The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-06
DANCING IMPROVES HEALTH or WOMEN
So Mrs. Duffield Professional Dancer at Local The
alter States-Are Young Americans Really
Becoming Mollycoddles3


er or not it is mere evolution into
a different order of being, it is the
truth that much amazement and, in
deed. >incredulity, has been expressed
over the action of the high school
boys the other day in voting to abolish
football.
When boys cease to play football, or
cease to care for the game, it looks
as though their veins were flowing
ice-water instead of good red blood.
Athletics. no doubt. assume too
much importance in colleges. The foot
ball team. specially, oftener than not
assumes god-like proportions and the
actual purposes of college education
become obscured.
But while it is admitted that the
movement to minimize athletics and
other college appurtenances in high
schools is an appropriate one, since
the high school should not be made a
college in miniature-the high school.
as Mr.. Cotton pointed out in series
of lectures here a few weeks ago to
be made not a preparation for college
but preparation for that life to be
led by it's average attender-an entire
notification of interest in the harder
sports would seem to indicate good
deal of wishywashiness.
Women. as general rule, despise eff
Terminate men.
They are tolerated. But are viewed
with secret contempt. Sometimes
amusement.
Degenerate as it may sound wom-
an would rather see two brutes maui
each other at boxing bout than to
hear them play the piano. Or see them.
man at piano-specially in ev-
ening dress, is anomaly. You would
on occasion-say at the Murray now
and then-like to see them jump up
and biff some one in the face with
the piano STOOL
Men are created to haul off and hit
hard.
This is not saying that they should
throw pots and pans at their wives.
Nor that they should beat children.
But let them, when the time de-
mands. be able and willing to defend
their fists, if necessary" as the good
DR.. Cook wound up his recent defense
of himself in the near-pole imbroglio.
And you can't do this by teaching
them fancy-work when they're young.
To be sure it is said that football
0f H.
whichever way you care to look at it,
under the new rules, is Invested of all
interest and excitement and that it is
the presence of that very red blood,
just decried, which animates the
youngsters when voting to cut foot
ball off the local list.
Is this true? Nobody knows with
gertrude.
But if football is to be abolished,
why not introduce the noble art of
boxing.
Boxing at it's worst-or best-is not
half as brutal as football in it's COM
mon, or garden, variety or in other
words, as everybody interested in the
sport likes to see it played.
Jumping up and down on each 9th.
ers faces with hob-nailed shoes is a
trifle more strenuous than swift up
per-cut. But the latter is far more ar.
tistic.
Come to think of it it is the art in
boxing that makes it attractive-or
might if you could see boxing artists
perform. Like other kinds of artists,
however, they don't come to Rich
mond. And for the same reason. 1t
don't pay
One of the sores that eats away at
the foundation of the social order is
the lack Of respect women have for
men.
They want to respect them. But
can't Its chiefly what's the matter
with the world. And it may be be-
cause, as Mr.. Roosevelt says, the ma
ton is training up set of mollycod.
dies who would rather swing in the
hammock and diddle-daddle round the
house than to get out in the open and
measure their strength.
Let the best man win.
But how is this to be done if there
isn't any best man?