Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-14
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 A New Amnzonian AccOm ishment-The Ladies' Fencing Academy at Vienna. Vienna Core pondence Boston Post.l "Aux armes citoyens!" cried Roueet de LIsle whom he wrote his famous iiaEsei,- laise." Now, if he had cared to live 100 years more (what an old man he would bel) and pesped into the Ladies' Fencing Academy of Prof. Hartl, I am sure he would have cor rected his 'Marseillaise" by serving right the ladies and putting in these three words: "Aux armes citoysnnes!" suppose Prof. Hartl would have let him in, though I must state that there frowns on his door, very dark passage, at every young man who would die to go in, assuring the young ladies that "all gentlemen are forbid den to enter" during their lessons. Of course this is very sad; but still it is better to know it first, that you will be killed, than to be cut to pieces by the warlike Amazons and the skilful Prof. Hartl before you could turn around We'll, I have the permission of Prof. Hartl, so let us enter.
 He has beautiful set of rooms in the Ad- Ter Strasse, and his grand family salon is decorated with all kinds of killing instru
 ments and prize documents. In the elegant dressing-room you might see large frame | in which there are the portraits of six beauti- | ful young ladies. who either won prizes or are at least very good fencers. The lessons | of the young ladies are all in the forenoon, | for in the afternoon and evening Prof. Hartl fences with gentlemen. The ladies have &
 very pretty suit on, which gives free move ment to their limbs and are covered with 8 pio Tlns nskr fn dafaOd th6u1 from kha nl6nrAf And it Is beautiful sight to see such young lady with peuret in her tiny gloved hand, stardipg Zen garde." Ladies in Prof. Hartl's academy fence only with pleuret. and dare say they handle this weapon with great dex- terity.
 No one believed that Prof. Hartl was in earnest until two months ago, when he ar ranged 8 grand fencing tournament in the Musk Halle of the city of Vienna, on which occasion twelve young ladies appeared and fenced among themselves and with Prof. Hartl. After the ladies' fencing exercise gentlemen fenced, too, among themselves. There were prizes, too, because the young men of Prof HartPs academy put together 15O forins and bought three bracelets for the occasion as priz 2. The whole tournament proved to be success. The ladies fenced on assault and en colonne, but Prof Hartl was not content with this. He wanted to prove also that ladies are able to be fencing
  young ladies visa wis, one of whom was the teacher, the other the pupil. Every young lady had on the right side of her plastron tiny red heart, and in fencing they aimed at this. Next day the papers were full Of Prof Hartl and the fepcing Amazons. Some wrote against them, some for them. Some papers decidedly put down the whole exercise by saying that the vholething ought to be taken as 6 good joke. But in general Prof. Hartls idea succeeded, and the reporters who wrote against it (and who probably did not know how to fence) had to retire with their phil lipios.
 One afternoon when I was fencing with Prof BartI asked him about the origin of his idea. 'Well, you know" he said, 'I have been for years fencing master of the stage people. and saw that while girls have all sorts of exercises until they are seventeen, they wholly neglect them after this age. And 50 thought that if would introduce this light but strengthening sport it might do them good, for dancing alone is not the ex- ercise young lady at eighteen wants" And I think he is right.
 But the idea is not altogether new. The famous actresses of the French practised it long ago. Rachel was noted fencer and Mime. Sarah Bernhardt herself cnltiV Vated this art and highly appreciated it. The Empress of Austria herself fences every day; so does her daughter, the Princess Valerie. Their fencing master Is the famous MT. FridIich. And as it is rule that the ladies of this country follow the example of their Empress, 1t is quite certain that the idea of Prof. Hartl will not be abandoned.
 The Rev. Solomon Gales, of Mystic, sick for several weeks with erysipelas and almost given up by his friends, is so far recovered as to be walking ont
 A resolution fa7orably reported appoints Logon B. Morris of New Haven, H. s. Bar bour of Hartford, Edward l.. Cundall of Brooklyn, A. K. Tenn of Winchester. and W. B. Glover of Fairfield, special commits sion to revise the probate laws and report to the next session of the General Assembly.
 The deficiency in the accounts of William G. Morgan, who has charge of the Hartford branch of the banking firm of Outman < Earle, is said to be about $20. 900. Morgan was recently admitted into the firm, which will now be dissolved. after meeting all obli- eations. Morgan is ill, and it is doubtful If he will recover.