The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-26
Items for the Ladies.


The sweet girl graduate this season will wear
calico, and her admirers will say that she looks
like print-ss.
OF the thirty-three thousand persons en-
ployed in watch making in Switzerland, one
third are women.
The California State Medical Society, at re-
cent meeting passed, by reclamation, q resolu-
ton to admit ladies who hold medical diplomas,
into full fellowship in the Society.
Twenty million of American citizens are de-
prived by the will OF the other twenty million,
OF all political representation; and yet they
are told to rejoice over the glores Of the great
Republic
Mrs. A. De Baz. Sister Of Mercy in the city
Of Mexico, has discovered the medicinal virtues
OF an herb by the use OF which she has cured
101 cases OF typhoid fever out OF 102 cases
which she has visited.
The first number OF little monthly paper
entitled the Womens Union Journal has made
it's appearance in London, England. 1t is one
penny copy, and Is issued under the auspices
OF the Women's Provident and Protective
L eague.
Many OF the female clerks at Washington
once ranked with the aristocracy of the land
Among them may be found widows or daughters
OF army and navy officers OF the highest rank
daughters and granddaughters Of former mem
bers Of the Cabinet, Senators, Supreme Court
Justices and Presidents.
The Seventy-Six Club, band Of lady jour
nalsts and others, is in flounshing condition,
and adding to its numbers daily. Its resident
members hold fortnightly reunions at which
after the business hour is passed, they indulge
IN brilliant conversation, in music, In recita-
tions, and in late supper.
The Womsns Suffrage Journal for March
pertinently remarks: The notion OF mans
property in man, which has existed ever since
man came to have notion OF property, is now
finally obsolete in this country, and we cannot
doubt that the notion of mans property in
woman will, in due time, follow 1t to the limbo
Of forgotten things"
Vim. Cullen Bryant has promised the young
women's Christian association Of New York
that If they will wait nineteen years longer,
when he will be as old as the Republic will be
on next Fourth OF July, il he still retains the
power Of rythm he will give them centennial
ode such as had never before been written. II
he did he hoped they would all be present in
good health and spirits.
The ladies of Minneapolis, Mimi, recently
held mass meeting to urge upon the women
of that city the exercise OF the right Of suffrage
recently granted them in that State ON school
questions. OF this meeting the Minneapolis
Mail says: Minneapolis may be proud that
she has had one political meeting, where there
was no smell Of liquor or tobocco, not one
oath or low jest no calling people liars and
thieves, and not loud. boisterous word spoken;
there was, in fact not word or action that
might not have been spoken or have occurred
in the most cultivated. refined family in the
city,
Miss Anna Oliver, Miss A. H. Shaw and Miss
H. E. Stone, the three ladies' who are now
students in the school Of theology, of Boston
University, were all engaged IN preaching last
sunday. Miss Anna Oliver preached at Attic
borough, Mics Shaw in Trinity Nj. E. church at
Charlestown, while Miss Stone preached her
first sermon at Wareham. This is pretty well
for conservative New England Prejudice Is
quietly giving way even here, and it seems
proper to assure young women who may be
contemplating course in the theological de-
partment of Boston University that they will
receive the same aid and encouragement while
studying that is given to young men.-Woman's
| Journal.
| The seventh annual convention of the New
York woman suffrage association was held in
New York city May IL. Mrs. Lille Devereaux
Blake presided, and gave history OF the asso-
clans work since its foundation at Saratoga in
In 1869. Plans for vigorous campaign the
present year were adopted, and arrangements
made to appeal for the right of voting for Pres
ident and Vice President and State officers in
the coming election. Mrs. Blake scathiDgly
alluded TO the unjust and cruel New York stat
ute which made children the absolute property
of the husband, which he could will away il he
80 desired. Abbie aud Julia smith of Glaston-
bury, Conn.,, were present, ana Miss Susan B.
Anthony spoke upon taxation without repre-
sentation." campaign committee for 1876
was appointed, consisting of susan b. Anthony,
Matilda Joslyn Gage, Phoebe Cousins, Rev.
Olympia Brown and others