The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-11-22
CONCERNING WOMEN.
Ny LITTLE WOMAN.

Would the diamond seem such peerless gem
III 1t measured one foot round
Would the rose leaf yield such . sweet perfume
IL 1t covered yards Of ground
Would the dewdrops seem 20 clear and pure
If the dew like rain should fall?
Or the little woman be half so great
II she we're six feet tall?
Tis the hand as soft as the nesting bird
That grips with the grip OF steel:
Tis the voice as sweet as the summer wind
That rules without appeal.
Ana the warrior, scholar the sairt and sage
Nav fight and plan, and pray,
The world will wag to the end OF time
In the little womans way.
Mary \. Dennison realized $4,000 from
That Husband of Nine More than most
womens husbands would realize.
An Augusta, Ne, woman of 10 has learned
a trade and laid up 81 500 SINCE 1860.
Another woman lawyer startles the vision Of
the judges of Ohio, Miss Agnes Scott, of Mex
leo, Wyandot county.
The coming woman has come at last. and she
wants dollar to help pay Tor the new carpet
in the church.-Brookville Democrat.
Marrying o man to save him has played out
among the girls, unless he has lots Of money,
I-Emlra Advertiser.
In Miss Maud Grapger's new costume inf the
play Almost Life" one dress cost s1,450 III
is made exclusive o: lace and was invented By
Worth.
"Cubby Cottage is tue name Of cozyihtte
cottage in Brooklyn which is the home OF two
actresses and lady journalist.
Many beautiful. ladies wheniwalking out are
angry II they are gazed at and indignant If they
are not.
According to salesman OF experience IN one
OF the largest houses in that city, the average
New York woman wears 81 shoe.1 1gg-rsm
1t has got to be fashionable in Engsndgto
marry American gIrls.
Miss Anderson, the great Englishipedestran
the only woman who fever walked 1000 miles
in 1000 hours, is coming to this country.
In no other city in the country, says CORE
spondent Of the Pittsburgh Commercial. is
there such an army Of half educated, balf-wit-
ted Io-mannered, vulgar, hobbledehoy giIIs as
one meets constantly upon thief Washington
streetsi ssg5 .... &Es e..s s.., q. +, a,
The best!thing kno GOV liza Hust iate wife
and the next best thing IL sekond rate one
Josh Billings
go buy new bonnet for me, won't you
DEAR she said to him at breakfast. lie
promised to-, and then when he saw none in the
show windows for less than :2O,he did go by
all of them.
ladies walking club has been organized in
New York city. Among their number are sew
erarmembers OF the Art League.
"A gathering OF the years" is what the Roch-
ester, Michigan, sun POLITICALLY calls an old
ladys quilting party.
Any wife who puts her heart into the work
can have those slippers and that dressing
gown ready for Christmas with week to
spare.-M. Quad.
Give the average American girl her choice
between going to heaven and marrying into
the nobility, and see how few charms Heaven
has for her.-Keokuk Constitution.l
The Massachusetts, report of statistics OF Ia
Dor, in many respects a valuable and interest
ing volume, makes one extraordinary mistake
In summing up the non-productive or inde-
pendent classes In Massachusetts, it counts up
together with 1,7s7 retired from business
5,961 "infrm,7 and 5O5,905 children under 10
years of age the item extraordinary Of 325,198
housewives. Apropos to this fiction that the
housekeepers are supported class, comes
the journal OF one days work, by farmers
wife who believed IN the IL hour law, and who
never struck for higher wages than her board
and clothes: Rose at 4 40, skinned the milk,
fed the chickens, got breakfast ready at a m.
Dressed the baby, washed the dishes, made the
beds, killed the chickens, baked, ironed, and got
the dinner. After dinner, went to the field and
dropped corn till It was time to get tea. After
tea, put away the milk, washed the dishes, fed
the chickens sewed buttons on the husbands
shirts, mended the stockings, watered the house
plants crimped the rufdes in bsby's Sunday
frock, and left of at $50, having forgotten
nothing that ought to have been done except
patching the hole in the mitten."