Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-05-31
Outdoor Life for Women.

Golf has been an unspeakable boon
to American women, not merely to
the girls of the period, who take de-
light in every form of outdoor sport,
but to their mothers, their maiden
aunts and their grandmothers. Tia
Goth century opened with a new lease
of life for the middle-aged woman.
Instead of coddling herself, shivering
in the cold, and spending her time in
fighting with illness, this bright and
blooming parsonage sallies forth with
her juniors and engages in active ex
ercise showing her skill upon the links
and sometimes tiring out much young
er people by her enthusiasm and her
staying power. If the health rate of
the feminine world has gone higher
than ever before, the fact certifies to
the great advantages of much living in
the open where the free winds blow,
and of regular moderate exercise of
every muscle in an interesting way
AT the country clubs, the golf tea is
feature of the afternoon; and is
pretty and picturesque occasion. The
girls in their sensible short skirts and
loose blouses and jackets, the men in
their hunting pink, the mingling of
gay colors, in which leaf-brown tones
down to red and vivid green, the
sprinkling of brilliant maidens and
matrons in elegant toilets, the COM
Portable papas, who, if they do not
play wish they did, the fringe of car
riagea on the outer edge, with their
correct and impassive coachmen on
the box, and the beautifully groomed
and caparisoned horses, wondering no
doubt at the ways OF men and women
all combined make up a scene of va
riety and animation worthy of remem-
brance.
Riding always has its votaries, and
in the parks many women are seen
with a firm seat and a nice hand on
the rein, women who have complete
sympathy with their horses, and who
look fit and charming in their habits
and hats For regular cCoss-country
riding, one ned not, however, seek
out trim parks and broad avenues. In
Maryland, in Virginia, in Kentucky,
and indeed all over the South, there
are hundreds of women who have been
accustomed to the saddle from early
childhood who ride fine horses with
splendid ease and courage, and who
take fences and streams as a bird flies
from branch to branch. One may see
the perfection of equestrianism in the
mountains, where girls were tossed to
the ponys back in their baby days, and
where, ever since, riding has been their
constant method of going from place
to place.
A woman never looks more charming
than when her color is heightened by
bracing exercise and pure air, and her.
eyes are bright with the feeling of
perfect physical equipoise. She is not
coarsened or roughened by her activi-
ty, far from it, To outdoor life wom-
an imparts a grace and refinement
which it might lack but for her en-
trance upon it. The gallantries of
sport are seldom foolishly sentiment
al but certain chiyalry pervades the
relations of men and women who rival
one another in games which require
deftness of eye and hand and the eX-
exercise of Judgment in their progress,
and, however exciting the contest, po-
liteness is dominant through its
phases.
Women should not forget that walk
ing is within the reach of everybody,
and that walk twice day will keep
most of us in excellent physical condi-
tion. BY a walk is not meant saun-
ter or dawdle, but a tramp of mile
or more over the country road or the
city street, a tramp with intention,
even if no shopping or visiting object
exist as the goal which attracts the
lady out of doors.-Collier Weekly.