Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-18

But the crowd protested 10 the secre-
tary. The girls declaration was announced
from the judges stand and a cheer went
up. Ride him she did and win tho purse
she did. When March comes around she
does not 20 to school in the afternoon, but
trains her horses instead. She is her own
groom and spends every possible moment
with her mounts. This schoolgirl has won
derful strength not merely flashes OF
strength, but great muscles. While weigh
ing only l0 pounds she can pick up
loO-pound key OF nails with her finger
ends.
And speaking Of riding Theodore Roose-
Welt achieved some fame by setting the
army Officers a pace and riding 100 miles
in day. And the president got
no little pleasure out OF referring to It.
Then one fine morning Mrs. Herbert Wads-
worth started out for pleasant little ride.
She changed horses several times, so much
did she enjoy riding, and when she drew
rein that evening, sixteen hours later
she had made just l59 mies Then there
was an ominous silence on the part OF the
cavalry officers who had complained at
ninety miles and the president began talk
ing about shooting big game.
Contests in the water.
"Of all the contest places in which
woman meets man the fairest Is in the
water. Every day practice does not fit one
better than the other. And here II is that
woman so predoninantly excels. Man for
man, woman for woman, woman is by far
the better swimmer There are more good
swimmers proportionatey among women
than among men. The feats of two or
! three women in the water stand out as al
most unbelievable. Unbelievable until one
| begins to look into the mockery Of the
phrase the weaker SEX
| Last SEPTEMBER forty contestants set out
| to swim Hell Gate, New York Nearly all
the contestants were members of the life
saving corps and weatherbeaten. A slender,
nymph-like girl OF IS kept in the back
| ground as far as possible while the swim
mers were lining up. She seemed so out
of place among the thick shouldered, deep
chested life savers that the crowd CAPPED
! at her In establishment.
- It's Il shame to let a girl like that GO
into old Hell Gate said shoreman. II
viii just play with her.
The race began and the slender gir
set oIt with long overstrokes that sent w
I ripple OF applause. Seven miles she
fought her way, with the launches in the
rear picking up the spent swimmers. The
mill race off Ward Island caught her and
buffeted her as IL she were an eggshell
Hundreds of people were awaiting her OF
shore Thrusting aside proffered hands
she ran ashore and shook out her hair,
heroine. Thus Miss Adelaide Trap,
teacher in tho Brooklyn public schools, be
came the first woman to swim He'll Gate
often girls OF a very tender age de
velop surprising natatorial endurance. A
Boston, in the suburb of Dorchester, live
Rose Pitonoff. When only 10 years oil
Rose Pitonoff swan one and three-ausrte
miles in just forty-four minutes. For
! mere child she has wonderful endurance
and scarcely a week passes during tn
swimming season that she does not max
an endurance swim
Walking and Motoring.
, Woman has always been mincing o
step as accepted thinking tells us, but witt
, all that she has established records tina
make the greatest male pedestrians nerv
Gus. Mrs. Frank Savile, wife of the Brius
3 sportsman, is typical. Her father was
celebrated alpine climber and taught he
3 the art of walking. She Is the only woma
! who has ever walked across Montenegro
n And she carried a paraSol. Her longes
4 days walk on this trip was from Morach
monastery to zhub, a distance OF thirty
: three miles over snow and rough ground
) one mile OF which would daunt an averag
3 man.
) Even in motoring woman has show
r great courage and strength. Nine. Camill
5 du Cast of Paris is a great auto racer, com
4 peting with the best drivers in FRANCISCAN
winning. She carries a mecahnic, as a
g racers do, but she uses him only when
+ Is absolutely necessary. She drives a 81
b horsepower car, and often makes seventy
d five miles am hour on cross-country courses
= To hold the wheel when an automobile
d tearing along faster than an express trai
d demands great strength. In a race fror
v Paris to Berlin with 100 entries she finishe
d nineteenth and with that she stopped o
:. the way to assist friend whose machin
n had upset, staying with him until help al
rived.
= "a few years ago a rather slender woma
d gave up teaching Latin at Purdue univeI
g sty in Indiana and began climbing mour
!. tains. She now has twenty mountains I
It her credit. Miss Annie Peck althoug
n nearly so years Of age, scales peaks wher
). human foot is unknown.
+ In Worcester, Mass, lives a woman VIII
Is is noted for her gentle manners and he
q mountain climbing. She is a daughter
l. former Governor Bullock of that state. i
n July, 1907. she set the womans record fC
mountain climbing by an ascent on the Nu
u Kun range in the Himalayas. This tri
II took three weeks. All this time she we
under the greatest strain, both from ii
height and from the cold. She had to ri
> snow on her feet TO keep them from bein
l. frostbitten and TO strike them sharply viii
J. her ice ak to find whether or not the
5 really were bitten by the cold. She strut
IS gled on until she had reached an elevate
'r of 20 26O feet"