Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-15
TRIPS FOR THE GIRLS.
A NOVEL VACATION PARTY LEAVES
NEW YORK ON FOOT.


Girls of the Art Students League Who
Go jogging Over the HiIls-A College
of Physical Training for Young La
dies.
A novel vacation party left the city the
other morning. It comprised a half dozen
members, an artist whose name IS not IN
known with his wife heading the group, and
accompanied by quartette of girls in their
early twenties, two Of them being pupils of
the Art Students League. The six are en-
route for the CatskiIls. They purpose 70 be
anywhere from a week to a month on the
road. In q word, they are going to walk
/ A tramp trip through some or the most
beautiful-though it may not arrogate to it
/ self the title grandest-scenery IN the east Is
what the party, largely feminine, has in
mind, walking in the cool OF the morning and
| in the late afternoon, sleeping in farm houses
or in an occasional barn if the hay mows hap
pen to be piled soft and high, and the watch
| dog be not too attentive. Baggage has been
! limited to small, light weight canvas bag
! swung by leather straps over the shoulders Of
each, and the object of the jaunt is the enjoy
! hemianism The women of the party, "the
| gallant FIVE as the hons stayers dub them,
have adopted as accouterments for the tramp
skirts Of brown serge, undraped, as light as
possible and short, Just reaching to the tops
of high walking boots made for the occasion;
blouse waists with scarlet sashes for pictur-
esque effect, brown sailor hats with scarlet
ribbons, oil of pennyroyal for musqufto bites,
Ill ~ iac
through Alpenstocks are dispensed with
and parasols left at home, the old time heat
remedy of a handful Of broad wet leaves in
the Rat being relied on fer duty in time Of
need.
| Such a trip afoot IS not q usual vacation
outing for q woman, but if the project now
in contemplation for a college of physical
! training for girls in New York goes through
it may in the future be as much a matter Of
course as it has been in the past out of the
course. The proposed school, the plan Of
which exists in the minds of some of the best
known promoters Of physical training In the
country, viii be, if opened, unique in design
and scope. 4 desirable up town west side
corner has been spotted, SO to speak, money
is expected from one or two Of New Yorks
rich women who have the prospects of girls
D
building were commenced within a brief
period. Though nothing IS definitely con-
Guided, the outlool, Is favorable.
So far as any plans have been precisely for
INFLATED, the design OF the new school will be
to dispel the popular notion that the i'll health
of woman is natural-that they are the vic
TINS of functions whose exercise necessarily
constitutes sort of invaIidism. The girls
! will no rad Clir1rr tn no
Lewis old theory that the microscopic misses
who swarm about our schools and chatter in
our streets are the curosities of ''high civil
ration" and that women who give free play
10 their lungs and stomachs ought to grow
nearly as large as men.
All pupils in this school of the future,
which may be school Of the present within
II year, VIII be subjected to a daily regimen
with carefully apportioned exercise, with a
view of determining the possibility of i'm
proving their bodies as the bodies OF young
men are improved in the German gymnasia.
A full curriculum of studies, probably Of the
academic or college preparatory grade, viii
be, it is thought. adopted covering four
years time. Some restrictions as TO dress it
is proposed to adopt, not amounting to uni
form, but making short, loose, lght attire,
and hygienic shoes compulsory, leaving the
girls all day long as much at liberty as boys
in their gymnasium dress. Pupils will be
measured on entering, and an average gain
of two and half inches about the chest, five
inches about the waist, one and half inches
about the arm and an inch about the forearm
IS what is looked forward 20 as the desirable
result of the first years bodily training and
ovarrjSa IF tina tyD;cal Slim GIRL of
That such a school would succeed Dio
Lewis experiments at Lexington years ago
demonstrated. Whether the plan, as at pres
ent entertained, becomes anything more than
plan or not, there is 10 reason why the
average woman should not add ten fold TO her
enjoyment of life and out of door living by
eultivating the noble art of walking. deli
cate woman, properly dressed, and who
knows how to walk, can walk twenty-five
miles of a summer afternoon without injury
when an equivalent amount of other exercise
might produce serious injury. Walking is
the natural and normal exercise and hurts no
woman who sets rightly about it. a woman
who is unaccustomed to vigorous walking, in
order to become a good pedestrian, should
look first to her shoes These should be broad
across the forward part OF the foot, offering
not the least obstruction to the free move
ment of the toes. The heels should be low
and broad, and they should lit rather snugly
about the heel and instep- The full dress
equipment should weigh upon honest scales
not more than two and half or three pounds.
and should hang from the shoulder without
any band, pinned or buttoned or laced about
the waist No woman can walk in a corset
The walker must be comfortable enough TO
be unconscious Of her attire. = hat that
shades the eyes is IN order
So prepared, try any distance that does not
prove fatiguing as az initial experiment 1t
viii probably De from mile and half TO
two miles, and must be walked at q brisk
pace, three miles and hall sn hour being
good limit. Whsn this can be dpus without
ache or foot WEAKNESS, and a well woman
ought TO have no difficulty ct the first trial,
increase the distance during tine leisure DAYS
Of the summer vacation daily, maintaining
the same gait, and fifteen miles a day for a
week or fortnight in succession, twenty-five
miles on any occasion that demands it, VIII
be found within any ordinary capacity with
a u.onth or SIX weeks training. Eliza Put
nam Hea1on in New York Mail and Express
Progress in Dress.
With all the faults that woman's dress has
now, its gain il twsuty, IN ten years. has been
II j. fer