Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1891-12-31
NUMBER 20
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An Accomplished Newspaper Woman
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An Accomplished Newspaper Woman
Opens a school Of Journalism.
Mrs. Emily yerlery- -Battey has opened
at 30 West Sixty first street, New York.
a 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 Oh
the editorial stsa of O. A. Dana's New
York Sun, Mrs. Battey is induced to Of
fer her services to those desiring a thor
ough journalistic training. She IL
warmly indorsed BY The Home Journal.
Harper's Bazaar, the Boston Woman's
Journal, the press Of the country gener-
orally, ana by the Hon Y. A. Dana, John
Swinton, Howard and host Of friends.
Ida Rose McCaoe in the American
Press Association papers calls Mrs. Bat
tey the female Nestor or the press or
New York
That pretty and pluckv woman. Nine.
Alice p L. Plongeon, continues this
winter her lectures on the explorations
she made in company with her husband
in Central America DIR. and Nine Le
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 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 ID one of the
most pleasing women lecturers on the
platform.
Tissue paper ornaments are hideoua
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 70 climb
stairs. This il 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 down ward.
When professional runners wish to
practice for 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
so well calculated as this to develop at
once lung power and the muscles of the
calf Of theleg. Unless you have heart
disease or tendency to apoplexy, 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 great BIZ
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 k.ncied ID
validism among girls and women, just
by reason of their foolish utterances and
warnings. They would make women
out 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 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 AT the
i terms EXCEPT TVS Iii tIe senior ciaSA En
all the classes. out Of possible thirty
six, the college girls have averaged
higher than the young men thirty-two
terms Women are marching on like
the soul Of John Brown.
It 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.
7 that Mrs. .. NJ. Mossell has made for
herself u place on the Philadelphia
Times, also that Mrs. W. G. Matthews
is a successful reporter in New York.
while Miss Ida B. Wills, another colorel
woman, is beginning to gain some
standing as writer Of stories. vel
come these sisters to the ranks