The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-21
GIRLS, YOU MAY
WEAR GYM SUITS
Board of Education Says You May
Exercise IN Blouses and Boomers.
CONTROVERSY is ADJUSTED
MISS MARTHA JoHNSoN's AND
PRINCIPAL EAToN's VIEWS.

High school girls may wear the regu-
lation gymnasium suits in vogue IN all
co-education Institutions where instruc-
ton in calisthentics is given.
All girls CAN wear gym suits.
some can wear them better than
others, but until yesterday the ques-
ton as 10 whether the girls of the
salt Lake High might or might not
wear them was unsettled. And now
Il has been decided in the affirmative.
EiVe les boomers! All honor 10 loose
blOuses,
For, the board of education commit
tee on teachers decided at meeting
yesterday afternoon that boomers and
blOuses are great aids to the proper
development of the MISSES IA the High
school physical culture class. The de-
ciSiOn was reached after the commit
tee had given hearings 10 Miss Mar
tina Johnson, physical director, and
pro- boomers, and George 4. Eaton,
principal OF the High school, and anti
boomers.
The meeting Of the committee was
held at the Y NJ. 9. A. building, and
The principal item OF business was the
mOoted gym suit question.
Suits Used Elsewhere.
Miss johnson explained that the
suits such as she advocated, and 10
which Principal Eaton voiced his OBJ
lection Were in use in all colleges OF
the east AID west at Wellesley, al
stanford. Cal. Chicago and many other
universities OF a coed nature.
She explained that one of the prin-
cipal parts OF the suit was an article
of dress made famous some years since
by the new woman" tO-Wit, bloom
ers; that the aforesaid boomers were
similar TO their more classic neighbOr
the divided skirts. This part OF the
suit, for the benefit of the uninitiated
hangs about the forms of the aspiring
6ymnasts in much the same manner
that a well known negligee robe for
Jhe male (see genus pajama) saving
that il contains far more cloth, Is
gathered at the knee and held there
by an elastic band
Everyone is familiar with the blouse
these bloWsy sort of blOuses which al
low full play at the rowing machine OF
basket ball or kindred exercises which
the High school girls are indulgmg in
This-this and nothing mOre-AIiss
Johnson explained In brief, is the suit
which is needed at the ). L. II. ;.
Eaton Against Suits.
The committee also heard Principa,
Eaton. Just what Mr. Eaton said is
not a matter of record, nor I'D 1t
care to discuss the subject last even
ing. He did express, however, an
tipathy TO the sym suit idea, ano
declared that he could not see the
necessity nor the prOpriety of bloom
eTs and such in any part of a schoo
OF learning.
The ruling OF the committee means
that. while wearing of regulation suits
win not be compulsory. all girls who
care 10 may don the uniform.
Miss Johnson was asked last night
If in her opinion the suits aided ma
terially in the breathing and other eX-
ercises of the course. Her reply was
IT is matter of safety and health
and the suitability Of dress for the Oc-
casion. IN my opinion not only is
the growing body given much greater
play when gymnasium suits are worn
bat il is unsafe to wear heavy skirt:
and combining waists during exercises
You must bear in mind that, far from
being anything radical or innOvatOry
the gymnasium suit such as l desire
our girls 10 wear is I'm use throughout
The country. IT il recognized thai
olouses and boomers are essentials Il
the proper training Of the body
The suits TO be worn hereafter by
all High school girls who so desire art
similar 10 those used by the members
of the women's class at the Y NJ. c
A The latter institution approves Ol
IL cir use