The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

The present autumn. has developed among American women unusual interest in the noble game of golf. Give American women that superb health and strength which are possible for the sex to attain and there is no limit to what they can achieve. But health. is like faith, without which we can do nothing.
 Exercise in the open air and plenty of sunlight are golden factors in the achieve ment of the superb health that now all women are a-seeking. They can get these through golf better than through almost any other game. and the best of signs is to see American girls and mar ried ladies devoting themselves to 1t. The fact that they take golf in earnest Is al- together favorable. When our ladies be- gan first to dabble in the outdoor games which men play they did it in half hearted, amateurish way, as though no- body expected anything of women and they did not expect anything of them- selves It really appeared as If the main thing was to dress up and look pretty at a game of croquet or lawn tennis or any, thing else they might go at in fine ladyish way.
 When golf came in. however. women had to get rid of their confining stays and veils and high heels or get out of the game. There was rough ground and up- hill to traverse. There were briers and ditches to be scrambled into after stray balls, gallons of air had to be sulped in. or my lady was out of the game. In golf the plays, the thing. not the looks of the girl. Miss Rhona K Adair, the Irish gir who has twice won the woman's cham pionship of all Great Britain, says of her golf costume:
 T wear any kind of skirt and waist that will enable me to have perfect free. dom."
 She could not be the golfer she is with. out perfect freedom of action for heart lungs and limbs. In actual play she wears a skirt that reaches to her shoe tops, flannel shirt waist usually and g Tam O'Shanter. It may be added that in the height of game she generally has her sleeves rolled up above her elboys SC they will not be in the way. Her cos. tune seems about as near the perfection of athletic dressing as woman can gel till she discards skirts altogether and
 wears the loose and full gymnasium
 "knickers'' for outdoor sports. One oi our most famous American women play.
 CTS wears Tam OShanter cap tied dowr
 over her ears with veil when she Is or
 the links. Miss Adair wears loose glove.
 while at play. She finds they do not in
 terfere with the free use of her hands.
 There is no more interesting specuia tion than considering how far athletic cul ture among women will carry the femi
 nine sex in the matter of physical devel
 opment. Since the world began 1t doe: not appear that any women except tht beautiful Greeks ever attempted athletic development. The result of the expert
 ment can be seen in the Greek female statues that remain to us. There must
 have been a model for the Venus of Milo
 Now. are we going to have real flesh and blood Venuses of Milo again? Nature lgave woman the same number of bones land muscles that she endowed man with. How / far may these be strengthened, and developed
 now that we have begun the work? Shall We have six foot women. royalty strong and graceful in proportion? Why not?
 One of the best points in connection with outdoor athletic games for women Is the mind training it gives them. Ex- ceiling in sports is even more 8 matter of mind than of muscle Miss Rhona Adair Is slender woman who does not look at all giantess. yet few golf play CTS even among men excel her. She main- | tains in her game the habitual mental l attitude of quick decision. boldness and absolute cool headedness and confidence. But by cultivating these qualities a wo- man can win in any sort of game, even the game of life. A golf expert says of Miss Adairs playing that no woman yet developed by American golf plays the