Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-05-12
Young Ladies Who Want to Develop Their
Muscles, and Selfish Men Who
REFUSE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY.
A Society Girl Drops Into VerSe-AbOut a
New Style Of Waiting.
SOCIAL EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK.

And see her hat, rose-wreathed, wide orimmed
Her Hading veil. her brick-red gloves!
Her jacket exquisitely trimmed!
Her tan-hued gaitersl-aren't they loves.
Her parasol appears to be
In prism-filtered sunshine dyed,
And oh, its handel goodness me!
Quite five feet long and thick beside.
Oh, see her, tripping down the street
Three daffodils beneath her chin;
Her face is rapturously sweet
She's not too stout, she's not TOO thin
Am her lover? No, I'm not,
I dare not AmaYllis choose;
Alas the man who casts his lot
With her will get more bills than COOS.
I'm poor Ny income, I'm afraid
Would be too small for her, by far;
I think Ill wed a Yankee maid,
And not one Ia drectoire.
1t will be remembered that when the
young gentlemen first organized the gym
nssium. there was talk of giving their
young lady friends about two mornings q
week in order that they might develop
their muscles and keep them in healthy
trim along with their brothers and sweet
hearts. and for the benefit of the ladies l
did not let the matter slip from the minds
of the gentlemen who composed the
Wheeling Athletic Society. But numer-
Gus changes in the membership occurred
and things for awhile were unsettled.
Lately the suggestion has again been made
and champion of the young ladies pre-
sented their cause, but it was received
coldly by at least some of the members OF
the Board of Directors.
Now there are number Of young ladies
in Wheeling who are very anxious to pay
some attention to their muscular develop
ment if they had the opportunity, and only
day or so ago one of the prettiest and
most charming girls in the city said to me
that she considered i, real mean that there
were any members in the Athletic Society
so selfish that they begrudged their lady
friends the gymnasium two mornings IN
week. She said quite a number of the
girls are very anxious to secure the
healthful exercise, but there is no other
way, as they cannot afford to organize
gymnasium of their own. But they have
lots of friends in the Athletic Society who
are gallant and will fight the question for
them. Come now, BOYS, give the girls
chance.
The Whist Club, was organized early in
the season of 1888 'S9, has now been trans
formed into the Outing Club, and all sorts
of outdoor amusements will be on the pro-
gramme for the summer months. The
Club will resume it's regular semi-monthly
meetings, and the first one under the new
name occurred last Saturday evening when
the very coDgenial membership went out
to the park and spent the evening at
bowling. Tennis, crcquet, moonlight excur-
sions up or down the river, bowling and
all sorts of outdoor amusements will re-
ceive attention before the summer is over.
These are the days when pretty girls look
prettier in dresses of lawn and other soft
materials, and no doubt THE fact has much
to do with the young mans fancy turning
to thoughts of love, because if there s any
thing under the sun that is beautiful, and
that will inspire the tender passion quicker
than nything else, it is pretty girl in
becoming summer costume.
The bowling alleys at the park have be-
come very popular, and almost every ev:n-
ing the past week party of society folks
has spent several hours there at the invig
Grating amusement. Bowling will un-
doubtedly be more INDUCED in than it was
last year.
There are hints Of revolution in dane
ing on the other side OF the water, and
very unromantic style of dancing is threat
ened. We have seen the style over here,
but it never caught on to any extent, and
doubtless never will. Instead of the
young man placing his right arm about
his partners waist and clasping her right
hand with his left, while her left arm
rests on his coat sleeve, as the style is now,
the two Just merely seize each Others
hands and standing widely apart, 90
through the dance in q very uncomfortable
and not sll graceful fashion.
This reminds me of party of four
young ladies who once determined they
would refrain from wsltzing for certain
ime, although they refused TO make
known the cause of such action. That
winter the number of hops was unusual,
and the girls were so constantly thrown
into temptation that they concluded to
dance by merely holding hands. OF course
the young gentlemen tried their best to
make them break their resolve, but they
would not Then one night at reception
young man appeared on the scene who
waltzed with all the girls in the usual
way. The yourg men who had been re-
fused this privilege were wild, and expla-
nations were demanded on all sides. The
girls told them that the young man was
their cousin As the girls were very pop
ular they had more than few spplica-
tions for positions as cousins in very
short time, and the matter at last ended in
their cutting short the limit of their re-
solve.
Two prominent young gentlemen will
wed when the June roses are blooming.
One of the weddings will occur in another
city, the home of the bride, and the other
will probably be a quiet church wedding
in Wheeling.
The growth OF luxurious and even ex-
travsgant ideas in dress is particularly to
be noticed nowadays in gloves and stock
iugs. Both of these articles are of superior
manufacture, and of the finest fabrics of
their kind. Both are required to match
toilets, and the decree OF fashion goes so
far as to dictate that the corsets shall
correspond also. The most expensive silk