The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
GAME FOR COLLEGE GIRLS.
INVENTED BY PROFESSOR OF PHIL
OSOPHY IN WELLESLEY COLLEGE.

From BeIIe-CycIe-The Ancient
Game With Physiological and
Psychological COnceits-The Tar
get Is ''Truth."
Wellesley, Nov. 1S.-Miss A E. Morgan.
professor of philosophy in Wellesley Col
lege, has taken up with the ancient game
of belle-cycle and added thereto various
pretty conceits which she declares embody
fundamental physiological and psychology
cal principles. That is just what college
girls like, and the game has sprung into
immediate popularity. Already it rivals
golf.
1t is a good game, for 1t makes the
young ladies raise their arms square their
shoulders throw out their chests. breathe
deeply and stand erect. 1t Is
played with two sticks and
GUS diameters. The sticks are held one in
each hand, and crossing each other like a
pair of shears with long handles. BY
putting the sticks through a ring and pull
ing them abruptly apart the ring is sent
sailing off through the aid. Practice enables
the stick holder to aim with considerable
accuracy, and this power to determine the
direction of the ring makes a game posi-
BILE.
Miss Morgan has brooded over the pos
sibilties of grace-hoop, and has evolved
belle-cycle, which she says illustrates
her theory of the interdependence of
physical and psychial calculations. The
original inventor of grace-hoop never
suspected this. He was but a pigmy. Miss
Morgan has rings of each of the seven
colors of the rainbow, and shoots them
at an oliye-green target.
Green stands for growth The more
the girls shoot the stronger they grow
is the fundamental interdependence idea
The rings, according to color, are in
terpreted as follows: l. Red warm af-
lection. 2. Orange, admiration. 3. yell
low, delight; that is, simple heaven-sun-
shine. 4. Green growth and hope. s.
Blue, immortal loyalty to truth. 7. Vio-
let, victory for the ideal. g. Indigo, con.
fiict of the immortal desire with the
transient conscience, or vice versa.
These rings are of different sizes, the
smallest being red, and so on up to the
largest, which is violet. The white ring
of the target represents the fulhllment
of color scheme in th@ psychical and
physical blending into the harmony OF
perfect purity and truth.
Miss Morgan takes the members of
her class in philosophy, one at a time.
and has them reach up. just as far as
they can. She then measures each dis
lance carefully from the ground to the
tip of the index finger, and calls it
muscular reach" The muscular reach
of a girl determines the distance she shall
stand away from the green target Truth
and its ring of Perfect Purity.
A rod projects from the center of the
target horizontally At the end of the rod
ha l,
of Perfect Purity's perimeter a net is
fastened, which reaches back to the lower
half of the perimeter of the target Truth
Then there is a bag between Perfect Pur-
ity and Truth, or hammock-shaped pocket
into which the rings fall through Perfect
Purity if they are well aimed.
Standing her muscular reach" away
from Perfect Purity the student of
philosophy and bell-cycle grasps her sticks
and shoots the little red ring Warm Ar
lection through Perfect Purity into the
pocket, if she can. Probably she cannot
at first but after a few lessons she will
find that Perfect Purity is easy-especial-
ly with Warm Affection. OF course, 1t is
harder with the larger rings. Conflict of
the Transient Desire with the Immortal
Conscience is veXing, indeed, and Victory
of the Ideal, which is almost as large as
Perfect Purity, will hardly go through at
all, though the young philosopher drive
ever so hard. But patience, though color
less, conquers all things, and in time Miss
Morgan has a team of experts capable tof
landing even Victory of the Ideal in the
pocket nine times out of ten.
AS the embryo philosopher advances In
proficiency, Perfect Purity is hung higher
and higher from the hight of the shoot
er's head UP to about 11$l feet feet. With
increase in hight the body of the shooter
must be thrown back more and more in
order 10 deliver the ring on more up
ward course. The idea of raising Perfect
Purity originated with Miss Morgan and
As beneficiallX effective. There are no