The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1892-08-12
July Ii, 1s9O.2ys.


New York Tribune
The physical training of women has
received a very great impetus Of late
years, and we may see the result in
their notably increased statue and
beauty. That women are much taller
and better developed than they used
to be is an uncomfortable fact, and
this is undoubtedly owing to the
greater amount of exercise and open.
air life that Is now the fashion for the
fin de-siecle maiden. A girl of the
period belongs TO her gymnasium,
which is fitted up with all the luxury
of appointments in the way of baths,
dressing rooms, ETC., that are to be
found in the athletic club TO which
her brother belongs. She has her
fencing lessons. her Delsartean con
tortions, her ballet dancing lessons
and other fads of the day, which are
all, nevertheless, decided aids to the
development of her physique. More
over she spends q good part of her
time ont of doors, as a matter of course;
and all this, despite her late hours and
the excitement of fashionable life, has
produced its effect. 1t is constantly
remarked as each new bevy Of debu
tantes are introduced in their world
allow tall and large the girls are now
adaysw And if it is true, as ply
sicians assure us, that healthy, physi
cal development and the cOnsequen
making of good blood assists menla
development, what may We not hop,
for in the future in the way of rae,
Development Unfortunately, how
ever, while this physical training ant
open-air life has become fashionabI
among the few, the great majority q
American women are stiIl indoo
creatures, their only exercise for wee
in aud week out beng the daily rot
tine of household tasks in the pent Il
air of kitchen and bedroom.
While many find time for a create
or less degree of intellectual cnlturo
they almost invariably neglect the
physical training, the result beng tina
as a rule, the American woman (repro
senled by the majority is still a del
cate, fragile creature, becoming pr
maturely aged and broken dow
almost without an effort, unable t
bear the strain on nerves aud brai
that it is the lot of most women
endure. Men should look to tins; II
remedy lies in their hands more eve
than in those of the women. Let Il
farmers realize that the majority ,
the inmates of the insane asyIums al
women from the farms; let them 81
to it that their wives and daughte
have more time for outdoor life al
recreation, and know that it is bett
, to pay the wages of a "hired cir
than long doctors bill, or TO have
!, broken down invalid for a wife.
these days of cheap, good, ready mat
n clothing, let the women give up the
dressmaking and eternal stItcher
: and learn to feel the physical pleasu
and exhilaratlon of exercise in Il
y delicious air which the "citY folk
60 so far 10 enjoy, and which to the
is almost an unknown quantity. "Y'
!. Workers seem mighty fond of Il
q beach," said an old woman who liv,
. barely a quarter of mile from i
A ocean to one of her summer boaFdel
p 81 don't keer much for it myself;
"a fact, ] hain't seen it for forty years;
n, gpess, nptsihce / was a grrl when
= went down to see big whale broug
= m. Father was one of the life.saViI
+ men, and be promised me a new DIRE
if they caught it, and naturally l f,
interested"