The times., 1898-01-16

I jority of cases flesh is like blue eyes or
red hair, constitutional, but we have also
( discovered the antidute for flesh is uIuscu
lar grace, bodily suppleness, physical agil-
( ity. Ask the Average distinctly fat woman
you know TO try and scratch ar left shoulder
/ blade with her right hand; to push her own
/ dress sleeve tops intD her coat sleeves; to
/ bend hack and kiss the wall behind her; or
stand on her left leg; draw her right knee
/ across the front of it. and set her right
foot flat against the wall.
/ You viii only have 10 ask, for she
| won't he able to DO any one of those
I things, and yet, up at our ciub-but here
/ anticipate.
I The club is housed, just as you know +,
/ In a vast, bare hail. and beginning i'll No
veinbcr with one dozen members, we now
have nearly 200. The beginners got to-
/ gether under the guidance of clever man
golf instructor. He took us back TO first
principles in golf. and after carrying us a
while through q course of exercises, we
found ourselves growing as light-footed as
girls, as plialle as snakes ana as strong as
horses.
We still have the gaunt old hail, and
it isn't even warmed, its floor is bare,
and the one concession TO comfort is a
coy dressing -roor, W here the women keep
their uniforms in lockers, and get rid of
tight conventional garments in favor of
fiat, rubber -Soled shoes, laced high; stout
stockings, knickerbockers, slightly fulled
to the knee, broad belts and fla mel shirt
waists. Some of the very plump and con-
ventional members wear Killed tunics to
the knee, but no fanciful or costly costumes
are allowed, and most of the women use
heavy but boneless W aistS Under their shirts.
In the big room, where the exercises
are taken, all day. no matter what the
thermometer is doing the windows are
wide open, and all day the members are
coming and going. practicing little ex-
ercising stunts alone, or in classes be-
fore an instructor, who takes a new
couer and first puts her through an
examination. He sees just how far she
can bend backward, forward and side
wise: then he tries her standing three
minutes on one leg and three on the
other, and when he has proved, to a ina
/. tron OF fifty-odd years, and weight near
10, that she has all the grace and nexi-
bility of lamppost, he next refuses to
guarantee to make her whitI less weighty
than she is.
He does assure her, though, that he
will enable her, in spite of her white
hairs and avoirdupois, TO stoop and pick
up pin as easily as a sixteen year-old
girl; trip at run across her drawing
room floor, and never jar the most deli
cate bric-a a-brac; waltz like a fairy and
put a genuine girlish blush in her cheeks.
Talk like this will inspire the Oldest
woman, and then he gives her long
handle driver and bids her begin and swing
1t gently back and forth before a row Of
black spots on the wall, commen cling from
a height about on the level of her head,
placed three inches apart and graded down
the wall to the floor. These spots then run
along the floor toward her, to end in big
artificial tee, on which a captive ball is
placed.
First she is made to use the arm length
swing, standing firmly balanced, her feet
squarely set and rather far apart, letting the
head of her driver at each pas swing OPP
posite one notch lower on the wall. Down
and down 1t swings until every notch ON the
floor is marked, and finally twenty
swing ends the ball flying from the tee.
When she can faultlessly swing past
the twenty-four spots, and invariably on the
twenty fifth stroke. set the ball going, then
she is taught to swing her club on rising
toe, with whole half-swing OF her entire
body, doing the two dozen strokes in the
exact form In which an expert golfer
drives off. You may think that sounds easy,
but just go through the arms-length or
rising toe swing twenty-four times, and