River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-12-18

swims at first, with all her clothes on,
lighter than man, but after a while
/ IT S rather heavy work. But | really
think had | married Turk, and my
jealous lord had put me in sack into
the Bosphorus, he could not have
I drowned me. 6y the way, ladics--I
am very unhappy. | am married to a
man, fate has so ordained it, who can
run or swim, or play cricket or shoot,
except in most languid way; am,
then, his natural protector, and he
knows il. But | am chattering here.
Pray now run to the house and send my
! servant. On that we hurried up to
the hotel, and that important function.
airy, the lady's maid, soon sped on her
GRAND.
my mission on this EARTH" said the
lady to us that evening, sis to induce
women to improve themselves by means
Of physical culture. Why did not Ca.
rion Kingsley lecture on it when he
was here, for no ore has written so sen.
sibly on the subject ! Womcn's rights
movements fail signally in this particu-
lar. How are women who are always
whining and ailing to take any higher
position in the human family | tell
you, much as we deSpise materialistic
ideas, and hold aloft the immateral
brain over lobbyists are too often
trumps. Now to the case in point
| should by no means have gone over.
board after that young lady's shawl if
! had not been in my morning dress.
That, you say, is non sequitur, but
our actions are mostly relative. A pre-
cious scolding received in lieu Of a re-
ward from NY lord and master. and per-
haps ] deserved it. But don't you
think if more Of the young women
could swim, or even walk decently, or
shoot bows ana arrows, or skate more,
they would be better off Don't you
read now a great many books written
by intelligent women which have sick
headache and dyspepsia sticking out in
every line OF course, now it is too
/ late to cure them. But, suppose in
early life, if only two energetic male
friends, her brothers, had tucked that
intellectual girl under their arms, and
clapped on her feet a pair of thick .soled
shoes, and taken her spin Of three or
four miles day over the fields. don't
you fancy that young person would
have been wonderfully improved ply.
sically and mentally -
COZ course we do, we replied.
"Are you not rather stronger 10 the
theory than in the practice!" the lady
rather maliciously inquired "You
write about these matters occasionally,
| suppose; but do you carry them out
in regard to your daughter =
"Wc can criticise a three-legged
stool, we replied, "but, if our life de-
pended on it, could not make one
Il will tell you what | will do. To.
morrow morning will wager you just
pair of gloves that can take ny hus-
band in boat, and you may take any
lady you please, not under 10 pounds,
and will row you half a mile into the
lake"
How could we decline the wager
That evening, however, we telegraphed
to New York for a pair Of IA gloves.
We came in glorious second. We
might have won had our young lady
coXswan trimmed boat. but she insisted
on seeing the reflection Of the clouds on
the lake, assuring US it was nuanct
She was anxious to fix in her mind, in
case dress pattern of a similar hue
was ever put before her. We were
beaten good many boats lengths.
Our competitor had every advantage.
The lady's dead weight-her husband
sat motionless in the stern reading a
book. He had certainly been we'll
trained.