The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-23

are employed in Offices and work from
until or $50 o'clock. leaning over ma,
chine or desk. 1t would seem that theil
athletic work on the Cliff House beacl
ought to arouse the interest Of every
| American working woman.
| Three evenings of the week after Dime.
they engage In two hours recreation with
| Indian clubs or basketball. But on Sun.
days and holidays they don their flannel
bathing suits and shoes and lay claim to
their romping ground. They generally
| take hike" of ten or twenty miles, after
which they congregate at their cabin
along the beach. which Is made of two
disused old street cars, so that the great
expense Of owning a club house (Which
is always the most Objectionable expense
and barrier) is wiped away by the de.
termined business woman.
After the AmaZons have come in from
their hike they change their suits for a
plunge in the ocean. As the Cliff House
beach is not a popular swimming beach
on account of the undertow and the fact
that the temperature never rises above
fifty degrees II warns sturdy men to keel
to the shore. The breezes are so sharp
here that II makes one " onder II the ex-
istence of the Japan current is possible.
affords bathing beach and Fairgrounds
"a
the world.
Small Wonder They Feel Fit.
But can you guess who has this very
beach? Just a club of modest working
girls. The average Office woman regards
her work as a physical strain. If she
walks half a mile in getting to and from
her work she is likely to complain of
fatigue. She rises late Sunday mornings
and lounges around home all day in the
belief that she is resting. She goes back
to her office Monday morning lacking
freshness and buoyancy. In time her
strength, health, patience, and cheerful
ness wear out. In the end that girl
blarnes the Office system. while. as a
strict matter of justice. she should lay
the blame on her own shoulders. She
thought her body well treated. while. as
matter of fact, the only members to
receive their due were the fingers with
which she played her typewriter. The
Office woman can preserve her health, her
spirits and know the full Joy OF living
IL she possesses single, none too COM
mon characteristic mean II she pos
sesses resolution.
It Is. then, resolution that is the chief
essential to physical perfection, and it is
unflagginG resolution which has brought
the girls of the San Francisco Club to
their present state of physical perfection.
If any of these merry girls wants to see
a model Of what a healthy young woman
should look like she has only to approach
a mirror in her bathing suit, and, 10! the
model stands before her as lovely and
as radiant as can be.
To see the girls of the San Francisco
Club playing leap-frog or racing on the
beach or dashing into the surf on the
slightest pretext at any and all times of
the year one would never think that any
Of them had ever any need to summon
up any will power to take exercise-they
all seem to do 1t naturally. Yet all these
girls work hard for a living. and no
doubt II would have seemed easier at first
for many of them to have rested late
Sunday in bed or spent the evenings at
a dance or theater. These girls have GER
tainly developed a love for athletics,
though that love may have arisen with
resolution.