The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-17
WOMEN AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Mrs. T. Vernette Morse. director of
the Art Craft institute, of Chicago,
strikes the right note when she says
that the royal road to physical beauty
lies not by the way of the corset, but
in learning to stand and breathe cor
rectly. Of course, there Is nothing
whatever new in this. For years back
doctors and physical culture teachers
have kept hammering away at the
same idea. That there are a great
many women who do not believe it Is
shown by the hair bleaches. salves,
complexion beautifiers. ETC., with which
the market is drugged. The native
conservatism of woman. which G.
Stanley Hall and other thinkers num-
! Der among her saving qualities, works
/ to her disadvantage in this respect, be-
/ cause 1T so often prevents her from
| trying the new and better. To illus
/ trate: There was once upon a time
! a young woman. Every physician who
; came near told her that she breathed
all wrong. She laughed. They assured
her that a great part of her nervous
ness was due to the shallow, feeble
; way in which she worked her lungs.
! And she laughed some more, and kept
on breathing in her old, bad way. Then
She caught pneumonia and nearly died,
and had to go to health resort to re-
cuperate. And she saw a great light.
She turned over a new leaf She took
up deep breathing Systematically,
practiced it when walking on the board
walk, sitting in the pavilions, rocking
on the veranda, brushing her hair. She
began to feel like a new creature
Slowly the pale pea-green of her COM
pleXion changed to white and then to
pink and white; her lips got red. her
eyes frightened, her back Strengthened,
her chest expanded. After years of I'M
healthy living and big doctors bills,
Iaa kSx,x1- i
down. Everything the other people had
told her proved true. She might have
had clear complexion and a fiat back
all these years if she had not been so
pig headed So it is with great many
women; they have to be fairly strick-
Ell down before they Will believe that
health would solves the beauty prob
lem for them.
London, which is a breeding place of
societies with worthy objects and
queer names, has formed a new or
ganization under the title of the Fac
tory League of Helpers of the Poor.
This institution. which has really been
In existence in an informal way for the
last fourteen years was originally start
ed by the employees of a clothing firm
Up to date. the girls employed by this
company have made something like
5000 garments, which have been dis
out the expenditure of a single penny.
Herein lie the unique and especially
feI1cltous features of the league. The
remnants of cloth are provided free of
charge by the firm and other manu-
facturers, and the employees do the rest.
Lucy Locket lost her pocket" re-
marked clever woman the other day,
bur, on the whole l think her case is
hardly as sad as ours, that Of the mod
ern women. Lucy found hers, but no
body is able to restore ours. The re-
suit is, one loses half a dozen handker-
ch1ets a week, not to mention pocket
books and punches of keys. But have
discovered several nice little ways Of
Guiding fate. OF course. this is COM
4 paranvely easy to do with a teagown
or japanese derivation, with its hang
ing sleeves, that form a bag at the ter
1nlnauon. But L always have little
breast pockets inserted in my boIero or
winter jacket, and if broad, folded belts
are in stick a watch pocket inside
on the left and flank it with a general
utility pocket on the right On the new
sleeves that are tight fitting at the
wrist, with the fulness suddenly
spreading out, several inches higher
up the arm, little envelope shaped re-
ceptacle can easily be placed on the in
ner side Of the left sleeve"
About the time that the Prince of
Wales was upholding the policy of the
governors OF one of the great English
grammar schools in building a fine new
school on the same lines for girls. the
RUSSIAN diet was engaged in discuss
ing the establishment Of high schools
Tor girls like those at which the youth
or Germany are educated. Some anus
ing opinions anent the higher educa-
tlon OF women were expressed, senti-
ment running high against giving
woman a chance to invade mans do
main and enter into competition with
MIN. Latin, Greek and algebra will
estrange mafdens from their natural
Focauon-that of becoming good wives
ana mothers" declared one worthy
member of the diet. And he went on to
draw a picture of rakish frauIeins
lounglng in beer houses and Ioafing
round the streets wearing CAPS. and
with slashes across their faces caused
by dueIs" 1t would probably have heen
useless to assure this eminent lepisIaN
tor that the higher education has No
Such unfortunate results in the case of
Wellesley and Vassar graduates ~
that English university trained girls
are as woman1y as the more ignorant
classes OF women. What could one saw
that would be of avail in the face Of
the statement Of another Teuton who
spoke up in the diet and said that the
craving for knowledge on the part of
the modern woman is a sign of iegen-
Grafton?
A bill that has been brought before