St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
WOMEN'S WORLD.
News of Interest to the Fairsr
Half of Creation in Condensed,
Breezy Items


Half of Creation in Condensed.
Breezy Items.
John Stuart Mill said: "The life of a
woman is an Interrupted sentence"
In the Women'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 a good one it is
said. by teaching other women to play
scientific whist.
1t is certainly part of woman's mis-
sion to be beautiful. Even the strong
est minded of the sex are beginning to
see this, and to acknowledge the power
there is in the new gospel of both the
strong and the beautiful for women.
The steamboat Ocean City. on the
ence of pretty black-eyed woman en-
gineer She is second engineer, her
husband being first. She is thoroughly
skilled in the management of the engine
and machinery.
Lord Duifern made a brilliant adj
dress 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 twenty
seven lady B. AS.
The unique spectacle of a cornerstone
laid by women was witnessed some time
since at Godfrey, LII. The Monticello
seminary for girls was destroyed by fire
there year ago. and the girls of the
graduating class laid the cornerstone of
the new building. The ceremony is said
to have been thoroughly graceful and
impressive one.
The leading woman carpet and wall
paper designer in this country is Mrs.
Florence Elizabeth Cory, of New York.
She finds that the proprietors of carpet
and wall paper factories welcome
women designers kindly,a land she thinks
here is a 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 de-
signed what he calls dress for bust
ness women. 1t has six pockets. These,
if the lady carries anything in them,
will only pull down still farther the
heavy skirts that he has left dangling
about the business wOman's heels. No,
gentlemen and ladies, it won't 40. If
you want to design decent gown for
woman, shear it off at the bottom at
radical reform, all the pockets and all
the warmth of heavy material will make
it only the more apt to be mud bedrag
gled-only the more heavy and uncom
Portable.
There is nothing so striking on fash
ionable 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 is a grace and swing about
their movements that was unknown to
the mincing gait OF the girl of a gen.
Grafton ago. The change is owing to
physical culture and outdoor exercise.
Our girls are taller, healthier and more
graceful than the girls of twenty-five
years ago were. The change, from the
same cause, is so marked IN England
that girls there are universally taller
than their mothers. Life outdoors, a
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 a
woman is never too Old to begin such
training.
The Harvard examinations for women
were opened ten years ago. The first
year twenty-five students presented
themselves. They passed the exami-
nations required Of the freshmen class
for admission to the university. BY de-
grees accommodations were found at
Cambridge for women students, and
professors were found who gave them
instruction. These belonged ta. the
Harvard faculty. The professors have
entered into their work in a noble,
truly liberal spirit. This year there
are 1876 women students. The instruc-
ton given to male students at Harvard
is simply duplicated to the fe-
male 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 in
forming whom it may concern that the
bearer has pursued in Harvard univer-
sity a course of study equivalent to 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 capa-
bic Of acquiring the learning necessary