The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-24
THREE GOOD STORIES.

Here is the story, says the Chicago
Record Herald. that a certain well
known and popular woman of the Chi
cago clubs and clubdom is telling-not
at her own expense, however, this
time. This woman is a firm believer,
theoretically, in the value and virtue
of abundant physical exercise. Prac-
tically, she finds time to take very lit
tie. Which makes the story, as she
tells 1t, all the more amusing to her
friends.
I'VE were going to the theater to-
gether, my husband, my brother and a
masculine friend is the way the story
opens, "and when we got quite near to
the railway station we discovered to
our horror. that our train was almost
due. There was nothing to do but
run, If we would get to the theater on
time, and as certain guests were to
meet us at the entrance, and we held
their tickets. this seemed an advisable
or at least a courteous thing to do
I'll run If you will, told the men,
smiling.
You mean they retorted, with
scorn and contumely, that we'll run If
you can.
That nettled me no little. and, pick
ing up my light skirts, l dashed off in
a hurry. Talk of the value of exer-
else. Each one of those men is count
ed a gym. fiend' by his fellows and as
sociates, each one takes lots of exer-
else every day. / never bet time to
take any exercise. other than hurrying
from one engagement to another, and
rushing up and down stairs. But /
left them so far behind that it amuses
mo tNalr
reached the top of the station platform,
painting and blowing and breathless,
just as the train steamed in, was sit
ting there calmly, not a bit out of
breath or flustered, and had been sit
ting there for some time.
of course the Wretched creatures
say that took them by surprise when
l started off so suddenly. and that
they couldn't run for laughing at my
manner of doing il, but just the same,
I'm half foot shorter than the small
est of them. 1 never earned or bore a
single college honor or record for
sprinting, the run of three blocks didn't
trouble me bit, either, at the time of
afterWard, while all the men were up
set all evening, and two of them were
actually ill next day, and I've only to
say, We WILL If you cam to any one
of them to watch him get purple faced
and furious on the instant, and to be
morally certain that he will not so
much as look at or speak to me for
hours and hours!"
Many of Chicagos most progressive
and valuable club women are deeply in
terested just now, as they have been
for some seasons, in the matter of the
clean city" enthusiasm with which
they at last succeeded in inoculatlng
some of their husbands, and brothers
and some of them have pathetically
amusing stories to relate of the hap
penings and experiences that have be-
fallen them to the course of their I'M
selfish work.
One such woman, hurrying, not long
since, to an important club meeting,
espied on the street beside her a large
piece of soiled and crumbled paper.
True to her principles and practice,
she stopped and picked up that piece
Of paper with the white-gloved fingers
that Immediately showed distressing
evidences of the unsuitable contact.
Then, as no fitting receptacle or place
of deposit appeared, she walked on
ward, carrying the paper with her.
Her mind was full of the afternoon s
purpose, but a portion Of it still kept
track" so to speak. of the soiled and
crumbled paper. Catching sight OF a