, 1890-07-08
woMhNs WORLD IN pARAaRAp1s.
Tight IaeInR Again In Vogue, More. the
Pity

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Tight LaeinE Again In Vogue, pIore's the
Pity
Copyright by American Press Association
There is a shocking amount OF tight
lacing again, with the long, narrow
waists now in fashion. If you see a girl
who looks like a wooden image, with all
the graceful, willowy curve of her body
at the waist gone; who, if she dropped
her handkerchief, could not get it with
out sliding off sideways and diving
after 1t, unable to bend her body at the
waist though her life depended on it; if
she looks generally stiff and awkward
and clumsy and constrained, unable to
move her arms in graceful, sweeping
curves from the shoulders, you may set
it down that girl has a twenty-four inch
waist squeezed into an eighteen inch
corset. Steele Mackaye, the most ia
nous exponent of Delsarte in this coun-
try, who himself saw and knew the
master in France, will not allow his girl
pupils to wear corsets at all IL he can
help it. A friend tells me it was owing
to his influence that Mary Anderson left
them of.
One OF the b%ravest, brightest girls in
this country is Miss Nelly Kelly, of The
Ohio State Journal, at Columbus. She
is a regular first wire" operator Of the
Associated Press, and receives $50. so a
week, the same money that is paid to
first wire men. She is the only tele-
graph woman in the country holding
such a place. AT half past . every after
noon Miss Kelly takes her seat upstairs
in The Journal Office. In front of her is
a typewriter, close beside her is the eter-
nally clicking first wire" of the Associ-
ated Press. As fast as the receiving in
strument clicks, Miss Kelly copies its
messages oil the typewriter in the shape
of neat copy" for the paper. Fast she
must work, for $1,000 words a night
come over that wire. At 2:30 a. IN. this
remarkable girl rises from her type
writers beside the telegraph instru-
ment. Her work is ended, She draws
a sigh of relief and goes home, alone and
safe. She has never missed a night, and
The State Journal praises her work in
the highest terms.
A new society of ONE has started in
Washington, called the W~imodaughsis-
What this odd name means may per
haps be guessed without possessing the
mind reading power. 1t Is an incorpo-
rated organization, ind Lucy L. An
thony, of Fort Scott, Kan, is chairman
OF the board of trustees. One of its OBJ
jects is to provide permanent headduar-
tiers at Washington for the National Wo-
man Suffrage association. Ground will be
bought and suitable buildings erected.
The building will also be used for the
assembling of all conventions either
composed of women or called to advance
their interests. The structure will par
take of h universal in its uses, contain
ing an art gallery in which the works of
women will be exhibited, a gymnasium,
library, reading room and public parlor.
Everything pertaining to a first class
club house will eventually be intro
duced, among other Injuries Russian
baths and a bowling alley. The capital
stock Of Wimodsughsis of the queer
name Is S2o,ooO, in shares of S. each.
This year the Harvard Annex gradu-
ates twelve young women, the largest
class in its history.
The Ladies' Health Protective associa-
ton, of New York, has formulated a
great truth in a few words, as follows:
"a great deal has been written and said
about In grippe, but a more serious epi-
demic, because one that is always with
us, is known by the simrAan.. axon name
of dirt" The ladies' of this association
have shown what the united effort of
women can do. They ave rid New
York city of slaughter houses, and now
they have resolved not to rest till the
streets Of New York become as clean as
those of Boston. One measure they are
~endeavoring to conNpass is the cremation
of garbage by n process already in sue
cessful operation in smaller cities. The
women have investigated the various
methods of ~disposing of refuse. This
cleaning up business is a field of action
in which the most conservative woman
will not feel that she is out Of her
sphere.
1t is a mistake to suppose that woman's
sole mission on earth is to please men.
Part of her mission is to please herself.
Jessie Mcintosh, of Georgia, has in
vented something worth while inyenting.
1t is an apparatus for keeping fruit fresh
during transportation. Miss Mcintosh
had an eye to business. She sold her
patent for a valuable consideration, and
invested the money so shrewdly that she
now has nearly three times as much as
h had two years ago.