, 1891-07-16
woMAN,s WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS


to Europe.
Do you know that for $300-$4O0 any.
how-you may take a comfortable triI
to Europe2 / said over half a dozen years
ago that it was worth %skimping and saw
ing ten years TO get one such trip ever
for a couple of months, and | stick to it.
The small sum named will take a woman
to Paris and London and through the
Scotch highlands. The journey across
the sea INT in the cool, moist air of
western Europe will wash the malaria
out of the American physical system,
rest the tired nerves, make you sleep like
a baby and eat-well, try it. Besides
you will get new ideas enough to last
you a year at least. Teachers, type
writers, newspaper women, business
women, tired brain and hand workers
need this life giving tour, and all may
take it with a little management. Some
Boston ladies have formed the Women's
English Rest Tour association, for the
express purpose of telling women who
do not already know it 10Y they
may enjoy the trip to Europe.
These ladies nave themselves travelled in
Europe and know the right way for a
woman alone t. go about it. The
DhllDDltl COIllhlLSs L AL lOlu. AINlCC
of all sorts that is likely to be useful to
that class of travellers which it desires to
benefit, giving rates on all steamship
lines, hints as to travelling, fees, ways
and manner abroad, estimates of ex-
penses, suitable clothing, etc, and con-
tains also a list of lodgings, boarding
houses and small inns, to any of which
it is safe and proper for a woman TO go,
and where she will find cleanliness and
courtesy at a lower price than she must
pay at the large hotels. By presenting
to the association suitable letters of in
PRODUCTION, women desiring to find com-
panions for the trip, or the voyage, ms
become known to one another" That
the Boston Wemen's Educational and
Industrial union heartily indorses the
Women's English Rest Tour association
is recommendation sufficient for it and
its purposes. So, ladies, take the sea
voyage, if not this summer, then next,
or the one after.
A thorough business woman whom l
know says that from the business point
of view woman's worst fault is want of
p~unctuality. She herself has lost con-
siderable money through the apparent
inability of her sex to understand that
when a certain date was named next day
would not do as well.
Ladies, let me call your attention to
it. The baccarat scandal, which may
result ultimately in the downfall of the
British monarchy, was proclaimed to the
world through a m
Why will graduating girls persist in
wearing gloves ut their commandments,
tight gloves that make their arms and
fingers stiff as sticks, when their own
slim, pretty hands are infinitely more
graceful and artistic?
When Decoration Day was first estab-
lished in this country nobody would have
thought a woman could give the address
at the meetings commemorative of the
occasion. But on May 80 a woman de-
livered the Decoration Day address at
no less imposing a place than fremont
Temple, Boston. To be sure, it was Mrs.
Livermore who was thus chosen, but
then Mrs. Livermore is a woman all the
same. She also delivered the annual
address to the Chautauqua graduating
class this year. When, in the old time,
was a woman thought good enough to
make IN address to a graduating class9
The technical high school of the Pratt
institute in Brooklyn this year graduated
for 1.-The first time a young lady who had
passed through its course of study.
The high school combines manual train
ing with book study, and was the out
come of the favorite idea of the founder
of the institute, the late Charles Pratt,
the Standard oil king. Besides a scien-
tific and literary training, the young
lady, Belle Spelman, had learned to use
her hands in wood carving and other
remunerative occupations. 1t is a pleas
ure to record that she carried off the
honors of the evening, this strong, en-
thusiastic girl, who for three years had
bravely recited side by side with the
boys and learned the same lessons they
did. Her graduating essay was OIL "Wo-
man as a Factor in Industry" and was
an eloquent plea for n woman's right
to make the most of her abilities. The
only aroma of the past that still chung
about Miss Spelman's graduation was
that she held her essay in her hand and
pretended to read it, instead of looking
at her audience face to face and speak
ing the words bravely, using her hands
to emphasize them as the boys did. 1t
was all a sham her pretending to read us
one could see, and she merely glanced at
the paper from time to time in a hum
bugging little way. | suppose she had
been directed to do that as concession to
the still lingering medieval idea that it
is not quite proper for a woman to speak
in public, or if one does speak that it IS a
credit to her to humble in such n lady
like manner that she cannot be heard
six feet away But l wonder if the
time will ever come when there will
cease to be little shams and humbugs
in woman's appearance before the world.
The women who tell other women
what to buy for ''outing wear are
mostly the ones who never get an outing
themselves.
The girls, and not only the girls, but
middle aged women, are now riding BIZ
cycles. A magnificent Philadelphia
woman who owns to being sixty years
old gets up at o o'clock to take her morn
ing rides. So shall she still keep young.
Her husband encourages her, and even
rides with her. Would that all nus
bands of sixty were like himl
G1NMrAN1A G4sue41
Velvet and tulle will be one of the
daring combinations for evening for late
fall. Silk is so much worn now that