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PURITY OF THE PRESS;
MRS. LIPSCOMB S PLEA
Splendid Paper Read Before the Georgia Feder
ation of Woman’s Clubs.
HISTORY OF THE WOMAN’S PRESS CLUB
Suggestions in Sensational Newspa
pers the Cause of Much Crime,
A Paper All Should Read,
At the first day’s meeting of the
Georgia Federation of Woman’s clubs
the following report was read by Mrs.
M. A. .Lipscomb, off Athens:
As a delegate from the Woman’s ,
Press Club of Georgia I bring you <
greeting; greeting from a club of 1
women whose influence must be felt
on the thought of this state; a club
therefore important because of that 1
influence. i
ft is my purpose today to review 1
briefly in this report the history of
'the Woman’s Press Club of Georgia;; -
to show the steady improvement (
made by women in journalism in the i
past quarter of a century; to point ■
Out the obligation resting upon us in j
this department of literature; to en- (
courage a high order of work, and to >
make an earnest appeal to you, my (
country women, in favor of the ;
purity of the daily press. 18***'"';
The Woman’s Press Club of Geor- ,
gia was organized in the city of At
lanta in 1890 and it has met annually
ever since. It is now only seven years
old, but during these seven years it
has done much to encourage and ad- 1
vance press work in our state. There
has been an increasing interest in
this organization on the. part of
journalists in the club, and with that
interest a constant growth. The club
began with six of eight charter mem
bers and now has upon its roster fifty
or more. The movement to organize
a Woman’s Press club originated with
Mrs. Byington of Columbus, and she
was duly elected the first president.
Any organization that sprung from
the impulse of such a woman could
not fail to be noble in its purpose,
and good in its result. Mrs. Byington
is a woman who believes in helping
women; she has a firm faith in wo
mans progress and success; she is
gentle, cultur.-d, dignified and re
fined. Such a woman could not fail
to leave the impress of her personality
on any club over which she might
have presided.
The club has had three presidents
during the seven years since its or- i
ganization. Mrs. Byington was fol
lowed by Mrs. Leonora Beck Ellis, a
woman strong in journalism and
talented in Art. Her ..work as a
magazine writer is known to you all,
and the compliment of being called
the Hypatia of Atlanta was a
beautiful one and one that is
most richly deserved. The present
president of the Woman’s .Press club
of Georgia is Mrs..Myrick of Ameri
cus, a woman too well known to the
state to need any introduction here.
She is an able conductor of a paper
herself; a fearless, independent think
er and writer; a thorough business
woman; one intolerant of all sham;
appreciative of true worth; and per
fectly capable to do whatever she at
tempts to do.
• The club has had uniformly ef
ficient- and valuable officers to direct
its affairs. The present treasurer,
Mrs. Penn is a careful custodian of all
the funds of the club, which, though
not heavy enough to be burdensome,
are necessary and,valuable enough to
be well guarded.
No young woman in the state has
been so prominent in club work of
all descriptions ss our present secie
tary. Miss Rosa Woodberry. She is
a woman not for a kind of work, but.
for various; earnest in all and success
ful in all. Whatever her hands finds
to do she does with all of her might
The club has convened annually in
different parts of the state and has
always met with uniform courtesy
and attention. Until the Constitu
tion was amended at the last
meeting, it had been the policy of the
club to enrol on its roster not only
active journalists, but writers of
books, magazine articles and stores,
and the names of all young aspirants
to journalism who applied for mem
bership. There were some even ad
mitted who were only connected with
the mechanical and
work of the paper. It was agreed at
the last meeting to amend the policy
of the club by refusing to admit into
it any one except those actively en
gaged in journalism, declaring at the
at the same time that those who had
admitted under the old policy were
entirely welcome, and inviting them
most cordially to remain and work
with them.
Had it not been for this saving
c’ause I should have no right to pre
sent the report that lam not reading
to you.
There are some objections to club
work among women that are well
grounded and logical. No one is
freer to admit them than I, but there
are, on the other hand,
in the way of progress that even the
snarler or the most capituous will ad
mit. All great movements have been
accomplished through organizations
and concert of action. Mind must
meet mind for ambition to be aroused
and work accomplished. Contact in
education is everything for develop
ment. The governess can never do
for the youth of opr land what the
University system is now doing.
Twenty-five years ago woman’s tal
ents were directed to the writing of
receipts for the cook book and nursery
rhymes and stories; today her pen
covers every topic from the field of
household economies to the most
elaborate scientific and philosophic
discussions. Today higher’ work in
every department of literature is de
manded from women, and they have
met ttie demand. The' school girl
like George Eliot writes her own com
position and reads it from the com
mencement stage. The president of
the Woman’s Missionary Society pre
pares own report and reads it. The
columns in the daily newspapers
edited by women are not inferior to
those from the pen of men. Among
the contributors to the best maga
zines of the day there are many
names of women. The day has pass
ed when women must ask help in the
line of literary work. The club-has
done much to promote this advance-
WOMEN DO NOT TELL ME WHOLE TRUTH.
Modest Women Evade Certain Questions When Asked by a Male
Physician, but Writfe Freely to Mrs. Pinkham.
An eminent physician says that “Women are not truthful, they will lif
to their physicians.” This statement should be qualified; women do tell tin,
truth, but not the whole truth, to a male physician, but this is only in regard
to those painful and troublesome disorders pecu
liar to their sex.
There can be no more terrible ordeal to a delicate,
sensitive, refined woman than to be obliged to an
swer certain questions when those questions are
j asked, even by her family physician. This is espe
/ ciall y the case with unmarried women.
This is the reason why thousands and thousands of
** \ women are now corresponding with Mrs. Pinkham.
V. r To this good woman they can and do give every
] symptom, so that she really knows more about
the true condition of her patients through her
X y correspondence than the physician who per-
jK- sonally questions them. Petfect confidence and
a. _A WRi candor are at once established between Mrs.
A '“J LiU Pinkham and her patients.
jtJ / Years ago women had no such recourse.
Wr Nowadays a modest woman asks help of a
Agfr woman who understands women. If you suffer
'-7 from any form of trouble peculiar to women,
1 & write at once to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.,
4JA JL an d she will advise you free of charge.
| J Ma And the fact that this great boon which is
"""V'— lllllJsß extended freely to women by Mrs. Pinkham, is
Mgf appreciated, the thousands of letters which are
received by her prove. Many such grateful let
ters as the following are constantly pouring in;
|n. / wSKiM “ I was a sufferer from female weakness for
\ I vHH| about a year and a half. I have tried doctors
HL \ / WHhI and patent medicines, but nothing helped me.
\ I underwent the horrors of local treatment, but
\ ‘ \ S received no benefit. My ailment was pronounced
■M| \ \Y| ulceration of the womb. I suffered from in-
I WVV \ \\ tense pains in the womb and ovaries, and the
\ backache was dreadful. I had leucorrhcea in
IX. \ \ its worst form. Finally I grew so weak I had
\ \ 'to keep my bed. The pains were so hard as to
• \ \ almost cause spasms. When I could endure the
\ pain no longer I was given morphine. My
memory grew short, and I gave up all hope of ever getting well. Thus I
dragged along. At last I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. Her answer came
promptly. I read carefully her letter, and concluded to try Lydia E. Pinkham’r
Vegetable Compound. After taking two bottles I felt much better; but after
using six bottles I was cured. My friends think my cure almost miraculous.
Her noble work is surely a blessing.to broken-down women.” — Gbacb B. Stans
■uby, Pratt, Kansas.
FHE ROME TRIBUNE. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5. LB9l
ment. Ido not believe that even the
husbands who are opposed to the club
work for women would have their
wives go back to the receipt book to
the exclusion of all higher literary,
work.
In making this report today I have'
sense of two obligations resting upon
me; the first is to encourage high Older
of work in Journalism among women]
and the second is to make an appeal in
behalf of the purity of the press. There
are other subjects outside of receipt
books and nusery rhymes inviting to
women. Understand me, I would not
underrate housewifely graces and arts,
but would broaden and elevate them.
The care of the home has become a
science. Household economics should be
taught in every school for young ladies.
No education for girls is complete which
leaves out of its corriculum the con
struction of a home, the preparation of
food, and the proper care of a house
hold. But there are other subjects out
side of a home where the impress of
thought from the educated, thinking
women is needed, subjects of both so
cial and moral reform. I have often
thought that if I could only have di
rected my early education I should
have been a journalist, and 1 frankly
declare if I were net a teacher, 1 should
endeavor to be a wri'er. I had rather
today mould thoughts that would enno
ble and inspire the hqman race than be
a Paidias or a Canova. I had rather
paint pictures that would lift the im
inagination above the sordid things of
this earth up -to the glory and grandeur
of God than be a Rapbeal or a Micheal
Angelo. I had rather be the architect
of character that the architect of St.
Peters. I had rather be thd humble
means of bringing purity into the press
of this country than to be a Joan of Arc
or a queen over a realm. It is for the
purity of the press that I stand here to
day. I ask your influence, the influence
of this Federated Club of Women for
what is pure, and true, and noble in
journalism. I believe that no one except
a mother and a teacher can make the
appeal with the earnestness that is in
me. Will you not my Countrywomen
help in this work? I have no attack to
make upon any one paper, nor have I
any excuse to make for any who use
the power in this land today, the power
for the nations weal or woe? for the
promotion or ~wickedness for even the
suggestion of crime, prostitutes the no
ble calling of journalism and becomes a
party to the crime.
Did it ever occur to you what a power
there was in the law of suggestion?
Every thought that passes through the
mind suggest some other thought and
that thought is followed by feeling and
desire. There has been many a case of
incendiarism that never would have oc
curred had it not been for some sensa
tional newspaper article. There has
been many a case of wife desertion
caused by the suggestive principle;
many a case of bank robbery because
the defaulter appears a hero instead of a
criminal many a case of ruin and dis
grace because of the familiarity of the
fall; many a case of suicide and murder
because of the false sentiment as ex
pressed through the newspapers. If you
lived as I do, in a college town sur
rounded by both young men and young
women, you would understand the earn
estness of my plea for the purity of the
Rheumatism :Cure is guaranteKl to be absolutely
harmless, and a strong tonldlnbuilding up the weak
and debilitated. It cures acute or muscular rheuma
tism In from one to five days. Sharp, shooting pains
in any part of the body stopped in a few doses. A
prompt, complete and permanent cure for lameness,
soreness, stiff bock and all pains In hips and loins.
Chronic rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago or pain In
the back are speedily cured. It seldom falls to give
relief from one to two doses, and almost invariably
cures before one bottle has been used. The Munyon
Remedy Company prepare a separate cure for each
disease. At alf druggists—2s cents a vial. If you need
medical advice write Prof. Munyon, 1505 Arch
Street, Philadelphia. It is absolutely tree.
press. When I see young heads bowed
over the narration of some dreadful
crime, or the youug freely discussing
some recent scandal, the details of which
are shocking in the extreme, I feel a
shudder of anxiety and fear come over
me. Every thought that passes through
the mind suggest a similar thought.
Familiarity with crime lessens its
horror.
"Vice Is a monalar of so frlghtfnl mien,
As to b hated nesds but to berenn;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We firatendure, then pity, then embrace.”
As our bodies are nourished by the
foods we feed upon, so also, are our
miuds nonrisued by the food we gave
them. Why is it that some of the news
papers of the day that go into the homes
of culture and refinement, the hoaxes of
purity and innocence find it necessary
to ponder to the taste of the low and
vulgar? Why not endeavor to uplift and
ennoble the degrade and bring them up
to a higher level rather than descend to
theirs? omen of the Federated Clubs
of Georgia you have a work to do in
standing for the parity of the press. It
is not the mission of woman to report
the degradation and crime of city slums,
but the work of the police to search it
out and prevent it. Stand by the purity
of the press. W rite of such things as
will encourage study and thought; which
will build up character, not debase it.
As you love the daughters of your state
give your influence to this work. As you
value the character of the young men
of Georgia give your time to this work.
Understand me, I do not ask for the sup
pression of news, but I do ask for a
daily newspaper that can be put into
the hands of young people; a paper
where current events and topics can be
studied without fear of the imagination
being inflamed and the morals cor
rupted. When I hear of strong books,
such as have recently come from the
pen of women, whose influence is
downright imtqpral I feel ashamed of
my sex. Like Goneril and Regan of the
tragedy of Shakespear’s King Lear,
they have blood enough in their veins
to quicken their brains, but nor enough
to send the blush of modesty to their
cheeks.
•‘Thinkert thou there are no set ents In this
world,
But those that blide along the grassy sod,
Aud Hing- the luckless foot that presses
them?
There are, who in this part of human life,
Do bask their spotted shins in fortunes Sun,
And sting the soul,”
There is a serpent in every bad book,
one in every sensational newspaper ar
ticle, serpents that luckless feet do press
upon and which turn about and sting
you. Stand for the purity of the press
This is the message that I bring to the
Federation of Clubs today. Let us bend
our united efforts in that one direction
and we shall soon see the beneficient
influence of the entire commonwealth
of our state. •
' Encourage progress in woman’s work,
but remember that progress tends up
ward and not downward. Whatever
else may be Slid of the late Charles A.
Dana this is true of him. As an editor
of a pure, clean paper he was without a
p-er. : On his escutcheon he leaves not
one blot here. We have now in the
state of Georgia several women who are
ably conducting and controlling daily
newspapers. I charge upon them the
o ligation of keeping their columns pure
and clean.
No matter intowhat channels the new
woman may lead us let the women of
Georgia stand forever under the Feder
ated standard of truth, purity and right.
:, Hoi:se on Wliee's.”
The “house on wheels,” which is
crossing the continent, arrived in Kings
ton, N. ¥., recently. E. A. Lasley, wife
and six children occupy the house,
which is hardly as large as a small fur
niture van. They left Port Angeles,
Wash., March 22, 1894, and expect to
reach New York in a few days. The
house was built by Mr. and Mrs. Lasley
and contains folding beds, folding ta
bles, a cook stove and various other
household necessities. Since leaving
Port Angeles Mr. Lasley has traveled
6,575 miles and worn out 20 horses.
Museum of Arms.
Herr Krupp intends to create at Es
sen a museum of arms which shall con
tain specimens ranging from the earliest
date, and he has already begun to make
purchases to that end. The famous iron
master’s resolve in this respect orig
inated in a number of visits he paid
when last in London to various public
museums, and it is his intention to be
queath to the German nation the collec
tion he is now engaged in forming.—
New York Tribune.
Incontinence of. water during sleep
stopped immediately by Dr. E. Detchons’
Anti Diueretic, Cures children and
adults alike. Price sl. Sold by D. W.
Curry, druggist, Rome. Ga.
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FURNISHINGS.
Our shirts, ties and other furnishings are correct styles,
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Clothiers and Furnishers.
HM WGOODS.
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