, 1890-03-30
WoMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS
Let Us Have a Walking Eress-CaroIIne
D~onovan's Chair.

I
The Johns Hopkins university at Bal.
timore has celebrated its fourteenth an
~niversary. In his address on the occa-
sion, President Remsen announced the
establishment of a new p~rofessorship,
the Caroline Donovan Chair" Now, |
don't know who Caroline Donovan was,
but she would have been in much better
business if she had given her none to
some college hat admits her own sex.
Women have been for years knocking
at the doors of Johns Hopkins, begging
for admission, but they have invariably
been refused, and that not always cour-
teously. A brilliant young girl friend
OF mine some years & used all her
efforts to be allowed to take the course
in chemistry, which at that time was a
superior one. She was a college gradu-
ate, and admirably fitted to do honor to
Johns Hopkins. But there was no chance
at all for her, and my young friend was
obliged, at much expense, to cross the
ocean to monarchical England and enter
the scientific classes of the University of
London, whose trustees do not consider
it too high and mighty to admit women
students. In her own free country there
was no high class chemical school that
would admit this talented American girl.
Jennie June, 10 The Woman's Cycle,
calls for suggestions, plans and inven-
tons that will help on the cooperative
housekeeping idea.
Denver, Col, has an Incorporated stock
company of women who have under
taken the development of a summer re-
sort at Diana Park, forty miles from that
city. 1t is designed especially for the
comfort of women, children and fami-
lies. Ground suitable for tents or cot
tages may be leased or bought of the
managers. Adjoining the resort will
also be for sale ground in plots of from
three to five acres. These are designed
for gardening, fruits, bee keeping, poul-
try raising, etc. These small farms will
be sold to women who desire to earn
their living at outdoor employments.
There is an opening here for health.
prosperity and no end of good times.
Mrs. Clara Simpson, of Vancouver, is
writing a botany especially adapted to
the flora of the state of Washington.
The idea is a good one. Our country is
so large that each state ought to have a
botany of its own.
Mark Twain's story of Prince and
Pauper' was dramatized by Abby Sage
Richardson. This is said to be the only
one of Mark Twain's writings in which
he exhibits the quality of pathos neces-
sary for the complete humorist.
The annual Lenten spectacle of learned
doctors of divinity laundering away at
the poor women sinners is on again in
full blast. Why can they not give us a
rest and thunder at the men awhile, for
once?
What a delightful world to live in it
will be when we women cease to c~riticise
each other and learn instead to correct
our own faults. Let us try it a while.
1t is pleasant to notice how many
names of women newspaper correspond
ents appear in the work of the many
syndicates that now control SO much of
journalism. In proportion to numbers
engaged in writing there are quite rs
many women employed in these syndi-
Gates as men. Women seem to make es,
pecially good correspondents, for their
contributions are sprightly and readable.
If they penetrated more thoroughly the
heart of leading topics of the time and
acquired more fullness of information
their work, much of it, would stand for
a model of journalistic correspondence.
1 have heard of a pretty and fashion
able girl who is SO rigid in church OBJ
that during Lent she will only
firt with the pastor.
Itwould be both interesting and instruc-
tive if ladies' parliamentary classes and
literary clubs would take up the points at
issue between Speaker Reed and ex-
Speaker Carlisle of the United States
house of representatives, study both
sides of the question carefully and dis,
cuss it at their meetings. Such n dis,
cussion would give them much informa
ton about parliamentary usage.
One thing must be devised ere long
and that is n comfortable and c%onvenien
walking dress. Women of our time ar,
workers, and must be out in all weathers
\ Besides that, many who do not earn thei
own living have found what health anC
| Joy there are in a five OR ten mile walk
| Men have business suits-why may no
women? Dur pioneer mothers, who lie,
active lives in the early day, wore gown
| reaching to the ankle. Women in trade
and professions have now to do as mucl
| outdoor walking as the pioneer mother
| did, yet have to wear the long trailing
dress adapted to the parlor or carriage
In this garment, if IL lady walks mucl
or rapidly, in a few weeks time he
gown will be torn into rags and string
around the bottom, utterly worn out n
failing much trouble and expense. 1t i
full of lust in dry weather and draggle,
with mud in wet weather, and in eithe
case is not a pleasant object for a woman
of delicate senses to contemplate o
carry. How can we nave a reform?
One woman, Mrs. Maria Beagley, o
Philadelphia, has invented something
that is really worth while. 1t is a ma
chine to do coopers' work, and turns gu
hundreds of barrels a day.
A r~ifiewomen's club has been formcD
in Bermuda, and the wife of the gov
ernor of the island is president of it. TIL
ladies have n range of their own, ia
enough from civilized habitations for tn
shots not to hit mems or husbands. Their
they bang away at their own sweet will
They have already become excellen
marksmen at 100 yards distance, show
ing that. though a woman may not b
able TO drive a nail, she can hit n mark
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