The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-08-22
An Old Boys COmpOsitiOn.-Whya Girl Can.
not Throw Stone.

An Old Boys Compositon.-Whya Girl Can.
not Throw Stone.
Ifa girl was to practice for fifteen
years she could not learn to throw q
stono with grace and accuracy. Have
you ever wondered why it is SO? We
have.
1t was one of the first and most knotty
physiological problems which presented
itself to our youthful mind-why our
big sister, when she tried to throw q
SNOWFALL at us, almost invariably sent it
careering over the top of the house,
while we, in turn, could pop her in the
ear about every time. 1t may be. that we
took mean advantage of this discrim-
ination of nature IN our behalf and
against our sister, and it may DO that We
improved tho opportunity to rake her
fore and aft whenever she came within
firing distance. But that is neither here
nor there.
As time passed on, We increased our
stock of observation, We saw that other
fellows sisters labored under about the
same disadvantages that ours did in the
matter Of throwing any sort of missile.
As near as We could generalize their
modus operandi OF awkwardness
such we are compelled to call tive
found that they swung the arm back
over the head with vertical motion, as
though it were hung by door hinge on
the top of the shoulder, or much as we
may imagine the old Roman catapult op-
Grated when firing stones at the enemy.
When the arm had swung as far as the
the hinge would allow it, it was brought
forward with the same vertical motion,
and with as much momentum as the
thrower could raise, and, at some undo
fined point in the arc thus described, the
hand let 60 the missile. While executing
this quick movement, some girls gave
little feminine whoop, or, maybe, q half
whoop and half squeal others did
not. Our sister jumped and whooped,
both but then, she was bad thrower.
As We stated, at some underlined point of
the crc described by the forward motion
of the arm, the missile flew off. Some
times it went up, sometimes it went
down, and sometimes it went side ways,
but it never, by any manner of means,
hit tho thing it was intended to-jump
or no jump, whoop or no whoop.
Now, the point Of difference between
girls throwing and boys we found
to be subsequently this: The boy
crooked his elbow, and reached back
with the upper part of his arm at about
right angle of forty-fve degrees; the d.
rect act of throwing was accom- lished
by bringing the arm back with q snap,
like the tail OF snake or q whiplash,
working every joint from shoulder to
wrist, and sometimes making your el-
bow sing as though you had got hack |
on the crazy bone. The girl threw with |
her whole arm rigid the boy with his
whole arm relaxed.
Why this marked and unmistakable |
difference existed. We never learned un.
til, a: a somewhat advanced period, VIC
dove into book Of physiology, and
that the clavicle or colar-bone,
in the anatomy Of female is some
inches longer, and set some degrees
lower down, than in the masuline frame.
This bone interferes with the FREQ &C.
ton OF the shoulder, and that's tho rea-
son she cant throw. We have develop
cd pet theory of our own, however,
hat an allwise and beneticent Provi.
fence, foreseeing that there would be
rolling pins, stove-hooks, pot-lids. and
not water in the world, set the woman's
'lavicle down hitch or two for the
'a:ety OF the men. It's lucky for all OF
IL that women can't thrOw.-From the
Educational Weekly.