The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-21
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i've years or longer and 10 constitute INTEL
ligent summaries of the physical and men,
tai life of average schoolgirls.
Some of the questions which relate to the
division Of time are these:
Hours of daily recitationi
Hours of daily studyl
| Hours and kinds of exercise out of doorsl
Hours in gymnasium
Hours and kinds of houseworkl
Hours Of piano practicei
Hours of painting, language, ETC., out
side, of school work.
Hours of retiring, rising and mealsi
Hours given to charitable or fancy work,
and to novel readngl
Kind and amount Of social intercoursei
Kind and amount of recreationl
Time spent in doing nothingf
The health questions include these:
Subject TO backaches
Subject to sleepessness, or sleep disturbed
by dreams4
Subject to weak eyes, headache or indi-
gestionl
Subject to pain or nervousness periodi-
cally1
Excitable or low-spirited1
Liable to worry over studiesl
Inherited tendencies of diseased
Incidental acute diseased
1t is not unlikely, that when after a suit
able period of intelligent work these rec
| ords, which are now iii hundreds of intelli-
| gent hands, come TO be collected for hun
dreds of school girls observed during the
years OF their growing period, it may ap-
pear that tho mistakes of a woman's physi-
cal life are largely made before she is Is,
and that our poor pallid feminine faces, the
| proverbial semi-invalidism among women,
| and the increase Of nervous disorders aris-
| ing from exhausted vitality point to
weakness already established before that
age and call, not for fewer books at the age
Of comparative maturity, but for better
| training to do away with the heavy eyes,
\ tagging steps and mental dyspepsia in the
| girl of 12 or IS.
| Other enterprises taken up by these
women graduates have been the investga-
ton of paying occupations for women, on
| which general topic or some sub-topic UNI
der it nearly all the branch associations
| have had committees at work and the col
lection of specific and detailed information
with regard TO the education of women,
especially in co-educational and women's
colleges. A bureau of collegiate inforna-
ton under the charge of Mrs Kate Morris
Cone, of Hartford, VT, has been in opera
ton for year. and there are auxiliary
bureaus connected with the New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Washington
branches. Both the central and the local
bureaus have been piled from the day Of
their establishment with questions and
have proved practically useful to the col"
leges and to the association.
The most recent project not yet in form,
but urged this spring by Mrs. Alice Free
man Palmer, ex-president of Wellesley, Is
a movement for a commission from Welles-
| Icy, Vassar, Smith, Bryn Mawr and
women's colleges of standing to corporate
with one another TO got better work In
preparation for college from the fitting
schools for girls and so raise the college
standards as it may be practicable.
| AT the Wellesley meeting to-day they are
talking pedagogics, a topic In which, so
many of tho graduates become teachers,
the interest is perennial.
And do they or don't they get married Ia
the thing which everybody seems concerned
| to know.
Take the first 500 names on the roll of
the association and count. The prefix Mrs.
stands before 1875, q per cent according to
this reckoning being wives. The proper
ton among college graduates in general
would be larger, because the married
graduates are much more apt to change
their post Office addresses, TO DO lost sight
Of and so to fail to join a society Of women.
Taking this into account and allowing for
the modern lateness OF marriage, which
puts many of the members below the aver
age age Of marriage the proportion will
still fall In the long run below the average
ratio of marriages in the community, but
Who are they is question for which
there is room for only partial answer. OF
college presidents and professors the asso-
citation numbers Mrs. Alice Freeman Pal
mer, late Of Wellesley; Rena A. Micheals,
Dean Of the Woman's college, Northwes-
tern University; Jane NJ Bancroft, of the
now woman's college at Bryn Mawr; ABB
hey F.. Goodsell, lady principal of vassar,;
| Abby Leach, assistant professor or Greek
at Vassar; Mary w. Whitney, successor to
Maria Mitchell In the astronomical chair
at Vassar; Miss A. M. Ely aud Lucy M.
Salmon, professors respectively OF mathe-
matics and history at Vassar; Katharine
Conan, professor of history at Welle ley;
Miss Mary Byrd, professor Of astronomy,
clan at Smith College; Mrs. Ellen H. Rich
ards, head of the woman's laboratory OF
tho Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology.
| The president of the association is Mrs.
Helen Hiscock Backus, of Brooklyn, one Of
the trustees Of Vassar College and vice
president Of the large Woman's club of tho
city. The secretary Is Miss Marion Talbot,
Of Boston. The secretary Of the New York
branch Is Miss Alice Williams. Other
members include two or three fellows OF
Bryn Mawr and of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity one dentist, DR.. Olga Neymann, the
only woman in that business in New York;
a good number Of doctors, OF whom the
best known Is probably DR.. Mary Taylor
Bissel, who conducts a school for physical
culture In New York, and who is sister to
DR.. Taylor, the president Of Vassar; several
writer's and newspaper women, including
Mrs. Lizzie w. Champney, whose Vassar
girls have Travelled vivaciously round the
world; Helen Dawes Brown, who wrote
"Two College Girls; Grace Soper, Of tho
Boston Journal; Alice Stone Blackwell, Of
the WOmdn's Journal; Mrs. Clara b.
| - Ian h
ter Of Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania. who
does magazine writing in New York, and
others; number Of librarians, several OF
whom are employed in the Columbia Col
lege Library, and women in all sorts OF
businesses, including housekeeping.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
The .Indna Cut Short HIS visit.