The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-13
THEY ARE roo PLUMP.

prum the Chicago Times.
With h~eginning OF September women
arc Fastening hack tn the g-ynsnastuns Tn
take up their 'athletic work" In fact
ehis athletic work" now absorha Ina large
measure the attention once given to KEN
sington embroidery and other iRh ART
gymnasium In attempted. not merely i'm
obedience tn the newly recognized need of
physical culture and ~ u means of az
QuirinG the accomplishments Of grace in
movement and posture. but a. q curative
for the various Ills Of womanhood.
Women. young, middle-aged and old,
fair, plain and honlely, disport themselves
upon he horizontal bars, swing from the
row trscE in the center Of the aymn.simIn
hall, and box tn attain os many different
''T.6 s' v sesf saxs par Tomcn pro,;c.. b.r
exercises tn strengthen her spinal column
and the narrOw-chested sister swings the
her girth. The young girl comforts over
the bars that she may become the realism
ton OF sin,,o,s grace, and the growing.
divers and sundry, which the professor i'm
bones. But II. fat w%on, na%"I 1t Il she
who practices the most diligently at all
the bevy Of a~mbitious-to-h%, feninine attn
letes.
There IL not n lime Of exercise she
neRlects. She pays the professor extra
daily to guide her through the intricacies
as severe as possible. After the exercises
for the day are finished she dons three
and runs her half-nile around the ring
without stopping. The slender pupils
laugh at her ina n most unfeeiing manner
as h waddles around the track. Heed
them? Not she. She pants and pGffs and
stops tn prespirc i'm Renteel fashion, the
vulQer way, Just as Il does from the ''hired
man" i'm the harvest field.
Ridicule does not stop here. She does
pa<Nf rN.aA xurx. al E~~f Al hn~ fnAL 10
accomplished. Then she goes ont to the
hath rooms, is coolcd OFT by "a shower and
vigorously rubbed down.
Why does she take exercise so much
more violent than the. other tuden of
athletics? And why does she put ON the
thick. WOODEN lights and run and pant and
To reduce her flesh.
This is the latest and most approved
method of getting thin.
1T won't do you the least bit OF good,
thought declared a pretty Drcxei bouls-
most as brightly AS the big diamonds that
scintilatcd in her ears, sunless You follow
= siris, dietary. why; j laid on thirty
where last winter i'm six weeks"
did ydu starve il OFF," asked the
"Starve? No, indeed. 1 just dicteh.
I had all l wanted tai eat. but not every
thing wanted. l ate three times a day as
wanted, too-between. meals. 1 had "a
glass of wine at hedtimc,. hut, oh, dear
dav long. En-, 1 S"" know WITH Il yo" ea; an ap.
pie or pear or something you don't feel
what food did you talk at mcals""
Mornings just "A cup of tssl OF coffee.
with cream but 40 sugar, one slice of
bread or toast without butter, and fruit.
AT noon l had soup, one kind of lean meat
no pork-One slice of bread. one or two
kinds of light vegetables-no potatoes;
enc,ny Of the fat. 1 had fruit and "a cup
of tea or coffee as desert. AT supper ute
two eggs. IA slice. of bread or toast, fruit,
hut I just ate fruit In iivelonx day,
though. I read all the books ON training
DOWN, too. and what Mr.. sullivan docs
found out he did. / think il would be "a
splendid thing il MIR. Sullivan would 20
around and deliver lectures on his system
..But, as I said, / made myself Rs pounds
lighter last winter, and I'm going to get
SHOW flies, ond he. comfortable i'm il. too
you ge! your lost III pounds back
.sOh, yes. Yo,, ss.c I went down to the
scashore and run around 20 cian-baks's
and that sort OF thing: 1 kind of forge,
The first thing knew l was eating butter
and sweets and roasted new potatoes ant
thought 1 might as well enjoy myself al
I could and take the winter for working
off my sups.rtiuoais avoirdupois So I've
gone to work again and I'm determined 4
time"
ma just now" declared u teacher q
athletic exercises. "A year ago IL wa
fencing. l think il the best exercise. fo
those who desire to grow thin. Tn
sincwy and slender females make tn
most expert boxers, however. 1 dom
rns.,,I, by hat thin and scrawny ones. bu
those who have muscles above the aver
age and little fat. Plump women tr
very quickly. The plump woman nsve
has much strength ar endurance. A gil
who weighs 40 pounds in "a state of ord
nary muscular development can alway
get away with the 1T5 or 1S poltli
woman.
''In England there are N good man
professional women boxers. but there, ar
no native American women who hav
adopted boxing a. IL means of livelilloos
II never advise any women but those i
perfect health to try boxing. Ii is ns
good exercise for delicate women. Wher
any heart or lung trouble exists il is e,
ceedingly objectionable. For health
women whose habits arr. setcntry and VIII
are much indoors il is am invaluabl
practice"
Cyc,er~ and Dogs.
In Hartford the latest dcviss. used l
wheelmen to clear their paths of dogs am