The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-12-06
MEN AND WOMEN.

The Boston Transcript has the handsomest
young lady in Massachusetts, on It's editorial
staff.
The Rev. j. B. Grass, OF Wilkesbarre, Pa,
breaches up dancing and would Ike to see it In
the churches.
Mrs. Broderip, the daughter and the last
relative of Tom Hood the poet and humonst,
is dead.
By the new separation act' in England a
wife may get separation from her husband,
but husband cannot get separation from his
wife.
One-half OF the harvest work in Ellis county
Kansas was performed by Russian women. A
Russian wife is the husbands slave.
Queen Margaret of Italy is said TO be one OF
the loveliest of women, treating rich and poor
alike.
The Chinese ambassador, Chin Ian Pin, owns
several farms in Kansas.
Silk farms, with women and children as man
ayers and employees, are being organized in diff
ferent parts OF Australia.
Suppose the women of this country would re-
fuse to work over eight hours day, what would
a man do for his supper?
bevy OF ten highly-cultivated young wo-
men, who few years ago were intimate friends
and moved in the first circles of Belfast (Me)
society, have all been married since then, and
each one has either been divorced, or CON-
menced proceedings for divorce.
When in Virginia City, New. two OF the ladies
of Postmaster General Keys party, Miss En-
Eia Key and Mrs. Parsons, OF New York, made
the descent into the Sierra Nevada mines, q
200 feet below the level. The ladies were the
first who have ever had the courage to make
the trip.
Miss Caroline Travis is the editor Of the Bra
zl Ind, Index, and Mrs. G. B. Bostwck is as
sistant editor Of the Mattoon, ILL.,, Gazette.
There is a woman living at Gilmanton, Y. H.,
who, though over sixty years Of age, does, with
the exception Of hayng, the entire work on a
farm Of seventy five acres.
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the avenue every afternoon, powders and pants
his face, pencils his eyebrows and eyelashes
and wakes his moustache. He Is a veritabe
work of art, and does not attempt to disguise
the devices of his toilet.
Let us hear no more about the frivolty of the
fair SEX
Susie Thompson and Emily Peyton, of Gal
lagber county, Tenn, are rivals for a clerkshT
in the State Senate.
In the nited States five hundred women are
practicing medicine; five are practicing law
and sizty-eight are preachers.
The New York News believes Il at one female
detective will hunt out more shoplifters anc
other offenders of the kind than five male Of
fcers.
The Providence Journal, speaking of the late
Womans Congress, says: I'VE have no doubt
as the custom of speaking in public grows, al
these conferences and other gatherings multi
ply, and as women take greater part in public
affairs, that we shall have a co ordinate brancl
OF female eloquence as there is OF acting ant
singing, and that their full faculties and pecu
liar gifts will be displayed as naturally and eff
fectualy as in any Of the other arts. They vii
not initiate the style of men, but bave one o.
their own, no less powerful, effectual aud ap
propriate. Persuasion will tip their tongues
and they will excel men in graciousness and ir
resistible charm, as men may claim the provlnc,
OF rough vigor and logical force. The sgni
we're not only plenty at the late meeting, bu
are to be noticed wherever women express
themselves in public