The San Francisco call., 1905-08-13

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Are they capable OF development
and enlargement? No one who has
seen the familiar female acrobat
can doubt il. and yet the ordinary
arm OF the ordinary girl seems as de-
void Of muscular proportion as pillow.
The development Of muscle must be by
means Of exercise, and systematic not
spasomdic and intermittent exercise. All
athletes understand this and have a reg
ular and persistent training IN all their
exercise. Women. however, are rarely
under any necessity for such training
except. Of course. the professional female
acrobat, whose muscles must always be
kept IN q reliable condition OF strength
and elasticity.
But foT tac ordinary run OF women,
whose only exercise is that Of more or
less uncertain domestic duties, with an
occasional game of golf or ride on
horseback. much can be done in the way
or muscular development by very light
exercises provided they are regular and
systematic ami faithfully followed.
have recently talked with Professor
Miehung on this subject. and be proved
to my satisfaction how little exercise ii
required 10 make a Worlaas arm more
muscular and al the same time more
shapcly
OF course there arc many women who
neither indulge in nor care for athletics
in airy way. but stiil athletic, outdoor
women are much more in evidence now
than in former years. And what is
chiefly noticeable IS that they are ar
riving" az The very Top OF many athletic
sports.
Witness Miss May Sutton. the worlds
champion al tSnnisi And witness also
her opponents and rivals. al of them
very hard 10 beat 1t that most strenuous
game.
IN tennis, in golf, in riding and in all
outdoor sports in which women can join
II is chiefly the arm muscles that are
brought into play. and although it has
been said that women have no biceps
muscle. yet it is certain that in outdoor
. sports they hold their own with their
male companions.
Exercise is a good thing for every one
and should not be neglected. For gen
eral health, the best exercise in the world
is what is called involuntary exercise"
and By that is meant the exercise that is
incidental 10 duties or 10 games, in which
ones interest is absorbed. undisturbed by
any attention 10 the mere exercise which
forms part Of them.
The hunter viii walk all day after
game, covering perhaps many miles. but
very likely nothing would have induced
hlm to tramp a quarter Of The same dis
taaee as a constitutional exercise.
Very few women hunt. but d good many
v-fe
Ot which games tend TO develop the mus
cles Of the arm. Professor Miehling says
that woman's arm is much more beau
tiful for being used and developed.
The best developed arm among Amer
ican women to-day" sad Professor
Miehling. lis Miss May Sutton's.''
There are not many men who have the
. physical strength and endurance to play
tennis as continuously and as strongly as
the three Sutton sisters have been doing
this summer. They all play with sleeves
rolled back, with entire disregard for the
power Of the sun and wind. and as a
consequence their arms are tinted fine
bronze color. but the flesh is as firm and
nard rs a rock.
The development Of a wonan's arm is
OF course. different from that OF the mas
Culine arm. There aIe no bulging or pro-
truding muscles, such are shown in
pictures OF the arms Of prizefighters but
there is simply a firm. rounded arm
shapely and full. but the firmness and
solidity Of the flesh give il as much power
as is 10 be found in many mems arms
whose muscles are fairly prominent
Tennis naturally develops one arm more
than the other as most all the play is
necessarily with the right arm. but that
IS true Of almost any outdoor sport al
though perhaps in a less degree than ten
mis- But the general exercise Of the
whole body in tennis develops all the
muscles in their due proportion.
Miss May Sutton, for example, could
not be the strong, vigorous tennis player
that she IS If one side were unduly devel-
oped and the other side dWarfed by nom
use. There is always a great deal for
the left arm 10 do in tennis. and il gets
q good share Of the exercise of the game
May Sutton is short stockily built and
with a generous waist line. She is
straight and gives you the impression of