The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 2, 1896, Page 26

. repel us and drive us instead, to being | . dragged up on an endless rope. Walking . two pictures—one of “The Cadet,” another | -the neck and remain thus poised until, in | * the position, a decided relief to strained most men and women walk like cows, | " these two creatures, and you will see what * Piccadilly,” has other faults than deform- “impress itself upon the bebolder’s atten- 26 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1896. How Women Do Walk and How They Should Walk I have spoken in this series of articles of the pleasure and benefit to be derived from walking. By this I do not mean the thing we know as pedestrianism, although tq;z is & good, meaningful word and once sig- nified what I have here called waiking. As a general thing this is a form of ex- ercise to which Americans, and in partic- ular Californians, are not much given. On this coast the cable and the electric car have succeeded so closely upon the heels of the vanishing horse that San Francicxns: may almost be said never to have known | the necessity for walking. ; Then, too, we have permitted the hills | of our City, which ought to invite and in- | cite us to scale their heights on foot, to up hill is, in reality, a useful and should | be a pleasant form of exercise. It de-| velops, at one and the same time, muscles, lung power, a graceful carriage and a light step. This always presuming that one | walks rightly. As a matter of fact, how- ever, few of us do walk rightly. Women are especially unskillful in this ffrm of ex- | se. This is duein part to himpering | skirts, impossible shoes and a barricade | apout the muscles of waist and hips, but a good deal is also due to ignorance. | In an article on West Point THE CALL | published a Sunday or two ago appear | of “The Candidate” —which illustrates, capitally, how to stand and how mnot to. Tell the average man or woman to stand up straight and he or she will throw the weight upon the heels, hollow in the back, thrust forward the abdomen, crane | pity, you do something to break the un- pleasant spell in which your request | seems to involve the victim. If women really desire to walk, and not to roll or waddle or squirm, as so many of them do, there are a few facts that they must bear in mind. First and foremost is the fact that the foot, and not the heel, should carry the weight of the body. Second, that the head, and not the abdomen, shoula be the first division of the human anatomy to tion. Yét, usually, the latter’ division comes first through a door. Iam aware that this statement is unpleasant, but the living reality is far more so, and worse, in that while the statement is almost inev- itable in verity, the reality may easily be obviated. Stand upon the balls of the feet, with the spine well erect and the chin drawn in so that the eyes look straight ahead upon a steady level. You will find that the lower part of the torso immediately withdraws into retiracy. You will find, moreover, upon practicing muscies and ligaments, long overworked by wrong standing. You will be able to stand longer and with less fatigue if you stand thus. . Now, walking should maintain the erect, straightforward - position, but in | ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it does | not. To illustrate from the lower animals, | #hen they should walk like horses. Study | I mean. The horse brings his hind feot forward on a direct line with the front foot on the same side, but the cow brings her hind foot around rather than forward, in a little outward swing which makes her method of locomution slow and lumbering beside that of the quick, trimly stepping horse. Watch, now, almost any man who has had none of the military training that is doing so much for our young men, and you will note that he, too, brings forward each foot in a slightly outward variation from a straight line. Faulty footwear is the principal cause of this ugly, shuffling gait, which is even commoner among women than with men. The toothpick shoe, known abroad as *‘the American shoe”” and among us as “the ing the feet. It throws the weight too much upon the heels, for the cramped toes and ball of the foot cannot sustain it. | woman who has worn corsets for nny! Then, owing to the position the body assumes in standing, the tread cannot possibly be even. Heel and sole soon wear a trifie on the outside—'‘run over.” we call it—and the knee, thigh and hip are thus thrown out of line. When this occurs the strained muscles cannot bring the foot directly forward, but swing it ont- ward at every stride, bringing it down in the flat, inelastic tread which distin- guishes most of us women. In a majority of cases, too, the muscles of the waist are prevented from acting freely by the restraining corset, which accentuates the hips as they roll and rise in the attempt at locomotion. This picture is not in the least over- drawn. What I have described may be | noted in any block of any street of our | City. And it 15 folly to assert that the | corset does not restrain the action of waist- | muscles. There are two strong, thick muscles running one each side of the spine, the office of which is explained by their name, the erector sping. These muscles should maintain the spine upright, but in the back of the | length of time they are seen to be wasted | and weakened about the waist, not neces- sarily because the corset 1s tight, but be- cause it has afforded an artificial support, and-the muscles, not being called upon to do their full share of work, grow weak in idleness, as does every unused organ or | muscle. They play a prominent part in locomotion as do also the abdominal mus- | cles, which are similarly hampered and weakened, and as a consequence their failure to act produces a weak, dragging gaitas well asa shufiling and inelegant one. As though our constant defects of loco- motion were not enough we have, just at present, a number of affectations of gait | that serve to accentuate and increase them. When you see a young man in wide trousers, cutaway coat, high collar | and pot-hatrushing along the street at the | rate of ten knots an hour, his kneessin king at every stride, swinging his cane far in advance of him at each step, planting it firmly upon the sidewalk and then bauling himself up to it, as it were, do not make the mistake of thinking he is practicing for a cake walk. He is.only doing the Harvard dip, which seems to be having a revival out here. Like unto it, in elegance, is what some one has dubbed the bicycle walk of the utterly correct young woman. This, too, comes to us from the cultured East, but some of our girls bave got it very pat. The bicycle walker carries a closed para- sol in both hands, grasping it exactly as one grasps the handles of a bicycle. The head is held well forward, the body slightly bent and the eyes regard futurity with a fixed and stony stare. The sight is a beautiful one, and not to be forgotten. Then there is the young woman who wears a sailor hat and stiff collar, puts her umbrella under her arm and swaggers; the girl ‘who carries her shoulders high and strides along with elbows at right angles to her body, and the girl who walks with her shoulders, rotating first one then the other side of her body as though they are two separate entities that sheis tow- ing along by the main force of her un- aided will. A little more will force would not be a bad thing for most of us in walking. X_n fact, the two qualities most desirable in locomotion migiit be said to be directness and self-control. These, for promoting a graceful carriage, are worth all the technical rules for walking that can be laid down. To have the body so trained and clad that it is a usable instrument for the work demanded of it; to hold it erect, step squarely and truly upon the foot; to bring e chin well in, so that the glance ahead is level, and to carry each foot forward in a straight line, with a free forward move- ment of the thigh and a supple bend of the ankle, are the essentials to a good walk. No woman wearing a long skirt and de- siring to appear graceful should walk rapidly. The three things cannot be done at once. Fortunately a time seems com- ing when we need not attempt them. The short bicycle skirt has taught women the comfort of freedom in country and hill walking. In the East a great many women have adopted them for rainy-day costumes, and it is quite likely that an- other rainy season on this coast may see | our women better equipped for it than they have ever been before. PeNELOPE POWELSON. i J,/ // n @h;” N 'f % | I il How the Athlete Learns to Become A Good Walker My subject this week will be on heel- and-toe walking, As far as hiealth is con- cerned there is no more invigorating exer- cise than to go out on the track and put in a mile or two as a pedestrian. “Fairness” in heel-and-toe walking con- sists of two principles and a few minor considerations. Unless these are carefully observed the athiete will iead a wretched existence. First and most important one foot must always be on the ground. This can beillus- trated by taking a pair of scissors and opening them half-way, or until about an inch and a half separates the points. Piant both noints on a table and then sway the scissors back and forth, raising first one point and then the other, always keeping one point on the table. In fair walking one foot must always be kept on the ground—that is, before the toe of the foot in the rear is lifted the heel of the one in front must be on the track. There must not be an instant when both feet are in the air like a runner’s, however instantaneous it may be. Such a trick is known as “lifting,” and is prac- ticed by some unprincipled men with a certain amount of success until they carry it too far, when they are promptly dis- qualified by the judge. This feature of unfair walking is the easiest for an honest walker to detect in himself—not that it is easy to do so, for I have known many a walker with the best of intentions to be ived; but Imean that of all the char- ics of unfair walking this one can be watched with some measure of success by one’s self. The next point in unfair walking is bending the knee. No one can walk fairly that does not keep his knees stiff. If you observe closely vou will see that the knee does not need to be bent much. Even men with long legs can get along with very little bend. You have seen two men walking along ina hurry, trying to catch a train, per- haps. One man will be faster than the other, and you will notice that the slower man, after walking as fast as he can for a dozen steps, wilt suddenly break into a series of skips half way between a run and a walk. He keeps this up for only haif a dozen steps, when he settles back i a walk, only to repeat the operation twenty yards farther on. Now that man is “lifting,” and he does not know it, possibly. The strain upon his hips to keep his knees stiff and swing his legs back and forth has been more than he could bear, and, what must not be forgotten, he found himself falling behind. He found that bending his knees a trifle and jumping from his toes, instead of taking a long, stiff-knee stride, was easier and assisted the locomotion. The stride should be taken by the power of the muscles of the hip ana the calf of the leg—not by the use of the muscle run- ning from the groin to the knee. -When the latter isused !ook out for the judge of walking, for if he understands his business he will warn or disqualify you. ‘When a person falls into the habit of “lifting” he is in a bad way, not only be- cause he is liable to incur the displeasure of the judge of walking, but because half the time he will be unconsciouvs of the fact. This, to say nothing of other causes, is what gives rise to so much trouble be- tween judges and contestants. In 1887 I was asked by the games committee of the old National Association to act as judge of walking at the championship games. In the three-mile race was a man named Clarke, a noted English walker. Before a mile was walked I realized that whatever Mr. Clarke’s style may have been in the old country 1t would not pass in tgese United States. Walking up to him as he was passing I remarked: “I'm sorry to say, Mr. Clarke, that your right knee is badly bent and you will have to correct it.”” I was truly sorry for the fellow, as I knew that he would have to come off the track sooner or tater if I did my duty. He looked at me as though he did not understand or did not care, and if he improved at all it certainly did nak ast long. Isoon found it necessary to repeat my warning, but it was received with the same stony stare. As he continued to walk with his left knee and shoulder sink- ing at every stride (*‘walking with one leg and running with the other,” as it is called) I notified him that he was disqual- ified. The only recognition that I re- ceived was a drawl that sounded like “Nal” when I notified him a second time I re- ceived the same sneering reply. But more than that, a large proportion of the occupants of the side stand, who had a grudge against the man who was winning the race, took his quarrel, and though thay were fully aware that I had served a long apprenticeship at the business, saw fit to jeer me for my onfair decision. The next day two or three papers took up the cause of the abused Englishman and scored me roundly. However, a hush suddenly fell over the scene, when on the following Sat- urday the New York Sun came out with news that the papers who had abused me did not care to publish. Itseems thatina walk that occurred one week after the games in question the said Mr. Clarke was disqualified by the foremost judge of walk- ing in America. In the same article the Sun vindicated my decision. In the case of Clarke, he was troubled with oneof the commonest forms of im- perfect walking, The trouble arises from a number of causes. Some that may be mentioned are weakness of the knees, weakness of the muscles, lack of care, lack of proper instruction and shortness of the sinews. A man may have had an accident when a boy, from which he has never truly re- covered; and the limp which has never intraded itself under ordinary circum- stances appears like an unwelcome guest at the feast. Sometimes the muscles are not strong enough, or the vital force is in- | sufficient to keep the knees stiff. The principal reason, however, is lack of proper attention on the part of the athlete or his instructors. Possibly he has no in- structor; in thac case he is simply unfor- tunate; particularly unfortunate because the judge has no right for any reason to observe clemency. The analysis of the matter simply is that when the pedestrian starts out fresh and strong he has no difficulty in pulling his knees stiff; but after he has covered a quarter of a mile, all unconscious to him his knees, or rather the extensor muscles, begin to get tired. Then the judge notices that his knees begin to sag, be- cause the tight cord under the knee is pull- ing, and no matter how slight it may be the official cannot tolerate it, however great a regard he may have for the integ- rity of the contestant. He will get a “cau- tion,” at which he will straighten his knee for a while by an effort, This will not last long, and he will get another caution. If he is wise, he will leave the track and avoid disqualification, for, if he has the difficulty of which I have been speaking, that fate awaits aim if the judge is com- petent and strict. There are a few minor points pertaining to unfair walking. Stand in the center of the field and watch to see whether a man’s head is level as he passes along. A per- fectly fair walker could walk aiong with a platform built half an inch above his head and not wear his hair off, because his head will travel on an even keel, as the sailors say. On the contrary, if he is afflicted with the bad knees referred to the crown of his head will travel in an undu- lating course, following a line like the swell of the ocean. If one knee is ‘“‘off”’ that shoulder will sink down at every stride, and give the appearance of limp- ing. Ii the arms are jerked and not swung smoothly, it is probably caused by jumping along from toe to heel, and the elbows are used to assist the improper mode of progression. I have just mentioned the arms, and as these are very important features of walk- ing we will talk more about them. The upper limbs can do a great deal toward as- sisting or interfering with style and speed. An improper way of holding the armsis to swing them diagonally across the chest; this positively interferes with progres- sion. Then the method referred to a moment ago of Jerking is very bad. The proper way is to swing them back and forth as follows: Mark a spot on the track eight feet in frontof you. Stand still and swing your arms in such a manner that the wrists will cross in line with your eyes and the spot indicated. Having fixed this in your mind begin to walk and observe the same rule. The hands should be used to assist the stride by helping the body on- ward, but too much care cannot be observed not to lift the feet off the ground. This is adanger voint if the walker 18 not ex- tremely careful. He continued his course, and |. It is the little things that count in walk- ing—more 8o, perhaps, than in most ath- letic exercises. Therefore I will give a few hints on these small questions. Keep the head erect—not strained too far back or allowed to sink on the breast. This should be carefully observed for two reasons, because it is likely to tire one until the aching in the neck draws the at- tention from the vita) point at issue, the race, and because it looks wretched and spoils what mignt be otherwise a fine style. . Carry cigar-shaped corks in the hands, and do not grip them in the fists as you would the handle of an umbrella on a windy day, but hold them diagonally, with the thumb resting en the small end, the fingers overlapping each other as they clasp the cork. This is more graceful than grabbing it, which makes the hand look larger and more awkward. Do not make an effort to swing the hips. Nature will take care of that for you with- ‘out resorting to unnatural means, As you improve the stiffness in the joints will graduaily disappear, the hips will limber up, and afler a time your friends will tell vou that you are taking a longer stride. Avoid’ jerks in every way. If your friends are not competent to judge your walk they can at {east tell you whether your style is smooth and even, and free from jerks. Tell them to watch your head, arms, hips, knees and feet—these are the vital points in walking—and tell you if there are evidences of hitching, jumping, limping or jerking of any descrip- tion. More than any other class of athietes a walker should be graceful. Not that it is imperatively necessary, but it is most de- sirable, GEORGE D. BAIRD. Musical Bicycles May Now Gheer Tired Wheelmen Of all the recent inventions pertainnig to bicycles there is one that is simply charming. It isanarrangement whereby the same power which drives the bicycle also sets in motion a music-box which is attached to the machine. The music-box is attached to the front forks and the operation is carried on by means of acord passing over a small pul- ley in the box and around onme of larger size fastened to the spokes. It is said that the wheel is in great demand for serenad- ing and running about town on pleasant evenings. Since the inventor has inserted the *‘Daisy Bell” cylinder he says he has had an increased demand for tandems. The inventor, by the way, is J. W. Banks, who lives in Iowa. He says that his idea is the greaiest of the century, be- cause it widens the field of bicycling to a degree that is almost alarming. He points out that with the music-box arrangement the racing man will be able to make greater speed, because the music will en- thuse kim, For the road rider there could be noth- ing better, according to the way in which Mr. Banks looks at it. If the spirits or the muscles of the scorcher should flag when on.the homeward journey all he would have to do would be to hook up the arrangement and bave music that would be inspiring and make him feel like a new man. The figure on the right is drawn from “QOuting,” and represents the walker in “An Unfair Gait ™ The figure on the left is drawn from a photograph of a walker at full speed ““In Correct Attitude " Another opening can be found for the musical bicycle. There is a possibility that it may relieve the fond father from the necessity of getting up during the night and walking the floor with the cry- ing baby. All pa would have to do under those circumstances would be to get his bicycle upstairs from the lower hall. Taking the baby in his arms he could then mount the bieycle ..1d begin to ride around the room. ———— The Man On the Street Who Knew His Rights The world over there is a well-recognized rule that gives pedestrians the right of way, but in San Francisco only a few of those who drive horses respect it. There are some people who occasionally stand upon their rights and assert them. That was the case on Market street, opposite Mason, on Friday lsst. An elderly, well- dressed man, whose white hair gave him a patriarchal mien, was crossing the street, when a youth, behind a bay horse hitched to a delivery wagon, drove along at break- neck speed. The old gentleman saw him and stood as firm as a statue. The youngster saw him, too, and by hard tugging reined up within a foot of the old gentleman. “Why in 8t. Paul don’t you get out of the way ?” yelled the driver. The party addressed neither moved nor answersd. Behind this team came another and then others, and cars, until there was a procession extend- ing down to Powell street—a regular blockade. The driver repeated his question and the old gentleman, waving his hand as he stepped aside, said: ‘‘Young man, I only wanted to teach you a lesson ; drive on, but not too fast.” Should Women Work for Liess Money Than Men - The remark is often heard, “Girls are taking men’s places.” That phrase is often wrongly used. When a girl takes a place, does the same work for the same wages as a man would gec, she takes ne man’s place. It is her own. But when a girl takes a place where some man used to make -a living, and does his work with equal excellence for one-third or one-half the wages, she is taking his place aud he and all the men engaged in the same line of work have a cause for a grievance against her. In strict justice she has no right to this in the present condition of society, which is anything but justice, it seems a neces- sity. Perhaps when girls are taught the prin- ciples of political economy they may realize that this partly subsidized labor is wrong. They certainly do not now. 1 _have talked to them often and found only the densest ignorance. That it is wrong to do a man’s work for $4 a week is too deep for the girl who can live at home and have all the $4 for nocket money. That the cook inthe kitchen is more independent and occupies a position more honorable seems to her only an insult. They are forced into it, too, if home is crowded and the head of the family can- not provide enough for all. The $4 or $5 seems a great help. It is one of those de- ceitful helps that really hinder by mak- ing the labor of other workers worth less. It is useless to explain to a struggling family that this cut in wages that gives employment to one of its members cuts the difference off the wages of thousands of other people. Present need blots out the sight of the future reaction. An anxious mother will offer the ser- vicesof her son in office or store for a pit- tance just to keep him off the street. Does she see the selfishness, the inhuman- ity of it? To save herself a little worry, or to shift the consequence of her careless raising,she makes the family man at the next desk work for a pittance too. In the professions this conflict of the sexes has made as yet no difference. The woman physician and the man are paid alike, the teacheris paid regardl f sex, and the writer is paid for what she does, not for what she is. These women are educated to see the error of offering their services at a dis- count, and when men learn that to com- pel a girl to take less than would be offered a man is to make the next man ac- cept the same, there will be less jealousy when a woman does receive good wages. It ought not to crowd out one worker if another joins the ranks. Things work in acircle. The more earned, the more will be spent. The more produced by labor, the more labor ought to be able to afford to use. The merchant says he cannot afford more clerks because he does not sell more goods. The worker says if he could have con- stant employment he would have more clothes and better food. One condition would produce the other. There is some- thing all wrong, The pictares of childlife in THE SuNDAY CavL, while true and startling, are illus- trations of a wrong. It is not from among the children raised in the midst of great wealth, with no care or thought for the morrow, that will come our statesmen, teachers, inventors, sages. It is rare indeed that a man or a woman from the very rich class really does any- thing. They have power, the power that comes from wealth, ard from it may gain civil and social honors, but they lack the incentive to bring forth the best that is in them, that comes from the necessity of self-advancement. The very wealth, with its burdens and obligations of caste, dwarfs and narrows them. Fathers toil and mothers deny them- selves that money may be left to children to sap their intelligence and ambitions and turn them into elegant idlers. The surest and most honorable inheri- tance is the ability to use hands and head to some purpose and the expectation and the will to do something. The dainty aarlings on the one hill will never do as much nor in truth amount to as much as the ragezed urchins on the other hill. But both extremes are wrong, the result of a deep-seated mistake some- where in the social system. Extremes are always unnatural. Itisnot from either of these types we must look for our citizens of to-morrow, but in the sirata which lie between. It is the sturdy middle class that counts; the class that is being drawn more and more to one extreme or the other, to riches or poverty. The land which has most of its people in that middle class of comfortable working families is in no danger of revolutions. Every person on earth is worth enough to supply his bodily wants and s rest in his age, and no pereon is worth more than he can or will useor a hoard to leave be- hind. No person with strength hasa right to an idle Jife, ana if all were workers, instead of crowding one another we would all be able to enjoy the whole fruits of our labor, IwishI need notv see so much to con- demn in the growing girl of to-day. Not 1hav my condemnation is anything: it is the facts that are something, t On the streets late at night when those whose labor will allow them are forgetting the cares of the day and in sleep finging new strength for the morrow girls ana boys are loitering. Not girls who must be out, but the happy ones with homes and comforts. They are out for fun, in groups and couples, at the corners and the gates until near the midnight hour. Doing no harm, perhaps, just now, with tneir whis- vering ana giggling, but growing away from their womanily dignity and sweet- ness. In that evening converse is not one word of common-sense; indeed, ‘“Jimmie and Mag” will say weightier things. Mothers do not realize how little they really know of what goes on behind that smooth white forehead that seems inno- cence itself. Did you ever listen to the talk—one cannot call it conversation—of a group of schoolgirls? It is not edifying; tisnot encouraging. *‘He” is most of it PRy o Fireside Lost ' by the e City's Lust for Gold - He was about 45. His clothes looked as ™ - though they had not seen & clothesbrush for years. He was cross-eyed and red- haired; but he had evidently-found some one who could excuse his personal ap- -, pearance, for a tender matrimonial light .° beamed from his gray orbs as he rushed . into the outer room at the Mayor’s office, .- “Gimme a marriage license.”” e “Right upstairs, sir—Larkin-street wing;- they will fix you all right,” said Ms. Wik liarus with as much suavity as though he had been addressing a bank president. . In about twenty minutes he returned, . still determined to marry, but a little less " sanguine of being able {o do so. 2 *I have been told,” hesaid; with a fin assumption of dignity, ‘‘that this is a free : -. country, and yet that man upstairs says that me and my fiancee cannot get mar- ried until I put up $2. Now, I haven’t got 2 cents, much less $2, and I want to know whether I am to be prevented from efjoy- ing connubial bliss and the comforts ofa happy fireside. . I guess that's it,” said Mr. Williams.. “Well, then,” said the man, *‘this great and good city government shou]d supply me with the necessary funds.” . “Nary $2, said Mr. Williams, and by - the time he had finished lecturing the: - man of little cash the latter had concluded that marriage without funds might aftef all be a failure. ““He" represents the universe, and ‘‘what . Isaid to him, and what he said to me that made me nearly die laughing” is what the world turns on. A And “*‘He”! Such a dear, curly litt]e he, . with banes and a weak mouth, B Better the athletic girl, with her nevers *: ' ending talk of sports; better the girl tull of the real ana imaginary wrongs of her sex, than the girl with her mind full of that baby-faced nothing. . & Boys do not talk often or ‘long about - ‘“‘she.” If “she’’ is mentioned with free-’ dom “she” has forfeited respeét. It is no . compliment to have one’s name. used" familiarly among the boys. Girlslove to talk over the boys they like best, but boys" shrink from speaking of a very nice girl., Their talk may not be wise or witty, never- theless the subjects have wider range. ‘While so much is being said and done to save our boys thiere is a crying needic . save our girls; the girls sheltered in happy homes, as well as the girls who must earn® .’ their daily food. It helps, it strengthens, it ennobles a girl to know she must learn something * well enough to earn her own living by it:- and the lesson is not complete until she has earned it. With that self-reliant inde- pendence she measures the men qf her ac- quaintance, and feels no need to marry, the first one who offers for fear she may - never have another chance. She’can af- ford to wait till the real prince comes along and then, so long as women are.. women, she will lay down her- task and follow anywhere. More than half of the failures in mar. - riage comes from lack of this independ-, ence, or from a hasty marriagze to escape the restraints of home or- the toil thag.is irksome. After a year the ola home life - seems all freedom, the old toil all rest, - Instead of crying that marriage is going - - out of fashion better be more careful and .~ make it possible for divorce to go out of fashion, z i RS Girls are aping more and more the dress and pursuits of boys, and boys are growing more and more like girls inlooks. : One night as I sat ina theater I conld = . look across and catch the profile of a score of college boys in one row, just the side of the face and head. At first I thought they were girls and was struck with the pretty, effect without hats. Wavy hair parted in the middle failing low over the whité® brow, pink cheeks and refined features. * They have a perfect right to do it and the", result is very pretty, only do, not-be so hard on the sisters who are trying to per- petuate the more rugged type. s g In the German class of the U. C. I used to wateh Mr. A.'slovely hair. Itfelion - - each side in such soft waves. I grudged him that hair when I was spending pre- cious time trying to keep my own straight, looks in curl. Butone day it rained. It a soft, warm rain and the windows - ‘were leit open. Mr. A. was deep in Schiller and forgot to move from his place by the window. The_damp air floated in and touched those envied waves. They began to straightem, . They straightensd clear out and hung in itle tags. I wonder why? SFeone Orive Hxvpexw,