The morning times., 1897-01-24

tire front hail. paused at . desk to register,
with signatures very much alike in their
angular fl0urishes, ana then climbed an
easy ascent OF stairs ana entered long.
rather dark room, filled, with luxurious
couches, on which were reclining the fa-
miliar figures rolled up in blankets that one
always srumbleS on in the cooling room,
snoozing in all abandonment OF comfort
The propoSer OF the bath summoned an
attendant. "Tillie, come here. child"
she called. Put us through together will
you? We want you and Vina and Annie"
Then they disappeared into separate dress
ing rooms and Chattered over the par
titions. I wasn't five minutes before they
emerged with the sheets wrapped around
them under the arms, crossed behind and
two corners knOtted under the chin. They
had let out their elaborate coiffures and
colled their hair firmly on top of their
heads, and locked something like Greek
women, save for the modern aggressive
muscularity and presence which enycloped
tn EN-.
III tip the beam at 40, I'll wager,
said the woman who had spoken of ankles,
and who was tall and well builtaS an ANA
zon. I'm getting such muscles m ashamed
of them, and really look sight in an
evening dress"
She stepped on the scales and nearly full
filled her expectations. The others We're
not much below her and they 1lIurmured-
something about the necessity OF training
down. "rdlike to know how these pugil-
lists do it. If some of these documentary
writers, these realistic pen wielders would
get FitZsmmons and Corbctt to give us
inf,
ed,' said she Of the Titan hair.
II met Corbett once,'' said the most Vi
vacious of the trio. Whisper il not in
Gath. 1t was in London three years ago.
You know Fannie Gordon went in for
Journalism when her dad failed. Poor
girl, she liked it, and | must say it has its
alternating circumstances. Corbett was at
the Savoy. So was Loie Fuller. Fannie
got acquainted with both of them, and
she was invited to sup i'll an impromptu
after theater gathering. I begged to be
included and Fannie managed 1t. They
thought / was, ah, | won't tell you; my
name was Belle Walsh for the occasion
and those people actually called me Belle
after the first bottle. But what / start
ed to tell you was that Corbett told us
how to build up, and La Lofe added some
womanly provsos. But i forgot to ask
them how to build down. 1 didn't conceive
the necessity of knowing at that time. -
They had gone into the hot room and dis
posed themselves in 1ounging chairs, had
their heads wrapped in ice folded in towels
and placed their neither extremities in foot
baths.
THE insufferable Turk knew a thing Or
two," remarked one of them, setting her
glass, from which she had been drinking
boiling water, on the floer, and aEelapsing
into pose of perfect ease and languor.
Helen, my dear, you have something
besides dust on your ankles. .''--s---.------.-.-
Il know it. Did you ever see such mus
cles? It's the wheel / declare I'm getting
too wooden to walk well, and dancing is
becoming an impossibilty. There is cer-
tainly such thing as having too much OF
good thing"
All three Of the women put their feet
up on the edge OF the tub and leaned for
ward to examine them. Then they laugh
ed and looked woefully at each other.
Talk about degeneracyr' said the ANA
zon. What would Lombroso or Nordau