Show WO WOMANS vana WORLD IN paragraphs the lRea breading ding of at en A lady commenting on some of at the great conventions of women at chicago this summer remarked we have been papered to death that very nearly expressed one phate phase of 0 feeling that existed mid m the tha general satisfaction called forth by those admirable meetings mee inee tinga tings of women too much pa papering Is one drawback ck of nearly all assemblies of present day women whether in clubs or conventions the dear ladies consult libraries and pore over the historic records of centuries ries wearing out their eyes they copy and read sweetly just what tomo somebody body else has said 20 times lefore before and applaud one enother and appoint some other women to go through the same pro grammo another v week eek or when the papers are not gathered from the musty lecorps of the post past they aro are apt to be ba of the sermonizing sermon izing order we women do love to preach bless but the sermons the lofty sentiments tho the elegant rhetorical periods we duoto from emerson and others have been said before EO often that they become stele unprofitable platitudes to our audiences we are I papering ng them to death there are some things I 1 do wish women would do in this enlightened age of the world one is to learn to speak prepare your words as carefully as you please the more carefully the better but speak them instead of reading look your audience in the eye instead of burying your nose in a raper paper even colonel ingersoll when he wishes to bo be most im pres sive lays down dawn his manuscript and facing his audience like a lion pours out a shining electric electrio lec trio torrent of eloquence extempore another thing women should do in their attempts to instruct the public is to draw their instruction from the facts of 0 real present life instead of making their papers up of quotations and musty history and preaching foi this ono one thing I 1 glory in tho the work of helen campbell that she has be stirred herself read newspapers studied laboi statistics and gone herself into shop hospital and factory and gathered matter of vital living interest ono one fact from the lifo life of today is worth more foi instruction than the wa whole 1010 side of a houseful of books helen gardeners speeches which created a genuine sensation at the con congress rea of women at chicago se e to bo be published in book form soon in a will be called facts and fictions of life among the essays will vall be the one entitled woman as an annex also sex ses in brain I 1 mention this particularly for the beneat benc kt of the new york sun that it may know herewith the name of at least one of helen gardeners books great britain has now regularly graduated women physicians whose names appear in the british 31 medical edical register very funny are two resolutions passed at nearly the same bame time in two southern states the southern presbyterians rians in high and mighty 0 convocation assembled at macou bacou evolved from their inner consciousness ness a resolution that the session must absolutely enforce the injunction io n of scripture forbidding women to speak in churches or in any way way failing to obi serve that relative subordination t to mar man I 1 which is taught in I 1 corinthians xi xi IS 18 and in other places but suppose the women refuse to obey the southern presbyterian by terian ministers what are they going 1 to do about it the other resolution 2 is the prettiest companion piece to that oi of the presbyterian preachers that yort yon ever saw it was passed by the Ar arkansas kansa woman suffrage age association and it reads resolved that as the churches are mainly mado made up of and sup ported by women wo we will use oui ou influence against the employment of ministers mini who are opposed to out oui movement end pray the almi almighty illy I 1 father to keep them from our midst against the intense and solemn prayers of an association of intelligent nineteenth century women and the dictum of a lot of antique hunkers that plant themselves on an 1600 years old utterance of that disgruntled widower paul who expressly dl disclaimed inspiration IOL fol some of his sayings saying sin in regard to women which do you think will win it is striking preachers exactly where they live when women resolve to support theia cheit churches no longer and we could even wish that every minister v who ao sets himself against the progress of our sex might be just so A woman has been appointed professor profess oi of elocution at kings college england but the university of chicago has done dona better than that and appointed no less than ihan four ladies ladie among samong its instructors alice freeman palmer and 11 martha artlia footo foote crove crova a being full professors at cambridge university in england nil all the medi reval and modern modem language honors this year were gained by women at the graduating exercises of boston dental college tho the senior prize for the ibe best examination was won by mary esther gallup the one woman in a class or of 13 miss corn cora goodenow candidate of both tho the democratic and populist parties for school commissioner of ottawa county midi ilich was elected by a large majority miss hiss louise E F rancis francis of Cas castrovilla castroville cal is the assistant secretary of the national editorial association miss francis is also the plucky and successful prop proprietor rictor of the castrovilla enterprise sept I 1 the unitarian church at genova geneva ills will have for its pastor rev celia parker woolley the unitarian church at geneva is to be congratulated on securing jg a p pastor astor of such clo eloquence quence and earnestness wo we are informed that for years the duchess of devonshire lins has been writing anonymously for the london Situ iday review I 1 wonder if slie she writes those mean things about women one oco of the most cheering signs of tho time is the universal interest women tire arc taking in physical culture and active outdo outdoor t r exercise tho the craze has ha overtaken even the french and russian ladies EUZA CONNER |