Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-27

a pound. BIT her greatest success Is as
breeder Of stock for sale. IT Is sold IS
fast As IL Is cid enough, whether Berk-
shire pigs, Guernsey COWS or troSters and
road horses.
There are people who appear TO read
a certain well known Scripture text as
follows: What man hath joined togeth-
CT leE not God put asunder.'
The exigencies OF politics in New
York city demand thar women shall be
excluded from the school board. Tam
many has no use for women. The time
is coming when women VIII have no use
for IamInany.
Some time ago had the i'll fate to be
fooled by 3 rascally falsehood III New
York paper 10 the effect that the mayor
Of Salem, O.. had forbidden the young
women OF that town 10 walk upon the
streets after 5 o'clock p. II. l might
have known on the face Of it that no
Ohio man would do a thing like that.
but did rot stop 10 think. made some
comments ON the story in manner
which l now confess was not exactly
mild in tone. find that my comments
did grievous wrong 10 one Of the best
wolnan's rights men living Mayor j.
W. Northrop. of Salem. o., writes that
in his judgment the proposition of wom-
ans equal rights with man, politically
as well as otherwise, is so self evident
that il cannot be Directly disputed. He
adds also this fine, strong statement:
My dealings with the world as mer-
chant, soldier, 2 journalist, a public
officer, and. lastly. "a magistrate suggest
that woman's political enfranchisement
may bo essential in order 10 make man
morally her equal in all respects and to
and nearer the standard of true man.
hood and womanhood.
A crying need of today is for women
to take an interest in city governments.
The movement to have a central homo
and clubhouse for trained nurses in
every city is q good one. They need q
house all their own, with a laundry, res
taurant, telephone and rooms full Of
sunshine and air. Trained nurses, as
one of them has said, are set apart by
their profession in many ways and need
to be specially provided for.
Strive TO cultivate a sweet, magnetic
voice. When Lady Henry Somerset was
in America clever person remarked Of
in her voice. Make them sound in
yours.
| l have been following up lately some
/ divorce cases in which the husband
sought to take the children away from
their mother on the ground that she was
/ not fit person to bring them up. In
| every one of the cases it has become
evident that, whatever the wife may or
may not have done, she was good deal
more fit to bring up the children than
her husband was.
An English woman, Mrs. Pell, fills the
Office of church warden in the Episcopal
church of Hazelbeach with the approval
/ of the bishop of Peterborough.
Chair-Any young women who like to
ask friends TO the excursions are more
| tnan welcome 10 90 SO. DrlnS as many
rs you like-sisters, cousins and aunts.
From the Floor-And brothers?
Chair-Well-no- there's q
boycott, you know.-Far and Near.
Mrs. w. G.. Ford, of Bensonhurst, Long
Island, helped h-T husband capture bur-
glar, and after he had surrendered dressed
his wounds for him. Just like woman.
Egg farming is business that would
make many woman now poor indie
pendent. Incubator chickens served
broiled in restaurant are all too often
a delusion and snare, but there is al
ways good demand for eggs. Everybody
eats them. The woman who would study
her ground carefully, select location
near good market and go slow, learn
| ing as she went, could not fail, with q
small outlay of capital, to succeed well.
! The egg business is in no danger of be-
! ing overdone, especially that branch of
it which looks to the production of fresh
/ eggs IN winter.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER,