
The Revolution: Notes About Women (December 1870)
In addition to it the original writing, The Revolution sometimes included what we now call a Listicle where they shared short items picked up from other papers or in letters written to the editors.
Some items were just relayed while others have a little editorial comment added. Those comments are in italics below.
Notes About Women
- · “Feminary” is a new Western expression for female seminary.
- · For the first time in thirty years the New Haven county jail is without a female prisoner.
- · A charming girl in Covington, Ky., last week, giggled to the extent of dislocating her lower jaw.
- · Mary Louise Boree is the first purely African girl whom the New Orleans schools have graduated as a teacher.
- · New York young ladies are forming “walking clubs,” for the purpose of walking eight or ten miles a day.
- · A German woman living at Batavia, N. Y., has this fall husked with her own hands over three hundred bushels of corn.
- · Here is a specimen of wood-craft: “Miss Caroline Wood, of Iowa, has reclaimed 160 acres of wild prairie land, and has planted 200 fruit and 4,000 maple trees, all with her own hands.
- · “A girl who has lost her beau may as well hang up her fiddle.” Yes, poor soul; there is nothing for her to hope for now, this side the grave. [Sarcastic humor was a hallmark of some Suffrage paper
editors.] (more…)