Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE]

THE FAIR SEX.

London is said to have no lees than eighteen thousand newspaper women and the London School of Journalism, like our Normal College, turns oul fresh material at the rate of 200 • term. There are no less than twentytwo press clubs, where foe fair scrib. biers meet to lunch, retd, gabble and exchange notes. The successes aro few and the salaries lamontably small. Mrs. E. L. Lowe edits the Qusen, which is the leading women’s paper is England. The English Woman’s Review is under the management of Misi Helen Blackburn, and Miss Becker 5 responsible for the Manchester Journal of Woman’s Suffrage. Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, who draws thi biggest salary of any woman editor in the United States, has written a comedietta in one act, entitled 1 ‘His Socle, ty Play.” It is the experience of a New. York playwright with the scene: in the top story of a New York lodging house. This quaint, nervous little woman is a Georgia product, unusually gifted, with as many whims as a child and a disposition quite as sunny. She is a tremendous worker, writes nighl and day, most of the time sitting on the floor Turk fashion, with her copy paper on a lap board, and the wholq place littered with pencil chips. Alrs—H. Lillian Dougins, who recently married Dr. Harry Sims,intend! to write a book on “Woman’s Health and It’s Influence on tbe Morals of a Nation.” Dr. Sims, under whose direction the work will be prepared, is the bob of tbe eminent surgeon who founded the Woman’s Hospital of New York, who won the title of the Father of Gynecology and decorations from three European monarchs. The Lon. don Lancet said of the surgeon: “Th« name of Sims will live until woman dies.” Dr. Sims was educated by his father, and it is the purpose of his beautiful Baltimore wife to assist him in being worthy of the famous name and taleDt he inherits. The attention of the lady Factory Inspectors has been called to the New York modistes. There are on aristo. cratic Murray Hill dressmaking establishments where the apprentices and seam stresses are crowded into unwholesome quarters, where the lighl i 6 poor, the ventilation and space insufficient for health or comfort. In the largest, oldest and richest house the sewing girls work underground from one end of the season to the other. It is necessary to burn gas all day, and the only fresh air is admitted through the crystal openings of the iron grating that covers the coal hole Here in this subterranean room all the employes are compelled to eat theii noon lunches. Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith, now living in Holy wood, N. C., is eighty, four years old, and still vigorous in mind and body. Forty years ago she was a strong advocate of woman’e rights. She contributed articles to the magazines and delivered lectures in all the large cities. Her “Woman and Her Needs,” published in ISSQ, was reprinted all over the world. She was a Miss Prince, born in Maine, and married at the age of sixteen. Hei husband died in 1870, and ever since she has lived in the South. She is probably the oldest living authoress in the United States. Sketches and poems from her pen often appear in New York weeklies, but she left the lecture field about the time Anna Dickinson entered it.