New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-01-31

By always listening to other people,
you may forget that you have some
thicg to say yourself.
They have on exhibition in the Cali
fornia town of Calico, according to the
San Francisco Bulletin. a frightful look.
ing quadruped captured on the desert,
to whom the hideous dragons on Chi.
nese tea chest are beautiful in compar;.
son.
Some Delaware people eat muskrats
and like them. One enthusiast saws:
.'Put brace of fricassed rats before 4
Washington epicure and the odds are
that be could not tell them from rab-
bits"
The rage for physical development
among young women is increasing.
Glasses are forming in gymnasiums
where young ladies and girls are taught,
and also small clubs which receive in.
struction in private houses. One Of
the latest phases of this mania is an in.
Suitable desire on the part of many
young ladies to learn fencing. 1t has
become fashionable accomplishment
in Europe. which is quite enough to
make girls here ambitious to acquire it.
Last year there were only few classes,
and they were small. This year there
will be scores of young women poking
swords at each other. One of the best
known gymnasiums in the city is
within stones throw of the Windsor
Hotel.
The young ladies who go there for
instruction and practice have little re-
firing rooms, similar to bath houses.
When they emerge they have a cos
tune consisting of basque or jacket and
trousers. The agility, grace and skill
they show at the various exercises is
astonishing. They are quicker to learn
than boys, am told. and much more
graceful at everything they undertake.
At first they are made to make certain
movements with their fingers, hands
and arms. Then they are taught to
swing dumb bells and clubs, Keeping
time to music. As the average young
lady does not straignten out her arms
properly when in the first stages of her
training, the wooden dumb bells have
little brass bells on them that Jingle
when the movements are made with
proper forte,
One Of the exercises they are put
through is that of marching, with
sticks for guns. They like this very
much, and carry their heads with 4
jaunty air. What young chap is there
that would not pay good fee at the
door to see them going through evolu.
tions? But the Professor vigorously
excludes spectators. The advanced
classes are required to practice on tho
horizontal bar. Beginners at this ex.
ercise have great difficulty in swingi, Z
their feet over, but some of the pers =
vering ones go through great variety
IT movements with the grace Of an
acrobat Swinging in rings suspended
on long ropes is favorite exercise.
In one corner Of the room there are
several poles in an upright position.
and others inclining at an angle. It is
almost incredible, but nevertheless
fact, that young women will spend
hours climbing those poles. The most
popular exercise is that of mounting
and vaulting over wooden horse.
They make a rush at this and spring
into wooden saddle, and after much
practice they 60 over almost without
The private classes usually
meet in q garnet SO many times week
for lessons malpractice. When young
lady who has the physical develop
mont craze is detained at home by
rainy day, she goes up to tho garnet and
develops her muscle. -NeaU York Letter
10 Washington Star.