The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07

Neither dawdle nor try to break the
records of the champions. Be brisk, but
don't make II task of your walk. Don't
be afraid to swing your arms from SIDE
to side diagonally as you advance. LOU
may save the nice, dainty, lady-llke stl1I-
ness of the arms for formal occasions,
but when you are really walking put a
lct of power in the full swing OF the
before you as you go. The arm
swing makes the effort of walking seem
easier. and it is fine exercise for the aD,
domlnal muscles. strengthens them
the great tonic value of it until l ques,
toned several champion pugilists L had
observed at their training. Cf course,
none of us seeks TO acquire the muscu-
lar equipment of a pugilist. True. But
he doesn't walk to get muscle. lie walks
for health. stamina, efficiency. so you
see that his object is the same as ours.
At the end of the walk be sure to have
a tepid bath, followed by a cold shower,
or at least a cold sponge, and a brisk
rundown with coarse towels. Then rest
half an hour or so, and observe with
what zest you will enjoy your next meal,
enjoy every moment of the next rev
days of living. Many a time have L
felt blue, but forced myself into optl-
mistic mood by putting on a cap, sweat
er. and fannels and taking a good twelve
mile hike over country roads. Not that L
advise twelve miles as a good distance
for soft girls or any of the great army
of the unframed. Begin with short
walks. Don't o~ver-exert; A brisk,
swinging, cheerful half-mile is better
than a two-mile jaunt at a forced and
painful pace. -,
Don't overdo any exercise. Be careful
about this, for the folly of OVERRIDING is
the pane of American athletics. In a
brief space like this there is not room
to enumerate in detail all the forms OF
exercise suitable for girls. Chief among
them 1 should recommend for girls be-
tween IS and 80 swimming, riding, skat-
ing, tennis, golf, moderate rowing, canoe
ing, or bicycling. Lifting heavy weights
or using heavy dumpbells is dangerous.
So are all games of strife, such as basket
ball, hockey, etc. Above al, let your
exercise be interesting and entertaining
and don't think of doing anything ath.
letic without first taking the advice OF
a wise Observation-Disclosures Inglis, IN
Harper's Bazaar.
The Ideals of Our Mothers.
As for the difference between us and
our mothers, of course we all begin by
protesting hat if we can ever hope to do
our duty as well as they did our con-
sciences will acquit us. Who OF us
women, in our comfortable living, dare
compare ourselves to our mothers? They
did not talk about their rights they
fulfilled them-in taking care of their
families. They did not talk about re
forms;' they would have thought inter
ference in municipal questions, and agl-
tation for legislation, most unbecomng
dear hearts!-a gentle and ladylike ire
s~ponsibility in regard to the world lying
in darkness in city halls or legislative
chamberS-though they gave their pen
MES toward the saving of souls in dark
Africa, with a true, even tender emo
ton, to which most of us are strangers.
No; the mother of forty or fifty years
ago had no theories about improving the
world Except the heathen) outside their
own respectable doors; but they had
strength, and patience, and tenderness,
and courage, and selhessness. CThat, l
think, would be the name of their ideal
-~selfshness.) Can we remember that
selaessness, n see no difference be-
tween it and the present feminine indi-
vidualism? - Margaret Deland. in At
lantic Monthly.
Sphere of Woman.
Now that the subject Of woman's
sphere is so much to the fore, some ideas
on that subject which have been cleaned
from the records of sixty years ago
by Miss Ida Al. Tarbell are of consider
able interest. Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale.
the editor of Godey's "Lady's Book"
was a progressive woman, says Miss
Tarbell il The American, working hard
for the medical education of her sex
and other advanced things, but, like most
of the women of that time, she held fast
and literally to the Biblical theories about
women. But she had an ingenious way
of squaring these theories with her OWL
belief in woman's qualities. The first
chapter of Genesis, she held, for in
stance. didn't show that the creation of
woman was an afterthought; on the
contrary, it showed that superior care
and preparation were used in forming
woman.
Mrs. Hale. says Miss Tarbell, consid-
cred that woman was "God's appointed
agent eff morality" and that anything
which led her ava from that mission,
any assumption of intellectual, profess
sional or industrial equality with man,
obscured "her real and high calling"
That appeared to be the view of most
American women in the '40s and '50s.
They seem to have been wrapped up
in their homes. their husbands, their so
cial circles and their churches, and to
have no %yearnings for the ballot, yet
they were not incapable, it would seem.
Did not Cornelia Wells Walter take
Daily Evening Transcript from 1913 to
1S4S? And what woman of today could
show more bravery han Mrs. Hale, who
on finding herself, in 1921, a young
widow with five children and no money
with which to support them, set to
work, her baby in her arms, to earn
their living with her pen?
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Outdoor America.
An awakening throughout the United
States 70 the necessity of play marks
1908 as notable i'll practical progress
toward fitting our youth for citizenship.
While England cries out in alarm at dis
covery of the physical degeneration of
her city-bred, we in America, with a mil
lion immigrants annually entering our
ports, are turning for solution of our
similar problem to the playground, with
it's fresh air and wholesome recreation
and finding the answer. Quite recently
has come a realization that the play
ground IS as essentia as the school
room for the making of normal, efficient
men and women; and with his realiza-
ton daWns an era more humane in Senti-
timent, more helpful in method.
Although not having it's inception in
1909, that year at least gave greatest inn
petus to the playground idea, which,
starting as an expression of city's wants,
has developed into the most significant
social movement of the century. And for
much of this the Playground association
is to be credited.
In 1895 the only public school play
ground in New York city was an aban-
doned cemetery-today there are 261 of
them, and $123,O0O were spent in their
upkeep during 1909. Ten years ago $50
600 would probably have represented the
public school playground investment Of
the entire United States. Today 336
cities maintain supervised Fairgrounds,
and of this number 159 were added dur
ing the year just closed, at a cost of ST.
1So 100