The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1905, Page 6

_ the limit of their nervous strength,” is equally true of the extremes to} R The Evening World's Hoine Madazine, Saturday _Evoning,. Scptember @ublishea by the Preas Publishing Company, No, 6 to @ Park Row, New York Bntered at the Post Oftice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. WOLUME 46 seeeeNO, 16,090. a ’ TOO MUCH FEMININE ATHLETICS? } ‘A woman golfer who has been three times champion of the Woman's ropoliian Golf Association, and was before that a prominent tennis he has been ordered abroad by her physicians to avert a nervous breakdown. “Too much golf” is their verdict. Her threatened collapse » lends point to the well-remembered warning of President Eliot to the | Wellesley girls that “women who indulge too much in athletics will injure * themselves.” Is this the end to which feminine athletics nvust lead? The question = naturally occurs at a time when a great, and it is to be thought a danger- "ous, increase is observable in the strenuousness of woman’s devotion to "competitive outdoor sports. It is not only in the rough-and-tumble basketball contests at women's : cofleges, in the track and field sports of Vassar and Wellesley, ihat the ‘nerves and muscles of the contestants are strained to the utmost. It is the woman jockey of Grafton riding her thoroughbreds at break- neck speed in the Worcester and Newburyport races; the six society women swimming a close race through the breakers in a storm at Virginia Beach; the woman winner of the Cape May motor-car races, or Miss Sut-| ton’s exiraordinary endurance feat in winning the world’s tennis champion- | ship over all comers—it is these and similar instances of woman's particl- pation in athletic sports under high pressure which excite apprehension of | her health and justify warnings against excess. In the brief time since she entered the athletic field, where she for-| merly was only a spectator, woman has made amazing progress. In running and jumping she is every year reducing the margin of difference between her record and man’s. She sails her own yacht in regattas, drives her own motor car in road races, tramps all day in the rain} over sodden golf courses, shoots and fishes with her brothers, boxes, | fences, plays baseball, makes new records in mountain climbing. In the} news the other day was an account of ten-year-old Dorris Reid, of Balti- more, climbing the Croda di Lago mountain in Italy, 8,800 feet high. To the outward and superficial view this devotion to athletics is accomplishing much for her in the way of improved physique. Is her general health bétier? Undoubtedly where she has taken exercise in} moderation. But nervous collapse at thirty gives an unpleasant glimpse of the! other side of the picture. | If that is to be the outcome of the strenuous athletic life for women | the sooner a halt is called the better. The world is not yet wholly con-| vinced of the benefit to man of the severe pursuit of outdoor sports. It) is more than ever sceptical of their good effect on the frailer physique of | the other sex. Probably it {s the general opinion that women are decidedly over-| doing their interest in athletics. What Miss Hill, director of physical training at Wellesley, says of women in track and field sports, that “it is| undoubtedly dangerous for young women in their teens to struggle to| which they are now carrying all sports. They are making draughts on their nervous system which must later on be repaid at usurious rates. : w Letters from the People, # hing for him? At did show himself you reall exactly out wat Anti-Tipping BUI and Insurance 4 o'clock he Agents. for several seconds, and {t was my Fo the Editor of The Evening World: leeiviiewe’ fo. sea (iin vers? (dietinctl Tt Is theld to be gcod law that the | wity the eclipse covering about 40 per agent who secures insurance cent. of his face. A little patience was | agent of the insu ailvthat for the insurance th> agent a commission or par premium so paid by the tlon—Does the Saxe law I believe It does, was necessary. BROOKLYNITE. The Beanty of New York. Jdltor of The Evening World: York is the most beautiful eity I've just returned from a The Re p. and if I ever get the other | their shops made the s: fairly impassable. The street was still—deserted, in To the Fat in it will be busi-| fact. Coming over I had met trolley cars jammed with a holiday throng bound Ina at takes me. I'll for the beach. I thpught of my carpenter's “Many things can happen in forty need to go Manhattan Island | years." He might have said twenty. 1 for amusement, No other place I've Tt {s just that ni e the Saturday half holiday, coming eclipse this morning we were una ever seen can hold a tallow-din to it, |cver from England, took root in New York, champfoned by organized labor, It get even a glimpse of Old Sol. JOHN MARSH. "| was Mr. Gompers who was instrumental in forcing the law, establishing {t upon YESHA: ws “I must start early," Leo explained. Are you mad?” I asked. ‘How can camp on that place?” | I don't know, but I'm going. go, Horact “wh ightad, 1904, in Great Britain and the MeoprtEy Staree by H. Tider Haggard.) CHAPTER: I must lich means that we both must go air] Put how about the yak?" 41 “Where we can cilmd “t cam follow, {he answered. ane tent and other supply back > summit at length und there pitched the tent, piling the excavated snow about it, By this time it began to grow dark, acl, having descended Into the tent, | ¥a% and all, we wte our food and waited, in having: cen her, 6 Bowe peels For some hours we watched, as in- fly |deed we must, since to sleep would| strapped includ 1 mea aied. F jwe dug a cuoke ana an immortal wonian, Ten asks the monks what trey know of Too tandeFinly. sart, over yg @ faint patch of Hght CHAPTER V. A Wild Resolve. IAT do you makg of it? Leo avked, anxiously looking at ‘the distant lght, 4n particular,” 1 answered, ‘be anything, The moon—no, one; ¢awn--no, itis too north- inean to die, yet saw nothing save the atars, and heard nothing in that for here even the wind| at lon awful silens mgde no nolse as id across the snows. Accusiomed as I was to such €xposure, my faculties began to grow humb and my eyea to shut, whea sud- denly Leo sald; “Look, below ‘the red star!" I looked, and there high in the aky Was the same curious glow which we ‘had see: upon the previous night, ‘There’ was more than this, indeed, for beneath it, almost on a line with us and dust above the crests of the intervening neaks, apneared a faint sheet of fire, and revenled against it something black, While we watched the fire widened, *pread upward and grew In power and : mas OME carpen: S Riis for the Cine: der w ed th aud that they had cut off the best hours at each end of the working day. the summer and quit at 7 in the evening. sunset." GHE FUR_GHER. HISGORY OF Finding Leisure to Live. my place this summer, writes Jacoh A. ame in the morning after I had rtnished my breakfast and was busy with my mall—at § my working day is well un- d in the afternoon on the siroke of 5 they hung up thelr aprons, Nght- gars and went home, Watching them pack up thelr tools one day, I rs were at work upo ati Post, The reli ars ago," I sald, ‘we went work at 6 In In winter the day was from sunrise to n I learned your trade, forty They laughed: “And you had no Saturday afternoon off. happen in forty years.”” ‘Phat Saturday efternoon found me fn a particularly busy neighborhood down- town, where, at the rush the crowds of workers hastening to and from Many things can s She-Who-M & us, then Leo sald. “Do vou remember, Horace, when wo “We are eworn to a tryst, and: we do not break no more, not yes, pet School Vacation Ends To-Day By J. Campbell) Cory. a reli iam" XY = ot ot ut By Jacob A. Riis. financte! New York, much to its disgust. It protested loudly to the Legislature business would desert the metropolis and move to Jersey and Connecticut, re 1t was not so hampered. Instead, the half holiday has invaded those States ind all the others, as Mr. Gompers predicted tt would. And from a month, or two months, it has stretched over the whole summer, and the winter, too, in the trades, The working day has been shortened at both ends, as I said. There is no longer a sixteen or seventeen hour day for street-car drivers, as some of us remember. n Chicago the other day they had to change the time for keeping the bridges closed to a later hour because the early morning crowds were no long: there, ‘The mechanic, the laborer, has time for his family, for play, for life. His wages bave gone up so that the can afford a day off. The old, senseless hurry is lessening. We are taking time to think, finding lei- sure to live. Only at the top and at the bottom does the waste go on, The get- ’ ss RECALL my wife hi she discip nud ples and whe in, Ne Thus testified wife in a sult fo: one of the gigant! will take w Eve: puny Gunther wedded the strong an most unmercifully thereafter, smal] m ladies who towered above their heads Gunther called the strong arm of Seigfried to hi made bride to desist from beating hi the strong arm of the law. But why relief be necessary? Right here, enter the disciple of one arm and the “Origin of Species’ [Matrimony and Mud Pies. wt, or Tm ning by this horrible ¢ since, accor Why should he not | " By Nixola Greeley-Smith. only two year In 5 iY t sworn 1s the which sion uking Don't you buw has 1 Ou one ¢ ined one ¢ ehild en I cjocted she said, ke you eat 'em,'" the 120-pound husba of a 200-pound r divorce brought in Massachusette, And yet no Ittie man contemplating matr! ay with fe Junes that m little men admire ainple o the 3 lungen legend, the d puellistic Brawlida, who beat, him en have gone on taking to thelr hearts and app nothing can stop them, aid pel his news prototypa Invokes milfating measures of, one of his own size? “Descent of Man" under m, and his mo should arry 80} Darwin, the in the other. But we will spare him the reading of the many chapters on natural selection and admit that the general self-immolating tendency of the ttle man towards the But ours is the age cf the Indiv! general averages, the good of the who can lick them willl one hand. ened to make him eat mud pi in which she swayed to his lightest v too, the occasional amiability of the do with it. I belicvo that there is a 8 prot of amiability, and that it is apt to be too ¢ people and too spread out in th uncanny intelligence of dwarfs a women are frequently cowards. The | feminine spirit, but It is spread over too la | taken’ with their bulk, may be the secret of their | domineering male. However, there § in his marriage to her since, after al | pies, if the {dea strikes her. 1 average ts 1 ed by the e woman. iduni, and when most of us think of Race, Posterity and other capitalized , era invent- — generalities of the same variety, it is with the id hat they ¥ ed for other people and that we personally have nothing to co with them, Little men have admittedly a greater desire to dominate than big | ones, And {t may be that ambition spurs them t age with ladles The pouse threate ably dream aptial dreamy wish, like a w Then, larg mething to mod tupidity | Remarkable D slender cords wore the hosen by two Parisians € To heavy welghts suspended from weapons ¢ named*Durler and Voisin to termi: or the hand of a ore hh a weight eacn took and, to remain until the breaking of one or the other of the cords should decide his fate. ‘or more than four hours they remained motion- less, when the cord attached to Du s welght snapped, and the ponderous mass of metal, falling upon the man be- neath, struck him to the ground. For- t ly, however, it jJuet missed his head, af@ he escaped with no worse damage than a severe shock and a broken collar bone, says Tid-Bits Somewhat prolonged was the duel waged a few years back at a well- known Yorkshire seaside resort to de- cide which of the two young men should surrender his claim to the hand of local publican’s daughter. It was agreed that he who should first miss his morning swim should withdraw his pretension to the lady's hand. For nine months and more each took his matutinal swim, but at length there came a day of such furlous storm that ono turned fainthearted and refused dare the tempestuous billows. ‘The other, however, at considerable risk, rioh-quick man is In as much of a hurry as ever. Perhaps a feeling that it won't last makes him go at even a harder pace. In Poverty Row, where children work, the day is as long as ever, and in the tenement homes the treadmill grinds by night as by But in the war upon these evils outraged humanity is joining ands with organized labor, and the fight will be won, for the social conscience !s groused. ust-Be-Obeyed s [er tengtn out of pape leita Si ‘ ward ‘the | dashed into the foaming sea, and, ale |though he was badly cut and bruised, jemerged a triumphant wooer, | Anotier aquesns ‘urved two |years ago, the location being the Inks | of Geneva and the contestants a Swiss peted with flowers. Then we knew that the time had come to start. ‘But whither go you? Whither go you?” asked the old abbot in dismay. “Are you not happy here? Is not every- Unlng that we have your own? Oh! why would you leave? "We are wanderess,” nd when we see mountains in front of us we must cross them, Kou-en looked at us shrewdly, asked: “"Wihait do you seek beyond the moua- tains?” “Holy abbot," I said, “a while ago yonder in the brary you made a cer hain confession to us” "Oh! remind me not of tt,” he sald, then y may have the endowment of an a to count. This fact, 1 for the small but alw a potential dan, involved 1, she can always make him eat mud uels for Love. r ard one Lenotr, @& who asrecl that he who d remain t sest heneath the face of the water should without ine e {rn the other bis addresses toy Ithy tradesman, Waly dived simultinesusly and than two minutes elapsed ere! en's head appeared the sur- e. There was no sign however, of (his rival, after whom, when yet ane” other two minutes had sped, a coupls of enlookers lived and succeeded in row ecvering Is sensaicss body, Reswrae lives were successfully fed. and om Lenoir recovering consciousness he wae a victor. elo | How They Know, ERE is a bit of wisdom gleanea* H from the head waiter. According to him the trained observer cam tell whether or not a man has beew used to servants all his life by the ine tonation of his volce when calling some’ one to wait on him. The person who has been used to bossing other people around says, “James,” or whatever the name of the serv falling inflection, may be, with a while the one whog tomed ta q James" the rising inflection, as if in suppilcation. “And that," sald the watter, “Is a dead su: sign. A man may cover up most other tell-tale marks, but he can‘ay get away from that.” BY H. RIDER HAGGARD* Author of “She,” ‘‘Allan Quatermain,”’ ‘‘King Solomon’s Mines,” etc. her own greatness {f you will, upo | ain toward. Nirvana, “Tat ‘pride, wi | be humbled, as already {t hus been hume bled; that brow of aajes:y will be sprine vith the dust of change and death, ful spirit will be purified by sors Wa and by separations, Brother Leo, | Af you win her. it will be but to love, and 1e rT must 4 Brother Holly, for vou as for te lose ia our only gain, slice thereby we spared much woe, O pr with me."" j ay," answered Leo, re sworn a to ‘a tryst, an rr Ay id we do not break ous?’ “Then, brethren, «o kee think upon my sayings, for Iam ur that the wine vou crush fram the yinte: ago of vour desire will run red ker blood, and that in its drinking you wi And “neither forgetfulness nor peace. a mam tied Ath ie > sigh the old lo not think that he knows ans | thing of Ayesh * ooking after hime SoaUay Hd, can tell?” T answered. . ho over, what Is the Peaaoning 10 chaos! we {) our t fwte TORY ‘Then we went t0 5 thougn I.found att io alosh thal” ata t A slranke theory that of Ko en's thet te Od no ta | whom iNet ow er represen ive. t ‘eer Nga