The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-14
Men and Women.

Men and Women.
The women of Illinois have formed
State Social Science Association.
The Cincinnati Commercial says DR..
Mary Putnam jacob, of New York, is
at the head of the medical profession
among women,
The Inland club was organized in
Chicago ILL.,, June B. 1t is composed
of women journalists, and its object is to
encourage and promote journalism among
women, Mrs. Charlotte Smith was chos-
en- president
A Russian army chaplain, preaching
in one of the regiments departing for
the seat of war, described the torments
which would await the coward in the
other world, by depicting hell as place
in which the sufferer would be up to his
neck in brandy, and unable to drink a
drop.
Mrs DR.. Patterson and Mrs DR.. Burr,
Of Astoria, Oregon, have each an ex-
tensive practice. In the same city Mrs.
Stearns keeps music store and circu
lating library, and the usual quota of
ladies are engaged in millinery and
dress making establishments, in restau
rants, fruit stores, and the like.
Some men are afraid that if women
vote they will be strong minded. Dou't
worry about that, gentlemen. There
always will be weak minded women, just
as, with all their advantages, there are
weak minded men. No doubt there will
always be a sufficient supply IN one sex
to meet the demand in the other -
I Woman's Journal.
After speaking of Mrs p. d. Rich.
ards, of West Medford, as the inventor
of valuable field portfolio manufactured
by Lockwood, Brooks & Co., Of Bos-
ton. The Med ford Chronicle says
Lady inventors are coming 10 the
front, rapidly, and it is not an uncom,
mon thing now on taking up a patented
article, to be told that it is the iuven
ton of a lady.
Prof. David Swing does not believe
in boys furtively playing cards in the
woodshed or behind locked doors, but
thinks that the father of the famil y
should put W card table in the sit.
ting room and take hand at whist
with them. Each home should have
its games as regularly as its food or
sleep"
The employment Of women in the
telegraph department has been COM
plete success IN England. Over 400
are employed in London, and there has
beer but one dismissed in four years
Their hours of work are from "a m. to
p. m. each being on duty eight con-
secutive hours out of these u. In the
establishment there is a kitchen and
dining rooms, and the girls have thor
oughly good dinner for twenty cents.
The pay begins at 81 a week, which is
raised to SIS when a girl is competent.
Girls may enter from II 10 IS. The
average pay received is $3.50 a week,
and the highest is s. 30 a week n
clerk who bias worked for 80 years at
$3.50 a week, would have 1915 Il week
pension.
After a careful study OF the manners
and customs of women in other coun
tries, it appears that, as a class, the rich
women of America do not seem to real
lie their responsibility to the poorer
classes A number of thoughtful chart.
ties have been set in motion in England |
that are yet unknown to us. Among
these | find that, in some of the cities,
large laundries have been built, with
such excellent appliances for washing,
boiling, and drying clothes, that poor
women can in few hours wash and
iron clothes that by the old fashioned
process would require two days. Some
philantropist discovered that one princi
pal cause of disease was the steam and
heat with which small homes are filled
OIL washing and ironing days Imagine
ourselves obliged to eat and sleep in the
same room where the process was going
on, and we can begin to imagine what a
comfort such public laundry would be.
-[Elizabeth Boynton Harbert in Inter
Ocean.
Of the funeral of Mrs. Higginson, at
Newport last week, the Providence
Journal gives US this account: "In
the parlors were assembled large num-
Der of friends, but there was not that
terrible gloom which usually accompan.
les funeral services at private residence.
There was no darkness, no display of
Grape, no hysterical sobs, no gorgeous
display of flowers, no invited choirs, no
hired organ, no acknowledgements
ed coffin covered with costly rosebuds,-
there were none of these but there was
the ordinary light of day; the real sor-
rowing friends wore their every day at.
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