El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-09
THE MAKING OF A PRETTY GIRL ::
BY Margaret Hubbard Aver.


~ EY lady is an athletic girl
NJ said the proud mother OF
one year old Nannette Tar
box Beals. To show what she could
do, the baby swung valiantly, support
ing her own weight while holding to
her mothers fingers.
The daughter of this well known
business woman. Mrs. Jessie Tarbox
Beals, began her athletic deNelopment
when she was about two months old.
for there is no age limit Tor the attn
Ietic girl.
You can begin whenever you want
to, and you can go on as long as you
like, or take up athletics when you
are well advanced in middle life. The
grandmother of some friends OF mine
still goes swimming at so, and she at
tributed her superb health TO the Prac-
tice of outdoor exercise.
Every girl should nave some sort Of
outdoor fad-somethlnS that combines
exercise and amuseDent-some sort
When YOU talk of athletics many a
girl thinks at once of golf or tennis,
polo, riding, or some sport which ne
cessitates the expenditure of money
either for habits or costumes or for
the implements used Riding, for in
stance is quite beyond the pale for
those of moderate income who live in
the city. and the girl who lives inland
can't enjoy the delights of swimming
as can the girl who is in New York, for
instance, or in the lake cities
Not Expensive.
It is this idea of expense that keeps
so many girls from joining some ath-
letic club or league But there are
always ways of avoiding the more eX-
pensive forms of sport. just as there is
always time for the girl who wants to
take it to develop herself physically
and to gain health and good spirits in
regular outOfdOOr exercise
I va
to be pretty, and of course that IN
cludes all girls. should belong to small
groups or clubs who would pursue
the culture of beauty out of doors in
some form of athletics. The girl with
the athletic fad has no time for foolish
wool gathering, and if she is bent on
making herself physically strong and
we'll, she will not be the one to dress
in some of the ridiculous fashions of
the day or to paint and powder her
face and make herself unpleasant
conspicuous in other ways.
The girl who wants to go in for the
simplest, as well as the most health
full, form of athletics can join a walk
ing club or get one I'D consisting of
friends and, if possible. one older per
son, as chapeTOn and Instructor.
Very Popular.
These walking clubs are quite pOpu-
laI in England, and there is no cost
attached to such an organization. The
chaperOn or instructor should be a
person of moderate leisure who has
time 10 SluuA up the points OF historic
interest in the neighbOrhoOd. No mat
ter how new the city or town, there
is always some place not far away
where some interesting event in his
tory occurred. Get books on the SUBJ
ject at the library.
The walks should be taken to these
points of interest and the instructor
should know enough to call the atten-
tiOn of the members of the club to
bad carriage, awkward walk or other
defects. The club should meet once d
week at least for a long walk, and
during the course of the season one or
two tours to distant points should be
planned and carried out, on foot, Of
course These clubs are very popular
III Germany as well as in England,
where a group of young women with a
chaperon, and sometimes a guide for
longer trips, will go on walking tours
lasting from two to six weeks.
Walking clubs should train their
members to the longer feats of endur-
ance by slow degrees. On rainy days,
when the members cannot take their
outing, they should meet at the home
OF the member who has the largest