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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-25

If you want the best mower or
binder on earth, get the Champion of
WIN. SCHLECT.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-25

Wall paper, at prices way below
Toledo dealers. Stationery Of the fin
est. The finest lines of cigars, the
purest and best drugs and chemicals.
Books and tablets, fancy and toilet
articles. A, F. Files, of Maumee, Ohio.
I-IT-qq
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-25

Wood county fair is to be held at
Bowling Green, September 30, and the
premium lists are nearly ready.
-Tontogany boys went to Waterville
for Il great time, and one went back
with black eye. Mystery.-News.
Tho Epworth League of the M. f.
Sunday School, will soon give an enter
tainmeut for the purpose of purchasing
new organ for the Sunday School.
Don't be discouraged about that
eczema till you have given Ayers Sar-
saprilln Il persistent trial. Six bottles
OF this medicine cured the complaint
OF George S. Thomas, of Ada, Ohio,
when all other remedies failed to afford
any relief.
On Wednesday, August Il, the
Wood County Soldiers and Sailors
association will hold their annual re-
union ut the fair grounds at Bowling
Green. The preparations being made
Indicate that they propose to have
good time,
Tho . Old Maids . social at the M.
r. church parlors on Friday evening
last was indeed II most enjoyable en-
tertainment. The young ladies arran'
ged programme which was surprise
to all for its many excellent features
The receipts of the entertainment were
$40. 30.
On Tuesday last, julius Richards
was arrested at Freeport charged with
adultery. He is man 81 years of age
and was married in September 1883
and lived with his wife about years
when it seems he concluded TO change
pastures and has lived unlawfully will
one Minnie White Of Montgomery
township.
County Commissioners, L. Bever
stock of Tontogany, was in town OF
= Wednesday last, looking as good ma
/, tured US usual. He is q great hand Il
| observe the conditions of the crop
= while pussing through the various
: parts OF tho county, and says thu
3 farmer is "strictly in it" this year
j and, although some of the products ar
3 o trilo short in acreage the quality /
q excellent and the farmers chance
b are way up. Bully for the farmer
e When he is happy the rest OF the worl
can safely smile.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-25
Cigar.

The boy with incest rig gets the
best looking girl, and the place to get
the rig is at WIN. SCHLECT'S.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-25

Watches, Clocks. Jewelry, Specta
cles. Special attention given to repair
ing. All Warranted. JOHN ZURFLUH,
3l3 Monroe street, Toledo,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-25
Smoke die "Canarv I'm

Cigar.
Smoke the Canary Tip"
Cigar.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-25

Miss Emma Houstln went to
Vanlue, o., on Wednesday, and arrived
just in time to be present at the death
bed of her cousin, George Westcott.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-25

Miss Belle Wales, Miss Hill and Mrs.
Mable Oswald. of Toledo, called on Fl.
M. Hoover and wife and made short
visit. Mr.. H., of course, treated them
all with Il milk shake and to make il
more social there appeared n straw in
each glass. Mr.. II. says friends are
welcome until the spring runs dry.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05
POINTS OF PROGRESS.

HELEN CAMPBELL says that 200. 900
women work in hundred different
trades in New York city. and of
that number $4,000 support their hus-
bands
REV. MARY L. LEGGETT, the pastor
of the Unitarian church of Green Har-
Dor, Marshtield, Mass, is very sue
cessful She came from Beatrice,
Neb., where she preached for three
years.
THERE are more women workers in
the United Kingdom, Great Britain and
Ireland, in proportion to the population.
than in any other country in the world
Twelve per cent of the working classes
there are women.
DR. EMMA GrNKEL, of Newport. KY.
a graduate of Cincinnati college. and
who completed her studies in Germany,
has become one of the most successful
physicians in her state She is the
daughter of a noted homeopathist.
THE political equality club of War
rem, o., has been investigating the
number 0 women engaged in the vari-
GUS industries of that city and finds
that outside of domestic industries
there are $50 women employed in gain
full labor.
A woMAN's duty is certainly the thing
which she is best fitted to do, and in
the ratio of her preservation of her in
dividuality is her usefulness increased.
She is capable of settling the matter
herself, and with trained intelligence
and reasoning powers skilled by the
consideration of subjects of the highest
Importance, can scarcely err.-Chicagc
Graphic.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05
A LESSON IN PhlLOLOGY.
How some Domestic Words Have Lost
Their Original Specification.

How some Domestic Words Hav. Lost
Their Original Specification.
The origin of worts is an interesting
study even to people who are not
philologists. Take the homely word
diaper" for example. To what depths
has ii descended. 1t is like high-born
gentlewoman deprived of her broad
lands and fair towers and compelled TO
do scullion's work for a livelihood.
1t is, in short, like the story Of Cindcrcl-
la reversed. For diaper was a term
originally applied to silken fabric.
and is mentioned AS early as the
eleventh century. Its special charac-
teristic was that by the arrangement of
warp and woof, both of the same tone
of color, il design could be produced on
the web which had the appearance of
being raised i'm relief above the seem
ingly dusky ground. Cloth of gold was
diapered with designs in this way.
Exeter cathedral had, in an inventory
dated la77. ii cope of white diaper with
half moons. and st. Paurs cathedral
one with parrots done in green.
The meaning of the word diaper
gradually widened, so that it came to
be used when the pattern or ornament
was repeated. or when the pattern was
sprinkled or powdered over the surface
Embroidery to initiate diaper in gold
was general in the middle ages The
beautiful golden ground of the Opus
Anglicanum was usually dotted all over
with repeating pattern. This APP
parently mechanical mothod was capa-
BILE of infinite variety, and formed the
most effective backgrounds, and it is
remarkable that in different examples
of old work the same diapers seldom
uppear.-Chicago Tribune.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05

though his playmatcs stop the game, toI
await results. "JOHNr' His fatherl
called that time and the tone meant bus
mess YES. sir!" and like streak he
darts toward his home.
The small boy Of to-day is highly
blessed.
1t seems as il all the inventors in the
world were getting up new playthings
and games and tools and books for his
especial benefit, and that his parents
cant spend enough money for his pleas.
ure and entertainment
Compare what our grandfathers or
what we ourselves had in childhood
with the playthings that the modern
small boy is hardly sat isfied with.
lie not only sports a seven dollar
tennis racket and forty dollar bicycle,
but he must have . suitable dress to go
with them.
We used to have q good game of ball
in patched trousers and bare feet and
an old straw hat Now the children
can't enjoy themselves at all without
uniform and glove and face covering
and real bag bases.
A fish pole cut in the woods was good
en- ough for MS. but split bamboo our
boys must have.
We used to get pretty hot doses Of
birch when we deserved it, but now
adays it has gone out of fashion in the
homes as well as the schools-and we
think it ought to. for all the whippings
we got never made us any better-but
the contrary. Spare the child and
spoil the rod is the improved version.
A curious transformation takes place
in the small boy after he has been
awhile to school.
lie suddenly becomes sensitive to
wearing old clothes. Instead of fight
ing against being washed he washes
himself often and nearly destroys the
hairbrush in his efforts before the
glass. IIe must have a clean collar
every day and have on his best neck
tie. He becomes quiet and oh, SO
good about the house. He never is
late to school and always knows his
lessons.
And he becomes furious whenever a
mention is made of the little sweet
heart who has won his boyhood's first
affections.
The little girl is very nice in her way,
but she cant hold candle to the small
boy.
May lie never grow old.-H. C.
Dodge, in Goodalrs Sun.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05
SOCIETY SPORTS AND GAMES.
A Few Sensible suggestions Concerning
Correct Conduct.

Few Sensible Suggestions Concerning
Correct Conduct.
These sports. called innocent, gener-
ally please young persons of both sexes
because they excite an interest, while
they require an exercise of the memory
and of the mind. 1t is necessary, how
ever. in this. as in everything else, to
manifest attention. delicacy and pro-
priety. We ought not to endeavor to
be noticed for our too great vivacity or
freedom We should be satisfied at
showing our talent at playing in our
turn. and taking part in the common
gayety without prctens;on or too great
zeal. We should especially avoid throw
ing out any vindictive remarks. bestow-
ing misplaced compliments. or imposing
forfeits which would cause mortifica-
ton.
A young gentleman ought never to
seize young lady by the arm. catch
hold OF her ribbon or bouquet. nor pay
exclusive attention to the same person.
lie should be agreeable and pleasant
toward all.
The selection of games belongs to the
ladies. The person who receives the
company should be careful to vary
them: and when she perceives that any
game loses its interest, she should pro-
pose another.
There are. almost always, persons in
society who wish to take the lead. and
give the ton: it is a caprice or fault
which should be avoided. We may
modestly propose any amusement. and
ask the opinion Of others in regard to
it: but should never pretend to dictate,
nor even to urge having our own pro-
posal accepted. Ii it does not please
generally. We should be silent. and re-
sign ourselves with IA good grace to the
decisions of the majority.
Never prescribe any forfeiture which
can wound the feelings of any Of the
company. N. Y. Ledger.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05
A Oueer Hallucinati ton.

"a have a patient who is nearly nine
ty years old" says prominent doctor
of Evanston. ''lIe has no ailment ex-
cept that of increasing age. In most
respects he is perfectly sound. But he
has one story to which he has been ad-
dicted for several years, and every
time he tells it he augments it. Ills
hobby is the Newhall house fire i'm Mil
waukee. He will tell you if you will
listen picturesque story of that hor-
ror from the time the alarm was turned
in until the last victim persisted lie
is particularly vivid in his account Of
the manner of the fate of the servant
girls. The truth of the matter is he
never saw the fire. He was in Pc
cnliar frame of mind when he read the
first accounts of the horror, and they
made such an impression upon him that
he actually believes he was in the
house when the fire broke out, and that
he had thrilling escape. On every
thing else the old gentleman is perfect
ly sound, and is the soul of truth. ~
Chicago Tribune.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05
THE MAIOEN's CHOICE.

Two youths once lived in country town,
And one was giant fair
With saxon vikings golden crown
A0d biacksmifhs muscles smooth and BROW
When he made his right arm bare.
! ne other youth was of dapper size,
30 slender and short was he
That he found small favor in maidcns' eyes
And the giant boosted in merry wise:
Il could lay him across my KIN e."
These twa n both courted the village belle,
But short was the race they run;
At the giants feet the maiden fell,
And the little man. though he pleaded we'll
Nanght more than her pity won.
They marched away 10 the wars one day,
In haste for the battles van.
And the people cheered when the giant gay
Strode stOutly past for the distant fray
And they smiled at the little man.
But the earliest ball by a foeman sped
One drop from the war-black skies
Passed safely over the pigmy's head
And the giant. who stood behind, fell dead
With , bullet between his eyes.
Then the little man swore. though his sight
was dim.
And he bounded ahead Of them all
And the whole great army followed him
Till he leapt like devil 1.-the and slim
First man DER the battery wall
And he planted the flag Of his country there
While the routed enemy ran.
And the Iegions roared. ~ IL Ho;I,ed fair
On the dusky waves OF sulphnrous air;
'.rhrce cheers for the little man.
Oh. do not know. and l cannot say,
What the giant might have done,
but I'm sure the maiden will weep Away
For her lover shot in the first OF the fray,
And dead err. his fame was won.
For war Is field OF chance. you know.
Let him dodge the bullets who can:
but love is garden where fancies blow
And tine form OF giant makes larger show
Than the sOnl of = little man.
-George Horton. in Chicago Herald.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05
MISS LIZZIE ThAYER.

The Capable and Trustworthy Train Dis
patcher Of an Eastern Railroad.
There are many women who occupy
more imposing and better paid posi-
TONS but there are few. il any. who
incur every day in the week such vast
responsibilities as devolve upon Miss
Lizzie E. D. Thayer. This young lady
has been for two years the train dis
patcher of the New London Northern
railroad, whose tracks extend from
New London, CT, to Brattleboro. VT,
q distance of 12l miles. Not q mile of
the entire road is double-tracked There
are forty-eight regular trains on the
time table along with any number of
extra ones, both freight and passenger
During the summer excursion trains are
run at frequent intervals. All these
trains are moved by telegraph. and the
safety of lives and property involved
depends largely upon the nerve. fore
sight and promptness of the young
woman whose finger tips are on the tel
egraph instrument in the New London
office.
Miss Thayer is said to be the only
woman in the world who holds such
position. From seven g. m. to nine p
m. she is responsible. and for the prin-
cipal part of the time she is hard at
work receiving and dispatching mes.
sages. She keeps one of the telegraph
wires hot with train orders and instruc-
tions to conductors in regard to the
work at the many stations She side
tracks freight train to let passengers"
whiz by, or, perchance. she sidetracks
a passenger train for few minutes to
prevent freight loaded with perisha-
bic stock from getting Laid out"
1t was somewhat by accident that
Miss Thayer became a train dispatcher.
Three years ago she joined the office
for short time as assistant to the regu-
lar official. Within year he resigned,
and for seven months the young lady
performed all duties without any as
sistance. The superintendent hunted
up and down the road for the proper
person to fill the place. Meanwhile
the road was running on all right. and
finally, having grown tired of looking
for the proper man, it was decided that
rs Miss Thayer's work had been per-
fectly satisfactory she should be re-
tanned in the position. Chicago Post
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05
In WOMAN'S BEHALF.
the WAGES or WOMEN.

Facts drought to Light 1t Meeting 81 the
British Association.
The economic section Of the British
association at its recent meeting took
under consideration the relative wages
of men and women. and discussed the
matter thoroughly In the hope that some
conclusion could be reached, some basis
of fixing the pay that women ought to
get where they do the same kind Of
work as men. As might have been ex-
pected, no definite conclusion was
reached, although the matter was very
thoroughly discussed. and great deal
OF interesting information obtained. In
the first place, it was shown that the
popular belief that women do not get
the same pay as men for the same quail
ity of work is q mistake. They are paid
quite as well in many branches. In
art and literature they receive
the same compensation. and
among the greater singers the
women have probably received
more. In the trades or professions they
get the same pay when they organize
and insist upon it. For years the Lam
cashire cotton mills paid female labor
less than the males, until the women
organized and struck. Since then the
mill owners have not considered the
sex OF their employees, but the work
cone A similar strike was that Of the
women teachers in Wyoming and it was
similarly successful Indeed, within
the last few years the salar.
les paid female teachers have
appropriated closer and closer to
those paid the men. until now
in majority OF the states no differ.
ence between them is recognized.
When, however, it comes to
factory work the women get
less, generally because they do less
Their work is usually different from
that done by the men. simpler. lighter
and easier. Again in regard to type
writers, clerks, telegraph operators and
the like, the smaller pay is due to infer
Tor work. This is especially the case
with typewriters and clerks. due to the
fact that when the women go into
these branches they do SO temporarily.
expecting to leave them soon for some
thing else, where as the men adopt
them generally as permanency. It is
this temperatures which makes
much of women's work-especially
where they enter into competition with
men-inferior. and is the cause of their
receiving lower pay Whenever they
60 into any trade which they intend to
keep up permanently. they get the same
pay, and they do SO, moreover, when they
are thoroughly organized and insist
upon their rights. But when 1t is
mere makeshift. something to be follow.
ed year or so until they are married,
the work is inferior and the pay small.
These are the conclusions reached by
the British Association. after ha wing
discussed the matter for several days
N. O. Times Democrat.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN vENTiN.
ORS.

Bright Ideaa That Have Brought Fame
and Fortune to Their Originators.
A California woman has invented q
baby carriage. which Melted her over
$50, 900. while to Mrs Catherine Greene.
the wife and widow Of WaAhington's
ablest officer. is due the honor of in
venting the cotton gin, one of those
distinctly American inventions. the
value and Importance of which have
been recognized by the whole indus
trial world. A horseshoe machine.
which turns out completed shoes, was
the invention Of woman; also the
reaper and mower, the idea Of Mrs A.
Manning, Of Plainfeld. n. j., to whom
is also accredited clover cleaner. Mrs.
Manning seems to have stimulated the
inventive genius Of her neighbors. for q
few years after her reaper and mower
was patented, Mrs Elizabeth Smith, of
the same state, took out a patent for an
improvement on this machine, being a
device for changing the knives with.
out stopping the wheels One of the
most complicated machines ever made
is that for the manufacture of re-
enforced bottom paper bags. 1t is so
curiously ingenious that how it was
contrived passes the ordinary compre-
hension. 1t was the invention OF Miss
Maggie Knight. who, from it and other
inventions in the same line. realized
large fortune. A street sweeper of
great merit was devised and patented
by New York lady, who had costly
dress ruined by the mud splashed on it
from q defective machine. Most re
markable Of all is the invention Of Mrs.
Mary h. Walton for deadening the sound
of car-wheels. She lives near the ele-
waited railroad in New York, and was
greatly annoyed by the sound Of the
roaring trains passing her house. The
most noted machinists and inventors of
the country had given their attention
to the subject without being able to
furnish a solution. when. 10. woman's
brain did the work, and her appliance,
proving perfectly successful, was adopt
ed by the elevated roads. and she is
now reaping the rewards of happy
thought. India Rubber Journal.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05
In Days Gone By.

There was time when it was con-
sidered part Of woman's duty to
spin the thread and weave the cloth for
the use of the family, to wash and iron
her husbands linen, and to have no
thought about the cellar and pantry.
the kitchen and her accounts Times
have changed. The invention of labor
saving machinery Of all kinds has left
women with hours of leisure upon their
hands, and the employment of that
leisure has led them into new fields to
the creation of new industries and to
taking the place of men in the depart
ments OF the old, which they are ca
pa bic of filling Chicago Graphic.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05
MORE SYSTEM DESIRED.
Comment nm the Lack Of Method In the
Way women Work.

Comment On the Lack Of Method In the
Way women Work.
A newspaper in commenting on the
lack Of method in the way women
work, says:
From remote generations men have BEEN
taught 10 do their work By rule No man hires
lEborer without eng aging Its time for eer
tain number ri hours The man servant knows
distinctly when and what time he must devote
TO his work The female servant alone In ~
pected to do her work In . happy xos asy way.
A. one time me is riOus reprimanded for
what is overlooked at other times The trouble
with servants II largely due 10 want Of order in
laying out their work and making them . ihe.e
rigidly TO II. The average ma d OF all work has
some reason in rebelling against her position
when her work depends. as II often dos upon
the whimsical fanci-s OF the mistress VIM
drives her from one thing 10 another without
system or order.
There is grain Of truth in this. and
women are finding out that the work
Of running house must be brought
under mc.'e system than it has been in
the past; but the hap-hazard methods
complained of are not essentially femi-
nine. The conditions under which
women work have fostered this way Of
doing, and household work can never
be brought under the rigid discipline Of
the workshop because people can not
live ny machinery. She is the best
housekeeper who can get best control
Of conditions so as to minimize the
friction Of the various occupations
that 60 to make up the sum Of house
work
A frail. delicate woman. with four or
five young children. small number of
rooms. only an incompetent maid of all
work to rely upon for help and hus-
band who expects all the comforts that
he had in his bachelor days. should not
be criticised for lack Of method because
her house is a good part OF the time in
disorder. Give the same women .
house roomy enough to have place for
every thing, help enough TO give each
one time for doing thoroughly the task
allotted to her. and leaving the house.
wife time to think Of something beside.
the necessity of saving some expense at
every turn. and the lack Of method
might not be so prominent feature OF
her household. BY faulty training, and
too large demand upon time and
strength, women have been forced into
the unsystematic ways complained Of
More leisure and more mental training
will correct the fault. and the next gen
Grafton of housewives will have q
chance to retrieve the reputation of
women in this respect
Mass Republican.