The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-17
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nected with the university nearest you
will bring a catalogue or bulletin which
explains all about the work.
For the woman who has received
diploma or a degree from one or tnese
schools there is never any question OF
getting work" There is a growing De-
mand in all parts OF the country Tor
specialists in this branch. Pubic mgr
schools nowadays are not complete Win
out well-eQupped gymnasiums, and Tor
these gymnasiums women gymnasium
teachers must be had. City school sys-
TENS to be up to date must have super
visors of physical training to visit
schools and direct the physical culture
lessons given by the grade teachers RI
vate schools. too. need trained physical
culturists to give the proper drills and
calist henics. to teach gymnastics II there
is a gymnasium to instruct in hygiene
and physiology and to look generally
after the physical well being of the STU
dents. Normal schools want teachers to
teach others TO teach gymnastics. ana
women's colleges everywhere are adding
each year to their corps Of trained physi-
cal culturists to take charge of the ply
steal well being and the athletic interests
OF the college girls
The salaries of physical culture teach
crs are about equal to or perhaps lit
tie above the salaries of other specially
trained teachers. Six or s"N"a or eight
humid ed dollars a year to begin with is
the usual salary for the inexperienced
young woman gymnastic instructor. As
she rises In her profession ard holds
position as supervisor in public school
system or as an instructor or director
in a training school. she not inrrcquent-
" gets much as $500 year.
80 ~ n n.
Iona from a physical culture school.
Now suppose you can't afford to go to
school 10 learn your trade. there are still
several ways for her to get start as a
physical culturist. The Young Women g
Christian Association has in most OF the
large cities well-equipped gymnasiums
where an ambitious girl could. through
IRA ctice and observation. learn as much
as she could in the training school. II
in addition 10 this course you could take
a course in hygiene and physical culture
such as is often given by the Young
Women's Christian Association. you
would have an excellent grounding in
physical culture.
But suppose YOU are a country maid
and live far from the Young Women's
Christian Association h"adquarters-far
from any classes in physical culture. II
YOU have a great deal of persistence. YOU
could probably get a good deal from a
correspondence course Several of the
physical culture experts who make a
business of giving physical culture by
mail really know their business and if
YOU went through a course OF exercises
such as they prescribe. YOU would prob
ably not only he benefited yourself but
would get good start in the art Of in
structin- others. This. with some stand
ard textbooks Oh hygiene and physical
culture. would so long way toward Civ
ing YOU the knowledge required.
One 1s-year-old Giri VINO took a So
course in physical culture made sue
cess of 1T in the small town where she
lived. Her first work was in a young
wOman's club where she earned a few
dollars a week teaching the members
what she knew about correct breathing.
poise and graceful carriage. About this
time The. local authorities added an OPEN
air gymnasium TO the towns improve
ments and the young physical culturist
was straightaway employed at sl2 q
week TO take charge OF it. Here the
young womans duties were all day Sat
urday and after school hours until s on
the other days OF the week. Soon her
reputation was so well esta blished that
the girls private school of the town en-
ployed her two mornings a week for s.
thus bringing her weekly earnings to sls
an enviable salary for an 1s-year-old
girl in the town where she lived.
Another Young woman whose knowl-
edge OF physical culture was gained at
the Young WOmens Christian Associa-
tion rooms and a term in summer school
became All expert in so-called Setting
up work. She was thoroughly convinced
Of the value of systematic exercise in
regeneration after illness and full of
enthusiasm. she made a canvess OF the
physicians offices in tho town where she
lived. She told them that she wanted
them TO recommend her to their women
PATIENTS who needed to be built up after
Illness. That was six years ago and
now this Young woman has more calls
than she can possibly attend to- the ply
siCians in her town recommending their
patients TO her setting up Just as they
used to recommend a trip to the sea-
shore or mountains. The yearly income
OF this young woman IS somewhat over
5000
One excellent way for woman to
make money a physical culturist is to
have privat" gymnasium. One young
woman equipped small gymnasium for
$50 in what was once the woodshed OF
her fathers house. Here she conducted
various classes in gymnastics. folk dane
Ing. and health exercises for the women
of leisure in the town where she lived
Through the efforts Of this young woman
physical culture became fad in the
town and within a few years no woman
who didn't attend these classes was
considered socially elect. The result of
this was just what the Young woman
wished. a pleasant occupa ton for her
self and an income OF over 5000 a Year.
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