The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-07
OGDEN DEPT.
HERaLD BRUNCH OFFICE,
5l3 gTAR LOAN g. TRUST BUILDING.
Ogden, June T.
PHYSICAL CULTURE.

Few people, and especially women, real
ize the Importance of physical culture; or
that to have a vigorous, enduring mind
means that the physical being must be
healthy and strong.
The day is coming when in this coun-
try, any woman in ordinary health who
cannot walk distance of ten miles and
not complain of fatigue, will be regarded
as puny creature indeed.
Educational Methods have been wonder
fully improved IN this country in the past
discovery of new principles as in the ap-
plicauon OF common sense to the work in
hand.
Physical culture, as at present taught,
is considered a fad" by the great MAJOR
ity OF people, but ii VIII not be long be-
fore it will be employed in the public
schools as stimulating the scholars to bet
ter work, because Wnen the body is
healthy and vigorous the mental faculties
are OF necessity stronger and brighter.
Some months ago Miss Belle Salmon
opened school OF expression in this CITY,
which prospered from the first, and like
ali other institutions of learning, the
term closed with the regulation COM
mencement exercises at the Grand Opera
house, Wednesday evening.
The great majority OF people attending
went more to crafty their curiosity than
to learn; but curiosity was soon satisfied,
ana they realized that the exercises
taught lesson worthy of sober thought.
The class was composed mostly of
young ladies and little girls with a few
small boys thrown in. The ladies wore
the regulation boomers costume, because
it is absolutely necessary that the body
should be clad in manner that will in
sure the utmost freedom of movement
The exercises opened with a dance, which
included fancy steps, followed Dy
marches, Indian club and dumb bell eX-
erciSe, all of which clearly Indicated that
the young ladies were possessed of both
strength and endurance to say nothing Of
grace in their movements. 1t was easy
for them, and not in the least fatiguing,
yet 10 require an untutored maiden, no
matter how vigorous 10 go through the
same amount of exercise in the same
length of time would mean she would
have TO be carried oil the stage on a
stretcher. To break the monotOny a por-
ton of the evening was devoted to music
and elocution, as follows:
How We Hunted a Mouse.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Miss jamie Taylor
Zoroaster ...........A Mr.. Edward ID. Davis
Smack in School.....-. Miss Olive Wallace
Song. Master Charlie Pike
John and Tibbie Davison's Dispute.
Whistling Regiment Miss Mary Littlefeld
Song, Summer Observation-Disclosures.
Mrs. Bessie Dean Allison.
Haunted by Song Lulu Peery
Master Pyke and Mrs. Allison of course
enraptured the audience, and all the rest
called forth deafening applause, and Miss
Littefield's whistling accomplishment
surprised even her most ardent admirers.
A delicate desert of Delsarte closed this
feast of reason. The participants Were all
handsomely robed in regulation Greek
costume. The young ladies taking part
We're: Miss EIcGaw, Miss Lewis, MISS
Graham, Miss Hulaniski, Miss Buck
miller, Miss SVens, Miss Taylor Miss
Brown, Miss Cannon, Miss Scowcroft,
Miss Allie Graham, Miss Salmon.
sfrom beginning to end, the entertain
ment was full of delightful surprises, and
the last part was really the most artistic
portion. Grace and beauty were blended
in such way that. the astonished people
could scarcely realize that they were not
gazing upon some fairy scene. 1t was a
fitting final to a performance which was
nte96gd 10 oe an oA ide
from the fact that it promotes health it
adds grace and beauty to every move
ment.