, 1891-12-30
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

WOMAN'S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS
An Accomplished Newspaper Woman
Opens "A School OF Journalism.
Mrs. Emily Verdery- Battey has opened
at 30 West SiXty-first street, New York,
n bureau of journalism and literature
Having been for twenty years a writer
on the press of New York and the United
States, seventeen years of that time on
the editorial staff of c. A. Dana's New
York Sun, Mrs. Battey is induced to Of
fer her services to those desiring a thor
ough journalistic training. She is
warmly Endorsed by The Home Journal,
Harper's Bazaar, the Boston Woman's
Journal, the press of the country gener-
orally, and by the Hon. c. A. Dana, John
Swinton, Howard and a host of friends.
Ida Rose McCabe in the American
Press Association papers calls Mrs. Bat
tey the female Nestor of the press of
New York.
That pretty and plucky woman, Mime.
Alice d. LIE Plongeon, continues this
winter her lectures on the explorations
she made in company with her husband
in Central America. DIR. and Mime. LIE
Plongeon made some discoveries in the
course of their journeyings that throw
light OF the mystery of prehistoric ruins
in Contra America. They brought to
the United States many wonderful OBJ
jects and pictures from these wonder
full remains. Madame took with her her
own camera photographs of the most in
teresting scenes, and these she has
mounted and illustrates them by stere-
opticon views in her lectures. This clear
voiced, earnest little lady is one of the
most pleasing women lecturers on the
platform.
Tissue paper ornaments are hideous.
Don't be guilty of making them.
That hoary and grizzled old chestnut
is going the rounds again about the
awful harm it does women to climb
stairs. This is stale nonsense. There is no
form of indoor exercise more healthful
than going up stairs with a quick, elastic
tread. IL strengthens all the muscles of
the body from the waist downward.
When professional runners wish to
practice for wind" they draw in a deep
breath, keep their lips closed and then
run up long flights of stairs as rapidly
as possible. There is no sort of exercise
d. O NhANAAAAtN a. AAAA1 ~ 60
once lung power and the muscles of the
calf of the leg. Unless You have heart
disease or a tendency to apopleIy, just
try this running up stairs, not starting
violently at first. Staying up nights.
tight lacing, eating pickles and going
into emotional excitements that have on
girls and women the effect a great big
drunk has on a man-this is what in
jures the health of schoolgirls. Doc.
tors themselves, and nobody else, are
responsible for much of the fancied in
validism among girls and women, just
by reason OF their foolish utterauces and
warnings. They would make women
out to be fragile as e~ggshells.
At Iowa college an attempt has been
made for nine years to determine the
relative merits of young men and women
in the matter of scholarship. In the
time mentioned the average standing of
the girls has been higher than that of
the young men in every term in the
sophomore class, and higher in all the
terms except two in the senior class. In
all the classes, out of a possible thirty
six, the college girls have averaged
higher than the young men t~hirty-two
terms. Women are marching on like
the soul of John Brown.
1t is cheerful to note every advance
ment made by that ambitious, hard
working class of our sex, the colored
women. One is glad to find, therefore,
that Mrs. S. NJ. Mossell has made for
herself a place on the Philadelphia
Times, also that Mrs. W. c. Matthews
is a successful reporter in New York,
while Miss Ida B. Wills, another colored
woman, is beginning to gain some
standing as a writer of stories. l well
come these sisters to the ranks.