This Day In Nellie Bly History — “Learning Ballet Dancing”

New York World, Sunday, December 18, 1887

Nellie Bly in Short Gauze Skirts Kicks at a Mark

How it Feels to Go About in an Abbreviated Costume — Making Her Outfit — Holding on a Bar to Practise — Why It Is Healthful — Comments of the Old Professor — It Seems Easy, but Requires Much Hard Work.