The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-23
BUSINESS GIRLS OF FRISCO
LEARN HOW TO KEEP WELL

In athletics lies the hope of the business
girl. In all the great cities of the coun-
try the Woodworking Office woman is be-
ginning to feel more and more the strain
which modern competition and an effort
to keep up with the pace imposed upon
her vitality. Just as golfing. tramping.
bicycling, swimming. and dozen other
athletic diversions have become general
among Office men everywhere, so the
business girl is following the lead. She is
undMg that fresh air and abundant
physical exercise, taken on Saturday aft
ernoon off, on holidays, and after hours,
affords not only splendid diversion from
the humdrum of her business life, but is
perhaps the best investment that can be
made in the light of her own health and
happiness and also in the light Of her
usefulness to her employer and her con-
sequent chances of promotion.
Everywhere business girls, stenograph-
ers, cashiers, bookkeepers, heads OF de-
partments, and humber workers, who
have just rs great need to preserve their
vitality. school-teachers and others, are
finding that some healthy outdoor recre-
alton will lead them to physical state
of we'll being that few women, and espe-
cially few business women, ever dream of.
The movement for oCt-of-door clubs for
the business girl is just starting There
are many hundreds of thousands of bust
ness girls in our great cities that by a
year from now thousands of out-of-door
clubs will he formed. But already the
movement is we'll under way. In New
York. Chicago, ST. Louis. Pittsburg, Phil
adelphia, Cincinnati, and San Francisco
office girls are forming out-of-door clubs,
and whether it is Cor a tramp through
the snowy fields, a game of hockey on
the ice, basketball in the gym. or a
plunge in the Pacific. they find equal
pleasure and enjoyment in the sport.
What Frisco Girls Have Done.
Perhaps one of the most remarkable
clubs of office girls in tire world is that
formed by a club OF San Francisco girls.
These girls have hit upon a plan by
which they manage to string their vaca-
ton throughout the year. The young
women who belong to this club had at
the start the build of the average young
woman. Five feet six inches in height
and 100 pounds in weight is about the
mean proportion. These girls dubbed to-
gether to live the life of out-of-doors.
AS q result wonderful things are to be
found in their measurements. In bust,
now close to the perfect standard. Their
calves and ankles require an extra inch
in the taper over and above the proper
tions prescribed to the marble Venuses
or to the most lesh-ard-blood models.
At first the girls of the San Francisco
Club started out IN a modest way. A
few walks and brisk runs through the
unfrequented cinder paths of Golden Gate
park and a brisk plunge for moment or
two in the tingling salt waters OF the
Pacific was followed as the months went
by with longer walks and more extensive
moments of romps in the water
To-day these Office girls have become
strangers to the pains and infirmities
that beset their sex. They have tasted
the highest physical exaltation and the
draft has made easy those numerous lit
tie sacrifices which their way Of living
entails.
And let me tell you, these healthy
amazons are business women. They earn
their living by hard work. Most Of them