Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-22
PEDAL CULTURE.
One Thing That Most Fashion
able Woman do not Know.

One Thing That Most Fashion.
able Woman do not Know.
! Clara Bells Ne~ York Letter.
Fashionable women know well enough
how to use their arms, and awkwardness
In this respect is rare in4eed. Female
arms, whether barred for ball or clad
for the street; are commonly held and
moved gracefully. They may be DIS
agreesbly lean or unusually long; but
their owners are not at loss what to do
with them. Men often find their arms
in the way, aud do not know what under
heaven 10 do with their hands; but no
such trouble ever besets woman.
When il comes to legs and feet, however,
best-trained woman in private life show
no culture whatever. They can walk
and dance with their legs, and ciothe
them in beautiful stockings, but that
is all. Their pedal accomplishment
begin and end with childhood's lesson oil
turning out the toes. / was brought
TO a consideration OF the subject while
watching Lotta's gambols at the Park
Theater last evening. She gesticulated
twice AZ much with her roots as she did
with her branches. The former were
neatly covered with Hack satin hose
embroidered with floss and glittering
with spangles. l couldn't help mang--
ling Poe, like this, right on the corner OF
my programme:
Look al Lolita with her legs
wha. 4 world OF merriment Is In 'oose taper
How they tinkle, tinkle, tiukle,.
In their mix of mite and might!
While the spangles that o'ersprinkle
All her stockings seem To Twinkle
With crystalline delight
Keeping time, time, time.
In an acrob1tic rhyme,
To the kick-kickabulsiion THAT'S ~ hsn' "a
though on eggs
By the legs, legs, legs, legs
Legs, legs, legs,
By the jingling and The wriggling OF the legs
Lotts could stand on her head, and
not a woman in the house would think
her indicate. She has the rare gilt oil
an
ALWAYS INNOCENT ASPECT.
We see such girls in everyday lille;
and lucky they are, for they can, with:
out reprobation. do things that would
socially damn some OF us. Adelaide
Detchon, the young beauty OF WallscS's,
is an example OF the opposite kind. She
has a delicate, intelligent and charming
face, with perfect eyes, and lovely
smile. Well, she can't show the sole oil
her shoe without suggestion. l
couldn't define the difference between
her and Lolita, but it is there, and
mighty wide, too. In The World she
personates an artless, innocent creature,
and does it demurely: yet there is All
utter absence OF artlessness, and every
curve OF her form-incased, as 1t Is, In
one act in a glove.fitting jersey-glves
out kind Of consciousness. She isn't
TO blame. Her jersey, by the way, is
Of woven silk, a glossy drab In coloi,
and is as tight as her skin, unbroken by
80 much as a button, from her neck to
halfway between her hips and knees,
IL wrinkled only when she sat down,
and was altogether wondrous garment,
She also wore drab satin slippers en-
tirely covered with an embroidery OF
steel beads, and stockings of silk em.
broidered in silver, with insertions OF
white lace. Her gloves were worked
with beads, and had broad bands OF
needlework at the waists to simulate
bracelets. Her hair was arranged in
fiat bsndeau, with a fringe falling over
her forehead, then carried around In
loose, easy circle upon the crown OF her
head. ending in two long, undulating
curls extending down to her waist, and
kept in place at the back by q handsome
steel comb.