New-York tribune., 1911-12-24

Iona from physical culture school. Now.
suppose you can't afford to send your
daughter to school TO learn her trade
there are still several ways for her 70 get
a start as physical culturist The Young
Women's Christian Association has in
most of the large cities we'll equipped gym.
nasums, where an ambitious girl could.
through practice and observation, learn as
much as she could In the training school.
This association conducts classes in SWed-
ish gymnastics, folk dancing. wand and
ring drill and various kinds OF ball plav.
the entire course, with two lessons a week
for six months, costing the modest sum
or SZ' II IN addition to this course your
daughter could take a course In hygiene
and physical culture such as is often given
by the Young Womens Christian Associa
tion she would have an excellent ground
ing in physical culture.
But suppose your daughter is a country
maid and lives far from the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association Headquarters
far from any classes in physical culture.
lf she has great deal OF persistence she
could probably Get good deal from a COR
respondence course. Several OF the physi-
cal culture experts who make a business
Of giving physical culture by mail really
know their business, and il your daughter
went through a course OF exercises such
as they prescribe she would probably not
only be benefited herself. but would get n
good start in the art Of instructing others
This, with some standard textbooks on
hygiene and physical culture. would 60 a
long way toward giving your daughter the
knowledge she requires
one eighteen-year-old girl who took
twenty-dollar course in physical culture
made a success of it in the small town
where she lived. Her first work was IN
young womans club, where she earned
few dollars week teaching the mem
bers what she knew about correct breath.
ing, poise and graceful carrlage About
this time the local authorities added an
open air gymnasium 10 the towns i'm
provements, and the young physical cult
urst was straightaway employed at SO
a week to take charge of II. Here tho
young woman's duties kept her busv all
day Saturday and after school hours untu
8 o'clock on the other days of the week
Soon her reputation was so well established
that the girls private school of the town
elhIloStu htI TWO mornings q week for
s., thus bringing her weekly earnings 20
$l9-an enviable salary for an eighteen
year-old in the town whore she lived
Another young woman--whose knowIedge
of physical culture was gained throupb
the Young Women's Christian Association
rooms and term in summer school-bo-
came an expert in so-called os.tti,,, r,,
work. She was thoroughly CONVINCED q,
the value OF systematic exercise IN 20
cuperaton after Illness, and, full of onthu-
slasm. she made canvass of rho So
slcians' Offices IN the town wbsro H.
lived She told them that she wantad -
to recommend her to their women ro,,an,, |
who needed to be built up atter ,nno.s
That was six Years ago, and now ,nt,
young woman has more calls than sh, aa,'
possibly attend 10, the physlcians a. 49,.
town recommending their patiar,s :" 49,
setting up just as they used 10 -,
mend a trip to the seashore or poun,aIns
The yearly income OF this young yon,an
Is somewhat over 5000
Copyright 1911, by Msry Marshaul