The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23
Passing Of Wasp Waists Among Women
 Is Now Being Recorded Say Gymnasis
Physical Longer Admires t Delicate White Faced Woman But They b Admire
 Brown Faces and Healthy Girls

The de Milo figure and the passing sof the wasp waist among women which has come with physical exer- else, mean that she will be new creature physically and a much fns- proved one, says Dr. Watson L.. Saw age of the Savage gymnasium in New York city.
 A cable message from Paris recetv- ed not long ago quoted Dr. Louis Brock as saying that the woman of emancipation and increasing mental effort, was becoming physically an tu- Eferfor being, hollow chested, and with rounded back. pr. Savage says that this is not so, particularly with the American women who have the most and the best kind of exercise.
 Tt is more likely to be true of the French girl than of others. said Dr. Savage. The French woman impress ses me as being more feminine in a
 way She does not take up sports as the Anerican and the EngiishWo- men do The Frenchrnan does not for that matter. He plays golf and tennis a little now, but fencing is the national sport. You go into the parks and recreation places in France and you will not see the people play ing games; they are sit1rng around and eating. A French woman goes to the races and now she is doing more with fencing. It was a French girl who took the French champion ship for fencing No; I believe that was really one Of my Pittsburg girls who was at school in France. A four teen-year-oId French girl took the i'm Iternationa1 tennis championship the other day, but that was phenomenal, land don't know how it happened
 '.You always think of the French girl as being dressed up. You don't think of her as wearing comfortable clothes for sports as you do the Eng lish and the American girls And in England it is really only the upper
 The German girl gets her exercise in I d different way through hard work,
 which makes her a different type ..It has been only recently that the German women have been taking up | gymnastics that have been hitherto now beginning to open classes for women, and they are going into them That means great change. Ine turner's are going through period of transition. The Americans won't
 stand for the old heavy athletics tthey want more games and the younger men are getting out of the older organizations
 ssThe American woman is more ac- tive, vigorous and energetic now than
 at any time in my thirty years exper- ience don't know what the actual change in physical proportions is, though they have records of them l in the women's colleges. And don't know as the women have changed
 much more than the men. We do so much preventative work in both
 medicine and gymnastics that 1t has made a better race. And it is throwing the physicians out of busi- ness. Not half of those who go through the medical colleges go into
 the profession. A doctor who is the | 1-i-a Er Inf money in connection with his work, and his best work is of kind to throw him out of business. The same pre- ventive work goes on in the gymna-
 sium. We are taking up gymnasium work more and there were never so many students of gymnastic work preparing themselves for teaching as this fall
 .-our children begin with their dancing and games in the kindergar- ten, form their athletic leagues, and
 the training goes on in high school
 and college. The girls who are to
 be teachers are trained, in all lines
 of athletic work the same as men. They learn to play and coach base
 ball. and they must study the rules and regulations of all athletic games. I never did believe there was any anatomical reason why a girl cou1dn' t | throw a ball, and don't believe it now, I saw it said in the papers the other day that some girl had made a won 1 derfuI heave of 16o feet There
 are four or five of our girls who can 1 throw 1S0 feet. You can see the change in the girls figures from this Il kind of exercise They have grown large around the waist within the last ten years. There are no more
 wasp waists; we have Venus de Milo | figures, and it means better women.
 The suhragists might go into a
 battle now and fight for what they
 want but don't believe they will do that I don't think we shall have
 women soldiers. Women light
 CT build in every way than men, and | it would take generations of training