Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-02-25

steal drill is interesting to watch, cs-
peciaIlv as it closes with Il hopping
exercise done to the cheerful strains OF
il Scottish reel. The girls are all
dressed alike in tuncs and knicker-
lockers of dark shade of Indian red
a costume which is far prettier than
the ordinary gymnasium dress, which
is apt TO look like Il bathinggOwn eat
short. The spectators are restricted
to relatives and occasionally an IL
vlted person, the intention being to re-
lIeve the fair youngsters of all con-
straiut and dlllidencc. \ few minutes
interval, and the more serious part of the
performance commences with moulded
exercises on the horizontal and parallel
bars. apeZe, and flying swings. Here
some of the girls are expert, as well as
graceful, and something like muscular
development can lie felt in their
smo tn young arms. Rope is never
under any circumstances omitted
from the programme. Rope-climb ng
is the most useful thing which is learnt
III Il gymnasium, so the directress
thinks. and the one which might be n
means OF saving lifr in case of fire.
Several of the swell girls show prof
cheney in this accomplishment, climb ng
with great rap dity, and swinging them
selves over to the five ropes which hang
in line from the roof, and coming
down the last one hand overland with
the o,uietness which is correct in this
pant of the performance. The train
eau, which is Swedish machine some
what like il toboggan with running
seat, is adopted tor pupils with curved
spines, and there is also II ladder on
which n pupil with any tendency to
crookedness is ,tructcd to pull up
wards, only using the shoulder which
is the lowest. The phase, physician,
heal thyself," could never be applied
to the instructrcss of this gymnasium,
who is grace personiiied. Ii the pupils
grow up as shapely, 1.-THE and comeIy
as she, Our best society" ten years
hence will have bellies physically finer
than the present average.
Now, if the morals of every pupil
could be surely made as strong and
symmetrical! In the main they will
be so: but here Is an absolutely accu-
rate narrative of high society A
woman who had been for many years
Ill inc lilcc VA ~ SbOIt, nus
ly saw well-known rich woman several
times fill hing from her stock when
her attention was called away. At
length she went to the proprietor, and
he protested she must be mistaken.
She insisted, and begged the shop
keeper to let her expose to him, in
quiet way, the sort of thing practiced
by the kleptomaniac. He consented.
Tie next time the customer appeared
mt the lace counter word was conveyed
to him, and he lowered about. Miss
Attendant took down box after box,
and when her back was turned in
search of another class of lace, the
proprietor saw some suspicious move
ments on the part of good Mrs. Custo
mer. He approached the counter.
e. nick as wink the CLERK picked up my
lady's mulf and passed it over Madam's
| head, .as she sat on one of the stools,
into the hands of the astonished man.
Snugly tucked into it were two Valen-
| ciennes haudkerchiefs worth so
| ape ce. Mrs. Customer was invited
nto private room. There she vehe-
| mently asserted it was matchmaking
plot, which she would denounce in Al
| public and legal manner She cried
loudly that her husband. should be sent