Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-26
THE NEW YORK GIRL.
Bright Minds and Healthy Bodies
of the Girls of Gotham.
Improvement In Their Mode OF Life
-.Beauty at q Diseount-Museu.
lar Dexterlty NJ n
Premlum.


tCor New York Mail and Expresal
The New York girl is decidedly coming 70
the front / mean the gilded girl, the girl of
leisure. And when saw New York, of course
mea n what Hon. Billy Maloney, ever since
be went to Paris and back on a free pass, has
called 'the city and its onveerongs.r Only a
few years ago she was practicing the Gre
clan bend, and seemed likely to descend TO
| utter i'm beciIity: but all this has changed,
| and she has become an amateur athlete. She
is beginning to crowd her big brother in the
| field of sport
| Brooklyn parks are not like the parks in
| New York Our parks are managed on the
| principle to the mothers warning TO her
babe: you may look but you mustn't touch I"
| For every other bush there is a warming sign:
do not pick the flowers or leaves" If a lady
rests herself on bench she will be insulted
| by a loafer, either in uniform or out of it.
If e man steps on the grass be is likely to be
dragged to prison. But in Brooklyn the
parks are managed by the people, and the
beautiful lawns ON every fine day are
/ crowded with young people at play. On the
afternoon ! speak of there were as many
| girls as boys on the green sward liz Fort
Greene.
The older girls. Young ladies of MARRIAGE
able age, were playing lawn tennis, and play.
ing it with young men and with yigor that
required the agility CT gymnasts. When they
leaped they sprang clear of the ground, and
landed as lightly as birds; when they ran it
was with free and graceful movement.
When they stru ok at ball it WIS with a
blow that gave assurance Of quick Judgment,
strong muscles, and trained sight. Near by
saw three girls of Is or IL practicing a run.
ming jump Further on were some other
tennis players, who in an intermission had
started q game Of tag Do YOU remember
how the average girl used to play tag n few
years ago. She would run. screaming at the
top of her voice, with mincing step from
under absurd entangling skirts, until her
short breath gave way, and then on being
touched by her equally historical companion.
would sink breathless upon a seat or upon
the grass. That is not how these young women
did it. Their dresses somehow produced the
the effect of swiftness, and they bounded
lightly over the turf with pains closed and
held at the breast with lips shut and eyes
afame with fun. They doubled, danced tan.
talizincly before the one who was "t,"
lodged like wrestlers and shot away like
deer, and never did one Of them utter a
scream.
Speaking of wrestlers, | know Young
woman, or rather girl, daughter Of "a widow
well known in society, who can throw any
girl in the gymnasium she attends. and who
has thrown her brother, three wears her
senior, so often that he will not let her abuse
him any longer. And she can sing charm
ingly, play the piano beautifully, dance de-
lightfully, and speak French and German
better than an Alsatian. Then, again, the
other day, met wealthy man whose name |
is familiar to all New Workers, who told me |
that every morning he fences with his dauyl. |
ter half an hour.
81 am the only one in our household With |
whom she can fence with any pleasure said |
he Her mother, whom / taught. cannot |
pretend to stand against her. and nv eldest |
son is clumsy beside her. Her wrist has be-
come like IRON. and her muscles are like steel
1t IS quite feat to pink her. or throw her
foil from her band"
Where is the country girl who can swim
like the pupils Of that uptown school which
was maintained so many years near Central
park, and is still kept up Tor aught | knowl
The girls have begun to save life already
from the water. 1t was q little miss of
good belongings in Harlem who dragged
lad from Harlem river last summer Where
is the country girl in these lattndes who can
skate like the womanly, weil-rounded little
brunette in short skirts who carried Off the
pa I'm at the roller skating-rink last winterl
Where is the farmers daughter who knows
the points Of a horse like the woman who
figured conspicuousiy at last weeks horse |
showa At sight of horse, did they say:
"Oh, what a perfectly lovely creature, o,
isn't he niece Isn't lie Just too splendid!n
Not at ALL They criticised the width of
his breast, the size of his head, the taper of
MS legs the hoes, joints, nostrils, back, and,
IN short, every point tie horse has got or
mad missed, and all in technical terms, talk
ng as confidently with horse-fancier or a
Jockey, as one lady used to talk tn another
about the number Of founces on q fashion,
able skirt.
looked at them in amazement, and when
got away it struck me it would be interest
ng to describe what sort of girls they were
70 that the public should know them when it
aw them. But / cannot remember that there
vas any marked popularity in their appear
lnce They were ordinary-looking, fashion
able girls, some richly dressed, and some in
oter black. Some were matrons In thea
re or church you could not tell them from
he others. You know many of their names,
however. They are the same names of those
If the gentlemen who delight in four In
hands who figure at polo, who are 10 10
ound at the hunts on Orange mountain. and
It East Rockaway, Bnd whose steeds bring
aurels back from England, or carr them
III at Monmouth park But these women