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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02
Baby-lifo in China and Hindoostan.

The bare-headed baby of China, not
quite so grave as his Asiatic cousins, is
still a contented little traveller, whether
he rides on the back of mamma, or is
tied on mat to sleep, or exposed beside
the door in bamboo cage, or fastened
to his glided baby-chair to teach him
to sit up. The most important moment
in his young life is when, at the age OF
one year, he decides his future destiny in
curious way. He is carefully dressed
in new clothes, and seated in the mid
die of large sieve, in which are placed
many articles, among which are money
scales, brass mirror, writing utensils,
books, silver and gold ornaments, and
fruits, while the anxious parents stand
by to see which object will first attract
his sober black eyes. If he takes up a
book or pencil, he is destined to be-
come a scholar; if the glitter of gold or
silver attract him, his fate is to amass
wealth; if fruits suit him best, he will
incline to spurn the rice of his fathers
table, and feast upon delicate puppy
stew, or bird s-nest soup.
At two years of age he will dress like
his grandfather of eighty, and look like
! that old gentleman seen through the
small end of an opera glass. When he
| first enters school, he will bring, not a
| spelling-boOk and slate, but two can
dies, few sticks of incense, and small
quantity of mock money (made of pa
| per-, to be burned before a piece of pa
per having the name of COnfucius writ
| ten upon it. Thus the little Chinese
traveller is launched on his schoOl-life.
! The little traveller on the shore of the
/ Ganges has very different life. Bathed
every day in the sacred stream, or in
/ jar of its water; scrubbed with its holy
mud-ears, eyes, and mouth; thoroughly
purified from all sin, as his parents de-
voutly believe-hOw can he help being
better than other babies? He is jolly,
happy baby, bright as the sunshine Of
his native land; not troubled with
clothes if he belongs to the poor classes;
but wrapped in gorgeous silks of scarlet
and blue, loaded with jewels, and
weighed down by an enormous gOld-em-
broIdored turbau, if he happens to be
prince.
This little Hindoo traveller sleeps in a
basket hung from the roof, and rides
out on mammals hip; and, what seems
dreadful to US, he learns to smoke be-
fore he can walk, his mother often TAX
ing a cigar from her own lips, and put
ting it into his. If his life-journey is
cut short, his bOdysis carried to the
grave in his basket-cradle, which is
covered with fringed canopy and hung
from q pole on the shoulders of men,
aud left at last upside down on his last
restiug-place.- Nicholas for January.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN COLORADO.
At the next Colorado election the gues-
tion of Woman Suffrage is to be sub
mitted to vote of the people, and those
interested are already beginning to agi-
tate the subject, and are marshaling
their forces for the coming fray.
We are glad to notice that the more
leading and influential papers of the
State, Notwithstanding their conserva-
tive proclivities, are disposed to treat
the subject with fairness and candoT.
Prominent among these is the Rocky
Mountain NelUS, the old standby pio-
neer paper of the Centennial State,
which gives the ladies the use of one of
it's columns, in which to advocate their
own cause.
The Tribune and the Times also show
liberal spirit on the subject which
does them credit. We are of the opin-
ion that if properly presented to the
PEOPLE, the Woman Suffrage cause
will triumph in this young State. The
| fact is, Western men are less old fOgy-
ish and more liberal than the down
casters. The pioneer women, too, are
better qualified, as a class, to assist in
carrying out the principles of self-gov-
ernment, and the men know it and
have more confidence in them.-Ldrd-
| nlie Sentinel.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

THE AFFABLE MANA mother and
babe were among the passengers wait
ing at the Central depot yesterday. She
had the child carefully wrapped up, and
this fact perhaps attracted the attention
of a big fellow with three-stOry over
coat and a rusty satchel in his hand.
Sitting down beside her he remarked:
"COld weather for such little people,
isn't it?"
She family nodded.
"Does he seem to feel it much ?' he
continued.
She shook her head.
"Is it a healthy child ?" he asked,
seeming greatly interested.
"He was, up to few moments ago."
she snapped out, "but Pm afraid he's
smelled so much whiskey that he'll
have the delirium tremens before
nightw
The man got up and walked right out
of the room, aud was afterwards seeT
buying cloves and cinnamon.
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Physical Training of Women.

In these times of fast living, of eX-
cessive nervous action and consequent
exhaustion, there are few subjects which
are so important and so neglected as
those relating to physical health and
strength. Especially is this subject as
related to lUODlell, treated with an iudif-
ference and a blindness which is exas-
perating. 1t is true that civilization
teaches men to value and recognize
those qualities of mind and heart gener-
ally characterized as feminine, but
probably shipwrecked passengers res
cued by Grace Darling value their pow
ers and nerve more than any other trait,
nor need such women be any less gentle
and refined, because they are strong.
If the women passengers of a certain
lost ship had possessed strength and
nerve and agility, a man standing by,
watching the company of rescued file
past, would not have exclaimed, using
the Divine name, mot a woman among
them alln
Those who consider the helplessness,
the uselessness, the terrible sufferings,
and the eHtdiied miseries consequent
upon the physical degeneracy of women,
are ready to bail with delight anything
which looks like a reform in this direc-
! tion. This physical weakness is some
times denied, in view of the numbers OF
women who thrOng everywhere in APP
parent health, and in view of the her
culean domestic labors they perform;
but 1UOnlen knOlU of unspOkeu ills, and
of the immense drain upon the wonder
| full elasticity and endurance of their
womanly nature, which these labOrs
cost. We do not believe that women
] n nf
least, they are designed to make up in
endurance what they lack in strength
but under the present condition oil
! things they are immeasurably weaker
and this, in consequence of a ruinOUs
mode of dressing and lack of proper
physical exercise.
1t is a crying evil that our school girl;
receive no such training-that tHeil
minds are taxed at the expense and tC
the neglect of their bodies, and they are
growing up from pale, delicate, sluggish
children into nervous, invalid women
Girls need this training more thar
boys, because their more passive dispO
sitiOns, their hamperiug dress, ant
their ideas of young ladyism pTeven
the rOmps and games which boys enjoy
Only one who has, in the routine o
public school life, sat six or seven hour
day at a desk with mind and nerve
taxed to their utmost, even in the few
minutes recess standing stupidity still
and then spending the hours at hom,
in close study, can imagine what per
feet glow of mind and body would havt
ensued from a half hours brisk gym
nastic drill.
Our seminaries and colleges for girl
are no better than our common schools
Young men have their gymuasiums
their boat-races, their every appliane
and encouragement for physical train
ing. Young women, who need it mucI
more, have little or nothing.-ChriStjn
Woman.
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The Moral Effect of Hurry,

To the thoughtful, the moral cOnse-
queuces Of tension and hurry are very
saddeniug; to the physicians their re-
suits are a matter of profound concern;
their grave evils come under his daily
observation. No evolution of force can
take place with undue rapidity without
damage to the machine in which the
transformation is effected. Express
railway stock has much shorter term
of use than that reserved for slower
traffic. The law is inverseiy proper
toned. 1t is therefore no matter of sur
prise that the human nervous system is
no exception to the law. The higher
salUbrity of rural over urban life is not
a ~ atter of fresh air and exercise. Rural
life invGves leisure and pause in work,
which are very essential to the main
teuauce of the nervous system in a state
of due nutrition. Unremitting spasms
soon cease altogether.
The tension of life produces weakness
at the very place where strength is most
needed. The damage done to the health
of the most valuable part of the com
munity, the best trained thinkers, most
useful workers, is incaiculable. Work
and worry, though not proportional, are
closely connected, and an excess of the
former soon entails an increase in the
latter beyond the limits which the
nervous system can bear with impunity
especially the condition under which
the work has to be done. The machiu.
cry for organizing the work of com.
munity had to be rigid and infieXible
and in the strain involved in bringing {
changing organism into harmony witt
a machine, the former must inevitably
/ suffer.-LOHdOn Lancet.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

''NTy SON." said father to his hopeful
son, "you did not saw any wood for the
kitchen stove yesterday, as told you to;
you left the back gate open and let the
COW get out; you cut off eighteen feet
from the clothes line to make a lassO;
you stoned Mr.. RObinson's pet dog and
famed it; you put a hard-shell turtle in
the hired girls bed; you tied a strange
dog to Mr.. JacObsen's door bell, and
painted red and green stripes on the legs
of old Mrs. Polaby's white pony, and
hung your sisters hustle out in the
front window. Now, what can l do for
such conduct ?" care all the counties
heard frOm?" asked the candidate. The
father sternly replied, "NO trifling, sir;
no, have yet several reports to receive
from others of the neighbOrs." ''Then," ,"
replied the boy, 'you will not be justi-
fed in proceeding to extreme measures
until the official count is in" Shortly
afterward the election was thrown into
| the house, and before half the votes
were canvassed, it was evident, from
| the peculiar intonatiOn of the applause,
that the boy was badly beaten.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

BENNETT-MAY. - From the tele-
graphic reports yesterday it appears
that James Gordon Bennett, Jr., and
young May fought duel in nearly ev-
cry town of Importance in the United
States and the Dominion of Canada. 1t
also appears that Bennett was shot in
the stomach, or else he wasn't, and May
was dangerously hurt, or perhaps he
might have escaped. On the whole
there is an air of mysterious wholesale
fiction about the business, which seems
to lend nameless charm to it, and in
spires the pleasing hope that perhaps
they are both shot.-Ldrdnaie Sentinel,
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GOOD NATURE.-Men and women re-
ceive in this life much of what they de-
serve. 1t is like a lOOking-glass, this
big world; grin and smile at it, and it
will smile back; scowl, and it scowls.
1t is but a confession of ones unpleas-
autness at home if we air our griev-
ances. The nice people are not "nice"
without a good deal of trouble on their
part. That pleasant fellow who always
cheers his acquaintance, and who car
ries an atmosphere of good nature about
him, is probably a hero in his way, and
most likely a gOod-natured philosopher,
who takes a great deal of trouble to be
what he is. The amiabIe sister, who
never complains, has shown in little
things as much bravery as if she had
won the Victoria cross.
On the other hand, those young per-
sons who have always a budget of mis-
cries to pour in the very sympathetic
ears of their friends, and who are totally
if they are to be believed-unappre-
ciated at home, will he found, if looked
into, not SO amiable as they might be.
Mr. Tom Pinch, who had never thought
of himself, found even the gross hypo-
crite, Pecksnift, good and kindly crea-
ture; while Martin Chuzzlewit, who
tOOEScafe 10 SlI III Jhe very lIOuG VI Gu6
fire, and liked to be read asleep by Tom,
discovered every one to be selfish. De-
pend upon it, if we try to think more of
others than we do Of ourselves, we shall
seldom have grievance. We may also
| be assured that, if we dwell upon our
own sweet selves and our own merits,
we shall doubtless believe those merits
to be so great we shall find the world
will always supply an immense and
ever-increasing grievance by being
blind to them.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

Airs. Elizabeth Coxeter, who has just
died in England at the age OF 102,
heard John Wesley preach in her girl
hood, and married the merchant who
carried out the remarkable feat of man.
ufacturing wool into cloth and making
a coat between the hours of sunrise and
sunset. This event occurred at Green
ham Mills, Newbury, and the achieve
ment was celebrated by rejOicings, in
which 5000 persons participated. The
old lady retained her mental faculties
until quite recently, and on her 1OOth
birthday she repeated the Old Hund.
redth psalm to several members of hel
family.
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PREAMBLE AND CONSTITUTION OF
THE 0. S. W. S. A.

ARTICLE l. SECTION l. This Assoeia-
ton shall be called the Oregon State
Woman Suffrage Association.
ART. ,. SEC. l. Officers: The officers
of this Association shall consist of a
President, a Recording Secretary, Cor
responding Secretary, Treasurer, and a
Vice-President for each county.
ART. 8. SEC. l. Membership: This
Association shall be composed of men,
bers who will sign the following Consti-
tuition:
PREAMBLE.
We, the undersigned, citizens of the
State of Oregon, believing Woman
Suffrage to be the vital issue of the day,
and believing that the ultimate triumph
of our principles to be but a question of
time, which it is our duty as loyal citi-
zens of the Republic to hasten by organ
lied effort, do hereby pledge ourselves
to advance these principles by strict
adherence to the following y
CONSTITUTION.
ART. l. SEC. l. We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all men and
women are created equal; are endowed
by their Creator with certain inalienable
rights; that among these are life, lib
erty, and the pursuit of happiness; that
to secure these rights governments are
instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the gov
erued.
ART. 2. SEC. l. These truths, so pro-
phetic in their import and fraught with
such vast consequences for the consider.
alton of generations yet to be, have been
heretofore theoretical only as far as one
half the citizens are concerned. And the
object of this Association shall be to com
bine our mutual interests for the pro,
motion of equal political rights fol
women who are taxed without repre-
sentation and governed without consent
ART. 8. Any person may become {
member of this Association and be en-
titled to a vote in its conventions by
signing Iil9 COhSViNuOiOH anu P''J lHt
into its treasury the sum of one dolla
annually.
AMENDMENTS.
ART. l. SEC. 2. Officers shall b,
elected at each regular meeting for tn,
term of one year.
ART. l. SEC. 3. All officers shall b.
elected separately by ballot, after nomi
nations by the Association, and a ma
jority of all the votes cast shall b.
70 N oho;oo
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A Chicago woman has been the wife
of four brothers. She began with the
oldest ten years ago, when she was sew
enleen years old, and he died. She soon
married the next younger, and after
three years got divorce from him, and
the third was divorced from her after
about the same period of welded life
She is now the wife of the fourth, and
they seem to live. contentedly, possibly
because there is no fifth brother for bel
to eaDturp
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

Laboring Glasses.

It is absurdly argued by some, that by
communicating knowledge to the labor
ing classes, we teach what is to them of
no use, but tends, on the contrary, to
unfit them for the necessary duties of
life. Ignorance and neglect of the laws
of nature, however, occasion suffering
to them as well as to men of superior
rank; and as they, also, have faculties
capable of acquiring knowledge, it is
obvious that those faculties should be
made use of. We may rest assured that
the fulfllment of every necessary duty
is compatible with mental cultivation
in all the race; because nature cannot
have bestowed upon mankind capacities
and desires which their inevitable con-
dition renders it impossible for them to
cultivate and crafty. There are hum
bier minds fitted to perform and happy
in performing the humber duties of
life; and no cultivation of which they
are susceptible will probably carry them
beyond this sphere of exertiOn. In a
thoroughly moral and enlightened COM
munity, no useful office will be cOnsid-
cred degrading, nor will any be incOm-
patible with the exercise of the highest
faculties of man.
The duty of acquiring knowledge i'm
plies the duty of communicating it to
others, and there is no form in which
the humblest individual may do more
good, or assist more effectually in for.
warding the improvement and happi.
ness of mankind, than in teaching them
truth and it's applications. All knOwl
/ edge concerning natural laws, which
any one possesses, should be freely i'm.
parted, and if there be instructors of the
people who pronounce this course dan
gerOus, it is a sufficient answer tina
there is no such thing as a dangerous
| truth.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

The funny man of the New York
Herald says: "The man has missed a
great treat who has not risen early on
winter morning, and, turning the
Stats, peered out into the pearly twi-
light, with its shadows of dun blue,
and seen the soft opal of the eastern
sky frightening, and the rose-pink OF
sunrise blushing as it kisses the snow,
and caught sight Of his wife shoveling a
path out to the milbman, and then
hustled back into bed for another nap"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

A North Carolina judge tells a good
story of an unprejudiced juryman re-
Gently summoned at a county court in
that State. After replying satisfacto-
rily to the several questions prOpOunded
by the solicitor, he was accepted, and
in the usual way commanded to look
upon the prisoner, who was indicted for
murder. After scanning the man closely,
the unpreiudiced juror turned to the
Judge, aud in firm, solemn voice he
said: "Yes, judge, think he's guiltyP'
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

A Scotch professor in the University
at Edinburgh was experimenting be-
fore his pupils with some combustible
substances, when, as he was mixing
them, they exploded, shattering the
vial which he held into fragments. He
held up a small piece of glass, and said
very gravely, Gentlemen, ] have made
this experiment often with this very
same vial, and never knew it to break
Ia my hands before.n
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

They tried to prosecute a Chinaman
for illegal voting at Deer Lodge, Mon
tana, the other day, but failed to make a
case. because the prosecuting attorney
could not prove that the defendant was
a native of China.
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KEEPING AT IT.-A man who inher-
its wealth may begin and worry through
three-scOre and ten years without any
definite object. In driving, in foreign
travel, in hunting and fishing, in club
houses and society, he may manage to
pass away his time; but he will hardly
be happy. 1t seems to be necessary to
health that the powers of a man must be
trained upon some subject and steadily
held there day after day, year after
year, while vitality lasts. There may
come a time in old age when the fund
of vitality will have sunk so low that
he can follow no consecutive labor with
such a draft upon his forces that sleep
cannot restore them. Then, and not
before, he should stop work. But so
long as a man has vitality to spare
upon work, it must be used, or it will
become a source of grievous, harrassing
discomfort. The man will not know
what to do with HIMSELF and when he
has reached such point as that, he is
uncOnsciOusly digging grave for him
self, and fashiOning his own coffin. Life
needs steady channel to run in-regu-
| lar habits of work and of sleep. 1t needs
steady, stimulating alma tend to-
ward something. An aimless life can
never be happy, or, for a long period
healthy. Said rich lady to gentle
man still laboring beyond his needs
Don't stop; keep at it," The word-
| that were in her heart were: "If my
husband had not stopped, he would be
alive to-day" And what she thought
was doubtless true. A greater shock
can hardly befall a man who has beer
active than that which he experiences
when, having relinquished his pursuits
he finds unused time and unused vital
ity hanging upon his idle hands anC
mind. The current of his life is thu
thrown into eddies, or settled into ;
sluggish pool, and he begins to die.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

An old colored preacher of this city
was lecturing a youth of his fold about
the sin of dancing, when the latter pro-
tested that the Bible plainly said,
"There is a time to dance" eyes, dar
am a time to Dance" said the dark di-
vine, "and it's when boy gifts whip
PIN for gwine to a ball."-AttdrtG
Times
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Miss -"GoodnessI ! the fire is out.
I thought it was very cold" Beau
"Shall 1 get my overcoat and put on
you ?u Miss Rose -"Oh, no; but
(glancing at the clock hadn't you bet
ter put it on yourself?'
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woman's degraded, helpless position is the
weak point Of our Institutions to-day-a dis
turbing force everywhere, severing family ties
filing our asylums with the deaf, the dumb,
the blind, our prisons with criminals, our cit
les with drunkenness and prostitution, our
homes with disease and ddeath.-[NationalC Cen
tennial Equal Rights Protest.
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''Phat a blessing it is" says hard
working Chicago Emeralder, that
night niver comes on till late in the
day, when a man is tired and can't
work any more, at all, at all"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-02

Nearly one-tenth of the entire popu-
lation of Boston are shop girls,
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Entered, according to Act Of Congress, in the
year 1876, by Mrs. A. J. Duniway, in the Office OF
the Librarian Of Congress at Washington City.l
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Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
lures must make known their names to the
Editor, or no attention will be given to the =
communications.
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G5e Ale~ aort5~est.

A Journal for the People.
Devoted to the Interests of humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.
Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrong
of the Masses.