The morning times., 1895-08-11
These Girls
Are PaddIers
FRAIL BARKS, YOU KNOW, ARE
GREAT MATCH MAKERS.
Young Paget Courted Miss Whit
ney in One on the
Historic Nile.

Canoeing must hereafter take an import
ant place in summer amusements, and par
ticularly in such ones as refer to the summer
helress and the bait by which she is caught.
Indeed, the more womanish pastimes must
step back while canoeing comes to the
fore.
1t was going up the Nile in a canoe that
young Almeric Hugh Paget, of England,
won the heart OF Miss Pauline Whitney, Of
America, one of this country's most noted
catches.
The Nile stories, like all others pertain
ing to that stream ever since Moses and the
bulrushes, has different versions. One is
tnat Miss Whitney and Mr.. Paget canoed in
opposite ends of the boat until patience
ceased to be virtue, and Mr.. Paget threw
away his paddle and declared himself.
Another is that Mr.. Paget was not In the
canoe at all, but that he remained with the
party on shore, which included Mr. whitney,
Mr.. PAYNE, the rich Western uncle OF Miss
Pauline, and those interesting boy brothers,
while Miss Pauline with some girl friends
took a small Egyptian canoe, with paddle
at each end, and started up stream. Ihey
padded all the morning, and when they
came back so lively description did they
give OF their morning that young PageU be
came Jealous OF the wooden canoe and ac-
cused Miss Pauline Of forgetting him Tor
a senseless thing like that.
Explanations followed and the engage
ment was announced to the party ere the
Sphinx of the Nile was hidden adieu. But
like the Sphinx the party were to be
speechiess until hidden to talk. However
actions spoke sn much louder than words
| that the enga cement has just been told
| abroad TO the world q season too soon, but
| none too early for people To know, as the
marriag occurs in the autumn. This Ii one
story OF canoe life this season.
AT Bar Harbor, where Miss Whitney is
summcring, canoeing is one OF the most pop
| ular sports There are small IEIets where
! the canoe can glide wl+&=-Jther craft viii
| not penetrate easily, and into these the in
| teresting young woman, her fiye-year-old
sister. TO whom she has been a mother, and
two friends paddle daily. Miss Whitney g
friends are two English girls, relatives OF
the Paget family, OF which she will soon be
q member herself, thouth she VIII live il
| St Paul, the city OF Mr.. PaSet's adoption.
Canoeing as a girls pastime is prettler
than rowing, as it gives better exercise
to the arms and chest The paddler stands
upright in the end Of the boat and moves the
paddle in swift back strokes, like sweeping
a room, only a little slower and deeper IL
stroke, and the canoe moves on quickly.
THE HARTE SISTERS.
The trick of padding must be learned from
the Indians, who can stei-Ipon q board anC
with an oar send the rude craft in any di
rection, moving through the water taste
than u naphtha launch. But the average
girl cancer does not attempt TO do mort
than move her boat through the water at {
moderate speed, while the steering is don,
by rudder, managed by a companion in tbs
other end of the canoe. There are Indian
guides who make q business OF teaching
canoeing.
| Two OF the best cancers in the world are
the daughters OF Bret Harte. Jessam.
Harte, the artist daughter, is so skillfu
with the paddle that she islooked upon witt
suspicion by the mothers of daughters VIII
are scary about allowing their girls to g
upon the waves with the Harte girls. Bu
Bret Harte isn't afraid. He says his girl
are smart enough to look out for themselves
Not long ago they padded across roug
stream, went around rocky protector
landed, pulled the canoe ashore, climbed a
''inaccessibe" mountain, stuck flag u
there, and wound up by padding back l
time for supper.
There are different kinds of canoes
The American Canoe Association boast
a large number oc associate members,
wives I'D sisters and sweethearts Q
male members, who accompany them
their annual meets. And here every sol
of a canoe is found. The men for the mos
part prefer canoe with sails and elaborat
seafariug apparatus, but the women wh
go along and who take their own canoe
much prefer paddles to sails. If they al
going to use sails they prefer the cat-boat
| which has all the sails wanted. But whe