State. The question
whether woman suffrage shall be incorporated
into the constitution Is causing some debate
Says the Greeley Tribune on the whole, we
| think it will be best that the word male shall
not be used in the new constitution a. voting
qualification. The women are goins to KEEP
the question agitated uutil they can vote, anC
the sooner their request ID granted the better
it will be for them, for then they will turn theil
not be long before they will find out that they
will need other rights and qualifications, and il
is likely that much good will result from theil
obtaining this knowledge. The prospects nov
are that Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan
will soon allow women to vote, and we think il
would be something OF an honor for Colorado
to take the lead and especially In this centen
NAL year, in which the nation starts out on It'll
second century, to enlarge the boundaries Of
freedom, and to give notice to the world tina
all men and all women are born equa.."
Tue Kalamazoo Gazette, in Ito soI chess over
the defeat OF the confederate party Ia New
Hampshire, makes the astonishing statement
that for 20 years New Hampshire has been
republican state, firm and unyieldlng! Now
in 1871 the democracy elected the governor anC
house OF representatives and tied the senate
In 1874 they elected the governor aud house Of
representatives, and stole two senators which
were not theirs by the constitution, 30 tha
they controlled the whole state government
While thus faisifying the Gazette makes on,
candid admission, the democracy nom
mated man for governor whose war record
was bad. They did nothing to gain republican
votes, and we're defeated" All, yes! Tn,
whole war record Of the democratic party Il
bad. They denounced the war az "a failure
and called for Its cessation. They have beer
putting copperheads and rebel soldiers In tn,
highest offices by hundreds, and they will keel
on doing 80, to show their sympathy with trea