The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-08-23
SOCIETY HAS ANOTHER FAD
FAIR DAUGHTERS OF EVE HAVE
TAKEN TO WRESTLING.
Health and Handsome Figures Sought
BY Fashions Followers, Who Go
to the Mat With Enthusiasm.


to the Mat With Enthusiasm.
Wrestling classes are the newest
thing for those women whose mus
cles are flabby and whose forms are
frightflrI. The women of New York
and Boston started the movement,
Chicago and St. Louis matrons are
fast taking it up, and others in the
country's social centers are getting in
line. In the quiet of country homes,
too. more than one society woman is
taking her course in wrestling these
summer days, and many a villa has
it's gymnasium, where hostess and
guests have their morning bouts be-
fore breakfast, very often taking les
sons from a regular teacher in the
art. One can buy wrestling trunks
and skirts Just as easily as riding
habit or bathing suit. Women are
reading up on the strangle hold and
the half Nelson-oh, there is little
left now in the way Of sport for men
aIone
Boston has taken up the new fad
of wrestling with apparently as much
vim as New York. 1t was recently
introduced at polite Beacon Hill, and
now it has spread to suburban Brook
line, 'the richest village in the Unit
ed States" and even to "cold roast
Boston" which is the name they give
to Nahant, the Hubs Newport, where
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anyone, or nearly everyone, has her
half hour on the mat daily. AS for
Miss Eleanora Sears of Boston and
Newport, who goes in for every sport
that is suitable for men, she is as
good on the mat as she is on polo
pony or flying machine.
What Started the Fad.
Just what started society on this
new fad is not very plain, but Boston
got it's tip from New York on lect-
ure on beauty, grace and carriage
delivered by a fashionable physician.
vigorous exercise" he said, "of
the rough and tumble sort will do
more to convert angularity into
curves than all the medicines in the
drug store. You women can wrestle
can substitute loneliness for plain
ness, by regular exercise in a one
piece suit. Why not try it for the
sake of health form, grace, carriage,
beauty?'
He carried his hearers with him
and it wasn't long before orders were
placed in a dozen costume shops for
special tight-form wrestling suits.
One devotee of the art sums it up
this way
Wrestling under certain condi-
tions will take the place of the doc
tor. Health is not restored by drugs
as frequently as it is by helping ma
ture do its work as it should be
done Combined with walking and
deep breathing in the open air, regu-
lar eating Of plain food, and the
drinking Of pure water and milk,
wrestling will make a middle-aged
woman ten years younger, frail wo-
man many pounds stronger, a nerv-
Gus woman forget herself, and a
poorly nurtured woman a human ma
chine of real vitality When the
muscles are strong and under perfect
control and the heart is working true
and the lungs are expanding at their
full, as they are in bouts at wrest-
ling the real agencies that make for
health are in motion"
Boston Enthusiasm.
When enthusiasm reaches a point
where Boston woman will cancel
nome reading from the poets in
order to meet another from the blue
book in tumble contest in glove
tight suits it may be said to have
permeated. 1t is strictly true that
engagements on the calendars of the
smart set have been on several occa
sions revised to contemplate new
bookings to 'wrestle with Miss --"