Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-27

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WHAT SOME WOMEN ARE DOING.
Miss Mary E. Burt, the newly appointed
member of the Chicago school board, ia =
graduate of the common schools of Cen
eva, Wis. After some years spent in pub
lie school teaching she became teacher of
literature in the Cook county normal
school, adding, also, to our literature the
Thoughts" and "Browning's Women" a
work which call forth warm words of COM
mendation from the poet
Chicago has also appointed five women
as health inspectors, whose duties are to
inspect shops and factories where women
and children are employed and to estab-
lish necessary sanitary improvements.
They find that the chief obstacle to be
overcome in their work is not the parsi-
mony and hard-heartedness of employers,
but the dense ignorance of sanitary laws
which prevails among the employers and
| the employed.
| fairs, managing sanitarium near Atlantic
! City in the winter and another at Dryden
| Springs, N. Y, in the summer. These
| famous iron and sulphur springs are her
! own property, and believed by her to pos
sess as great medicinal power as any
| springs in the world. Here, too, is her
rose garden in which she finds delightful
recreation, cultivating fifty choice varieties
of roses, among them the rare green rose
which rarely consents to bloom north of
Virginia. Miss Nivison has firm faith in
the health establishing properties of brown
bread and good butter, eggs, fruit and
spring water. Pure air should be used in
prodigal measure as tonic, while abun-
dant sleep and repose of mind repair the
| weakened sources of life.
Is it not possible, if people would only
| try it, to carry out q scheme of simple and
| healthful living at homea In that case the
doors of most sanitariums would be closed,
| and DIR. Nivison could devote her energies
entirely to the care of her beloved roses
As the first step in this direction it would
be well for us to renounce the use oi
pastry, hot bread, fried meat and ict
water, which according to the doctors
authoritative assertion, ''kill more people
in year than shipwrecks, railroad acci
dents, and gunpowder."
Miss Catherine Weed Barnes, a grand
daughtee of Thurlow Weed, and tn,
wealthiest young lady of Albany, is al
enthusiastic lover of Photographic art.
large addition has been made to the home
stead and fitted up for a studio, her outfi
Ibeing, it is said, more elaborate and costl,
than that owned by most professionals
She excels in pitures of interiors, and o
heads, for which last her friends are al
ways happy to furnish subjects. At al
exhibition arranged by Photographic art
lists last summer, when both professional
, and amateurs competed for a valuble prize
the three pictures shown by Miss Barne
were, by eminent art critics, judged to b
entitled to the second place
A shining light among the Paris al
, students, being regarded as the mos
, promising American woman who has eve
entered French studios, is Miss Rosali
Gill of Baltimore, She is just twenty-fv
and since her fifteenth year has devote
herself entirely to her chosen profession
beginning her studies in New York at th
t Art Students league. At the last Salon
D well as at the Paris exposition her wor
y was honored with conspicuous plac
Miss Gill has wonderful ability as q colo
Z ist and after more study in the line of m
q chanical detail she will return to Amerit
g to gain honor at home and to assist in Il
= development of home art. AS says the '1
Illustrated American" 1--WE have alread
r many notable artists and in a few yea
8 their work may attain such eminence as
i settle the disputes about protection f
art by surpassing the products of the fo
eigner's brush"
's In 1858 Miss Virginia Penny, now livil
u in Washington, D. c., published boz
u entitled "The Employments of Women
q The work had required much time, lab
q and patient research, but it was the fiji
II of its kind, and no publisher could
l. found who was willing to take the risk
IN bringing it before the public, so at Ii
= Miss Penny published It at her own G
lg pense, devoting to this object the whole
st her scanty means and whatever she own
Of that could he turned into money. Not /
ing able to make it business success 8
sold the copywright for trife, and I
book was afterward republished under d
s. ferent titles, Give Hundred Occur
Is tions for Women" and Glow Woman
Of Make Money" meeting with large sales a
= inspiring many woman to step {
ng bravely in new paths Of industry and &c
sr- support.
or Miss Penny, whose employment was Il
'A says "Jenny june tsin al hand to ha
o. fight with all the forces that make \
uf upon those who work for daily hrea