The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-12-12
Women in Agriculture.

women IN Agriculture.
Mrs. Longley takes the entire man
agenent of her farm ut South Amherst,
Mass.
A Kansas exchange cites Mrs. Mary
McCutchen, of Lawrence, as an exam
pie of what has been done in the midst
of what are called hard times in that
State. This lady was left widow ten
years ago with bit of land and four
teen children. She is reckoned one of
the best farmers in her vicinity, and
now owns three large farms which she
is running with the assistance of her
boys.
Miss M. F. Austin, of the Central
Colony, CAL, has twenty eight acres of
vineyard, twenty in bearing this third
year from cuttings, from which she has
already made, according to the Pacific
Rural Press, 5000 pounds of raisins,
and will add 1000 pounds more during
the season. The Muscat of Alexandria
and Muscatel de Gorda Blanco are the
varieties of grapes used. Miss Austin
employed this season 1000 platforms
during the curing process. Her vines
yielded an average of ten pounds each
of grapes the first season of bearing.
Her grape product this season will pay
all expenses of the vineyard, pay for
the platforms, boxes, etc., which can be
used successive seasons, and possibly a
small margin above. She is very Justly
proud of her success and enthusiastic
over the future prospects of the raisin
industry in this country.
How the Rougher Sex Were Toasted at IA
Literary Reunion i'm Oregon.
Mrs. Dunway, of the Nel0 Northwest,
at literary reunion at Salem, Ore,
toasted the men as follows: "God
bless 'em! They halve our joys, they
double our SORROWS, they treble our ex-
penses, they quadruple our cares, they
excite our magnanimity, they increase
our self-respect, they awake our enthu-
siasm, they arouse our affections, they
control our property and out-maneuver
us in everything, This would be very
dreery world without 'em. In fact Imay
say, without prospect of successful con-
tradiction, that without EN- it would not
be much of world anyhow. We love
'em, and the dear beings can't help it !;
we control 'em, and the precious fellows
don't know it. AS husbands they are
always convenient, though not always
on hand; as beaux they are by no means
'matchless.' They are most agreeable
visitors; they are handy t State fairs
and indispensable at oyster saloons
They are splendid rs escorts for some
other fellows wife or sister, and as
friends they are letter than women. AS
our fathers they are inexpressibly grand.
A man may be failure in business, a
wreck in constitution, not enough to
boast of as beauty, nothing as wit, less
than nothing as legislator for woman's
rights, and Tot very brilliant as mem
Der of the press but if he is our own
father we overlook his shortcomings and
cover his peccadiloes with the divine
mantle of charity"
Female Students.
Professor" Now, then, be so kind as
to explain the organization of the
Tungemot." Miss Giggle-"Well, you
know, there was aha, ha! / can't re-
member the names. Such dreadfully
long words Well, you know, there
was a-he-he-he-a-really it's quite
too awfully horrid-a- what you-may-
call EN-, you know, and a--he-he-he
"a something or other, and / think
they used to notify the thingumbob to
meet the whats-his-name every three
months-or years, was it? l can't re-
member it, you know and then they
used to oil get together in some gim-
crack or other, and make the-he-he
-he-he-oh, / forget the rest, you
see. 1t don't make any difference, does
it?"
What have you on the board
there, Miss Flyrte? Surely, you don't
mean that for scalene triangle" Miss
Flyrte-"Dear me, mol 1 don't know
anything about horrid old scaly tri.
angles You know 1 never remem.
Der the hateful old things" Tutor
(severely)-"Well, what have you been
good enough to substitute, pray p
Miss Flyrte-"Ohl that That's my
idea of an all-toe-simply perfect hat
thought might as well do something
You know. Isn't it a duck?" Tutor
(blusnirg)-" Really-ah Miss Flyrte
4 shall have to ask you to stop-afte'
the hour" Miss Flyrte-" Why, Of
counsel / know you won't be cross
And mayn't wait till l o'clock, so we
can have real nice long talk? Say
yes, like dearl" Tutor utterly rout-
ed)-"W ell-ah-r eally-why-"
Curtain.