Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-06-19
our-DooR SPORTS ron eIRLs.
Pedestrianisnn. Tennis, H0Vyin.
ttntD,tuton and QuOtts.


me for walk, which hereafter you will
try to make part OF your daily routine.
Our time must be chosen before 8 In the
morning or after 8. This latter hour will
DO pleasRnter when the afternoon
shadows lay cool across our path. Shoes
should be generously large, and with
broad, low heels. The clothing not too
heavy, and the corset not to- binding,
Our iirst walk will be mile in length, II
You are strong enough for ID, and on
country roads. We will put care behind
us, aud il We must tRlk-for you know
we ore girls, and often merry chatter
boyes-think and talk only OF the fislds
aud woods around. Plant the fest firmly,
each time they come down, on the ball of
the foot. Lst the arms Hwirg free; throw
the shoulders back, the cheat forward
and the head high. Keep the mouth
closed, when not talking, and breathe
through the nose. Run several yards
with me In n race to that stone wall, not
in those short, irregular steps, but liz q
steady, pacing fashion. Now put your
left hand on my right shoulder, while
my right hand rests on your left. For
short distance we will run slowly, feep-
ing stop; being careful to have the mouth
Bhut and the cbest thrown out
Walk u mile every morning or evening
for week. Vary the location OF the
walk and catch new sights and sounds.
There are sermons CIV n in stones. In.
crease the length week by week, until
you can cover Six miles day, or even
more, aud note ths result. Your eyes are
brighter, your cheeks sre filling i'll the
hollows aud losing their pallor. The
blood ia flowing faster and clearer; you
are Increasing the breadth Of your chest,
az we'll as strengthening your lungs, and,
best OF all, You are hungry.
| A party OF 10 girlg made walking
| tour OF the White Mountains region last
summer, and this year go through north
ern New York. A school teacher, who
believes in seeing the world OF tramp
trips, has walked aud Bketched Switzsr-
land, southern France and Scotlond, and
| ia how preparing 10 spend q two months
vacation in walking through Norway and
Sweden. The Ladies' Athletic Club of
New York City has lonR-distanoe walk
laid out for each day untii July. For all
who can take it, there Is no better con-
stitutional exercise; but it must be kept
up daily and followed By a tepid sponge
or shower bath on the return. This
| habit once established, nap or long
| nights rest as part Of the plan, any OBJ
servant girl will soon have proved that
her daily walk is worth everything to her.
Sports for girls in the open air are no!
30 limited in number as the mention OF
the subject would seem 10 suggest. There
is no reason why the athletic games en-.
joyod in summer by young men
could not-with bat one exception
foot.ball-he made part OF the
play time of our young women and
girls, and the beneficial results, that at
tend oil muscular exercise, be thus OBJ
tanned by them also. Fortunate the last
who owns bicycle or tricycle.. Every
girl, who must ride to her school or plaoS
OF business, should have wheel of hei
own. Be content with q secondhand
machine, II you can get no other; apply
for admission to the wheelman's league
In your CITY or town.
Tennis is sn excellent out of-door spor
for girls. Use it as source OF exercise
and not because il is fashionable fad
Necessarily you need not be an expert
or refuse TO play without $40 rRcque
and net and blazered Young man. Play
tennis for the pleasure in winning and
for the good in the use Of those parts o.
the body which tue game calls into action
Ii you are near q pond or river, Of
ooean's edge, learn TO row. Conquer thu
timidity that young women and girls fee
the moment they set foot in o row-boat
A young mau OF the right sort ha u ~
patience with the want Of confidence
women have in themselves and in his car
for them. Bear in inind, courage is
! quality not to be despised, and can b
worn becominsly by my girl. 1t will
come 20 you and parohance has, as i
doe8 to all women in some tine OF grea
emergency, aud yet you ats here afrait
OF thnt which IN Ida Lewis has mastered
when at its worst, aud which, if ono
understood, would give you pleasure AM
greater bodily strength. Some good oars
! man will show you how to sit in boa
and how to row with one oar and thei
with Two. He will teach you the stroke
and other matters necessary to be az
quirea. Enjoy your rowing as you Woul,
, your bath or your breakfast, because
,, is good for the body and helps, rs doe
, all physical exercise, to prolong life
, Swimming, girls take to even better thai
J boys, and or much more graceful; an
every girl should, il possible, understand
this most useful of pAstimeH.
Badminton ia but another and NOR
. arislocratic name for bsttledors and shut
tlecock. 1t il an English game who
! forces oil the muscles u the legs an
. arms into action, anu puts the player
into glow OF pleasurabie excitement. |
played correctly it is like tennis, wit
couEts and net but il Dan be used adyau
2 tGEoously without. A game OF ball is nc
u to be daspised, although rs girls stan
. now, they cannot throw q bali as does
man. Baseball might be tried an
would doubtless be the cause OF muc
mersiment; laugh away all you can-t
!, Your own mistakes. Take things good
humorehl2, and do not tiIid fanlt or crit
Csc errors. liemsmbor, 'tis the play. Ia
inn and physical growth you are after. /
those out-of-duor Sports in June; Ii
u effort to ward utf the fact that Jill, {
!, we'll as Jack, becomes dull boy by a
( work aud no play. One advantage youp
. men yet from boxing and fencing il Ii
power TO control tbs temper, the gbilit
4 70 ha courteous TO the agsailaut, wheth,
l. winner or loser. Hold this before Won
/ these field sports, and you have col
Il qnered that which is migt tier than eail
& ing g city.
Fifteen minutes' quick exercise eac
,1si dry in the open air, using the left arm
n we'll ~ right, will gr atty strengthen an
!, develop the muscles. Another ont doc
= sport inst could be aiyantaReously usa
4 by girls, IS quoits. On board ship.
relieve the moaotony of long sea. yo,
of s8e, ladies play quoits continually au
y generally are the winners. II tho
N made Of iron are too heavy, email RraC
=, hoops can be subllicuted. Whensvey
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