New-York tribune., 1906-05-20
AN ARDENT YACHTSWOMAN.
Miss Riokmers's Trip Across Atlantic N Her
Fathers Boat.

,5r,,rars Of the German system of feminine ed
ueation with it's emphasis upon the more wonanly
accomplishments. could hardly find a more satis-
factory exponent of German ideas than Miss Renee
Piclu1ers the young German girl who crossed the
Atlantic in her fathers great hye-masted steel
auxiliary bark, the r. c. Rickmers. and is now at
the WaIdorf-Astoria with her father, Andreas Rick
meTs
Equally the adherents OF the athletic girl might
claim Miss Riclmers for their own, for did she not
steer the r. c. Rlckmers. the largest sailing vessei
in the world for short time one day. feat tAi'
many athletic American girls would baik at
THAT was nothing laughed the young siri' "a
speaking Of the passage. mo physicai s"e
whatever is required TO steer the biggest SNIP
where the steering is done by steam appar@.Ns' u.s. o
in ours child could do il with the lttle ilhsVi
I could not attempt tho responsibility OF s'eeilns
a vessel for long, as have never STUDIED haslsa-
ton except as a pastime. and one must DC aoe % ~ ~
read a ships and keep her 10 IL III oiUe -
be said seriously TO steer
voh. no." laughed Miss Rickmers. in her unas-
sunaing manner. 81 have never been TO coiese-lh
Bremen, where We 1--we, most OF the girls rece4Ve
their education at private schoois-out ulu sPe"u
four months at a school of housewifery' AnS ~"
sttution is in Baden, and is under the patronage
oP the Grand Duchess OF Baden. There i was IN
structed in the domestic arts. sewing COOKING,
etc. learning not only how TO make Dread anu
cakes and how 70 cook and serve dinner Out
also how to cater and how TO supervise house
these things. believe. than the Americans AL
home although we have hOusekeeper' run the
kitchen and order the meals
Yachting is a favorite pastims with tne S Eich-
r,arsas 9fhree wears ago they went TO North Cape,
spending seven weeks cruising around Norway anu
Eve hung about North Cape two days and a
half" said Miss RickmerS, waiting fOr the fllu,
night sun to show through the toS' anu theh naO1
~ ADother wear they cruised about the Mediter-
ranean touching at Algiers and other ports -,
AS becomes a cosmopolitan young woman, WI
speaks French we'll as she does hec lnOIneE
f6Tgue and English almost well as either. VINO
knows her London and Paris by heaft and spstnus nus
her winters on the Riviera, where her tatner mas @
a villa, Miss Renee declined 70 oe surDfiseu OF
aBTt haven't seen hardly anything yeti she
modestly diselaimed. u haven't peeh 10 Cls
theatre or gone shopping even. ,,,
Later she admitted that New York women d,d
dress very well-though not better than the WOnl-
en- OF London or Paris" she made haste 70 add.
''And certainly they spend great Geal more on
their dress than German women sne cOhsclen-
tiously appended. - ,,,,,. j.
AZ nisht She went on. 1.-THE subway? Oh, yes;
I've ridden in it. and its very mnes put SO Is tne
fuba in London. This morning we went over the
Produce Exchange and ascenGed the tower amer
leans be much more excitaDle tnafa we Ger
mans are, and your streets are so noisy!
There Is one thing DO want 10 see DeiOre L
sail for home, and that is a womans club. We
hear so much In Germany about the Aferican
On tuesday Miss Rickmers and her father leave
for Washington. They will return by way OF
Niagara Falls the Thousand Islands, Montreal
and Quebec. Miss Rickmers sails for homo on the
Wilhelm der Crosse, june ", and as soon as the
r. G. Rickners has received her cargo OF Standard
oil Tor Saigon, Cochin China, "ths oap'n'' will
weigh anchor for the East. with high speed