Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-01-24
TRIPS FOR THE GIRLS.
A NOVEL VACATION PARTY LEAVES
NEW YORK ON FOOT.

NEW YORK ON FOOT.
Hirs OF the Art students League who
20 jogging Over tie Hnn-A College
OF Physical Training for Young La
dies,
a novel vacation party left the city the
oeher morning, 1t comprised a half dozen
members, an artist whose name IL not nm
known with his wife heading tho group, and
accompanied by qaagtette Of girls In their
carry twenties, two of them being pupils of
the Art Students League. The SIX are en-
route Tor the Catslinls They purpose to be
anywhere from week to a month ON tho
road. In word, they are going to walk.
tramp trip through SOHO of the most
peautifui--though it may not arrogato to it.
ser the title grandest-scenery in the east IA
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 IL the hay movs han.
pen to be piled soft and high, and the watch.
dog be not too attentive. Baggage has been
limited to small. light wei hit canvas bar
swung by leather straps over the shoulders Of
each, and the object of the jaunt is the eniov.
inept pure and simple of lapse into 30.
hemianism. The women of the party. athe
gallant five,' as the home stayers dub them,
have adopted as accouterments for the trarnp
sRlfts OF brown SERGE und raped, as light az
possible and short, just reaching to the tops
OF nigh walking boots made for the occasion:
blouse waists with scarlet sashes for pictur-
esque effect, brown sailor hats with scarlet
fiDbons, oil OF pennyroyal for mosquito bites,
and plenty of pluck TO last them the Journey
through. Alpenstocks are dispensed with
and parasols left at home, the old time heat
remedy Of a handful of broad, wet leaves In
the lat being relied on for duty in time of
| need
| Such trip afoot is not usual vacation
outing for woman, but IL the project now
| III contemplation for college Of physical
training for girls in New York goes through
1t may in the future be as much matter of
course as it has been in the past out OF tho
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, will be, il opened, unique in design
and scope. desirable up town west side
corner has been Spotted so to speak, money
| Is expected from one or two of New York's
| r1ch women who have the prospects of girls
at heart, and 1t would not be surprising if
building were commenced within a brief
period. Though nothing is definitely con.
cuded. the outlook is favorable
SO far as any plans have been precisely for.
mulated, 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 invalidism The girls
entering will be treated according to Die
Lewis old theory that the microscopic misses
who swarm about our schools and chatter il
our streets are the curiosities of "high civil
cation" and that women who give free play
to their lungs and stomachs ought to grow
nearly as large men.
All pupils in this school of the future
which may be school of the present within
year, VIII be subjected to a daily regimen
with carefully apportioned exercise, with {
view OF determining the possibility of i'm
proving their bodies as the bodies of younf
men are improved in the German gymuasia
Afull curriculum of studies, probably of thu
academic or college preparatory grade, will
be, it is thought, adopted covering fou
years time. Some restrictions as to dress i
is proposed to adopt, not amounting to uni
, form, but making short, loose, light attire
l with no pressure whatever about the waist
and hygiene shoes compulsory, leaving tn
girls all day long as much at liberty as boy
in their gymnasium dress. Pupils will b
measured on entering, and an average gai
Of two and half inches about the chest, fiv
inches about the waist, one and half niche
about the arm and an inch about the forearm
: is what is looked forward to as the desirabl
result of the first years bodily training all
exercise of the typical slim girl of II.
That such a school would succeed Di
; Lewis experiments at Lexington years az
demonstrated. Whether the plan, as at pref
emit entertained, becomes anything more tina
a plan or not there is no reason why th
average woman should not add ten fold to be
/. enjoyment of life and out of door living b
: cultivating the noble art OF walking. A del
: cate woman, properly dressed, and VIII
knows how to walk, can walk twenty-fv
miles OF summer afternoon without injur
when an equivalent amount Of other exercis
might produce serious injury, Walking
I the natural and normal exercise and hurts II
> woman who sets rightly about it. A woma
= who is unaccustonled to vigorous walking, /
4 order to become Il good pedestrian, shoul
q look first to her shoes These should he broa
q not the least obstruction to the free NOV
= ment of the toes. The heels should be To-
:, and broad, and they should fit rather snugl
4 about the heel and instsp. The full DIRE
r equipment should weigh upon honest seal
G not more than two and a half or three pound
t and should hang from the shoulder withol
t any band, pinned or buttoned or laced abol
d the waist No woman can walk in corse
t The walker must be comfortable enough
n I've unconscious of her attire. a hat til;
$ shades the eyes is in order.
: So prepared, try any diSta lce that does NJ
! prove fatigulng as an initial experiment.
I will probably De from mile and half
h two miles, and must be walked at bril-
d pace, three miles and half an hour being
e good limit When this can be done wlthol
e ache or foot WEAKNESS, and well woms
is ought to have no difficulty at the first iris
|, increase the distance during the leisure da
= of the summer vacation daily, maintainir
II the same gait, and fifteen miles a day for
; week or fortnight in succession twenty-fi
y miles on any occasion that demands it, W
be found within any ordinary capacity wi
month or SIX weeks training Eliza PIT
nam Heaton in New York Mail and Expire:
Progress in Dress.