The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-18

uCdtlOn or her children, At tne llTbl
 nomination of Lincoln for the presiden-
 cy, in 1860, she was the only woman re-
 porter among hundreds of men report
 CTS. She was identified with relief work
 for the soldiers from the beginning.
 From this sprang the Sanitary Commis-
 sion, of which she was appointed an
 associate member. Her labors in con-
 nection with the commission were oner-
 ous and eXhausting, a continuous strain
 upon her strength and her sympathies. The story of those troublous times may
 be read in her own book-"My Story of the War" When the land was at peace
 again she took up her literary and phil
 lanthropic occupations, and wrought much and well for the suffrage move
 ment, for the opening of colleges and l professional schools to women and for an enlargement of women's industrial opportunities. Tn 1870 the Livermores returned to Massachusetts, and Mrs. Llvermore became editor-in-chief of the | Woman's Journal, giving up this posi- | tion at last to enter the lecture field, During these twenty-five years she has been listened to with interest and re- spect from nearly every platform In the United States, and many in England and Scotland. And her ready pen has still been busily at work, throwing off page after page of Ms. in her firm, clear, beautiful handwriting that is the de- light of compostors, and in which the most precise of editors rarely finds any thing to be corrected. She is interested in politics, Is identified with the Wom- ans Christian Temperance Union, Is president of the Beneficent Society of the New Engalnd Conservatory of Mu- sic, Is connected with the Woman's Suf- frage Association, with the Chautaudua movement, with all manner of aid and educational associations; in short, there
 Is no good cause in which she has not been, or is not now, cheerful, enthu- siastic, whole-hearted worker Long years of almost incredible effort have not as yet broken her down. She is still one of the brightest and happiest of women, eager, intrepid, delightful companion, a devoted lover of home and the fearless champion of Right and | Justice. May her heart and hand and | brain be strong for years to come for | there is still need of her, and of many | more as gifted and earnest and potent | in their influence for good.
 BACHELORS.
 A writer in one of our local papers in | an entertaining article on Woman | Bachelor Types" conveys the impression that the word "bachelor," as applied 10 | women, is of very recent use. Nobody | ever heard of woman bachelor" says this writer, rather rashly, when Messrs. Worcester and Webster and their confreres were getting together their collections of words" It Is possi- ble that Webster and Worcester were ignorant of the fact that the word "bacheolr" might signify an unmar- ried woman, but it Is not probable. Such use of 1t was obsolete in their days, and probably was not noted in the early editions of their dictionaries. But revised versions of the Book of Noah, as far back as 1885 and how much farther the present writer know eth not, furnishes this definition:
 "5. A young woman unmarried (Obs)
 "He would keep you
 A bachelor still .............. And keep you not alone without a hus-
 band
 But in a sickness. B Jonson."
 VOTCeSteIn 5lNeS ouS ueillllioli ol lHe word as Young, therefore unmarried Persons, you observe, not men.
 The Century Dictionary gives the fol- lowing;
 70. F. A young woman, a female 
 A young woman who has not been 
 Then follows the same quotation that Is found in Webster, with the second line completed. "A bachelor still by keeping of your portion" and adds the name of the play in which it is found. The Magnetlck Lady ii, l."
 The truth is that the original word meant little, small or young. Tn old French 'bacheler" meant a young man, 'bachele" or "bachelote," young girl q