Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-12
WOMEN'S WORLD PARAGRAPHED.
Eliza Archnrd Conner Gives New. of In
tsre.t to tie Fairer half of Creation In
Condensed, Breezy Items.

tefeat to the Hairer Hail OF Creation In
Condensed. Breezy Items.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.
JOHN STUART MILL said: THE life of q
woman is an interrupted sentence"
IN the Woman's Cycle are the names and
addresses Of no less than 153 clubs for women,
In different parts OF the Union
Two young New. York women are earning
their living, and good one, it is said, by teach
ing other women to play scientific whist.
1T is certainly part Of woman's mission to be
beautiful. Even the strongest minded Of the
sex are beginning to see this. and to acknowl-
edge the power there is IN the new gospel OF
both the strong and the beautiful for women.
THE steamboat Ocean City, on the New
Jersey coast, is graced by the presence Of a
pretty black-eyed woman engineer. She is sec
ond engineer, her husband being first. She is
thoroughly skilled in the management OF the
engine and machinery.
oRDDUFFERIN made brilliant address in
favor of the higher education of women at the
last commencement of Dublin University. He
recalled the fact that in 1884 the first year for
women graduates in the institution, there were
only nine. This year there are q lady B. AS.
THE unique spectacle of a cornerstone laid
by women was witnessed sometime since at
Godfrey, III. The Monticello Seminary for
girls was destroyed by fire there year ago, and
the girls of the graduating class laid the cor
ner-stone Of the new building. The ceremony
IS said to have been a thoroughly graceful and
impressive one.
The leading woman carpet and wall papSr
designer in this country is Mrs. Florence Eliza
beth Cory, of New York She finds that the
proprietors of carpet and wall paper factories
welcome women designers kindly, and she
thinks here is fine field for women of artistic
talents to earn their living. Mrs. Cory at
present teaches such designing to girls.
A wELL-KNowN ladies' tailor has designed
what he calls dress for business women. 1t
has six pockets. These il the lady carries
anything in them, will only pull down still
farther the heavy skirts that he has left still
dangling about the business woman's heels.
No. gentlemen and ladies. it won't do. II you
want to design decent gown for a business
woman, shear it on at the bottom at least as
FAR as the ankles. Without this radical reform,
all the pockets and all the warmth of heavy
material will makedt only the more apt to be
mud bedraggled-only the more heavy and un-
comfortable.
THERE is nothing so striking on fashionable
promenades at present as our tall, splendid
girls. Many Of them are the picture of health.
They have bright eyes and rose-tinted cheeks,
and there are grace and swing about their
movements that was unknown to the mincing
gait OF the girl of a generation ago The
change is owing to physical culture and out
door exercise. Our girls are taller. healthier
and more graceful than the girls of 25 years ago
Were- The change, from the same cause, is so
marked in England that girls there are uni
versally taller than their mothers. Life out
doors, physical. culture that limbers up every
muscle in the body and keeps it full of electric
life, will go far toward making an old woman
over new. And woman is never too old to
begin such training.
THEHarvard examinations for women were
opened ten years ago. The first year Is stu
dents presented themselves. They passed the
examinations required of the freshmen class
for admission to the university. By degrees
accommodations were found at Cambridge for
women students, and professors were found
who gave them instruction. These belonged to
the Harvard faculty. The professors have en-
tered into their work in a noble truly liberal
spirit This year there are l39 women students.
The instruction given to male students at Har-
ward is simply duplicated to the female pupils.
1t is the same course of study, TO all intents
and purposes, except at the end of it the women
students receive no diploma. To them is given
only certificate informing whom it may con-
Germ that the bearer has pursued in Harvard
course of study equivalent oo that
for which the degree of Bachelor of Arts is
given. The ladies who take the Harvard
course are in such demand for teachers that it
is not always the supply is sufficient. Harvard
has thus found and acknowledged that women
are capable of acquiring the learning necessary
to be B. A, and that they have thus acquired
it in the venerable walls of Harvard itself.
Why, then, not give them the degreeI