The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-13
In Moman'S World.

| templates making a trip to America with
| the hope of establishing a like institution
in this country. Mrs. Philips pays per-
| sonally $4,000 for the rent of the London
| clubhouse. and if sufficient interest is
manifested in the project of a similar
organization for American women, she
is willing to equip a clubhouse IN New
| York and pay the rent. She stipuiates,
| however that a membership of 300 must
be secured to warrant her in undertaking
the project.
The Women's Institute of London is
| situated at Grosvenor Crescent, Hyde
| Park Corner. The Club membership
now extends into the hundreds, although
many of these are country members,
who pay only half the regular annual
| subscription fee of one guinea. Women
who are professionally occupied, or who
have government positions, are entitled
to the privileges of the institution at
| the half-guinea rate. Mrs. Philips has
| amassed a fine reference library, con-
tanning books bearing upon all subjects
in which women are interested, includ-
ing works of reference on such subjects
as school boards, education acts, house
keeping by hygiene.
A dictionary of e~mployments open to
women, with details of wages, hours OF
work and other information, has been
published by the statistical society OF
the institute, which also issues pamph-
let's on all points relating to women ana
children, from evidence taken before an
royal commissions. The society Oh
societies. department is designed to
bring workers into relation with all SO
cieties will have for their object the bene-
fit of women and children. Arrangements
also are made whereby Independent so
cieties may have desk room for their sec
rotary and use of a room for meetings
in the institute.
Members of the Women's Institute may
obtain formation free on any subject
from the bureau established for the pur-
pose. but all inquiries must be made in
writing. Non-members may receive infor-
nation by paying a fee Off shilling ana
4 pence. Statisticians and students in all
branches will do research work when re-
quired. The club takes pride in its salon
and in the success of its varied schemes
for the benefit of all classes of women
The secretarial department has proved
most efficient in training and placing wo-
men as secretaries. There is as well a
lecture department, which sends out per-
sons to all parts of England, giving nom
partisan educational lectures to women
who wish to study the outlines of con-
stitutional history, the details of local 60
vernment. the history of women's move
ment, or other special subjects.
All the employees are women. Men,
however. re not debarred from member
ship. Mrs. Philips, a woman of wealth
o,5 ,oe;+iop maS FIRST iOSOir90 TO take
up the work by the number of women OF
gentle birth and refinement whom she
knew, being thrown upon their own re
sources. found themselves hopelessly at
sea in regard to many practical matters.
Also. as women of all classes were enter
ing more and more generally into public
life, the usefulness Of "a central meeting
place. That the institution might not be
misconstrued as a political movement, 1t
was announced that it would be conducts
ed on strictly non-partisan lines.
So
Everybody eats, drinks, breathes and
/ sleeps, and everybody who has the due
allowance of legs and feet walks, says the
s+London Daily Mail" Yet not one person
in a hundred does one of these things
properly. That is the verdict of a writer
in a French scientific publication, who
Furthermore gives instruction as to how
the errors should be corrected.
AS to sleeping, his specifications apply
! more to France and the continent of Eu-
rope generally than to this country. In
this country few beds are inclosed in the
absurd heavy curtains which are so com
mon in France-eurtains which cut off
the supply of oxygen.
1t has long been automatic with us that
bedroom windows should be open at night
that the bed should be without curtains
and in the middle of the room, and that
the room in the daytime should be ex-
posed to all the sunlight possible.
AS to walking, the errors are confined
to no particular nation. People of all
countries wall badly, and their chief mis-
take is in reg Ard to the centre of gravity
of the body. should be kept as nearly
as possible, in focomotion, at an even dis
tance from the ground.
Most people wobble, lurch or hop In
their gait, thus alternately raising, lower
ing and throwing first to one side and
then to the. other the gravity centre. This
greatly increases the fatigue of walking.
Furthermore, care should be taken not
to walk on either the toes, the heels or
the side of the feet. The foot should be
placed fiat on the ground, and the knee,
ankle. and hip joints should be moved
evenly, and each assigned to it's just all
lowance, and no more, of the work.
AS to eating, drinking and breathing the
common errors are generally well KNOWN,
and as generally prevalent. Everybody
knows that it is bad to- drink in great
gulps, just as everybody knows it is bad
to gobble food without proper mastica-
ton. Both induce dyspepsia and other ills.
And in the same way breathing through
the mouth instead of the nose leads to
annoying and often deadly bronchial
ailments.
There are girls who seem to fancy their
friends are possessed of gutta-percha ear
drums, says the 'sWoman's Home Conn
panion." If there is any one thing that a
girl can do which will make her unat-
t~ractive sooner than talking in a loud
voice it has yet to be discovered She is
branded as uncouth, uncultured, I'M
everything. Voices are like gowns-as long
as they suit the occasion they are cor
rect and their impression always good.
Good common sense must direct where
the force should be applied. One OF the
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