Telegram-herald., 1891-12-29
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An Accomplished NswsPapsr wsmas
Opens y school of Journalism.

An Accosspiisssed Newspaper Woman
Opens y school of Journalism.
Mrs. Emily ve-dery- Battey has opened
at 80 West Sixty first street. New York.
. bureau Of Journalism and literature
Having been for twenty years writer
on the press OF New York and the United
States. seventeen years Of that time on
the editorial staff Of G. A Dsla's New
Yorl, Sun, Mrs. Battey is induced to Of
fer her services TO those desiring thor
ough jour nalistic training. She Is
warmly indorsed by The Home Journal,
Harper's Bazaar. the Boston Woman's
Journal, the press of the country gensr-
orally, and by the Hon. c. A. Dana, John
Swinton, Howard and host Of friends
Ida Rose McCabe in the American
Press Association papers calls Mrs. Bat
tey tho female Nestor Of the press Of
New York.
That pretty and plucky woman. Nine.
Alice D. LIE Plongeon, continues this
| winter her lectures on the explorations
1, she made IN company with her husband
In Central America. DR.. and Mime. lie
Plongeon made some discoveries in the
course Of their journeyings that throw
light ON the mystery of prehistoric ruins
in Central America. They brought to
the United States many wonderful OBJ
jects and pictures from these wonder
| full remains. Madame sook 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 arc hideous.
Don't be guilty Of making them.
That hoary and grixzled 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 quick, elastic
| tread. 1t strengthens all the muscles Of
| the body from the waist downward.
When professional runners wish to
| practice for s.wind" they draw in deep
breath, keep their lips closed and then
run up long flights Of stairs as rapidly
as possible. There is no sort Of exercise
80 well calculated as ti1is VI develop At
once lung power and the muscles Of the
calf Of the leg. Unless you have heart
disease or tendency to apoplexy, just
try this running mp 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 great big
drunk has on man-this il 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 utterances and
warnings. They would make women
4 cut to be fragile as eggshells.
At Iowa college an attempt has been
made for nine years to determine the
relative merits Of young men and worer
in the matter rof scholarship. In the
time mentioned the average standing oi
the girls has been higher than that q
the young men in every term in the
sophomore class, and higher in all thu
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 thirty-twt
terms Women are marching on lik'
the soni Of John Brown.
It is cheerful 70 note every advance
ment made by that ambitious, hare
working class Of our sex, the colores
women. One is glad b end. therefore
that Mrs. s. NJ. Mossell has made fo
herself a place on the Philadelphia
Times. also that Mre. w. {. Matthew
il successful reporter in New YORK
while Miss Ida n. Wills. another colore'
woman, is beginning to gain scsn'
standing as n writer Of etories- vel
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