Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-11
tfEi. Fine ,Jui!1pI

Six feet and one inch is fine record
for d running high jump, and for
woman 1t is extraordinary.
It has been made by q seventeen
year-old Brooklyn school girl The
worlds amateur record is at present
held by NJ: F: Sweeney, with feet
So inches. Ten years ngo the best
man could not beat the jump of 6 feet
l inch made by Miss Louise Brooks.
In 1887 the record for the United
States was held by L. ". Johnson,
with only 5 feet II inches.
Miss Brooks is the daughter of
George W. Brooks. and is the chani-
pion feminine athlete of Adelphid
Academy. For eight years shG has
been pupil in that school, and an
enthusiast in athletics and gymnastics:
She easily carries off tile palm rs tile
best all-around athlete in large class
of girl gtmnasts, and her powers and
endurance, her grace and agility, are
simply marvellous:
Miss Brooks comes of family OF
athletes, She is the only daughter
among six children: Her five brothers
are ill athletes and her eldest brother
was d champion of Amherst during his
college life. From tiny girl Miss
Louise loved outdoor sports better
than the pastimes usually sought BY
! little maids. Tops, marbles and ball
were her toys instead of dolls and
miniature dishes and housekeeping
utensils. She learned to throw ball
like boy-a clean, strnight throw
instead of in the curiously lame fashion
which most girls adopt. She grew up
sturdy, straight-limbed maiden with
well-developed muscles. When she
went to the Academy she took to the
gymnasium rs duck takes to water.-
New Orleans Picayune.
Sho Has Flourishing Business.
The question, "What shall I do to
earn living2" asked so often by women,
was answered the other day by two
young women in New York, very much
to their own satisfaction mud profit.
Tile senior member of the firm (who
was q belle and social leader in her
native State two years ago) went to
New York and cast around for some
thing whereby she might ehrn her own
bread. A friend of hers, another capa-
BILE girl, remarked that the ladies OF
New York looked much better on the
streets than in their evening gowns.
"They look fairly we'll so long as they
stick to silks, or satins, or heavy mate
rials, but when it comes to muslins and
laces they don't seem to know how to
have them made. 1t is perfect shame
the way they waste their beautiful
materials All, FIVE only had their beau
tiful goods, couldn't we make lovely
gowns of them!' The other girl began
to think, and in few days proposed
to her friend to form partnership as
designers of evening and summer
gowns. Together they made several
rough colored sketches of ofmuslin gowns,
which they took to some of their more
fashionable acquaintances to see what
they thought of them. In almost every
instance they received orders for one
or more gowns. When these orders
increased sufficiently to make the VEN
ture safe, they began work in earnest.
They employed competent French
dressmakers and filters, and opened
parlors, where their designs and sam
Pile gowns are shown Their custom
ers select their designs and materials
from samples shown by the firm, and
they guarantee perfect fit and finish.
As they make only one gown after n
design, their patrons are certain that
no one else will have garment just
like their own. Besides building up a
very fourishing business in New York
and the vicinity, they have been offered
good salaries by several of the large
houses which make especially of stylish
ready-made gowns and waists as de-.
signers. .-Argonaut.