The Washington times., 1895-03-23
HYMPHSIH THE INSTITUTE
Carro|rs Physical Culture Glass
Gave Its Annual Show.
MEN NOT ALLOWED TO PEEP IN
Meteoric Shower of shapelY Legs When the
Basketball Game Began--They Can Climb
Ladders, Throw Ball, and straddle
Horse-Cascades of Mirth Burst from
Pretty Lips-some Athletic Amazons.

Diana and tier nymphs were mighty
huntswomen, but were they living to-day
and roaming the woodlands wild they
would have to confess they could not be
.'in il" with the troop of up-to- date, fin de
steele young women who yesterday dis
proved at Carroll Institute the truth OF
the adages that a woman can't cilrnb
ladder, throw a ball, or straddle horse.
The announcement that there would be
no men admitted TO tie young ladies'
physical culture exercises of the AFTER
noon, between $50 and O'Clock undouDt-
odIy served to draw much larger crowd
than would have been the case had no such
announcement been made. The audience
was grouped about the sides of the nneiy
equipped gymnasium, and fliied the gar
lcries overhead This audience was com
posed of women of all ages, sizes and con-
ditions, with plentiful sprlnkiing OF
children, the latter eyincing their enjoy
ment of the occasion by ecstatic little
shrieks from time to time, as some of the
girls Of the physical culture class went
through some especially picturesque look
ing evolutions.
The idea having gotten abroad that the
girls were to go through the exercises
OF the afternoon in tights. there was
wild anxiety on the part of the masculine
portion of society to be admitted at any
| cost.
YOUNG MEN SAW VISIONS.
Visions OF Godiya when She went forth
rid Of
troop of blooming young Anazons keep
ing as fear as possible 10 nature in the mat
Ter of garment, ard similar, equally as al
Turing and improbable, ideas went troop
ing through those masculine minds and
made the owners long for admission with
in the doors of Carroll Institute at any
! cost.
Even if a sight Of the girls could have
/ been obtained after the manner OF the
/ preping churl who was rewarded for his
/ enterprise in gazing upon Lady .GoaiFa
/ by losing his vision, il might have peeA
/ attempted.
! The rules were strictly adhered to, how
! eyer. and only feminine eyes We're allowed
| to gaze upon the mysteries Of the alter
! noon Like most things about which an
| amount OF preliminary talking is done,
! the exercises We're nothing in the slightest
degree out of the ordinary.
!
/ girls romping about, balancing themselves
| upon the bar, running, jumping, turning
| sonlersaults and other break-neck devices
in regulation gymnasium costume OF futi
trousers fastened at the knee, ana with
loose sailor blouses. 1t was decidedly
| III the nature of 1--WE look before ana aIleF,
! aud sigh for what is not.
when the exercises began the hall re-
sounded with trllis and Touiades OF laugh
| ter. AS they progressed, there were cas-
| cades OF mirth that leapt, dubbed, iro'hea
| and foaIned over the asSembage as spoh-
taneousiy as the recent Kerosene oil HOW
| Struck hv the workmen in the old well on
| Fourteenth street.
The potato drill gave scope for the
girls to show off their agility in racing
| and in this way they seemed nothing 10Th
There was a grand scuttle for base when
ever one of the number picked up a potato
and started on the home run.
| Not a few of the girls, after they had
been thoroughly warmed up by the e&-
citement of the exercise, looked as though
they would have enjoyed it if the order
had been given to continue indefinitely
| on the home run.
METEORIC SHOWER OF LEGS.
| When, at the close OF the regular pro
gramme, the game of basket ball was
called and the girls fitted themselves fol
| lHe BAClllilts EOtilIol tJS cidiIiit7 ~ 'A'~--
costumes small jockey hats OF red ant
white and blue and white striped cloth
it was as though there had suddenly burS
over the assemblage a mete0ric shower o
shapely legs.
1t was a meet or nothing scramble. Ii
was a case of kill or cure. 1t was gel
there, get out or be Knocked ont. Feminine
shrieks rent the air in every sharp ant
flat known to the chromatic scale, witt
the addition of several new ones, espec
tally invented for the occasion.
1t was a great time for the professor,
greater time for the audience and greatest
of all for the girls.
During the acrobatic performances oi
Prof Joyce the girls were perched NJ
aloft alter the manner of the little cherut
generally SO depicted.
They climbed nimbly up the ladders and
and sat swinging their legs over the edges
occasionally relieving their overflow n
feelings by catching at a swinging bal
and sliding to the floor only to run up tn
| ladders again and repeat The process al
infinitum.
The regular order of programme wa
follows:
Free arm and body exercises, by the class
exercise on ladders and pole climbing; dumf
bell drill, by the class: exercises on flying
and travelling rings; bar bell drill, by The
, class; potato race; pole drill: club swinging
| breathing exercises, iron bells; mat eXer
. cises, running high jump, etc; exercise
on parallel bars: exercises on German
horse; medicine ball exercises; acrobat
| act Prof NJ A joyce; basket ball game.