The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-27

the lack Of currents in their minds and
bodies, the impetus that a good circulation
and fine lusty physical life would give
their mental being toward health and hap
piness.
DR.. Dudley Allen Sargent. director Of the
Hemenway gymnasium at Harvard, and the
leading authority in America on athletic
matters and the study and practice of ply
steal culture and development, tells me
that two-thirds of his summer school at
Harvard, as we'll as his normal classes, are
women. He says they are quick, bright,
intelligent in learning and most capable
and successful instructors; and he insists
that women are the coming teachers of
physical culture.
DR.. Sargent also nas the supervision of
the gymnasium for the Harvard annex, the
teacher in charge being Miss Jennie
Blanche Wilson, a graduate Of DR.. Sar-
gents normal classes. The normal classes
are held in this gymnasium and from them
have been sent out graduates to teach ply
steal culture according to DIR. Sargent's
methods, in colleges and schools all over
the country. OF these some of the most
distinguished and successful are:
Miss Elizabeth McMartin, in charge of
the Charlesbank free gymnasium for womsn
and children. Boston.
Miss Harriet Isabel BalIintine, director
Of tho fine Alumne gymnasium at Vsssar.
Alice b. Foster, M. D., director of gymna-
SUM Woman's Educational and industrial
union, Buffalo. N. X.
Miss Juliette Maxwell, teacher of physi-
cal training. Coates college, Ierre Haute,
Ind.
Miss Ellen L. Lowell, Leland Stanford
university, Palo Alto, Cal.
Miss d. M. Elliott and Miss Mary G.
Potter, Berkeley Lyceum, New York City.
Miss Margaret E. Clark is building a
gymnasium OF her own in Cambridge.
Miss Ballintine made rather a speciality
Of swimming, and there is a fms big swim
ming tank in the Vassar gymnasium, where
she now teaches.
This is the one athletic sport in which a
woman may easily excel a man, her smaller
bono and greater amount of adipose tissue
giving her more buoyancy in the water. and
the muscular effort required being more
continuous than severe. And there GER
tainly could be no two opinions as to its be-
ing a most useful and desirable accomplish
ment to the modern woman, who is quite
as likely to 60 near the WATER as her
brothers.
The Charlesbank gymnasium is q free
opel air gymnasium on the bank of the
Cuhrlea. with one department. for men and
ono for women and children; the latter, in
charge OF Miss McMartin, being the first
institution of the sort in the world. This
is going at the matter in the right quarter,
providing healthful eqercise and means of
physical development for those who most
need it, and stand the least chance of get
ting it-that feminine portion Of the city
which files slowly out of the great sweating
boxes between the hours Of sunget and sun
rise. Tbs gymnasium belongs to the city,
is absolutely free to all, and is open daily
from p1Dht n m ."tfll h0tf ou hnuu 49,.
sudset. Any working girl or woman seek
ing pleasant exercise and physical devel-
opment may secure all the privileges of
the place, apparatus md instruction by
simply presenting her name. The gymna-
SUM is fitted up in the most improved
manner, and in accordance with the most
modern methods under DR.. sargent's super