The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-26


as any man in the country, and far
more than any woman.
Miss Mary l.. Galloway, is the re-
publican candidate for county school
superintendent in Illinois county, and
Miss Lizzie Baskins is the democratic
candidate for the same Office.
David A. Wells and Frank Sanborn
in their addresses before the Social Sci
ence Association, have opened broad.
side against political corruption. II
they want to bring about a lasting re.
form, give women the ballot aud there
will soon be change.
DR.. Hans Won Bulow is reported to
have said, eff l stop practicipg fol-
one day, notice it in my playing; if
stop two days, my friends notice it; if
stop three days the public notices it.
How different is the case with most per
formers. If they should stop perma
nently nobody would notice it.
Susan B. Anthony has prepared Il
lecture on the subject of The Homes OF
Unmarried Women. Mrs Elizabeth
Cady Stanton has twelve lectures, and
will accept engagements for five months
of the season.
Miss Jennie Collins, manager Of Bof
fms Bower. finds that women are crowd
ing men in many of the professions and
crafts, while the men are crowding the
women out of the almsbouses, hospitals
and prisons
Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales
ana the Duke Of Argyll, are said to be
interested in the study of Spirituaism,
aud the Princess Beatrice is fine me.
dunn.
Galvanic electricity was discovered
by woman, Madam Galvani, but her
husband gets all the credit of it.
The first wife of Col. Nick Smith, Ida
Greeley's husband, was Secessionist,
and, during their courtship, would never
permit him to wear his uniform in her
presence, When he married Miss Gree.
ley he gave up his religion and became
a Roman Catholic. Not long since he
had his boy baptized Horace Greeley,
dropping the name of Smith. SO it
may be said" says Miss Grundy, that
he. gave up his country for his first wife,
his religion for the second, and his name
for his child"
Whittier has many qualities that call
out genuine admiration, and a manner
and disposition really attractive and
courteous, and entirely free from any
appearance of a disciplined determine.
ton to be for the sake of reputation
His speech is characterized to a slight
extent by the peculiari'ies of Quaker
usage, but his religious views are much
broader than the Quaker creed in its
liberal application.
Dir. W. Il. Bartlett, of New Haven
treats III the September number of the
Sanitarian of the causes of disease in
homes. The causes are bad air,
impure water, improper food and cloth
Ing, unsuitable dwellings, and exhaust
ing occupations. More attention is now
given, DR.. Bartlett says, to beautiful
conditions of life in the city than in the
country, although the country is more
favorable to health if right conditions
are observed
Jennie June, il one Of her gossipy
letters, undertakes to explain why it is
that so many young women marry elder.
y men. She looks away from money-
which has been SO generally brought
into consideration of such alliances
for the principal reason. The young
man of today, according to this authori.
ty, is not the desirable young man of
htty years ago he is not so thoughtful,
sober, palnsiaking, and conscientious
be lives at club, has no love of home.
life nor desire to build up a character
and reputation as man and citizen
his ideas Of life are bounded by the
theatre and the doings of his little set ;
and in too many cases his ambition is to
own a racer and be on intimate terms
with the ballet Naturally mothers
shrink from intrusting their daughters
10 such youths as these, even if they
nave the opportunity, aud are better
pleased to bestow them on older men-
men who have sown their wild oats
who know how little of real value there
S in the temporary excitement Of pleas
ire who have, perhaps, been married
,nce, and have learned to value home
md the guarantee it affords for perma-
lent happiness"