Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-09-09
SEPTEMBER Q, 1885
GIRLS ON THEIR MUSCLE.
growing Tendency Of American
Girls TO Cultivate Their Sfnews.

GIFTS TO Cultivate Their SIneys.
The attempt OF our women 10 get back
to the stalwart condition of their ancestral
mothers ought to be encouraged by every
one who loves his race, especially the
prospective part OF it. For those mothers
on the Saxon side were sturdy DANES,
who never heard of neuralgia or choral,
who could live in big stone castles with
out getting the influenza, and could let
down a draw bridge single-handed when
n lover came bone from the wars.
The movement in favor of Saxon female
recuperation began about ten years ago
says a writer in the New York Times, by
a few men who loved the race-especially
the prospective part of it. The current
woman Of fashion at that time had not
enough vertebrse to keep her head from
falling on her shoulders at the scent of a
tube rose, every time she winked she had
4 distinct emotion; her ankles doubled
over if she went up one pair OF stairs she
couldn't shop for an hour without a
ph8ton, an elevator, two electric bells
and four cash girls; she couldn't sign a
marriage certificate without a Doctors
certificate first, and she couldn't nurse
her own child without taking laughing
gas or chloroform. Her white arms were
like willow stem, and when her hus-
band kissed her on the cheek it left a red
mark, which she covered up with court
plaster
That woman is passing away. The belle
of the future has biceps, thanks to Billy
Edwards and the select glove tourna-
ments She doesn't pound a piano, but
q sandbag. She doesn't waste her time
in knocking out Beethoven and Chopin
She knocks out the chambermaid and the
first best man. 1t is not eight buttoned
gloves, but boxing gloves, that have done
this. Her fleXor longis and fexor brevis
swell out beautifully She doesn't put
up her fan when she is insulted, but her
hands. When the time comes for her to
embrace her husband, she will not die of
syncope or inflammation OF the lungs if
he returns the embrace. 1t is breezy to
see such a bride at the altar, provided
the male attachment is correlatively mas
sive. As she puts her dainty maulers out
for the ring she will say with good old
Saxon fiber, "Put it there, my hearty"
and when the interesting ceremony is
over, she will take her husband into
and, followed by the first best
man, 60 away to life OF many rounds
and triumphs.
Others of the current beauties have
been Juggling at the weary oar to get their
soft shoulder blades into place. They are
stroke oars; their backs are freckled, and
their neclls are the color of the Atlantic |
Monthly. They eat like pilots; they
splice the main brace like 'longshoremen
they have the grip of a stevedore; they |
rather banker after SOU wester; they |
wear heavy underclothes without frills, |
and have cut their bangs and bangles off |
because they interfered with business. A
wife who can pull skiff five miles in the |
sun isn't going to retire to convent when !
her husband stays out after u. a do |
nestle breeze will not scare her and !
when her baby is baptized she will not |
insist on its wearing waterproof suit |
and going to the ceremony with an UNI
brella.
The current girl who can ride mustang |
IS worth consideration. Why, her grand
mother used to jump on bareback white /
mare and go down to the meadow for the |
cows So the grandmother needn't be /
if she does live in Fifth-ave,
palace. Nothing can be finer than to see
he New York belle of morning break
ng her Indian pony on the mail. The
rage for fiery, unframed steeds has done
much to correct the lassitude of the pros
Dective race.
In the efforts to enlarge the sphere of |
he contemporaneous woman nothing has
proved so efficaciOus as cricket or base |
ball. When the G.. w. first took up base
ball she was little limp on the pitch and .
scattered a little on the home base. She |
caught ball with her head over her
shoulder and had an abnormal fear of be-
ng struck below the belt. But these |
absurd things have passed away with de- /
yelopment. Besides the exercise did |
AWAY with her acute sensibilities and |
when she gets married it is not unusual
10 see her pitching the baby for prac- !
ice. |
These athletic stimulants OF the pros !
pective race have increased the beauty OF !
the current woman. They have given /
her arm an executive swing. She lives |
more from the shoulders, so to speak. |
She has developed taste for rare beef /
that drips, and the passion for carameis |
has died out, and there is a reasonable |
hope in the breasts of the men who love /
the prospective race, that in another |
generation we shall have got back to !
Godiva and Brunhilde, and our restored |
homes Will renew for us the Nibelungen |
days.
The pride that the contemporaneous |
husband takes in his athletic bride is one |
Of the most promising signs OF the time:
There is Dick Feversham, who appeared |
on the Stock Exchange with one eye
closed, and looking as proud as mother
who has had triplets. When they said
to him, "Why don't you have it painted
while YOU wait2'' he drew himself up
with conscious dignity. What" said
he, disguise it? What are you thinking
about? Ny wife did that. | happened
to say the mullins were cold, and she
quietly remarked, Put your hands up
Then she countered with her right and
landed me with her left. Twas the
prettiest thing you ever saw. Wouldn't
cover it up for the best tip on the
market"
Then he went and had it photo
graphed.