The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-04
]. c. A. G. ANNEX.
Ladies Who Enjoy the Prac-
tica1 Advantages Of
fered in the Well
Equipped Gym
naSium.
WEDDINGS PAsTAND ToCoME
Surprise Parties on the Heights
A New Euchre Club-The
Musical Situation.
WEDDINGS PAsTAND TOCoME

Pray, Mademoiselle, can you run for a
street car without losing your breath on
the way? And after you have caught up
stepping on the front breadth of your
skirt? Can you climb three flights OF
stairs and not pause to recuperate ON the
landings? Can you defy criticism as to
the attitude Of your respective shoulders,
or must you submit to your dressmaker's
explanation that your gown would have
fitted better If one side of you wasn't
higher than the other? If you can do all
these things you are an exceptional
young woman, and you ought to be very
glad that you are alive. If you cannot,
why, then you ought to go to a physical
culture class and, like NJ. or N. in the
catechism, find out first. how great
your sins and miseries are; second, how
you may be delivered from all your sins
ana miseries."
Such q class is to be found in the Jersey
City Athletic Clubhouse on Clinton ave-
nue. every Tuesday afternoon. Miss
Katherine A. Speir of Madison avenue
has done many, many good works for
feminine humanity, but never a greater
than that of institutiug this class. Miss
Josephine B~eiderhase, formerly Of Jersey
City, now residing in New York, Is the
instructor. Miss Beiderhase is u grad
uate of Dr. Anderson's school in Brook
Ign. and since last years class closed, has
completed her course at Cambridge under
DR.. Sargent, the famous Harvard expert.
At a little past three o'clock the early
birds of the class begin to arrive. A
stream of young women in full street
toilets passes into the dressing-rooms
rrnfft fhar GaolIr Or4rAA vrv intO . - 1890,
nasium. But a change has come over the
spirit of their clothes. Instead of trim
bodice and sealskln jacket, a loose blouse.
frightened by a gay tie; instead Of a
train, a divided skirt OF blue or black,
reaching to tne knes, and instead of the
Louis Quatorze heel TO wnicn even en-
lighteDed girls seem to cling, a pair of
soft. hat-soled gymnasium shoes.
NINETY NUT FOR MUSCLE BUILDING.
AT half past three the days WORK COM
mences. The beginners class gets into
work then. If you have watched an ex-
pert swing clubs, and send u beautiful in
laid pair wildly whirling around his
head; If. seeing this. you conclude that
it is just as easy as anything, and you
know you could do it yourself right off, do,
by all means, take a club with this class.
By all means stand away from anybody
who objects to being Drained, since III
your anxiety to hold the clubs loosely,
you will probably send one after the
other flying across the room. In some
thing less than five minutes you will
q gree that the easy part of club swinging
comes when you know how; aud in less
time than that, even, you will thank your
lucky stars that you modestly took FOUR
stand in the back row.
WHO THEY ARE.
At four O'Clock the advanced pupils
join the class. and the work is continued
until twenty minutes of five, when begin
ners drop out. The remainder of the
session is devoted to advanced work,
while the beginners may remain in the
background, if they SO choose. AT five
O'Clock the order Break ranks" is given
and the session is over.
There are some forty members of the
class all in regular aud constant attend
ance. Although the total enrolment is
somewhat less than last year., the average
attendance is full as large. Once upon a
time someone made a rule that 10 visi-
tors should be allowed, but that was so
long ago that everyone has forgotten it,
especially as 1t was never enforced. No
wonder people like to see the class per-
forming its graceful exercises-it is as
pretty asiRht as anyone would wish to
see. The suits are all either dark blue or
black, Miss Beiderhase'5 having chevron
trimming OF broad white braid. Ali the
exercises are conducted to music, which
is furnished by Miss Lulu Wedin, a
young pianist of local renown.
When the class passed around