He next established a seminary for girls in Lexington, Mass., his object being to illustrate the possibilities in the physical development of girls'during their school-life. This seminary rapidly became popular, and attracted pupils from all parts of the country and even from Central America and the West Indies. Dr. Lewis remained in Boston until 1882, when he removed to Yonkers and established a magazine in Xew York devoted to sanitary and social science, and known as IHo Lewis' Monthbj.

Dr. Lewis published a number of books on physical culture which had a wide circulation, the most prominent of them being "Our Girls," "Our Digestion" and " Weak Lungs."

Besides the authors mentioned, the celebrated novelist Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth has been a resident of Yonkers since 1876. She was born in Washington, D. C, December 26, 1819, her parents being Charles Le Compte Nevitte, a merchant of Alexandria, Va., and Susannah George Wailes Nevitte, of St. Mary's, Md. She married Frederick H. Southworth, of Utica, N. Y., in 1840. Her first story was written in the latter part of 1846, and published in the Baltimore Saturday Visitor of that year. From 1847 to 1857 all her writings were issued in the Washington National Era. Her first novel in book-form was published by the Harpers of New York, in 1849, after having been run through tl;e Era. From 1857 she has been writing for the Nev York Ledger.

Since the latter year she has published through the New York Ledger only. She is at present (December, 1885) writing her sixty-seventh novel. Her works have been republished in P^ngland, and translated into German, French and Spanish. Mrs. Southworth is a lady of refinement, of great intelligence and extensive reading, esjiecially familiar with all the characters and phases of Washington life, and a most interesting conversationalist.