The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-02
4 IDEAS for Q1lon1en.


MY meter changes with times and
seasons" said a bright bachelor maid
some days ago. IN answer to my ques-
tons concerning thai all important sub
5ect-the earning of the dollar.
.'Yes,a She added. laughing at my
look OF Complete mystifcation, .it
changes anofe Or less, and yet it is the
same from year to year. Let me explain
that mystppEto You "a little. l am in
the line of athletics. No. 1 don't belong
to q female baseball team or anything
OF that variety. But L am an athletic
and g~ymnastic woman. thoroughly train
ed, and I teach large classes in many
different partseof the East and South.
You see&the great impetus that has
been given these last few years to ex-
ereise and worthy development for wom-
en- gave me the notion of teaching these
things as a means of livelihood. In the
winter I have large classes in various
cities. principally. of course, in Phila-
delphia, New York, Boston and so on.
During the winter season I teach ply
steal culture and confine myself almost
entirely to this work. l teach the proper
use of the muscles. The proper way of
breathing, walking, running, standing,
sitting, sleeping, and, in fact, treat every
little point of that important study
which is all the rage just now.
81 make a point of posturing, although
e~locution does not come into the curricu-
lum of a teacher of athletics. 1 mean,
of course, posturing as it applies to
holding ones self well and walking cor
rectly. There are all too many women
nowadays who walk as if they were
composed of material less elastic than a
board and who sit as if they were
made of paper. The bright members of
society nowadays realize the extreme i'm
portance of doing these things well, and
as 1 myself am thoroughly up in them
they are more than willing to pay me
what I ask.
.In the sumner teach athletics of
another variety. Swimming comes into
my curriculum for that part of the year.
l take up my residence at some fashion
able seaside resort. 1t may be one of
many. In fact, just where ever l am
offered the largest class and the best
profits.
81 teach swimming, diving, floating, all
the fancy strokes and that kind of thing.
I turn out crack swimmers every year
from women who believed that they
should never learn because they had an
unfortunate teacher at the commence
ment.
TT is an old joke that the crack
swimmer is the individual who invariably
gets drowned. But I try to impress upon
my pupils that their own strength must
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and that what goes beyond that is fool
hardness.
Then, when weather is cooler, I turn
to ether athletics. l take pupils for
horseback exercise-for in spite Of hiking
there is still a wide demand for this
other glorious exercise. And it is. la
mentally seldom that one sees a woman
sit well in the saddle, a woman who can
really mount with grace, a woman VINO
really holds the reins as if she knew
what they were for.
Il tell what kind of a habit is most
worn and what would be most suited to
the pupil as an individual if this be de-
sired. I teach cross-country riding and
all those little fancy points that women
often want to know for one reason or an
other. In fact, for the moment, 1 forget
tina I am a swimming teacher and an
Instructor in physical culture and be-
come a thorough horsewoman.
We'll, in time I abandon horses for
another art. This time l teach games
out-of-door games. of course. Yes, I am
q tennis~expert. I lave to be. There is
nothing but folly in attempting to teach
If you need teaching yourself. If anyone
can give you points. Anyone who has
watched a girl begin to play lawn tennis
will know that there is plenty of room
for a teacher"
Then there is golf. I lave had lots of
young girls as pupils for that. OF course,
as soon as I saw that it was likely to be
the rage I went into golf at once and
made myself expert. That is what we
athletic women have to do. We must
see a fad in games or the like just as
soon as it looms Upon the horizon and
go for it. The we are able to keep our
reputation in the work and to work equal
iy with the men-teachers.
Money? Well, that is a difficult, almost
impossible subject to treat of concisely.
This is because all work in some ranches
is lone in very large classes and in others
often individually. This makes it rather
hard to tell just what we receive for one
lesson given, without a string of figures
too long for your purpose. But my work
man the prices received by men ex-
perts in this line.
OF course, there is room for more. The
women in this line are few and far be-
tween, and need 1 say that it is the
passion of the hour, First of all, the
aspirant must be well up" She must
talk well. and be well bred if she wants
the right kind of patronage. She must
dress well and have, or cultivate, tact.
Those are the prime points.
The present season will see the passing
OF the bloomer costume for women who
ride a wheel. Leading dressmakers have
set the seal of their ~disapproval ON the
boomer costume, and, therefore,, it's days
are numbered. Already the fact of the
condemnation is noticeable. Society wo-
men have ordered costumes in which the
blooaner has no part, and the women of
lesser note will not be slow in following
their example.
The first costumer of note to stop max
Ing boomers was Mandy of Paris. He
had taken a firm stand, absolutely refus-
Ing to make a bloomer costume for any
customer, and his arguments. when asked