The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-02-03
GET hike" HABIT
IS HER ADVICE J
TO WOMEN
Mrs. Stubs Assures Us That 1t
Adds UNNECESSARILY to the
JOY of Living
CAMPED FOR SIX WEEKS
HIGH UP IN THE ROCKIES
Has TraInped Through the Swiss
Alps and the California
Sierra Madres

NEW YORK. Feb. 3.-Among the
women who started on the suffragette
hike" to Albany and were baked In
their desire to walk all the way by
the call or business engagements was
Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubs. She had
taken prominent part with Gen.
Rosalle Gardiner Jones, In planning
the trip, and walked "A good part or
The way. she had TO return TO Manhat-
tan from TINE TO time 10 Ill speaking
engagements previously made Now
she Is planning TO make up for IL by
eoing with a friend for walk through
Switzerland. incidentally she viii at
Tend the international Woman's ALL
ance Congress at Budapest.
Mrs. Stubs is one OF the energetic,
athletic young women who are coming
10 the front in the suffrage movement,
with which she has been identified for
years, as a speaker, as treasurer OF the
illinois association, as a lobbyist, and
now In tho lecture bureau OF the New
York State Suffrage association.
Mrs. Stubs was born in Chicago
Her father is well-known editor and
writer. and she herself has been
writer since she was a girl From
sirlhood she enjoyed gymnasium
training She loves outdoor life. one
u her first walking trips was over the
battlefields OF the civil war. Ten years
ago she made mountain walking trip
through the Swiss Alps, and five years
go she walked through the mountains
or British Columbia
Before her marriage to DR.. F. Cur
ney Stubs, OF Chicago, In 1896 she
lad training as nurse in St Luke's
hospital In that city. Immediately aft
or her marriage she entered upon so
cial service work In Chicago. After
the death OF DR.. Stubs, three years
ago. she came east and spent year
at the School OF Philanthropy and
Columbia university. Since then she
has been identified with the New York
state Suffrage association, making adj
dresses throughout the state. Last
January she went TO California, and
while visiting Miss Elizabeth Pingree.
OF Long Beach she spent much time in
the Sierra Madre mountains and
climbed Mount Wilson. On her way
back TO New York she spent some
lime hiking" the Rocky Mountains In
Colorado.
There has never been any doubt in
fair minds about women as a whole
possessing equal intelligence with
men," said Mrs, Stubs to The World
reporter. The cry is generally that
lnder the stress OF conflict, mental or
physical women, coddled for untold
generations, would become hysterical
and weak The answer is the strong,
vigorous. self-sufficient woman OF to-
cay, the product of outdoor exercise,
thoroughly domestic and feminine and
intelligent, and backed by that vigor-
Gus, perfect womanhood that, in spite
of all men say against Il, they still,
admire in the depths OF their previous
hearts. Today We are producing these
women, and the most hopeful sign is
the lad for walking. The Albany
hike" carrying a message to Sulzer,
was an outward and visible demonstra-
tion OF an inner and spiritual awaken
ing.
All over the country women are liv.
ing more In the open. Take the Sat
urday Afternoon Walking club. of Chi
Cago composed OF artists. literary men
end women, thinkers, lecturers home
makers and anybody who wants 10
get out into the open. Ii is nothing
strange for these people to walk fif-
teen miles on a Saturday afternoon,
covering the famous moraine north OF
Chicago, the Desplaines River Valley
and down on the sand dunes of In.
diana. They come home at night, aft
er a dinner at some wayside inn, full
OF enthusiasm and new ideas, with
cheeks tingling and brains free from
cobwebs. | have walked hundreds OF
miles with them In all kinds OF weatn.
or. | have tIamped through the Swiss
Alps, the Canadian Rockies. the Sierra
Madres OF Southern California and the
Colorado Rockies. and have never
Tailed to thank God for so much out
doors
After ten months in California last
year stopped in Colorado on my way
back east, and with a woman friend
took rustic mountain camp high up
IN the Rockies and there for six weeks
we slept in a tent Sept. 10 We came