Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28
THE QUEST OF BEAUTY
Another Secret of Health and
Good Looks.
TAKE f'oesPRINTING
sTRENeTHENsI THE LUNGS AND
IMPROVES COMPLEXION.
Prizes for Grace viii Go to the Girl
Who Runs q Mile q
Day.
0opyright. 1907


Arabella Knickerbocker has new fad for
improving her complexion. 1t is running. or
''sprinting," she calls it. Nothing gives one
better color or makes better lungs than
running. some one tells me- explains Ara
bella to group of lovely maidens; so 1
am training, and determined to learn to
run, If not like an antelope, at least some
way, somehow"
How perfectly lovely, exclatms one who
was the valedictorian Of her class at -
College, and knows a thing or two. 1--WE
used to sprint now and then. too Some one
who lectured at the college on Girls and
what he didn't know about them, remarked
incidentally, with more point than gallantry.
There are no girls nowadays who can run
We didn't exactly run that man off the col
lege grounds, but We then and there formed
a club, with president and rules and by
laws and prize at the end of a mile"
And you ran., not walked, nor played a
game for that prize?"
Yes precisely"
"Well, there are eight of us at the gym"
continued Arabella, land after practicing
running in all its branches within doors, we
finally, boldly ventured forth into the
street"
"a lot of lunatics turned loose, suppose,
was your greeting on all Sides" languidly
remarked a maiden whose lungs moropoiizc
but a. brief part, If any, Of her time or
thought
"Oh, nothing so rude and ill-natured. or
that we were probably making off with
something. Why, just look! they are girls;
that's just the way they ought ID do was
the burden Of the remarks we did happen to
hear"
I'm other words" remarked Lydia Ian
gush. 1.-The curiosity you excited was re-
spectful and encouraging and polite"
yes, or perhaps We should not have re-
ad tha arir II
times weekly during the early spring
months. There were usually eight of u.s.
and we ran in couples. We had no alven-
lures, and broke no bones, and all our
friends congratulated us upon our healthy
color and generally improved appearance"
Use Prudence.
If girls would turn their athletic attention
to running they would find the novel pas
time the most exhilarating one in the world,
as well as one of the most healthful. Ex-
cessive running is as injurious as any other
excess, but frequent and easy running is
one of the best of exercises and both men
and women should run. Occasionally they
do run in great excitement to catch a car
or boat, but this is not profitable running.
If people kept. themselves in trim for light
running It would be no such disaster to
hurry for the car.
OF course, when you first take up this
sport after two laps, say, around a gym
nasium track you are blowing like por-
pOiseS; you haven't any wind. For one
reason, you probably come down with
thud on your heels: you should know that
you cannot run unless you get the spring
from your toes.
After learning the rudiments OF running
in a gymnasium, practice should be contin-
ued out of doors, for fresh air is one Of the
factors in the sport; II IS the fresh air that
is going to give Diana that hewitt ching
color in herrcheeks and purify every drop
of blood in her body.
One class of girls which has taken up
sprinting in a large city starts from the
gymnasium and runs on the long stretch of
weil-paved sidewalk which skirts a park
where there is no break from interesting
streets. Without stopping, they run for ten
blocks, which means half a mile Then they
pause for two-minute rest before starting
on the homeward run. They ram briskly
for one reason. to keep warm; 1t was cold
weather and they wore no wraps. The only.
additions to their class room suits were
their hats. Twice a week these Atalantas
took a run of one mile. OF course, they
had much practice in the gymnasium before
being able to undertake this run, with only
brief two minutes rest.
They ran easily; that is. not at top speed
so that the term ''sprinting'' could not. with
accuracy, be applied to their performance
If runner uses top speed from start to
finish, that technically is sprinting.
Go Slowly at First
Standard distances for running races are
from 100 yards to two miles: in the middle
distances the runner saves much Of his
strength for a squirt at the end; nor does
one try to use top speed at first. Don't
run yourself ont in the first half of the
race" Is one rule
The standard speed of the fastest runners
is about ten yards to each second as far
as they can sprint. The best sprinters
travel 100 yards in about ten seconds: 900
yards In about twenty-five seconds, and 800
yards in a little over thirty seconds If
an athlete has as far as 400 yards to race
he does not attempt to cover the first hun
dred in "even time" as this ''ten yards to
the second" speed is called.
fast mile. which broke the interscho-
lastic indoor record, was that recently
made by a youth in four minutes and fifty-
one seconds In long-distance running races
those of mile or more-the question of
superiority Is largely one of endurance
Although the Dianas and ,Atalantas, who
are taking up running for the sake of their
complexion, do not intend to go In for rae
ing, except in the mildest way for the
daintiest of prizes, they have become thor
oughly posted in the phraseology of the
sport and can discourse learnedly about
''top speed middle distances" "gettfng
into the stride" and so on, and, further
more they are so very wise that they can
actually explain to a novice the difference
between walking and running race In
walking races they will tell you that the
contestants are required to keen at least
one foot on the ground all the time. and
that this is the distinction made between
running and walking.
Besides added loses to the cheeks and
inches to the lungs, running is the stout
womans best oally. GiLet her take a brisk
run daily, commencing with few yards
and getting upto a emile or therabouts, and
she will not need 10 resort to a diet-that
most melancholy ana depressing method of
reducing avoipaupo3N
Easief Than Waltzing.
Nor is running mile once in every two
or three days EucfE heroic treatment Let
us compare tits exefcise with that of dane
ing. An AVERAGE waltz takes one over
three-quarterss offa smile a square dance
| makes one cover. half mile and a galop
equals good mile, :, Count up for yourself
how much the girl with a weiI-filled pro-
gram traverses in an evening Twenty
| dances is the awefase you know; of these
| about twelveoare waltzes. There at once
| are nine miles; the other dances bring her
| to fifteen miles at beast. to say nothing of
| the intermission stroll and the trips to the
| dressing room tosrenovate ones gown and