The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-06

The Newport Golf club Is deserted.
A few enthusiasts play tennis at the
casino. Some of the young set battle
and keep thin. But with the majority
1t is all talk of gears and crank pins
ana tires and gasoline and sparkers
ana carburetors and what not Nobody
walks a step these days when he can
AFFORD an auto. The bicycles that were
so smart five or six years ago lie rust
ing In the stable loft, while the men
VINO once used to keep them oiled and
the nickel bright now clean dust from
gasoline
Let it be added, too-society matrons
and maids were slender and willowy
when they biked along Bellevue. Now
well, it wouldn't be polite to say. But
the next time you see Miss Nathalie
Schenck you might ask her. She lust
dotes on automobiling. You could hard
| ly call her WilIowy
Now, this isn't all, by a long shot.
| Not taking exercise is one good way
of putting on fiesh-unhealthy flesh.
! the doctors call it. You can also put
on fat alarmingly fast if you eat too
much. And what Wondrous appetites
| you can work up after spinning sixty
or hundred miles in almost as many
/ minutes! Banting and autOing GER
tainly don't go hand in hand.
Ask any auto crank
| II
! enough to eat after a good ride" he'll
/ tell you. The keen, fresh air the wind
| always blowing in your face, the Zest of
| speed and the Wee spice OF danger all
| adds to your appetite when your spin is
! done. Why, can eat steaks and pota-
| toes and eggs and vegetables and drink
pienIy or ale or Scotch whisky the min
ute I've washed off the dust and changed
my Clothes.
| What puts flesh on a man or a woman,
Tor that matter, faster than ale or Scotch
Newport and Narragansett and other
centers OF fashion are not the only places
whose fashionable folk are fattening.
! Here's note of warning uttered by the
| London Globe, organ of the smart set
abroad and appropriately headed, "A
! New Motor Danger"
motorlst is the alarming rapidity with
! which he puts on flesh. To ride in a
! motor car cannot be called very violent
exercise, but at the same time il sharp
| ems the appetite and leads the motorist
| to pay more attention to the trenched
than he would otherwise do. Most auto
of exercise and practice 1t in the inter
| walls of driving. Fencing and punching
! the ball are two of the most efficacious
| and popular"
So this explains why the wise ones are
| taking up fencing. now that golf is dead
among the fashionables and tennis too
trying to all save the very young people.
Likewise 1T explains the punching bag
| fad at Newport, which no one was quite
! able to account for.
At Spouting Rock Beach-Bailey's
Beach, the vulgarians call it-you'n find
! a dozen punching bags hung up in the
pavilion. and there when you stroll down
! pretty girls exhibiting their prowess with
! the bags. No rude male fist is allowed
| TO punch them. so the gallants gather
round and admire in silence. Now the
| they do it over on the other side Of the
! pond, just as a guard against the auto
1t certainly is
The girls won't give up their autoing
| trips. nor will they give up their figures.
! So. to counteract the i'll effects Of one,
! they affect the other
Now there's beautiful young Mrs Will
| lie" X. Vanderbilt. OF the young mil
| lionaires her husband is the worst Of all
| the auto sharps. They've been autOing
| for months now abroad and have just re-
| turned to this country.
Can that he Birdie Fair?' gasped the
| astonished NewpOrterS VINO haven't seen
| them for wellnigh six months.
Mrs. Vanderbilt was once the slenderest
! of young matronS, but now she takes
| 100-nile trips on her husbands red dew
| lis and-welI, no one would recognize in
the buxom Mrs. Vanderbilt of today the
willowy Virginia Fair of five years ago.
he has put on ten pounds abroad, but he
| hasn't guessed yet that he has sue
! cumbed to the new peril.
! To name others in society who have put
| on flesh would be almost to catalogue the
| $780, OF course, there are a few who
couldn't gain pound If they tried But
the vast majority of the smart set-many
! of them won't own it-are putting on the
| pounds so fast that soon we viii have, II
| this thing keeps up. an obese society in
/ stead of the tall. well groomed men Of
| RAbygone days, an dthe graceful, slender
| women.
But see them spinning by now, all heav-'
| Ter than they were Jimmy Breeze, Al
| fred Vanderbilt, Miss Cynthia Roche, Miss
| Martha Johnson, the GOuldS Bradish
| johnson and scores more Of them.