Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-08

your girl friends have regular table every
day. The walter knows this, and does not
hurry with your order. After you have
eaten you sit talking over new shirt waists,
last nights trip to the beach and other
girlish topics until time to return to the
store or office. All around you Is hustle.
the crash of dishes. shrill voices and foul
air. Do you think this will rest you and
send you back refreshed to your work?
Suppose that in summer you change your
way of spending the noon hour Is there
no small park or square near your work
room? If so. take your light luncheon OF
crackers and fruit and eat 1t under the
trees. If you are selling goods behind
counter take with you some restful inter-
esting book and forget the worries of the
store On your way back stop at some
clean-looking dairy and drink a goblet of
cold milk. Do not drink quantities of soda
water and other soft drinks with your
lunch, and leave pastry alone in summer.
Perhaps there is a roof-garden restau-
rant near you, or you may be working near
the river with its ation piers for the
poor and its docks. Walk down there at
noon. If there are points of historic inter-
est within walking distance of your office
visit them occasionally. Study new phases
of your own city, and do not spend your
noon III the vicinity of your work, nor
waste the precious hour listening to the
complaints and office gossip of your fellow
workers. Your health Is too precious
The Evening Hour.
So much for your working hours! Now,
how do you spend your evenings? Sitting
on the front stoop, listening to the crash
of passing trolleys and the quarrels OF
neighbors and children? Or do you light
the gas and spend your precious hours of
rest bending over some bit of feminine fol-
de-rol that you could buy just cheaply
at midsummer sale?
Leave them both. Take your mother for
a trolley ride into the suburbs. If there is
a park near, take your father or your
brother or a couple of girl friends and find
a hill to climb, practicing your deep breath
ing exercises between chats. This trip will
improve your complexion, because climbing
acts directly on both kidneys and skim ana
makes them throw off impurities and natural
waste. Your lungs will draw in more oxy-
gen, the circulation of your blood, when
gives you a good color, will be increased.
and when you come home you will sleep as
if there We're no such things as nerves. DO
not think that city parks are just spoonlng
grounds for engaged couples Bless you,
no, girls-they are for you and me and all
the rest of the work-a-day world to scour
IN search of health and good looks.
Then there is your half holiday on Satur-
day-your Sundays. What will you do with
them? Have you ever taken swimming
lessons? Did you ever know that at the
public baths you will find many pleasant,
companionable girls who have baths at
home, but who want to learn how to swim?
Try 1t with these girls, and in time you will
look forward to a semi-weekly swim. This
will straighten and broaden your shoulders
and give you the much-desred high chest.
The Public Parks.
Have you ever visited the recreation
grounds in your public parks? Did you
know that there were fine tennis courts
where you could play the game, which, to-
gether with deep breathing, develops the
chest and makes the figure erect and sup
pie? The player becomes lighter her
feet, more graceful in every movement, and
1t steadies her hand and arm. If you are
afraid to play at first in public, buy a cheap
racket and ball, and practice in your back
yard until you can command a sure quick
stroke.
IF you do not care for such violent exer-
else in hot weather try canoeing rowing
on a shallow lake creek in the suburbs.
One of the sights of New York which very
few tourists see is the gathering of girls
every Sunday morning at o'clock at the
Central Park boat house. These are what
l call the one-daX summer girls. In their
short skirts, short-sleeved shirt waists and
duck hats. they flock around the old captain
of the little fleet of lake boats and on
cool, clear morning there are hardly enough
boats to go around. Sometimes four girls
take q large boat together and row by
turns. Again, two girls hire a canoe and
both paddle. Sometimes they stay out for
an hour only and go home to breakfast
Again, they bring lunches and books guide
their craft into rocky grottos and rest and
read
Rowing makes the fat girl thin and puts
flesh on the thin girls arms and while you
are on the water you breathe air free from
dust and fill your lungs with oxygen. Do
not try canoeing until you have learned to
swim, as canoe is tricky. Rowing is safer
Wear lightweight fiannels, either In your
shirt waist or next to your skin, when you
are on the water.
Try Fishing.
There is one more sport which very few
city girls think of trying, but which is no
end of fun, and that is fishing. Suppose you
were to say to the young man who takes
you to the beaches or down the river on an
excursion boat every Saturday afternoon:
Next Saturday let us go fishing. I've a
stout, short skirt, a white duck hat and
a pair of thick-soled shoes to wear, and l
think I could keep quiet long enough to
catch a fish"
What week he will put in buying cheap
fishing rods, bait box, etc. And then you
will take a trolley a train which VIII
drop you near the WoodS-and proceed to
lose yourselves. Without realizing it, you
will walk miles and miles, following the
stream. You will draw in great breaths of
invigorating woodland air. You will forget
the din of street cars, the whirr of machin-
cry and the fault-findng of customers
When you go home that night you will
know the young man better than If you had