The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-03

a. the girls have taken up that branch of tn,
work only recently. OF course, the boys ar,
stronger by nature, and by every influence o.
more careless. Every Friday afternoon have
q class Of boys and 2 class OF girls. and turn
x x'i feS S week 81 ago uS5'V We ,f B%d t a co%petitiye ddrriiii.
which proved how much quicker the girls arc.
The, boys had been training six mosths for it,
programme the other day. probably because
CHARACTER thar. Tho Soys., There was the in.
evltable scarf drill, and there were the fancy
5nnclns and the club swlI99Si spd td 6op nan IN
perfect rhythm by twenty i've or thirty girls
As they did these fancy steps Il was impossi;;
BILE not 10 watch their pretty ankles, ana
twinkiina feet. The contrast was an Tsthetlc
shock when the boys took the floor Immediate
They were doubtless very nice boys. and
could have kicked a goal from not too great
a distance. but their legs were not beautiful.
be in Judging them. Some of them were
straight up and down like tho legs Of the.par,.
aLlei 6ars..and about as thin; ether r. , %cge OF
shape there may have been, the boys etood
solidly and did their work we'll. swinging the
iron dumb bells until the muscles stood out
on their thin young arms and tho cords IN
their necks knottod up In. n way to draw the
There is no telling what revolutions this
physical culture will bring about. one good
old theory seems to be in q fhlr way to go TO
Nv bbIh hl III uNNOllllN VI lihN ~ Ni
This is the theory that n girl cannot throw a
ball. There wasn't any long distance throw.
Ing at the college the other day, but twenty
OF those girls iugglod with rubber balls In 9
way which. was very disconcerting to some OF
The old-fashioncd ideas.
They did II all to music. First they went
n series OF left. Ell, back handed.
and under.handed nothing rcprchenstble in
this case losses and catches. and finally they
sort OF wearied OF anything so stupid as play
ing with ono ball! They went down into their
other trousers that is TO sny, blooner pocket
and fshcd out a second ball. after which they
to find the game more interesting. in
fact, 1t got just n little too interesting r. the
last. when they tried bouncing two balls a.
multaneously. This rather broke mp their we'll
kept busy chasing balls among the feet and
ankles OF the other girls. Naturally, the other
girls found this q tritle disconcorting, and they
walt TO be asked twice to sit down on tho
ioor while one. of their number. Miss Lee,
gave q special little exhibition of her own.
Miss Lee Is n Girl who toys with balls asif
she had done 1t all OF her not too long life.
She was u pretty sight ms She stood in the
middle of the floor, surrounded by her cross
eRged fellow pupils, her eyes shining ana her
ACE. And she did have fun with those balls!
She tossed them behind her. and over, her left
and under her knees. and was so
luiet and graceful and easy withal that the
audience quite went wild over her.
This ball drill. by the way. is an imported
Iffair. Mrs. Lawrence learned IL from an
English instructor of physical culture.
Miss Lee had a rival In solo work when, II
anne to the performances on the bars and the
Gather horse. The boys were going over. the
'orse in a series Of wild frog.like leaps, which
everybody who could see, them shout
we're performing on the horizontal bars in u
manner which drew the fascinated gaze of