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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31
Our American Girls.


There has been so much talk lately
of higher education" so much discus
sion of the question whether or not our
young women are having all the adj
va-.tages which they can make use of,
that one would naturally think the fe-
males of our time were favored and
cared for beyond all complaint.
But alas if the wisdom, the modesty,
the gentleness, the womanliness of the
coming woman" are to be judged and
measured by the character of the pres
ent girl,-then have we fallen upon sad
days indeed.
The question has forced itself upon
my mind aga and again i'll these times
of liberal education, of excellent schools,
of wide knowledge and abundant liter
allure, What is done for our girls?
That there is a great lack somewhere
no one can fail to see who notices care
fully that large portion of every COM
munity, the school girls, who, from
the age of twelve to that of sixteen,
throng the streets of the city, and the
promenades of our summer resorts.
Does education reach them all with its
beautiful, civilizing touch? There is
scarcely a difference, in respect to edu-
cation $50 called), between the petted
girl of wealthy parents, who attends a
private educational establishment, and
the poorest child whose name is upon
the roll" of any of our public schools.
All are equally taught. To rich and
poor alike the pages lie freely open.
i have sometimes listened with sur
prise-in passing through crowded
streets, toward evening, when the
young folks were all abroad-to the
very correct and perfectly turned SEN
fences from the lips OF all, even of those
who dwelt in the humblest homes.
This is the work of our public schools,
of the graded scheme whereby the child
Of lowest estate is lifted out of all pow
erty of mind, and is given that most en-,
during of riches, q good education. II
is nobel 1t is worthy of our great,
free, advancing countryl But as j
watch these girls of our land every
where find one great blank, which
schools, and the books, and the fine
plan of education have failed to sup
plyl
Perchance the higher education
will fill the'need. If so, then let us
have that higher education without an.
other months delay For verify for
one sweet, modest, quiet girl, whose
cheek can blush and whose eyes droop,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31
For the week ending Jan. 10. 1884. the reports

For the week ending Jan. 10. 1884, the reports
indicate that remittent fever and diphtheria in
creased, and that pneumonia, tonsilitis, con-
sumption, bronchitis, and neuralgia decreased
in area OF prevalence.
At the State capital, the prevailing winds dur
ing the week ending Jan. 10 were southwest; and,
compared with the preceding week the tempera-
ture was considerably higher, the absolute
humidity more, and the relative humidity and
the day and the night ozone less
Including reports by regular observers and
others, diphtheria was reported present during
the week ending Jan. 10. and since, at sixteen
places, namely: Bath, Detroit, De Witt, Eureka.
Fairfield, Grand Rapids, Holly, Township OF
Ithaca, Linden, Muskegon, Moproe, Manistee,
Worthwhile. Pontiac, Saginaw, saugatuck. Scalet
fever at ei1hteen places-Coldwater, Detroit
Eagle, Flint, Grand Rapids, Jersey. Kalamazoo.
Leavitt, Marine City, Mendon, Monroe,
Newaygo. Negaunee. 0tsego. Orleans, Rose.
Saginaw, Shelby. Measles at thirteen places
Albion, Brooklyn, Crystal Falls, Cedar Springs,
Detroit. Flint Fredonia. Grand Rapids. Jerome,
Lakeview, Monroe, North Adams. and Owosso
HENRY b. BAKER, Secretary.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31

who shrinks from the public presence
and seeks the background shadows.
whose voice falls gently. and who does
not assert herself--we would give al.
the modern female students" l6-year-
old "essayists," classical scholars and
wondrous "girl graduates.
We do not find the old-time school
girl. She is not in any group in the
park, upon the street or in the publ C
conveyance. There are no soft-voiced.
bashful, timid girls, who leave us at 8
in the evening. Oh, mol The modern
girls talk loudly, stare boldly; they are
upon the sidewalk or the bench, or the
hotel piazza, as late as any one--they
go mp and down, arm in arm, with no So
laughter and distinct conversation !;
perhaps. even, with snatches of song
from some operetta. Occasionally, dur
ing their promenade, there occurs some
thing comical at which they make no
effort to repress the laughter which at
tracts so much attention.
Shall We never have again our old
fashioned, retiring school girl whom we
looked upon with pleasure, thinking of
the woman she would grow to?
Where does the fault lie? Doubtless
with the mothers in most cases.
But we have tho lght much lately of
that higher female education" theory (:
and wondered if our faithful, earnest
teachers might not add this to their list
of duties-to teach the girls the great
value of modesty and OF quiet demeanor
everywhere; to tell them of the beauty
of soft voices and gentle speech, to give
them instruction in that true wisdom"
whose price is above rubies; to show
them their proper paths, lying narrowly
along the low, unseen valleys, where
birds sing and flowers bloom, and yet
upon the thronged highway where older
feet must tread.
Would it not be the first great move
ment toward that "higher education" OF
women, if our teachers should give
each day-side by side with mathemat-
les and Latin, if you please some care
full instruction regarding the Beauty OF
Girlhood as shown by modesty, by UNI
selfishness, by transformations care for
others, and especially for those who
are older, by quiet ways and words in
all public places, and by gentle yield
ing to those in authority.
Let the schools make it an important
study. Give it high grade. Let it be
put into immediate practice, and the
watchful eye of the teacher Let our
girls be taught to be true girls, with
girlhood ennobled and glorified and set
apart for pure and special work.
Yes, we have come to believe in q
higher education We see the need OF
it. Let our girls no longer be deprived
of their rights. At fourteen they are
capable of better and higher things.
Let them be admitted to the "full
course" Let them go as high as may
be, until they are surrounded and up
held by that rare and radiant atmos
phere which widens and colors into
perfect womanhood.
Then we may walk in our streets and
public resorts, and be more annoyed
and ashamed-as we now are-at the
bold manners and loud voices of oul
girls. Harriion.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31
No Messages Taken.

do all boys who die go directly to
heaven?" asked sick little Joe of his
mother.
L hope so.'
"They don't have to stay in the ground
long time and perhaps go to an awful
bad place."
"Why, no, Joe; little boys are not
sinful enough for such punishment
even if there is any such thing"
"Then they go right up to the sky ?"
Eyes, Joe; but don't talk about such
things"
"Did Freddie Amison, who died last
week, go to heaven, mother?"
why, certainly, my child.
"Well, mother, if die right off you
needn't send any word to Freddie, for
/ probably shan't see him; and il 1 do
shan't feel like talking to him, for the
last time we went to school he said you
was an old blowhard, and thumbed his
nose at you, and told him shouldn't
speak to him any more. "-HarVord
Sunday Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31

THE Manufacturers Record, of
Baltimore, publishes an article showing
remarkable increase in the cotton
manufacturing interests of the South
during the last three years. The fig
ures now show 314 cotton mills in the
South. having 1876, 422 spindles and
24,S73 looms, while in 1880 there were
only $50 mills with 1859 spindles
and Is, 222 looms. In 1880 the value
of manufactured cotton produced was a
little over 500, 100000. In 1883 it had
risen to $35, OOO,O 900 or 100000
During the last three years and half
about $40, 600, 900 has been invested by
new and old cotton mills in machinery,
the bulk of which was paid to Northern
and Western machinery manufacturers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31
PEOPLE AND THINGS.
BEER in. Kansas is ''sea foam"

BEER In. Kansas is "sea foam
MISS ADA BRIoGs, of Philadelphia, weighs
532 pounds.
SENATOR PAYNE has a son old enough to be
a grandfather.
A BosroS firm offers prize of 5000 for
the best American opera.
AUNT MrLLY," of Nashville. 100 years old,
was married the other day TO man forty
years her junior.
THE only excuse left by Miss Hewitt, OF
Keokuk, Iowa, for shooting herself was that
she had the blues"
DOCTOR in Rookand, Me-, says the girls
there chew white cotton rags for their COM
plexion, and that as the rags are bieached
with arsenic they improve the color of their
cheeks, and break down their health mt the
same time.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31

1T is said upon good authority that
New Mexico alone not less than 5000
200 acres of grazing lands have been
gobbled' by two syndicates of English
capitalists, who have placed la-y,e
tracts of it on sale in the London
markets. This land has been acquired,
TOO. in the face of clause in the pre-
emption law which says that alien
monopolists cannot hold, occupy, OF
possess the public domain either as
farming, grazing, timber, or mining
lands"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31
Ii Was - Cold Day.

II hear you wanted to marry Miss
Jenkins said AlgernJn to Charlie.
Il thought little of it,"
did you make much of success of
your wooing?
I'm a manner, yes. 1 asked her if
she would accept me as her husband"
what did she say?"
"She-she-"
Il understand. You got left
"Well-well-I didn't exactly-well
--I-well, it was an awful cold day.
Farewell, old boy. Merchant Trau-
eter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31

WHEN the Hon. VIM. ID. Kelley was
young man he and Representative
Randall's father were one day talking
together with an eminent doctor in
Paris. Health was the topic of CONVEX
sation. and young man," said the doc
tor. to Mr.. Kelley, IF you will make it
a rule never to get exhausted so long
as part of the day remains in which
you have anything to do, you will live
to be as old as / am" Il followed the
advice" said Judge Kelley to Cleve-
land Leader correspondent, "as far as
could, and 1 have already lived to be
older than either the gray-haired doc
tor or Sam Randalls father"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31
CHANDLER TOWNSHIP. Charlevoix coun,

CHANDLER TOWNSHIP, Charlevoix county,
has thrilling ghost story in circulation. A
number of veracious people have seen the
shades of a young man murdered there some
time since, others hear the pistol shots re-
peated at twilight, and still others an invisi-
BILE horse galop along the State road at the
same hour. The man who owns the haunted
house Is anxious to sell, he also having seen
In his front yard seven ghosts with guns In
their hands and phantom dog chained.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31
The Kitchen.

There are housekeepers who seem to
regard the aspect of the kitchen as not
of the smallest Importance, so long as
the dinner is well cooked and the rest
of the honse kept in order; no matter
how begrimed the ceiling, if that of the
drawing-room is in good condition; no
matter how rude the floor, if that has a
velvet carpet; or how cheap and ugly
the wallpaper, if their own particular
apartments are soft and harmonious in
tone. Perhaps they think that the
servant will not waste her time looking
out of the window if the view is not
interesting, but as the kitchen is the
place where Nora spends the greater
portion of her days, it seems a pity
that her drudgery could not be allevi-
ated, at least, by cheerful prospect,
by an aesthetic wallpaper, which need
be no dearer than an ugly one, and
which she may not be able to appre-
ciate all at once, but which may yet
help to educate her, in n manner. to
good taste unawares. OF course, after
the kitchen is suitably furnished, it de.
ponds upon her whether it shall be kept
tidy and inviting; but if the mistress
show an interest in making it attract
i've, In making it coy, comfortable, and
pretty as her means and the object for
which it is used will permit, the servant
will speedily catch the spirit, in most
cases, and lend hand in preserving
order and prettiness. Why should
there not be shelf in the kitchen fol-
plants, or hanging pot in the window
where the moist atmosphere and uni
form heat are so beneficial for growing
things? And when Nora sits down tc
her sewing of an evening, may not G
rocking chair be as great necessity fol-
her as for one whose bones do not ache
with use, or whose muscles have not
been overtaxed? Would we not like il
if the kitchen were our own orbit
Perhaps the mistress might say: "That
is quite another thing. We have beer
bred to certain amount of luxury and
comfort; she, being unused to it, does
not miss it; and, if we concede these
things she will only be the more miser
able and discontinued in her next place
where they may be denied. Besides
we will be making it difficult for those
mistresses who are not in position tC
renovate and improve their kitchens al
every hands turn" But we have nc
responsibility about Nora's next place
and if pleasant surroundings are &
benefit to character, we are really pre-
pairing her to fill that place more &C
ceptably, and doing her mistress a goot
turn.-HaTper's Bdzdr.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31

Democrat says, dwell on tract of
1900 acres near the village of Seneca,
on the dividing line between the Indian
Territory and Missouri. There are
twenty-six families. numbering LOG per-
sons. They are losing their warlike
character. and are becoming agricult-
wrists, and in doing this they are still
assisted by the General Government,
which supplies rations and an instruct
or in agriculture. Most of them speak
English. A Modoc woman, who is the
tribes best interpreter, cultivated five
acres of corn without any assistance
whatever, and got a yield of 800 bushels
last year. The reservation has been
surveyed into forty-acre lots, and the
cabins are being removed from the clus-
ter in which they stood, and ere long
every family will live on its own forty
acre patch.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31
Health in Michigan.

Reports to the State Board Of Health, Lansing.
by observers of diseases in different parts Of the
State show the principal diseases which caused
most sickness in Michigan. during the week
ending Jan. 10. 1884. as follows-number of OBJ
servers heard from, as:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31

CHICAGO NeWs: Our esteemed con-
temporary, the Bloomington Eye, is in
q power of trouble. A short while ago
it invited contribution from Mr.. +.
William Nye. the gentle humorist, late
of Wyoming, but now nursing fiery,
untamed article of spinal meningitis at
Hudson, Wis. Mr.. Nye responded
with a Characteristic sketch, in which
he treated of the horrors of meningitis
and the divers alleged methods of cur.
ing that unpleasant complaint. In the
course of this humorous article, Mr..
Nye took occasion to pay his compli'
ments to certain Wyoming physician
by the name of Dysart, who had pro.
fessionally advised and treated him
during the earlier stages of his sick
ness. In his quantity humorous way
Mr.. Nye spoke of DIR. Dysart as a gen.
tlemen who was the best friend the
cemeteries ever had, and in divers and
sundry other ways he lampooned and
ridiculed the Wyoming Esculapius.
The editor of the Eye innocently
printed the article, never for one mo-
ment suspecting that "Dr. Dysart," as
quoted in Mr.. Nye's contribution, exist
ed anywhere save in Mr.. Nye's imagin-
alton. The horror and grief, therefore,
of that mild, unsuspecting editor may
be imagined, if not described, when he
finds himself confronted by the irate
DR.. Dysart, in propria persona, and q
libel suit praying for damages in the
modest sum of $4,000 Mr.. Nye may
be pretty sick man, but we have a
dim, twinkling suspicion that the editor
of the Bloomington Eye is much the
sicker man of the two.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31

A GREAT many ministers know when
to begin discourse, but not one in ten
knows when to leave of. The man
who has the genius to put his amen in
the right place is always popular.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31
Ths Trne Yarthsruer.


Mr.. 9. p. HUNTINGTON controls H.
200 miles of railway. He is 65 years
old. and is very healthy. His fortune
is estimated at $50, coo, 900.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31

THE following is a record of failures
In the United States extending over
twenty-seven years-from 1867 to 1888.
inclusive:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31

The last of the terrible Modocs, of
lava beds fame, writer in the Globe
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31

THERE is talk of starting an independent
German paper at Kalamazoo.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-31

THE Iowa Legislature contains nfty-eight,
Union war veterans.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-11
Grants Unfailing Friendship.

Misfortunes, says the Cincinnati Com
mercial, are certainly crowding fast on
Gen. Grant. Right on the head of his
Wall street losses, come the sudden
death of two old friends, Orville Bah
cock and Levi Luckey. The general
was warmly attached to each of these
men, despite the great difference in
their traits, and he stuck to them with
proverhial devotion, through thick and
thin. No amount of calumny could
shake his trust in Babcock any more
than he would listen months ago to
friendly warnings about Ferdinand
Ward. Babcock during the halycon
days of cash in the District of Columbia,
made the most of his opportunities, and
by keen collision with the men upper
most, he became possessed Of real estate
which rapidly enhanced in value.
Then, too, he was fortunate
in other investments, and must have
left a handsome provision for his poor
wife and five interesting children. His
friend Luckey, who went down with
him in the waters of Mosquito Inlet,
afforded a strong contract to the world
ly shrewdness of Babcock. Naturally
many opportunities for improving the
size of his pocket-book must have hap
pened his way during the long time
Luckey held the prominent post Of pri-
vate secretary to Grant, but there never
was any evidence that the aforesaid
pocket-book was the least affected by
its g surroundings. Luckey might
easily have bettered himself by perfect
ly legitimate means, but he lacked the
trained insight and foresight for the
purpose. In all such matters he was
literary natures own, candid, honest,
nnselfish and utterly devoid of all talent
for plot. Snifin, who succeeded him,
was much the When Grant was
about to retire, and made his faithful
secretary a paymaster in the army, with
a fat life tenure, Snifin told me that
he had to sell $500 in government bonds
all he had saved from his White House
salary, to get q regimental outfit for his
new position.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-11
Preserving Meat.

A correspondent of The Prairie Farm-
~ n;vos +ha fo1lonr;na mothad 20 -
~ ~ = pre-
serving ffesh meat: In the first place
we have as many lard or pork barrels
as will be necessary to hold a supply Of
meot for +bo fon,;1y Tl,osa ,,.,raIa 49,
49, :. -. Ae'o Aie
cleAh' sweet ana tlgnt' one end axe
out. They are arranged on a bench
in the cellar, one end up. The pigs
are killed and cooled n tho ns,al way
o - ono "aJ.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-11
8sautasy,ns the Complexion.

Compilations differ very much with
the climate. The English have, beyond
adoubt, the most beautiful complexion's
in the world. American girls possess
more beauty of feature, perhaps, but
their compilations are not nearly so fine.
As n goes farther south, toward the
equator, one sees darker skins and
darker hair and eyes, for all these ply
steal characteristics have reference to
climate influences. Upon two things
the condition of the skin depends-oil
and coloring matter. The skin of a very
old man or woman, for want Of oil, be-
becomes like wrinkled, dried-up parch-
ment; an albino has scarcely any col
oring matter in the hair. eyes or COM
plexion. To finish I will give you q re-
cipe for Identifying the complexion
the one used by the danes Of ancient
Rome. Probably it is familiar to many,
but there may be others who
have read of it. These ladies'
made a stiff paste of rye
-four and covered their faces with it>on
on retiring. In the morning they
washed it off with milk they never
used water) and applied alittle powder,
ii it was deemed necessary. This, We
are told on good authority, is really the
best method of improving the complex
ion that has eve been used, either in
ancient or modem times. The rye flour
is said to draw from the skin any marks
that may have fingered on it. More.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-11
Some Points About the Management OF
Young Children In Hot weather.


-a-
Some Points About the Management OF
Young Children in Hot weather.
Philadelphia Times.
There are three sources from which
narm to the children may be anticipated
during the coming three months.
These are the process of teething, indi-
gestion and the heat. An account of
the troubles incident to these circum-
stances would now be soasonable and
possibly interesting to many. At all
events, these matters arc standard topics
OF conversation among mothers, evil
dence that they at least know OF the
gravity Of the troubles in question.
Although the thermometer is not ex-
actly indispensable where there are
young children, yet it is great convent
ence, for until the external tempera-
ture rises to about ninety degrees little
trouble may be expected from the heat.
Troubles due to the cause just named.
are best combated by frequent spong-
ing of the face, arms, hands and feet
with simple cool water. Children that
are so treated will be much less liable
to be affected injuriously by the heat
and ether matters now to be spoken of.
The liability to Indigestion increases
as the summer heat approaches the maxi
mum point. In the treatment of this
trouble the old rule rbout prevention
will be especially useful. AT this time
the avoidance of fat and heated foods
and of unwholesome bread and milk
are very important points. The foods
most valuable for summer use can be
named iii short order. Use the most
nutritious and digestible substances that
can be commanded. Meats baked or
boileduse cold. Cold cup custard, rice
pudding, cold, good ice-cream, milk and
sponge cake are prime articles for sum-
mer diet for all, and especially for child
rem who can use food other than milk
The eruption of the teeth goes on most
vigorously during the second year of the
child's life, and makes unusual demands
on its vital powers. This circumstance
accounts for the more serious outlook of
all the serious diseases that may occur
at this period of the child's life. When
a child is teething and appears in great
general distress, with perhaps a hot and
dry skin, much relief may be afforded
allowing an abundance of cold water to
drink and by q cool bath, followed by
sharp rubbings of all parts Of the child's
body. But if, on the other hand, the
child should be attacked by sudden vom-
iting and purging, with much apparent
weakness and cool skin, medical advice
should be had with all speed. while
waiting for the coming of the doctor, a
drop of the best brandy in hot, sweet
ened water, should be given by the
mouth. Hot spice plasters applied to
various parts Of the body, notably the
stomach, would also be useful.